A guy I worked with once stopped seeing his sex worker girlfriend because he found out she'd been in some porn. This never made any sense to me.

I'd known the guy for over a decade, had gone through the SF weapons course together. He wound up working for me in the Philippines because he got his head busted open one trip where the wound was too ugly for him to continue embassy work (where he'd been) so he came to help...

..me do light infantry patrol training with the Light Reaction Company/Battalion out in the jungle. I'd much rather work in the jungle than at the embassy, personally, and I was happy to have another guy who knew his shit. Former 75th guy, like 80% of my 18B course...

..He got his head busted one night going to pick his girlfriend up and she worked in the Arab Quarter in Manila. He wound up getting in a fight and he said he was doing great, had just been to one of the numerous combatives courses flourishing around 2004, and had bounced the...

..guy off a wall once and then a car, which they'd taught him in school as more effective than striking someone with your hands, and he was all "this works great!" and then he said "I shit you not, someone yelled "hey Ahmed!"" and threw his opponent a pool stick. Anyway, he...

..got cracked upside the head and had a hideous avulsion on his scalp so I basically got a new instructor, which was nice. Good to see old friends, even if you're trying not to laugh at the time.