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How a former Green Beret has changed the Colts' thinking

Meet colts rookies, Parris Campbell, Bobby Okereke, Rock Ya-Sin, and Ben Banogu, May 3, 2019. Michelle Pemberton, michelle.pemberton@indystar.com

After two tours in Iraq, the echoes of war would crawl into his thoughts at night, refusing to let his mind ease. “Boredom punctuated with terror,” is what he calls it. He still remembers how bloody his fingers would get loading his ammunition during training, how the planes would shake as they touched down near enemy territory, the BOOM a rogue RPG made when it exploded just in front of the truck he was riding in, six miles outside Baghdad.