Winston Bromley and Michael O'Dell
Winston Bromley and Michael O'Dell Winston Bromley and Michael O'Dell

Winston Bromley and Michael O'Dell

Recorded June 14, 2021 Archived June 13, 2021 39:29 minutes
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Description

Micheal O'Dell (33) is interviewed by his friend and colleague Winston Bromley (49) about his time in the Marines and his difficult transition back to civilian life.

Subject Log / Time Code

:34
MO talks about joining the Marines while he was on probation
4:30
MO talks about his first deployment - sent on a commercial flight on his own to Iraq
9:40
MO remembers his friend Spencer who killed himself a month into deployment and how that changed him
18:00
MO talks about alcohol addition post-deployment and being drugged and sexually assaulted
25:00
MO talks about his difficulty adjusting to civilian life and his more than 30 arrests
29:00
MO talks about his 3-year prison sentence and how signing the papers felt similar to signing his military enlistment
32:30
MO discusses how things turned around for him in and after prison "in some ways those 2 years in prison were the happiest I'd been since I was 14"
37:00
Advice for people interested in joining the military

Participants

  • Winston Bromley
  • Michael O'Dell

Venue / Recording Kit

Partnership