Specialist Nathan Dowds discusses his training, the moments when his life was on the line, and the hazy morality of the conflict.
Dowds served as an Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He deployed to Afghanistan twice, in 2002 and in 2004, and once to Iraq in 2003.
During the episode, he says this about his struggles:
“The world is full of pain and suffering, and has been since the beginning of time. And for me to expect my brief moment in this world to be different than every other moment is kind of naive”
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