Garcia

I. Background

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25 1 Pursuant to the recommendation of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Plaintiff's name is partially redacted.

2 The Administrative Record (“AR”), which is independently paginated, has been filed in NINE 27 attachments to Docket Entry #14. See Docs. 14-1 through 14-9. Plaintiff Antonio G. was born in Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. at 4 years old. AR at 631. Plaintiff would later describe his childhood as “pretty rough[.]” Id. Plaintiff’s father was an alcoholic who physically abused Plaintiff’s mother; Plaintiff also experienced emotional abuse as a child. Id., id. at 699. Plaintiff began working at age 6 and started drinking at age 13. Id. at 465, 781. By age 21, Plaintiff had become a problem drinker. Id. at 465. Beginning in 2000, while on active duty in the U.S. Marines, Plaintiff experienced a series of traumatic events. AR at 628. While Plaintiff was deployed to Japan, his wife was raped and gave the couple’s daughter up for adoption. Id. Plaintiff also saw the dead bodies of two fellow servicemen who had…