Laurie Buckhout: “I was assigned to the Pentagon, and I was kind of wasting…”

“I needed two bags, IV bags, to walk in my own battalion. Change of command. And I look at the videos now, and I look like Skeletor. So I got. I got treatment, and very tedious. I was assigned to the Pentagon, and I was kind of wasting away. I was, like, starving to death. I couldn't eat. I was sick all the time. My immune system was shot. I had pneumonia three times. One year. It's like, I gotta do something.” (16:39–16:46)

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