Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 02 Oct 2024
Date: Oct 1, 2024
My wife and I are trying to get pregnant and this morning she was ovulating. Which is excuse number 27 for being late for changeover in your weekly space news and variety show. I’m Marty Smith your host and I’m joined by Mr. History Eric Perot and our man in the closet Jake Wall.
Come on, good to see you guys. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all guardians and to the earthbound branches as well. So take your seats get informed and have a laugh as we present late for changeover.
Jake before we start my wife wanted to pass on to you a very big thank you and hug for me marrying up. Oh he was trying to insult you and instead he made you a king. You know it’s funny we had a at the wedding we had a character drawing of us both and it looks like Teresa sitting next to her grandfather I’m like oh no I gotta shave this thing off or do something man.
I thought we had that full beard man. I don’t think whatever you’re doing is gonna compare to that lady though you know you’re like oh Eric come on. It’s probably a good problem to have that’s why I said yeah it is.
I’m sure it’s all my money right. It’s a good one. Oh yeah it’s all my money.
That was good that was some good pictures Eric went out to Florida and what part of Florida did you go? Well we went to Tampa but then the reason I saw your sister right right and then we were in Tampa or in Orlando for my my company’s 10th birthday. They flew everybody out to Disney World. Yeah even the guys who retired even the part timers got invited as well man.
So we have a long way how long were you with them for? Seven years. Seven years you got a trip. Everybody got a trip.
Oh they doing well huh. You know it’s funny because on Saturday night we had a buyout of all the Star Wars stuff. The something resistance and you could fly the Millennium Falcon.
Oh and there was nobody there except ICR people man we had a blast it was only two hours but we ran through that thing a couple times you had Toy Story so we rode the wiener dog roller coaster. We had a good time man it was fun. Just a bunch of old retirees getting drunk like a bunch of college students going.
It was fun man. ICR I got a guy on my team who works for ICR up there luckily. Gabe Doman.
You know him? I do know him. That’s a lie. I mean he’s only been with him for like three months.
You’re a dirty liar Eric. Well then I probably don’t know him. Now he’s going three months because now he looks like Tim Waltz on the debate.
You want to answer that question there? I misspoken I have to be real people I misspoke. But if I see the reason I thought I knew him is because we play poker with those guys every Thursday night there’s a poker game so. This guy just got out of the military and he was a former captain and he still got the military on him and I keep trying to tell him is like let that shit go man you don’t have to you know you don’t have to walk so straight you don’t have to carry your bags on the left hand you’re good but he’s still so fresh he can’t put it down.
I imagine he wouldn’t go to a bunch of security guys poker games so. It’s not just security it’s the company. Oh okay.
This is the one they still do it. They still do that. Every Thursday and then they keep score tallies of who wins and positioning that’s the end of the year the company puts up the ten thousand dollar buy in to go in the World Series of Poker in Vegas.
We just had. Oh my God. We did whoever wins it for the first time the guy went out he lasted about three hours and then got knocked out.
Wow what a company man right ten grand it’s the buy in. Wow I’m trying to get a shirt I can’t get a shirt for my company. Same company that gave me new golf clubs and golf lessons.
When I retired. You must be doing good on those contracts. Yeah man.
Wow. We’ve grown so big. It’s huge.
Well I’m glad you’re back and just regale us with more stories to make us jealous of you. But we did tell some stories about you so you don’t have to go back and let’s go back and listen. Yeah we did.
It was filth thrown out. In fact even Anna was talking about she was talking about scrunchies on your arms. We besmirched your good name.
Scrunchies? Yep you gotta go listen to the episode find out what she was talking about. I’m gonna go listen. I’m gonna have to smack her around.
What do you know about scrunchies? Escalated so quickly. Yeah it did all of a sudden. Alright let’s get to the news.
This first story is from SpaceNews.com. So just to update you guys Falcon 9 sends the new crew to the ISS on the first crewed launch from slick 40. A Falcon 9 launched a NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station on September 28th on the first crewed mission from Space Launch Complex 4 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. God bless that’s a lot of unnecessary words doesn’t it.
It placed in the orbit of the Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom which docked with the ISS around 5.30 on September 29th. Aboard the crew 9 mission is NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Ross Kosmos. I don’t know what that means.
Ross Kosmos Alexander Gorbanov to the station. The two will spend about five months on the station as part of Expedition 72. The launch comes a month after NASA revamped the crew for the mission removing NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson from the flight.
That decision freed up two seats on a spacecraft that will be filled on the return leg by NASA astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore from the Boeing Starliner fan. The cargo on the Crew Dragon spacecraft includes a Dragon combatable pressure suit for Wilmore. There was already one that fit Williams already on the station so that they can return on the spacecraft when the crew 9 mission wraps up in early 2025.
Compatible compatible spacesuits are a good thing. Now they got it. They’re good.
But I thought it was interesting that they removed the two women. Oh, left them hurt. Left them are sexist.
I know. I’d be firing at the Boeing. Where’s Anna when you need her? She’d be out.
No, that was a that’s Space X, right? Yeah, that was Space X. Left them down made that decision. Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson did not go. I’m sure they’re promised the next launch.
Well, sure. Sure. Or they lost the shorts.
Oh, that was it. Or Ro Shambo. Yeah.
Yeah, sorry. Yeah. I can’t tell with your little delicate hands, but you know.
Oh, I was being nice. And then you had to go sexist. I’m trying to be feminine, right? Such a big man.
He does have cute wealth manicured hands. Well, you know, the Russian wasn’t going to stay, right? Yeah, probably. I’m not staying.
It’s between you three. And they’re like, well, wait. Oh, he’s not going anywhere.
He’s already. He’s already sitting in it. Yeah.
He’s already buckled in. Hey, man. We’re not leaving for four days.
It’s like, I go nowhere. I go nowhere. Yeah, exactly.
Four days is nothing. You’re not getting me out of the seat. And I, I pee in this suit if necessary.
It’s awesome. So, uh, we’ll see them, uh, what? Five months. So what? February.
I have to do some research is Boeing. Is there any consequences for Boeing’s screw up at all? Have you guys heard any consequence for those guys? I don’t know what the contract that they signed. Right.
Uh, but they haven’t obviously fulfilled their part yet. Whereas space X has fulfilled at about 50 times over. Yeah.
Just so, but I would imagine they’re going to keep the contract because they’re way too downstream on it. And NASA wants multiple carriers. Yeah.
So, I mean, who the hell else? Nobody else is getting a billion dollars from the federal government to develop anything. Yeah. That makes.
They’re stuck with Boeing. You know, it’s very frustrating even for the Boeing man. Yeah.
Yeah. But I mean, I don’t, I really don’t see them going anywhere. It’s like, we already got it.
We’re going to throw all this away. We got it right here. So, uh, all right.
Anyway, this next story, uh, I thought is, is a quick one, but the video is amazing. Um, this is from Aaron space forces magazine, but it was also covered in, uh, stripes, I think too. So Russia, a Russian fighter cuts off a USF 16 during a NORAD intercept.
So up at on September 23rd, 2024, US Air Force F 16 operating under the direction of North American aerospace defense command was conducting a routine intercept of a Russian TU 95 aircraft. I don’t know if that’s a bear or, you know, how they’ve called her bombers or whatever. It’s a bear.
Uh, in the Alaskan air defense identification zone or ADIZ when a Russian SU 35 aircraft conducted an unsafe maneuver directed at the F 16. That’s a flanker. Right, right.
And they, they really, that’s some gentle language when you see the video. I’m safe. The pilot of the Air Force F 16, which had a video camera mounted inside can be heard exclaiming in apparent surprise at the SU 35 flanker race past them.
The F 16 is likely from the 18th fighter intercept squadron based at Ielson Air Force Base. Nice. That is the Viper unit tasked with conducting many of the intercepts of Russian and recently Chinese aircraft in the Alaska ADIZ.
Russian aircraft entered the Alaskan ADIZ four times in September. According to NORAD, that’s September 23rd intercept involved for Russian aircraft. The command set in a news release at the time.
So let’s see this sucker. Wow. Yeah, it’ll blow you away.
It’s only 15 seconds. So you ready? Send it. Sorry, that’s way loud.
There you go. Oh. Holy cow.
You would think he should have seen that coming up on his radar or his wing man or something, right? He should have seen it as he approached, shouldn’t he? Right. Right. Or maybe he was back there and all of a sudden this guy just popped the burners and came around.
He was coming in somewhere. There we go. He snuck up on us for sure.
Yeah. Oh, man. Because he’s closing on that bomber.
Oh, man. He’s closed. What if he caught a little jet wash there? Jet wash.
Like he got a little jet wash like Top Gun now. That sure. I mean, if you were.
Yeah. If you weren’t prepared for that. Holy shit.
That would be scary. That’s a wake up call, man. You’re at your ass just fuckered.
Yeah. That guy just. Yeah, because you just snuck up on you.
Like, you didn’t even see it coming. Right. Right.
That just implies that you could have been dead before. Oh, yeah. Well, sure.
If they wanted to. I mean, there were four aircrafts. So I don’t know if the bomber and three escorts or whatever that fit was.
Or they knew it. And then they didn’t like the F-16 getting close. Maybe.
He’s controlling that airspace with the F-16. They’ve got to be able to see that fighter coming. I’m sure he had a wing man.
Right. They don’t fly alone. But maybe that guy was just coming up kind of friendly and then all of a sudden just like.
Just full of Maverick on his ass. But I also think he may have come out of like a cloud bank or something where he didn’t physically see him. He may have knew that he was on radar.
Right. Oh, that’s crazy. That’s pretty.
That’s pretty amazing. I like that. Yeah.
That’s fun. That’s fun. Not for me.
Not for that guy. Not for that guy. Okay.
Ground crew, clean this seat. I wonder how long it would take if we just stopped. I’m sure we’re both antagonizing each other.
All the time. We’re going over. China’s doing this.
We’re doing that. What if we just stopped showing up one day? Like they just come in and they’re like, as soon as you get like, you know, like a little bit on the other guy’s turf. You know, this feels weird over here.
Where are they at? Oh yeah. Their minds will play tricks on them. That’s right.
They would mess with me. It’s an infringement, man. You’re like.
Sure. Sure. If you would flip me off every time you walk into work and then that one day you just don’t flip me off.
I go. International communication. Yeah, exactly.
Because I was going on. Maybe we are communicating. Communicating.
That’s what Goose said. Okay. So we, we a lot of times criticize all branches of the military for continuing to do something that doesn’t make any sense anymore.
We spread the wealth. Yeah, we do. Well, this one is hats off to the Marines.
So this, this story is from task and purpose. And it is the Marine Corps rolls out their plan to overhaul marksmanship training for the first time in a century. It’s about time they catch it.
That’s awesome. So a major overhaul of how Marines learn to shoot and track their skills will begin to roll out across the service in the next few months. The campaign plan published by the Marine Corps training and education command sets deadlines for new training to be up and running across the force and mandates major renovations for shooting ranges that don’t yet comply with the new marksmanship standards.
The new shooting standards and drills, which have been in the works since 2018, are the first major overhaul of Marine rifle training in a century. Though many units across the Marine Corps have been using the new marksmanship standards already since 2021. The campaign plan requires every Marine in the fleet and every range they shoot on to be up to date by the end of the 2029 fiscal year.
So that means they got to go adjust ranges. They got to adjust scoring, all that kind of stuff. So here’s kind of the backhaul or the backstory of it.
Marines returning from the post 9-11 wars reported that the long distance shooting they’d learned at boot camp and beyond was not well suited to the combat of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Scott A. Cuomo, the commander of weapons training battalion Quantico said, a lot of our marksmanship was over a 60-ish year period, arguably from 1907 up until Hue City in Vietnam, focused more on longer ranges in the tree line type environments. So what happens when you’re holding up against an enemy that’s holed up in a lot of buildings and they’re running from building to building, building to wadi, building to ditch, moving rapidly as our marksmanship foundation built in those environments too.
The new approach breaks marksmanship into five skills, which the Marines called the spear model of lethality for speed, precision, executive control. I don’t know what that means. Adaptability and risk exposure.
So a lot of the changes are the way they shoot and the speed in which they’re supposed to fire off the round. So this is getting me kind of excited. Yeah, it’s cool.
That’s pretty cool. To emphasize speed, each round is scored on how fast a Marine fires it. For example, the ARQ, geez, I forgot what that stood for already.
The ARQ, which is their new qualification, right? Advanced rifle. The new core qualification. Of course.
Test require, the ARQ test requires Marines to fire a two round controlled pair at a target 300 yards away in 15 seconds from standing or kneeling with support while the failure to stop drill calls for three shots in five seconds at a target 25 yards away while target while while standing. Hits on the target are also scored differently rather than scoring rounds based on circular rings. Each round is given a lethality measure, which judges how likely a round is to destroy, neutralize or suppress a target.
A headshot, a well-placed hit in the chest, destroys a target. A round in the shoulder might just count as a suppression. So I didn’t go into it, but they have a whole scoring sheet.
So even if you hit, you hit the shoulder, you don’t score as high. That’s awesome. Taking some of that.
Well, and the other thing, the desert 20 years, certainly when you started invading cities and you guys both know military urban operations, right? Close quarter combat. Yeah. Yeah.
Certainly becomes, you know, a bigger point of view because you’re encountering targets as you turn corners or pop down doors, which are reaction drills. Not so much long distance. Oh, and you’re trained on that, right? Cleaning rooms and stuff like that.
Reaction drills. So here’s a couple of minute video produced by the Marines talking about the ARQ. Well, the new ARQ course of fire.
It promotes a combat mindset. How do they still make it look trashy? Because that’s what they got. High school sex ed thing.
Look at the gunny’s hat. That’s awesome. It’s pretty much written in the course of fire itself with Marines starting.
Oh, I didn’t mention that they do this whole course in full load. With all their gear on. Yeah.
It’s not just BDUs and a helmet. They’re in full load out there. So you have the 500 yard lines engaging targets.
And ultimately concluding at the 25 yard line. That looks like a M16A. You start out from far and go near.
So you’re going to start at the 500. You are going to shoot eight iterations of five rounds. So that’s going to total out to 40 rounds.
You’re going to shoot this in the prone. You can use support via a pack, your mag, a bipod, whatever you want, as long as it’s issued to you. That’s cool.
And then from there, you’ll move up to the 300 yard line. You can also, again, go in the prone and use support as well. This time you’re going to be shooting control pairs.
That guy said, half the prone. Oh, I’m going to stand full up. After that, move up to the 200 yard line.
It’s a pretty similar concept, except the only things that change are… It does look like a high school pep rally. So you feel more prone. I’d like to shoot this course.
I think that’d be freaking fun. Oh, that’d be fun. Oh, look at that.
Now they got moving targets as they get closer. Here it is. The same thing, movers, and you’re shooting off the barricades.
Now, when you move up to the 25, things kind of change a little bit. You start out with six destroy headshots. So each headshot is its own destroy.
And then once you finish with that, you’re going to move to your drills portion, which is going to be four failure to stop. That is ridiculous. Four box drills and then two failure to stop something.
I actually look forward to the whole entire course of fire. It’s a lot more exciting. It’s a lot more fun.
And I think the Marines are leaving here a lot better trained and ready. Heck yeah, man. That’s awesome.
Yeah, that’s cool, isn’t it? This is definitely going to push Marines to get more comfortable with their gear and find out what positions work for them and how it’ll actually translate to a real life situation. Common sense. That’s awesome.
Yeah, so they’re actually bringing that back. That’s… I mean, what a far cry from any of the qualification. I mean, you know, I did the normal qualification.
I remember the first time I did rifle qual and we had to come back for the night fire, right? The familiarization out at the 25 meter target. And I was like, oh shit, how can you see a fee? You know, it’s all tracers. And the guy who was scoring me, he’s like, this isn’t scored.
It’s just familiarization fire. But he goes, don’t shoot right away and just look down the line, right? So as I go, the 25 targets up, it’s down. You know, watch your lane.
Commence firing. And I look down the line and everybody just shot up in the air. Watching the tracers like… Nobody was trying to hit the target.
And I was like… This is useless. That’s useless. This is applicable, man.
It’s awesome. And it’s applicable. And using your gear, knowing what a piece of equipment… Oh man, good job.
And you see some of those guys standing up and they’re like, wait, you hunched over. I was like, what kind of firing position is that? But then again, they’ve got their vests. They’ve got all their pouches on that thing.
And they’re trying to get a good sight picture. Well, and everybody… We were taught to shoot sideways, which limits your fatal teeth. We called it a fatal teeth.
Oh yeah, right, right, right. If you’re hitting your fatal teeth. And you’ve got a big fatal teeth.
I have a big fatal teeth. So I have to turn and be very smart. You are in by 50.
Please. Mr. History’s only fans. Just look for the rifle.
Just look for the videos titled high T, not low T. It’s annual only fan qual. Mm-hmm. High theta, highly theta.
Way to diminish the low story plot. I am looking forward to the high T photo shoot. So… Fatal teeth.
Fatal teeth. Come on. Fatal teeth.
Once you see it, you’re dead in love. You’re dead in love. That’s why.
It will make you quiver. Oh man. Oh man.
Jake, are you quivering? I’m happy my mother doesn’t actually listen to this. You do this, Jake. Oh my gosh.
She doesn’t have too many more options. She’d still be disappointed in her choice. Plus you might be like hey what you guys didn’t put a link to this Onlyfans page 45 minutes googling that last night I really like to see his tattoo of his fatal teeth look at you and Jake thought this was going to be a low filth episode no I don’t know we get you two back together again next week and it could be just x-ray man absolutely x-rated all right you’re the title to an Air Force special ops squadron damaged three Ospreys in five days Air Force that’s that’s sad so two reports released recently by the Air Force detail the terrible horrible no good very bad week for an Air Force CV-22 Osprey squadron at Cannon Air Force Base last year in a span of five days a 20th special ops squadron at Cannon New Mexico which flies the Osprey suffered two mishaps involving three of its CV-22 fleet one a parking accident on the ground the other a freak accidental engine shutdown that caused one of the 92 million dollar aircraft to crash on a remote range ooh so that’s not good the accidents occurred on august 17th and 22nd 2023 and had not been previously disclosed until the accident reports for both were released last week so here’s the bad one here’s a really bad one all right um this is the Havoc 54 engine shutdown so i got to read it so bear with me in a more serious accident late august 2023 an Osprey from the 20th SOS flying as Havoc 54 took off as part of a two ship training flight through a normal Air Force Osprey though a normal Air Force Osprey flight crew is four flyers two pilots and two flight engineers a third flight engineer was on board to take a turn shooting for skill currency as a result the three flight engineers plan to rotate several times during the flight switching between the rear ramp where one engineer would shoot as another acted as instructor while a third would be available for flight duties similar rotations and on the fly recalls of duty positions are normal across all military flying so after dropping off the ground team according to the report the Havoc 54 crew held a brief air to ground firing session on the base’s jockey range as the shooting finished the co-pilot transitioned the plane out of its hover calling for the landing gear to be pulled up and pushing the plane forward and upwards an unremarkable maneuver but one that leaves little more air in terms of power needed by the engines but as the plane began to move one of the flight engineers moved into the cockpit to assume the engineer’s seat unknown to him or anyone in the crew as the engineer maneuvered into his feet a cable from his night vision goggles caught on the right engine control lever in the Osprey ceiling as the engineer moved his head the cable pulled the lever from fly to off instantly shutting down the engine just as the plane needed it the most oh man so uh let me you this uh picture so this is hard to see can you see my mouse yeah but they’re demonstrating this is helmet this is the cable that’s snagged on this control lever right here what are the odds of that unbelievable man so he moved in there the cable caught and he turned the engine off right oh um so the plane immediately immediately plunged earth as the pilots tried to understand what had just happened uh the co-pilot pushed the plane’s throttle to full power the instruments on board the plane recorded the final seconds of the flight the Osprey’s fall reached almost 15 miles per hour but 10 10 feet before it hit the pilot flared the plane’s nose reducing the impact by about a third the plane hit bounced four feet back into the air then hit harder it’s getting 360 feet as various equipment ripped off its fuselage and all the report found the plane suffered about two million dollars in damage oh so did they all survive yeah they all survived oh wait the engineer they all survived the the seats took most of it so there wasn’t really any major uh injury but um without uh so the crew seats absorbed the impact with no injuries except the flight engineer who unwittingly caused the accident not buckled into his chair he was thrown forward while his helmet still hooked on the lever was ripped off oh my god without a helmet the engineer struck his head on the Osprey’s dashboard causing suffering a concussion but in a final unlikely twist in the jerk of the impact his helmet moved the engine lever forward back into the flying position how hard would that was that to figure out too man that’s crazy man so they interviewed him and he said the pilots know that can happen and when somebody does that come up into the seat they usually cover that lever but because it was a flight engineer they didn’t think of it and they didn’t cover it so there’s gonna be some lessons learned to fix here uh well yeah yeah they said they already knew that it happens uh that’s what’s crazy about it yeah you need to fix it man get a solution man that’s good their solution was like hey don’t touch this yeah it’s like what click hey don’t touch it um so good i mean we can laugh about it because nobody got hurt except this concussion but that’s good now here’s the other accident that happened five days earlier the abram 13 parking accident five days before the havoc 53 crash the 20th sos was deployed the naval air weapon station china lake in california for two weeks of training on the morning that the squadron was scheduled to fly home a crew took an osprey for a maintenance flight check using the call sign abram 13 in fact let me put this picture up so you can follow along with the story right oh um returning to in yokern airfield a civilian airport adjacent in the navy range the crew taxi to the ramp where the units planes have been parked during the deployment a cracking sheet of concrete at the end of the small runway uh though taxiing rules are strict around ospreys the cracked asphalt tight quarters of the ramp had made marshalling duties difficult for maintainers while air force rules require both a walker you ever do that jake do you ever have to walk a plane in a walker off the ospreys nose and wing walkers in tight flight lines the 20th sos ground crew had abandoned the front walker position for the second week of the deployment because the concrete kicked up by the ospreys had become dangerous so they’re getting smacked in the face with rocks yeah those on the wings the report found did not use proper hand signals as they marshaled abram 13 into position while making a left turn into a tight parking spot the co-pilot at the controls cut the turn too soon the plane’s pilot observing the turn out the window saw that the angle of the turn was bringing the aircraft close to a parked osprey but did not speak up the rotors of the plane impacted the second ospreys causing a combined two and a half million dollars in damage between the two planes out out and that you know and that osprey really and that’s got a rough history too no it does mechanically but then these are you know crew caused errors yeah but look at that i mean you’re trying to ground guide that thing and the the span of those rotors that’s got to be weird that would be difficult to i’m sure they learn it but god dang man that’s weird but two and five days what’s that commander going yeah he’s probably already lost his job man it might be right it might be i mean he gets over that and they’re like how much should it cost two and a half million it’s like all right let me write the report i’ll come in tomorrow and they’re like hey sir uh you probably don’t want to hear this but uh you know we had another one oh man two and two in the same week so keep your head up there 20th sos it’ll all get better well that’s two years ago though so we’re good yeah it was two years ago they’re still there they’re probably pcs by now so you know uh as always except for last week no that was that would that work too that raised our spirits i think oh i did yes well you didn’t last week but you raised my spirits this week with the i want you to raise all your spirits with some us military history man i’ll tell you what i there we go i was thinking and looking and researching and i found one for 30 september and i’m going to tell it to you anyway but this is not mine for tonight because the one i got for tonight is for mario this will get marty excited it’s got to get marty excited i can tell you now so the one that i was thinking about was real quick the u.s 1954 30 september the u.s navy submarine the uss noblas is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear power vessel yeah yeah yeah right pretty cool all right yeah that’s cool right this one is what i wasn’t the nautilus the didn’t they named it after like the 20 000 leagues i think so isn’t that the nautilus say i didn’t see that verbiage in the story but i think you’re right yeah that i’m right that i like it just yeah so this one is what i really like okay all right this is for you marty october 1st i’m all a 20 1965 exactly 50 years ago oh this week okay the u.s army first cab division air mobile became operational in south vietnam the first cavalry division was the first air mobile unit in the army and represented an innovative new approach to infantry tactics oh yeah nice composed of 16 000 personnel and equipment with helicopters that’s insane that’s insane that right such as the uh1 the uracoi commonly known as the ue and the ch47 chinook the division was capable of conducting combat operations and terrain that was far too difficult or remote for conventional infantry units that’s crazy air mobility concepts gave us forces the ability to rapidly move disperse concentrate or displace infantry and artillery units almost anywhere on the battlefield they proved a significant advance in the tactics of ground warfare oh oh this one this was just when they were activated right right this wasn’t ea drang or anything like no this was just this this is when they said hey we need a new operational unit that can move yeah uh so was colonel howl more was he the uh first commander of that or did he say secretary of defense robert magnum era officially approved units devoted to air mobility in june of 65 the first calvary division air mobile was under the command of major general henry w o canard canard canard k i n n oh that’s right more was just a battalion commander so he wouldn’t have commanded the division so yeah it was the nautilus just break i know i know i appreciate you backing me up thank you it came from it came from the show uh from the movie and 20 000 leagues that is that’s freaking awesome so first nuclear sub though i thought that was cool too but yes first nuclear sub first air cab division i wanted to uplift you yeah i like it with some air mobility oh good man i like that uh that was a that’s a tight 45 minutes gentleman probably four is that our deadline no it’s just uh uh that was good but we didn’t i thought we just did this until we ran out of shit to say we usually do yeah sometimes we usually do right are we done oh we’re done that’s a tight hour 45 i just wanted to applaud you for i just wanted to say tight to be honest it could have been a tight hour and 30 it was the same way it was going to be a tight show anyway it was the same way i felt when i said quiver yeah quiver was good quite a bit you know if we rewind the clock and maybe we will on the best of episode here but uh if we go back two years we started this you’ve really come out of your shell eric you know you’ve come out of many more things on we’re good that just shows how much fun and enjoyment i get out of doing this man it is funny it is fun right i mean it’s uh it’s like it’s like going down to the vfw or something yeah drinking with your friends you know it’s a good time man yeah imagine if you guys looked up stories and i gotta tell you like the old days it wouldn’t be fun anymore i gotta tell you anna has been a huge hit for me even though she’s dogging me and my scrunchie i gotta figure out what that means you gotta watch the episode i’m gonna watch it i’m gonna watch these all you’re all just making up stories about it but yeah we’ve made up actually many stories about you so oh well i’ve definitely gotta go back you were the talk of the town hero but that’s how it would be if you were in your unit and you were on leave they’re gonna rag on you they’re with your stuff oh and i i was saving this story the other day i was walking in and there was this little specialist two or three i i still can’t tell what rank they are right um but she was walking in and she had kind of like the trucker’s cap but it had the velcro on the back with her name on it and somebody had taken and and flipped her name upside down right and nice so we were going to the turnstiles in the morning and she came through and i was like hey uh it looks like somebody turned your name upside down your hat and she took it off and she looked at it she goes i hate this place she walked up in the other direction that’s all she said bring her on man that would be awesome it was so good all right let’s end up i think huh unless we got anything oh yeah i guess not nothing heard uh continuing on on behalf of all of us here i’d like to thank you for listening today please like share subscribe and let us know how we get in the comments and make sure next week that you are not late for changeover man thanks for the week and thanks to everyone listening and watching and we’ll see you next week fellas all right and while we’re gone i’ll show you these quivering i will be quivering i’ll quiver over the you