1 00:00:00,490 --> 00:00:02,650 I , I first thought about joining the 2 00:00:02,650 --> 00:00:04,872 Air Force when I first retired from the 3 00:00:04,872 --> 00:00:07,250 NFL . So a little bit about myself , my 4 00:00:07,250 --> 00:00:09,289 government name is Trakis Kintore 5 00:00:09,289 --> 00:00:12,239 Battle , but for the rest of America , 6 00:00:12,369 --> 00:00:15,170 or I'll say everyone besides my tax 7 00:00:15,170 --> 00:00:17,829 preparer , everyone knows me as Trey 8 00:00:17,829 --> 00:00:19,889 Battle . Brandon Cox . 9 00:00:25,229 --> 00:00:27,396 And I'm from Georgia , born and raised 10 00:00:27,396 --> 00:00:30,520 Georgia boy from Forsyth , Georgia , a 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,990 country , country boy through and 12 00:00:32,990 --> 00:00:36,750 through . What a way to end the 13 00:00:36,750 --> 00:00:39,270 quarter for Trey Battle . Uh , spent 14 00:00:39,270 --> 00:00:41,326 some time in the city , but I always 15 00:00:41,326 --> 00:00:43,492 found my way back to the country and , 16 00:00:43,492 --> 00:00:45,548 um , that's that's just a little bit 17 00:00:45,548 --> 00:00:47,714 about me , where I , where I come from 18 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:49,689 and . Um , my aliases . 19 00:00:58,290 --> 00:01:01,569 Another 4 years into 20 00:01:01,569 --> 00:01:04,540 retirement , I , I miss those . I 21 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:07,129 missed those times . I miss , I , I 22 00:01:07,129 --> 00:01:09,360 don't miss playing football per se , 23 00:01:09,449 --> 00:01:11,782 but I do miss those locker room moments . 24 00:01:11,889 --> 00:01:13,833 Uh , I had come back to Georgia to 25 00:01:13,833 --> 00:01:16,089 finish my degree and I was taking some 26 00:01:16,089 --> 00:01:18,145 classes , uh , with some , with some 27 00:01:18,145 --> 00:01:20,367 individuals , and one , guy that I took 28 00:01:20,367 --> 00:01:22,422 a class with , I can't even remember 29 00:01:22,422 --> 00:01:24,533 his name , but I , I knew that he was 30 00:01:24,533 --> 00:01:27,110 in the reserves . Uh , I've had 31 00:01:27,110 --> 00:01:29,166 influences throughout my life , uh , 32 00:01:29,166 --> 00:01:31,388 from gentlemen who were in the military 33 00:01:31,589 --> 00:01:34,830 who are really key components or really 34 00:01:34,830 --> 00:01:37,430 people who've spoken to my life . And 35 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:40,730 honestly , I , I first thought about 36 00:01:40,730 --> 00:01:42,674 joining the Air Force when I first 37 00:01:42,674 --> 00:01:44,563 retired from the NFL . Like , you 38 00:01:44,563 --> 00:01:46,897 should think about joining . I was like , 39 00:01:46,897 --> 00:01:49,008 OK , cool . So we went to the reserve 40 00:01:49,008 --> 00:01:51,008 office in Athens and I'm sitting in 41 00:01:51,008 --> 00:01:53,008 there in front of the recruiter and 42 00:01:53,008 --> 00:01:55,063 we're talking through stuff and he's 43 00:01:55,063 --> 00:01:57,286 telling me like the list of things that 44 00:01:57,286 --> 00:01:59,619 I need to get approved . I'm like , man , 45 00:01:59,619 --> 00:01:59,489 I just retired . I'm , I'm drowning in 46 00:01:59,489 --> 00:02:01,600 class work . I don't think I have the 47 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,970 time for this and so that was about 10 48 00:02:03,970 --> 00:02:07,069 years ago actually and I was having a 49 00:02:07,069 --> 00:02:09,180 conversation with my brother-in-law . 50 00:02:09,309 --> 00:02:11,365 And I was thinking , hey man , I'm , 51 00:02:11,365 --> 00:02:13,587 I'm thinking about joining , uh , going 52 00:02:13,587 --> 00:02:16,309 into the military . So when I talked to 53 00:02:16,309 --> 00:02:18,253 my brother-in-law about it , I was 54 00:02:18,253 --> 00:02:20,580 going to go coast guard . And he was 55 00:02:20,580 --> 00:02:22,691 like , well why would you do that ? I 56 00:02:22,691 --> 00:02:24,858 don't know . I just talked to a guy in 57 00:02:24,858 --> 00:02:26,969 a tent and it seems like if I'm gonna 58 00:02:26,969 --> 00:02:28,969 do something , I wanna kind of stay 59 00:02:28,969 --> 00:02:30,913 local and uh this Coast Guard just 60 00:02:30,913 --> 00:02:33,247 seems what's what's closest . It's like , 61 00:02:33,247 --> 00:02:35,413 no man , if you're gonna do anything , 62 00:02:35,413 --> 00:02:37,413 you should go to Air Force . That's 63 00:02:37,413 --> 00:02:39,413 interesting because I thought about 64 00:02:39,413 --> 00:02:41,524 that before and so um I went online , 65 00:02:41,524 --> 00:02:43,636 start looking at everything that they 66 00:02:43,636 --> 00:02:45,524 offered , uh , submitted a like a 67 00:02:45,524 --> 00:02:47,691 little pre-qualification , uh , form , 68 00:02:47,691 --> 00:02:50,039 and I got a call the next day or maybe 69 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:51,759 two days later from uh Sergeant Whitton .