The Late For Changeover Show 3 Jul 2024
Date: Jul 2, 2024
The door is shut and the meeting light is on, which means you are late for change over. This is our weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m joined by Mr. History Eric Peratt.
What’s going on dudes? And our man in the closet, Jake Wall. Eric, you liked that one. I did.
I was like boo. If I could have booed during the intro, I would’ve. You can, feel free to boo.
I was like, I will hoot. I like that. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all guardians and to the other lower branches as well.
So take your seats, get it formed and have a laugh as we present late for change over. So, uh, let’s see. What was I gonna, I don’t remember.
That’s a good start. We’re on fire tonight. At the end of the debate when Joe Biden said he was a sixth handicap, Eric, just how good is a six handicap? That’s pretty good.
So is that six over par? Like at the par at the course of 72, he shoots a 78 on average. Is that how it works? My understanding of a handicap is they add an additional eight to each score for each hole. Oh, what? Wait.
What? To your total? Let me, I’ll have to go. Oh, you gotta do this. But you golf all the time.
I do. I do, but I don’t have, I don’t have a hand. You know, he doesn’t keep score and Eric’s golf land.
That’s why I’m so good. I don’t need a golf. Jake, he’s given us the, uh, security officer double speak right there.
Yeah, I think, uh, that should work. Uh, yeah, that should work. Just send that off.
If it doesn’t, let me know in a week. Just take this drive two hours and show them this, uh, PSQ. They should be good.
Really? They weren’t? Oh, you weren’t? They didn’t accept that? What? Every time. Alright, so here you go. Alright.
If you’re new to golf, starting to take your ass more serious, understanding your golf handicap is a necessity. Golf handicaps are a number, a number that represents the golfers ability based on their previous golf round scores. It serves the purpose of comparing your performances with other golf players.
For men, your golf handicap is generally between zero and 28. Uh, that’s bullshit. So knowing your handicap is a must when a player wants to participate in a tournament, your handicap is great equalizer.
How does it calculate? Uh, what is your handicap? More importantly, how do you calculate it? Oh, handicap calculation changes were introduced in 2020. So we’ll go over what the handicap is. Uh, it’s hurting your head.
We should move on. I’ll get it and bring it back to you. All right.
All right. Here’s the other little capper. Wait, I got it.
Oh, I’m just going to get, this will be quick. Let us say you and a friend are going to play 18 holes of golf course with a par 72. So shooting 72 is you got it in the hole on the requirements, right? Right.
Your friend with a golf handicap of six is expected to play 78 strokes or six over par. So that is really good. So the number of strokes over, you were right, Marty.
Good job. It’s the number of strikes over par that you’re expected to get. Spares.
So if you go to YouTube and look at Biden hitting the golf ball, he’s not. No, I don’t think I look at it a different way. I look at it like golf takes a long fucking time.
And if you get, you’re wasting our money that much and you’re not in the office doing your job enough to get your score up to a six, I’m getting pissed off. And he did mention that he wasn’t eight. And by the time he was done being vice president, he had gotten it down to a six.
So I’m like, what kind of accomplishment is that? I think they’re both full of shit. But it helps when you own your own golf course. I mean, you’re like fucking at night and caddy shackles.
Don’t count that winter rules, right? Yes, Mr. Trump. Yes. Fluff that a little bit, pull it out of the divot.
You shot par again. He’s like, goddamn right. I did.
We used to say that was Willie Nelson par. Yeah, that was a three. That was a three.
Yeah. Willie Nelson par. That was very good.
All right. That’s a hell of a start. So let’s get to the news.
I know these are stories sent to us from our very own man in the closet, Jake Wall. So I appreciate the initiative, the using your time at work wisely. Oh, yeah.
We’re fired. You rat me out. Yeah.
I mean, being able to do this in addition to a full 10 hours of work every day that you put in that you only get paid for 40. So Amen. Okay.
Just got a couple of new twists in it. Right. So and we’re kind of we’re kind of following this saga.
So there’s two stories we seem to inadvertently keep falling. Beards and Boeing Starliner. Right.
So this is the original story or the first story that Jake sent me was from Fox News. Starliner was astronauts lifeboat if shattered Russian satellite hit space station. So you’ll remember last week, the day we posted our podcast is like a Russian satellite blew up.
Oh, he knows why it just nobody knows why it just blew up. And the pieces were in such an orbit that they started coming towards near the ISS. Now, I don’t think they got within 20 K of it or something like that, but they took precautions.
So it was crazy. I could have been stand by. There’s more on that.
So astronauts on the International Space Station strapped into their quote lifeboat vehicles and quote embraced for an emergency evacuation after a defunct Russian satellite shattered into hundreds of pieces. Oh, Steve Stitch, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program said, we use Starliner for that safe haven capability. The astronauts got in a spacecraft, piled the vehicle up, close a hatch and we’re ready to execute an emergency unlocking from the ISS and landing back on Earth if necessary.
Good luck. The Russian satellite, the research P1 Russian Earth observation satellite was declared dead in 2022. You ever hear a satellite be declared dead? I’ve never heard it called.
I’ve heard it’s just inactive or it’s inert or something like that, right? Flight 23 was definitely dead. It broke up into over 100 pieces of debris last Wednesday and occurred in an orbit near the space station. So now here’s the interesting story part of the story.
First part, first interesting part of the story. Why did the Russian satellite break up? Well, Russia, this is a little bit going back in Russia sparked strong criticism from the US and other Western countries in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a ground-based anti-satellite missile launched from its placent rocket site. All right.
So they, they, I think it was a couple of years after the, after China did it and then Russia did it. So they shot a missile up and it hit their satellite exploded so they could show this capability, right? The blast testing a weapon system ahead of Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine created thousands of pieces of orbital debris. So interesting timing, right? Now for this satellite, because there were some observers that said, hey, it kind of broke up for a long time over several hours.
It wasn’t just like one bigger explosion, but in the roughly 88 minute window of research P one’s initial breakup, the plus set site was one of many locations on earth. It passed over, but there’s no immediate indication from air space or maritime alerts that Russia had launched a missile to strike the satellite. So convenient space laser, maybe a lot of things happening in that part of the world.
Russian pipeline. How did that happen? Boeing did it so they could articulate their vehicle as being the rescue vehicle. Boeing did it so the CEO could get another 40% raise on the air.
Can you imagine that though? They’re telling you don’t come back using that starliner. It’s got leaks. We don’t want you to leave yet.
We don’t. Right. Oh, hold on.
I got more for you on that. I got a video to show you for that one too, right? Better than you’re jumping out. Well, here’s the, here’s the second part of the story that I thought was interesting.
Okay. So we’re back to the ISS and this part is taken from Reuters. So, but before I read this, do you have any idea how many people are on the ISS right now? I did.
I do not. Four or five. No, there’s like, uh, there’s four and, uh, there’s nine.
Holy. Yeah. Uh, so once again, I had to look it up.
Shedders fall again. These guys are still on the. That’s exactly right.
I didn’t realize that there were nine people up there. And did you know that there’s a Russian, uh, spaceship attached to it and a space X, a spaceship attached to it. And so they gotta be like at chow hall, like dogging these guys out, right? They’re like, when you guys leave them, you guys are in the ship.
You got that jalopy up here. Oh my God. So, uh, the six us astronauts currently on the space station were alerted by NASA mission control in Houston around nine on last Wednesday to execute safe haven procedures where each crew member rushes into the spacecraft they arrived in, in case an emergency departure is required.
NASA astronauts, butch Wilmore and sunny Williams boarded their star liner spacecraft. Three of the other us astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut went into space X’s crew dragon capsule. I don’t went that way to that.
Yeah. They probably were trying to get down the hallway and they were just like pushing them back and they were floating like, come on, come on. Hey, open the door room.
I’m a market too. So they went into the space X crew dragon capsule that flew in the station in March while the last us astronaut who had come up with a couple Russian guys on the Soyuz capsule, they went and they went into their capsules. Um, the astronauts emerged from their spacecraft roughly an hour later and reserved the normal week or normal work on the station.
All right. So that’s, uh, that was, uh, but imagine what they’ve had to go through, uh, butch Williams and sunny. Yeah.
Uh, what’s her last name, uh, sunny. Oh, I’m sorry. Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams.
So they go, they’re about ready to go. They scrub the launch. Okay.
They get back in. I think a week later or whatever they go up and they’re like, Oh, Hey, you got five helium leaks and five thruster leaks. And it’s going to be a bitch to doc, right? So they dock and then they go, uh, Oh, we’re going to, uh, keep you up there so we can test the lunar module or whatever the module is that’s going to burn up.
Okay. That’s what I thought. I thought, Oh, that’s smart because they’re, they’re going to destroy it all.
But you know what else they’ve done? I read in this, they have taken those thrusters exact thrusters and they’ve, they’re, they shipped them out to like the testing place and they’re testing these, which takes like two weeks to test them. So they’re waiting on the ground for the results of these tests to come back from the lab or whatever to see if that tells them anything to go to do so with their stuff, with their stuff. Right.
Right. So I didn’t realize there were nine people up there, three spaceships. So I guess they could have gone, it would have been okay.
Right. Honey, I’m going to be late for my son’s football game. So that’s what I thought was interesting.
I did. And there’s a, there’s a site called, I found, uh, called who is in space. I know it’s appropriate.
It almost sounds like a, like a, like a dumb stoners. Who’s in space. Right.
And it, and it shows the two astronauts from, uh, Boeing who were up there, it shows the four, three Americans and one Russian on the space X. It shows the three, one American and two Russians from the Soyuz. And it also shows three Chinese astronauts on their own, like whatever they’re working on. Right.
So there’s 12 people in space right now. So not all of those guys are prior or active duty military either. Right.
They’re just civilians. Right. I think some of them are payload specialists, you know, they’re, they, they weren’t, uh, anything, but I know it’s not like the old Apollo program where they’re taking pilots and now it’s, uh, anybody can pass the rigors.
I don’t know if that, remember we went over that. I don’t think there’s as many rigors as it was anymore. Just throw you in and go half of them, like scientists.
Then I think that started back in the shuttle, right? When they started taking like Chris McAuliffe and they started taking teachers and stuff up there. I don’t see what happened to that one. Jesus.
Sorry. True. That is true.
Well, that wasn’t our fault. And you didn’t learn your lesson, Marty, civilians, military. You didn’t go on the vomit comet.
That’s the problem. That’s terrible. Oh, cold-blooded Eric.
I’m sorry. Well, let’s move on. This is interesting.
All right. This is, uh, yet another story sent to me by our very own Jake Wall. Jake Spizzi on fire.
So, uh, NASA offers SpaceX $843 million to destroy the International Space Station. Oh my God. We just almost did it.
Now we’re going to. We just got up there and, uh, SpaceX now take it down. So NASA is preparing you to destroy the ISS awarding SpaceX up to $843 million contract to push the station safely out of orbit and back to earth.
According to space agencies plan SpaceX specially space X’s specially designed D orbit vehicle will drag the football field size ISS back to earth sometime after the end of its operational life in 2030. The ISS will smash into our planet’s atmosphere at a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour before landing in a crash down spot in the ocean. D orbiting the space station quotes sports NASA’s plans for future commercial destinations and allows for the continued use of space near earth.
Uh, floating laboratories first part were launched in 1998. I thought it was a little older than that, but I guess 1998. Well, they had the mere space station.
Well, and that’s what they said. They de-orbited the mere, uh, back in, I don’t know. I had the date, but now I don’t know.
We talked about that because I was like, remember that Taco Bell ad. Yeah. It here.
Right. Yeah. They probably could now with space X. They were like, Oh, if space X one of the Taco Bell, that’d be Taco Bell silent.
Now they’re like, yeah, cause everybody in the world would get a taco if, uh, it says, uh, the space station is showing its age, technical faults and leaks continue to cause issues for crews and the contracts between the five participating national space agencies, uh, will end by 2030. So it’s unclear when exactly they’re going to bring it down. Probably when like a new one is up, but if it turns into like, uh, the B 52, they’re like, well, this is, it’s actually still serving a purpose.
We’ll, uh, give it some new avionics and leave it alone. That one line though, that would clear for more opportunities in low earth orbit, right? Right. Right.
I mean, that’s gotta be a big barrier, right? Leo’s really contested right now. And one of the biggest issues is the man space flights. Yeah.
I’m wondering if they’ll bring people back up. Well, that’s a good point. Yeah.
Well, I think they will because I have a couple of examples of the new space stations that the, that are coming online. Right. So the ISS will likely continue its work until the commercial space stations slated to replace it commercial space stations, which means these guys are going to charge it like, oh, us, there’s a docking fee now.
Right. You’re coming up. So that’d be awesome.
Like the media now, everything looks kind of like this, right? Right. SpaceX did like big acts like professor X. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Um, so the ISS will stay up there until commercial space stations slated to replace it.
Come online. These include axiom spaces, axiom stations. So these aren’t the greatest pictures.
They’re all renderings. Um, oh no. That’s cause it’s not up there.
But this is what axiom space station is going to look like. And it shows the gradual, how they’re going to put it up. And, uh, that’s sort of how it’s going to look.
Right. Nice and pretty. And then, uh, the other one is by blue origin and Sierra space.
It’s called orbital reef. That’s orbital reefs artists. That’s pretty cool.
And all looks pretty nice. See the ship on the front of it. That’s pretty like, uh, you know, like, uh, the Marriott in the desert.
So, uh, but, uh, so they’ll probably wait until those are online, but you know, 2030, that’s, that’s not that far away. No, space X days, get rid of rendering who space X. Well, I, they said these are the two top ones. I don’t know if they’re the only ones, but they’re the ones who are planning to build their space station up there.
So my imagination or his blue origin really developing into a huge space contract. Well, they’re getting contracts, but they haven’t really got it. Yeah, exactly.
Okay. Yeah. But you know, it’s Bezos, so he’s getting contracts.
So that’s a lot of money coming in. There’s a lot of money. Right.
So that’s, uh, you know, that’s what’s going on with the, uh, ISS. I thought it was interesting that we had more, more, I mean, everybody was like, oh, these guys on the Boeing capsule, they’re stranded up there. And they’re like, there’s, there’s fucking nine other people.
I got buddy, but their pods work. That’s the problem. The Boeing capsule is like, we’ll run some guests.
We’ll get back to you in a week. The guys with the guys with space X, uh, on their, on their crew drag. And they’re like, Hey, just take ours back.
Elon will launch another one up here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Just take ours, man. It’s okay. Our suits, they don’t work with the touch screen.
You can’t do it. You gotta plug shit in still. Where’s my joystick? That’s awesome.
So anyway, they’re, they’re still up there and there’s still no date of return. So they still, but they still have not announced a date of return, but everybody who doesn’t interview about him is like, they prepared for this. They look forward to spending extra time in space.
And, uh, you know, this, it’s all under control. Everybody’s very calm about it. Who does it? And it, and it probably is.
Um, but still going back to those two astronauts, they get delayed because of a leak. They launch, get five leaks. They have a hard time docking.
Now they’re delayed up there. Now they’re like, Oh shit. Uh, a Russian satellite just broke up.
Duck and cover, right? They’re like, get on the ship. They’re like, uh, Boeing, are we coming back? What’s going on? What’s going on? They’re like, Oh, a couple more weeks. So a couple more weeks.
Why do I have to sign this life insurance? Get it. Uh, just stand. We forgot that before you left.
So yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So cancel policy.
Um, but, oh, oh, here, here was, uh, I forgot this was the, uh, other part of the video or there was a video that I saw on YouTube, right? And they were bringing up some of the issues that Boeing starliner had. Well, this is another issue that didn’t really make the press. So I thought you guys would be entertained by it.
Boeing is under constant fire for failing to return the astronauts from the international space station, adding fuel to the fire. An old footage is resurfacing all over social media, making everyone worry even more about the astronauts. The footage shows Boeing starliner spacecraft being rolled out to the launch pad for its second attempt to dock with the international space station.
In the video captured by a news videographer, a piece of the capsules window appears to pop off and fall to the asphalt during transport shows the processions stopping briefly to check for damage before resuming its journey to space launch complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The window issue raises questions about how the starliner can withstand the extreme conditions of space travel, especially during re-entry. Oh my gosh.
That’s, that’s why I’m like re-entry. Aren’t the Boeing planes randomly opening hatches? Yes. Boeing is an issue with these hatches.
Man, I hate to be quality assurance in that hatch factory. You know, I mean, I mean, these, these astronauts and everything, they’re all cool customers, right? They’re very cool. They’re very smart.
They’re very technical, very capable, but you know, these two gotta be going, are we really trusting this thing to get us back to earth? I mean, you gotta be worried, right? You gotta be nervous. How can you not with all the mishaps? Yeah. And now it’s not in Florida, blew it apart.
I told you to put the duct tape on that thing. I did. I use gorilla tape.
Three twists, three twists. Oh my God. So I thought you guys get a kick out of that.
Uh, you know, I, you know, I really do hope for the best. It would be just completely tragic, but God, they gotta be nervous. They have to be nervous.
I recommend we contact Boeing for a statement. Oh, it’s late for. And then we’re like, who are you guys? We want to like, I’m Mr. History.
Don’t you know me? You’re late for changeover. We want to state that. 127 regular listeners.
We got one minute listeners. So, you know, they’re right up for you. Doing pretty good.
Okay. Let’s get into some fun. And this next story, I want to know, Eric, how this next story happens.
Okay. This is from the Charlotte observer and directly involves guardians. Uh, is reposted military.com. A mom breaches space for space with four-year-old and fleas in a stolen car.
So it’s like a tank rides around California for six. Well, there’s that too. Yeah.
But this is just a mom with her four-year-old. So, uh, forgive me because this is all taken from an affidavit. It’s very sketchy.
There’s more questions than it answers, right? It generates more questions than it answers. A woman was with her four-year-old son when she breached a US space for space and stole a man’s car resulting in a high-speed chase in two central Florida counties. Krishna J. Janoski, 29 of, it says Coco.
I assume that’s Coco Beach. I don’t know if there’s just a Coco, Florida, uh, Florida representative, but she broke in, or she broke into Patrick space for space in Brevard County, damaging the basis flight line gate in February. She is charged in federal court with unauthorized entry on a military installation, grand theft auto, fleeing and eluding law enforcement and damaging government property.
So here’s, here’s what went down. On February 7th, Janoski rammed into Patrick space for spaces gate with her car and entered the military installation while driving with her child. Janoski didn’t have the credentials to be on the base.
On the grounds of the facility, she exited her car, grabbed her son, and then entered a man’s vehicle as he was sitting in the driver’s seat. Where were the cops? Well, I have a question. How did she enter? There’s concrete barriers.
Right. Right. She run to a fence that didn’t have any of this stuff in her way.
I don’t know. Does any gate really use that, that old system with the one car that comes down? Well, they’ve got the barriers that pop up. Yeah, they have the bollards.
The bollards, right? But I mean, but you got to pop them up. But if they’re not popped, I suppose. And were there air force, were there space force cops or were they contractors? I don’t think there’s such a thing as space force cops.
I think, oh, oh, you mean, talk about military, regular air force, security forces, or rent a cop’s rent a cop. Right. Okay.
I don’t know. That’s a good point. I think if they were military, they would be hesitant to pop that barricade.
If there’s a kid in the car, if they knew it. And right. And then, you know, the first thing we’re taught is you have to assess the threat before you engage.
Yeah. How bad is this woman? Did you see a weapon? It’s just in a vehicle running for. So there’s a lot of assessing going on.
And it could have been, it could have been just a normal pass through. She looks at her ID and is like, ma’am. And she hits the gas.
There’s nothing up right there at that point. Right. So let’s assume that happened.
Nice. Okay. So I’m going to also assume that she is a jilted lover and her baby’s father’s on base.
Who’s probably a cop. Yeah, that’s a good call. You’re impregnating all our women.
And he may have told her he was working that day, but he wasn’t, you know, classified. On the ground. Okay.
So she had enough time to drive to somewhere. Get out, get her baby and then get in somebody else’s car as he was sitting there. Janoski then placed her child in the back seat of the man’s car and he got out of his vehicle upon request by base personnel.
That doesn’t make any sense to me. Then she, quote, jumped into the driver’s seat and fled with his vehicle. We’re not getting a lot of information here.
I know, but I love it. I love it. So let’s just go.
Let’s just go with it. Let’s say the cops are still like, hey, did she just drive through? Yeah. What are we supposed to do? I don’t know.
Check the checklist. Where’s the checklist? Ah, shit. It’s in the back.
They rolled up and we’re like, get out of the vehicle. And then military guys. Okay.
So if you look back at incidents of gates being ran, you’ll find that most Air Force cops engaged with their weapons. They ran through a barrier, a gate, not following the instructions. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Yeah. Well, that’s what’s, that’s what’s this story leaves a lot to be desired. So we’re, we’ll go, we’re going to fill in the gaps, right? We’ll do the favor and fill in the gaps.
I like it. So she jumped in the man’s car, fled with his vehicle in the man’s car. Janoski.
Now she must be off base because it said led Brevard County deputies on a chase into the neighboring Indian River County where the county’s deputies joined a pursuit. So she must’ve driven back off the vehicle. One Indian River County deputy was able to completely stop Janoski after deputies deployed two sets of stop sticks.
Have you ever used those Eric? Are they worth it? Oh, they’ll stop it. Oh, they will. It crashes your tire immediately.
Oh, does it really? And these are the ones that you can just kind of throw out and they kind of. You roll them out like a bowling ball. Yeah.
I thought they were just Billy clubs. You were beating people with it. You get like, this is my stop stick.
No, I’m going in your spokes. Stop resisting. Very few air force bases have it.
So you’re not listening to the stop stick. So why are you, why are you doing the list? It’s not funny you’re talking about cops here, pal. Oh, that’s why I talk about all cops.
Some cops need to beat people, sir. After her arrest, Janoski said that she was at a hook. Now here’s the story that really leaves a lot to the imagination.
Uh, Janoski said that she was at a hotel with her son before she arrived at Patrick Space Force Base. She told a deputy that veterans were veterans were at the hotel and she was quote, fearful of them. Not knowing if they were there to help her or not end quote.
She left the hotel and followed the car. Once she arrived at Patrick Space Force Base once on the base. She was then directed to pull over and feel fearful of what quote unquote, they were going to do.
She got into the man’s vehicle. Janoski said she didn’t know the driver of the vehicle. She’s accused of carjacking and they, and that she didn’t pull over for deputies during the chase out of fear.
Fear, fear, fear, an Indian River County. She was charged with felony fleeing and eluding grand theft auto and child neglect without great bodily harm. The state case against Janoski was closed on June 28th.
And she is accused of causing more than $1,000 worth of damage to Patrick Space Force Base’s flight line gate. Yeah, flight line gate. If Janoski is convicted on that account, she faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
She ran like a restricted area gate. Flight lines are restricted area. Again, this story is from, it’s from affidavit.
So it’s all like, wow, you know, police report stuff and it’s a Charlotte observer. So I, I, they probably were like, this story makes no sense. And I’m like, I know, but that’s all I could get.
So it’s a little weird. It’s not as fun as the guy who stole the Humvee in California, but it’s close. It’s close, right? Slow news day.
Thank you for the two stories you sent me, Jake, or I would have been dealing with Janoski. All right. All right.
Let’s go. You put the kid bonus points for putting the kid in the back. Yeah.
Bonem. Bonus points for checking the rear seat. Get grabbing the kid.
That he’s stitching seatbelting? You don’t know. Well, me, man. Hey, how many times were you seatbelted in there? Yeah, that’s true.
As a kid? Yeah. Probably not a lot. You’re right.
You were on a bench seat with no metal seatbelt, right? Go your seatbelt at best, or just get down. Your seatbelt was, Eric, it’s your dad holding your chest. Crossed the bench.
Remember those station wagons that either had the side by side door? Or the rear-facing ones? Yeah, so you could see the rear end accident coming. Oh, well, how many times you’re right in the back of a pickup and just get thrown around, right? Yeah. I mean, Jesus.
So let’s close this out with a fun one that I found at the last minute. This is kind of cool. The, here we go.
Oh, yeah. Out of stripes.com, the bat insignia on a marine stealth fighter in Japan is a minor star of social media. That part’s not important, but it flew, and everybody took pictures of this damn thing.
The F-35B Lightning II, assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Jawa-kuni, Japan, Iwakuni, Japan, appeared over the base June 11th with outgoing Commander Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Millman on his final flight at the end of his 20-year career. It bore the noteworthy insignia of the squadron’s namesake mascot. The paint scheme emphasizes the agility and stealth of the F-35B Colonel Kyle Shoe, Marine Aircraft Group 12 commander told stars and stripes.
So this is what they’re talking about. They have a bat painted on it. That’s a bat man.
That is a bat. How cool is that, right? The paint scheme emphasizes the agility and stealth of the F-35B, Colonel Shoe said. The bats have a, oh, sorry, Marine Aircraft Group 12, also known as the bats, unveiled a newly painted F-35B aircraft to showcase the new squadron logo.
The bats have a proud heritage in Marine Corps aviation and continue that legacy as one of two permanently forward-based F-35B squadrons. In the Indo-Pacific. So, and here’s another shot of it.
Damn, that’s cool. I know. I think it’s pretty cool.
Imagine if you had that damn thing painted underneath and you saw that coming at your ass. Oh, yeah, that’s pretty cool. It almost looks like a mustache, though, doesn’t it? Well, a bit.
Yeah, maybe they curved the wings down a little too much, you know. It does look a little chocula there. But it is cool that at least they’re painting on the vehicles again.
And they wanted to make sure, rest assured, this does not compromise the stealth principles or anything of the F-35. So that’s a wicked ass airplane, man. I like it.
I like it too. I just don’t know if we’re supposed to like trust it. I mean, you know, the maintenance and the cost.
I mean, I’m still sold on the F-22, and that seems to be retired as fast as it was, like, in service. It’s like, okay, we’ve got 150 of them. I was like, cut them.
It’s like, what? Man, yeah, both. Because that was the joint strike fighter. The F-35 is, I think.
Right, the F-22 was a Raptor. Yeah, the F-22 is just supposed to be air superiority. So, but I think there’s a lot of like, did you ever see that movie Pentagon Wars? About the development of the Bradley fighting vehicle and how they gave them, initially, they were like, here’s the requirements of the vehicle that we want.
So they like started building it and they’re like, well, we actually wanted to swim too. And they’re like, oh, shit. Well, that wasn’t the original thing.
And then they go, we also wanted to do this. So they kept changing requirements. And the story of how the Bradley came about was just this, it went inordinate costs, crazy costs.
And it sounds like the F-35 is kind of doing that, but they’re finding the maintenance costs of the F-35 so high, you know? Yeah. So, I don’t know. But it is cool.
There’s a lot of cool ability on it. Has it seen any combat? Because I think we talked about that once before. What did we do? The F-22 has one? 22 shutdown balloons.
Yeah, I guess you’re right. That was it, right? That’s it. Yeah, I think so.
I thought the F-35 saw service in the desert somewhere, though. No? Maybe not? I don’t think so. No, I don’t think so.
That was all. It seems like. You can see how it handled itself.
As soon as they try to make it, one tool does everything, or one aircraft does everything, one Bradley vehicle does everything. It just doesn’t serve the purpose. Did you hear me ask? Eric, did you ever see that movie Pentagon Wars about the… Yeah, that’s what I was listening to.
The changing requirements on the Bradley. It’s definitely no B-36. But I mean, before we had specialized aircraft, right? Yeah, yeah.
Except for the C-130, that one will do everything. That is a jack, right? That’s a jack of everything. They just duct taped some random crap on the outside, and they’re like, it is now an E-model.
It is now a B-model. That’s a wicked cool bird, man. But it’s got a maintenance short tail on it.
I mean, it’s not short. It’s got a… It’s not a long maintenance. Problem.
I mean, we got everything to fix it. We know how to fix it. You can fix it in the field.
You know, that kind of shit. Flies forever. And now they have 16 as well, right? And the A-10 too.
And the B-52. But now you got all this new stuff, and it’s like taking your new computerized car to a regular mechanic. He’s like, I can’t work on this thing, man.
Oh, no. Sound like my grandson. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Okay. Grandpa, I’m lifting weights, and he’s like, good, good, good, good job.
That’s all I need you to do, son. Keep doing it. Speaking of lifting weights, Eric, what do you got for us for U.S. military history? This is pretty cool.
I don’t know. That transition made no sense. I don’t care anymore.
Smooth as hell. Yeah, thank you. July 1st to July 3rd, 1863.
Amazing battle. Help me out. Okay, good.
Help me out. I want you to spew it because I figured you’d know it right away. What was the date again? July 1st to July 3rd, 1863.
The most important engagement of the American Civil War. Shiloh. Negative.
That’s what General Petty said. Boston Tea Party. Now, God, the Battle of Gettysburg thought from July 1st to July 3rd, 1863.
I thought it was 1864. That’s where I was messed up. That’s why you’re not the history guy.
So it was one of the most engagement Americans of the war. After a great victory over Union forces of Chancellor Bill, General Lee marched his army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June. On July 1st, the advancing Confederates class with the Union’s Army of the Potomac commanded by General George Lee at the crossroads town of Gettysburg.
The next day saw ever heavy fighting as Confederates attacked the Federals both left and right. So everybody knows pretty much the basics of Gettysburg. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to transition real quick.
I want to give you numbers. You’ll get a kick out of this. Well, no, you won’t.
But it’s called eight, six, seven. So nearly one third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties. How much say that again? I was bullshitting.
One third of the total forces of Gettysburg became casualties. So George Meade’s army of the Potomac lost 28% of the men involved. Jesus.
Robert E. Lee’s army of Northern Virginia suffered over 37%. Yeah. Of these casualties, 7,058 were fatalities.
There was 3,155 on the Union side and 3,903 on the Confederate side. Now here’s where the numbers kind of get… Don’t make sense to me. So another 33,264 have been wounded.
Yeah. 14,000 on the Union side, 18,000 on the Confederate side and 10,790 were missing. Missing.
Just ran away. Don’t go. 5,365 Union soldiers, 5,425 Confederate soldiers were missing.
Okay. So the last part of this little history lesson is at field hospitals around Gettysburg, amputated limbs lay in heaps and were buried together. Bodies were collected at various points on the field and interred near where they fell.
Yeah, put it in the limb hole. Yeah, put it in the limb hole. Elizabeth Thorne, wife of the mander of the town’s largest cemetery, reportedly dug over 100 graves herself despite being pregnant.
That’s a sturdy back right there. Among the corpse found near the west side of the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge was a woman who disguised her gender to fight for the Confederacy. Reportedly, another disguised Southern woman lost a leg during the charge of Cemetery ribbons.
So those were the couple things I just didn’t know if you’d be familiar with. So two women just fighting on the Southern side. Pretty cool.
So Getty… I mean, we know the basics of Gettysburg, but the fact that so many deaths and wounded and man, just… Wow, thank God for Jeff Daniels. Otherwise, a little round top would have fell. Mr. Chamberlain.
That’s right. Pretty amazing. That’s cool.
That’s cool. That’s a lot of people in a day. Right? Well, over three days.
And I like that because if you look at it, if you just look at that portion of Pickett’s Charge, you’re like how stupid that was, right? But you go into the tactics of it and how they were trying to probe to the left, how they were trying to probe to the right, come up on little round top, and Chamberlain held. And I get it. And he’s like, fuck, they’re strong left and right.
Well, hell, they got to be weak up the middle. But the charge… I mean, if you look at… Never walk that ground. But if you look at the shots of that field, a couple hundred yards, they had to go march in line.
Wide open. Yeah. And there were two fences they had to negotiate while these guys just picked them apart over and over.
I mean, yeah, it’s like… God bless them. That was the beginning of the downfall, man. I mean, that Napoleonic concept of war was just… Absurd.
Yeah. Absurd. Absurd.
Jake, what do you got, man? Are you looking up the Special Forces change command ceremony? I’ve got it. I’ve got it. Do it while I’m doing this in here.
Because when you see it, when I know you laugh out loud, that’s what you’ll see. Oh, hey, just to remind you guys, unfortunately, the day is over. But today was National Report Military Fraud Day.
Oh, that’s perfect. It raises awareness about the extent and implications of military fraud and educates the public monetary incentives for reporting the same to the relevant authorities. How many reports you think they got? Probably a shitload, man.
There’s a lot of axes to grind out there. And people are like, I’m reporting that some a bit. Oh, I don’t know, man.
I don’t know. I’m thinking out. Nobody gives a shit.
No, but they’re going to report it. I mean, whether or not it’s true. Fucking National Snitch Day.
That’s perfect. So that’s January or July 2nd. I had no idea.
I wonder how many days of the calendar are designated as something. National BS Day. Yeah, kind of, right? National Security Officer Day.
What? They get another day off? I got a pen that says that. Look out. Jake Squinting.
I know. The news articles. The show’s rough this week.
It’s so rough. It’s kind of silenced them. I don’t know.
It shows the news article. Shows the Zoom background. Oh, you saw it.
Two big gray dots. And then it’s clinical. Described an adult African-American man masturbating with a sexual toy in his anus.
And I’m like, oh my god. And this guy’s broadcast. That’s what the circle is.
And it’s got the picture of the guy only with gray circles. He’s like, oh. And that’s what I told you, Eric.
He wasn’t angling the cameras. He was angling his body for the camera. What in the hell was he thinking, man? Well, but then it got broadcast.
This action is not reflective of our army values. Can we take that professionalism of our people or mission very seriously? Oh, I’m sure we do. Oh.
Even that happens. Even though that happens at 90% of the dorm rooms around the military. That freaking picture is horrible.
I got to see this, man. You can see the soles of his feet. Yeah, you can see it.
You just all sprawled back. That’s why the guy who made the meme of taking the screenshot of that dude and then Jeffrey from that CBT. Like Jeffrey’s disappointed.
Well, I got the army times. No pictures on the army times. Oh, no.
Army times ain’t gonna publish nothing, man. What are you on, Jake? Man, I want popular. Anyway, put it in the chat, man.
Let’s end up this thing. This thing was sick. This thing was sick this week.
Pornographic content hijacks army’s live stream. There you go. That’s what we should have covered that story.
And the army wants to make fun of Space Force. Look at this. Look at these guys, man.
I love the fact that they did that cyber awareness guy, Jeff, that training we all go through and they cut that over there. Did you see the meme? Isn’t that hilarious? No, I didn’t see the meme. Oh, that is hilarious.
Yeah, yeah. Because they did the response. Like, if you take the quiz and you fail it and you got to go back and retake that module and they’re like, Jeff’s disappointed.
He’s disappointed, Jeff. There it is, Eric, in the chat. So click on that thing and enjoy the rest of us.
And for those who are listening, I have no idea what we’re talking about. But a month ago, some army special forces command was being broadcast. Was it over Zoom? Did it say it was over Zoom? Yeah, it said the Zoom.
And in the middle of the coverage, somehow somebody, an image of a soldier who was masturbating broadcast out to everybody who was watching the change of command covers. So was it like a participant or did they get hacked? They didn’t, I couldn’t, I don’t know. I never read that far anyway.
They just laughed so much that I don’t know. So go ahead, army. Make fun of Space Force.
You’ve got an unclean house yourself. Eric just got to the picture. He’s like, oh, you see what I was talking about, man? Yeah, it’s crazy.
It gets worse from this angle. You are forever known as a bad guy now. Oh my God.
Oh yeah. Yeah, but if you’re going to go out, go out legendary, I suppose, right? You have a legacy. Man, he probably- If it’s a military member and not just a hack of somebody.
Oof. I wonder if he has, I wonder if they can really prosecute him for anything because it was like, hey, I wasn’t, I was private. You know what I mean? But I didn’t mean to hit camera on something.
I don’t know. I wonder what his defense is, right? Unbelievable, man. So fluid, I muted it.
But let’s go ahead and end up on that note. We probably should have covered that story, but- Oh man, that was a good one. I know WTF Nation Radio covered it, so I didn’t want to try to import it too, so.
Here’s what I know. That guy makes every Marine staying on the ledge outside of an apartment like a golden angel boy. That’s a good point.
Yeah, that’s, yeah. He did surpass them. He wasn’t covered in poop, though.
Yeah, and he wasn’t being woke up by an elderly Japanese or Okinawan woman. However- That was all local relations, not international relations. This guy did broadcast the souls of his feet and everything underneath.
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