Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 12 Feb 2025
Date: Feb 11, 2025
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It’s been dusting all day. It’s been dusting all day. I’m praying for that two hour weather delay.
Buckley, Buckley already said it out, and this is what they said, delayed start 9am. Look what kind of delayed start is that? No, they, they are getting strict. like don’t arrive before nine a.m. at or nine thirty well the last time a couple weeks ago when Buckley did this and they had a delayed start and they were like okay ten o’clock don’t you can’t come no earlier in ten o’clock so everyone on the base came at ten o’clock exactly ten oh one yeah it was 45 minutes in the bed especially if it’s as cold as it was today man that fall spring got me I fell for it man suck at us every I was out riding my bicycle on all that shit red hawk big face redhawk Ridge on Thursday played Kennedy on Friday was awesome and then fucking the weather came in done done well so sorry I’m so tired of working I swear to god I’m so tired of working my last year that I worked every Sunday night rolled around I’m like really I don’t want it I mean it was terrible I hated it it’s not necessarily the words no it’s like it’s not the job people or the work like yeah like hey what’d you do it you write that report up now I didn’t write that I don’t like the fact that I have to like three months before I go on any trip they’re like better fill out all this stuff go on all this tree right and then they’re like as soon as you get back they’re like did you fill all this stuff back did you do it I’m like nothing’s different dudes it’s not like and I go back and I start doing my SF 86 or whatever none of that’s in there none of it so I’m like what the heck is the point it is right right it’s just the the little annoyances are yeah I’m hard to answer into the mar to take as you get closer what I will tell you is you get closer and older it’s much harder for them to piss you off cuz you go hey did you do that report now you’re gonna do that report I don’t know well okay we’re gonna do about it you know I don’t need this job right like I said before if I had managed my money I wouldn’t need the job but I do need the job I still gotta and that’s what’s even more annoying it’s like I got you know I’m talking to like engineer leads who are 20 years younger than me yeah I’m like I know you’re very very smart but you still have no idea how to manage people no no I’m not online I’m right in front of you talk to me like I’m funny yeah I can’t I can’t look in yeah literally I’m like did you go down and talk to him well I said email I’m like you know they’re literally like right below us it’s better this way go down there hey man what’s going on did you get this how’s it going oh that’s the update okay Jake sounds like he’s still enjoying work and you just enjoy work yes I do I love it I look at my retirement numbers every other day I’m so all it is is like how small of a house can I move into and endure for the next 10 15 years should I just go into an apartment building should I just you know buy into some pseudo assisted living thing and just go like hey this room is great I can put my podcast here and I can sleep right here what’s your wife wants or if you want to keep your wife I guess I’m working for the next I don’t know like having the kids one week on one week off I just realized how much little space I use yeah right like I’m sitting here going I sit in that living room I go to the kitchen my room clearly my closet and the bathroom that’s it right that’s it 600 square feet are you ever reminded like why am I vacuuming I haven’t walked into this part of the house Oh Marty here’s here’s how bad it is I have a cleaning lady that comes once a month oh look at you bougie I contrary to the self-dyed shirt but she cleans the guest bedroom and I’m like why do you do that since my mom and Rick and I and I cleaned I did the dance and I swept and I mopped after that there’s no reason to go in there just save yourself I’ll still be the same amount I don’t care just don’t waste your efforts save some effort a little more effort on vacuuming the walk-ins yeah you have an age you have an age that you want to punch 50 50 oh yeah that’d be awesome because that Audrey will have graduated now already so that’s right what’s that’s kind of really the only thing I’m holding on for right but so okay so financially you’re secure because if you take anything out of a 4-1 before 59 and a half you get penalized yeah you’re good okay but financially I’ve been living on so little and I own your house right yeah yeah and I literally pocket like 30% of my paycheck and I and I pay off mom’s mortgage so mom’s mortgage is the only repeating bill that I still have so I wish it was I wish it would’ve had fun with all the money I owe shit anyway speaking of dice I did place a bet and I won on the Super Bowl this year however some people can’t go see sporting events when they’re out the field or they’re deployed this story this story from task and purpose had a good first sergeant who helped his soldiers out so this guy set up a Super Bowl party out in the field I like that first sergeant man that’s a game that’s pretty cool that’s millions to tuned in for sports bars and living rooms on Sunday to watch Super Bowl licks at the same time soldiers and Sea Company 3rd Battalion 15th Infantry Regiment were in field training at sport Stewart Georgia when the first sergeant surprised him with the watch party projected on the side of a light medium tactical vehicle boy yeah yeah I’m out there they were they were out there doing tank tables which takes a while because they got a they got a pull up they got a fire basically all these different types of engagements and it takes several days so they were out there shitty scheduling right pull them out on the field as a Super Bowl a sergeant first sergeant like shut up get on the chain so but first sergeant James Welch arranged this whole thing he picked up pizza soda game day snacks for the company under the guise of a chow run so for you guys in the army the first sergeant’s the one who goes back to supplier the rear to get chow so he kept it he kept the whole thing a secret only a few headquarters staff knew and we wanted to genuinely surprise our soldiers and show our appreciation in an unexpected way and you know he was getting cursed that all that whole run is like yeah so the soldiers had an unexpected interruption in training after finishing gunnery qualification during which quote five crews qualified on the m1a to Abrams and we’re about to start another round of training then first sergeant pulled up he set up the makeshift theater he used his own personal projector laptop and a reliable internet connection I don’t know why you say we’re you know why I could look at that picture that clear hot thing in the front looks exactly like a star link oh that’s cool that and then he projected it up on the LMTV so you know when I was deployed they would put it you know we had a couple times where we were actually put the Super Bowl in but it was late at night for us early in the morning whenever they never they never you never got anything out of field if you were working you were done your stuff right but for everybody else hey you get up and come in we’ll put it out so that’s pretty good though there we were out in the field training up for like like an NTC deployment or something like that so we were like way behind they had to get all this field timing and so we were out in the field for Super Bowls Sunday out in Fort Hood Texas they wouldn’t let us come back in he out there so these guys set up these calm guys set up I don’t know if you’ve ever seen them there’s some physics behind it where they set this extra long like antenna wire up and it can get certain wavelengths or something like that I don’t know how they did it but they got basically Armed Forces radio in out there in the field playing over the radio speaker so we got to listen to it oh that’s better it was really pretty cool actually it was that was pretty cool so I think that was one of the I think that was one of the giant Super Bowls way back one but I can’t remember which one so well that’s a damn good first sergeant take care of his people yeah I agree those first sergeants and those chaplains like that chaplains do that too yeah that’s right that’s right I think I’ve told you guys a couple times that chaplain on the flight line was awesome we had one chaplain where was that at those look at Alaska he he would literally roll out and he had like three or four chaplain assistants but he would roll out in his chaplain truck and he would just drive right onto the flight line and then he would set up cones around yeah and it’s and then it was like chaplain does it designated no play zone and you and he would just start handing out sandwiches and stuff oh really and you could come into the no-play zone and take off your mask or take off your best that’s great yeah just make it up his own rules but nobody like chaplain get the hell out yeah who’s gonna push back on the chaplain yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah that’s pretty good but those those are the ones I mean you remember those things more than oh yeah a lot of the other stuff so yeah so good on your first sergeant Welch I like it it’s a shame the game wasn’t better I wanted to be closer that’s all I still think Philadelphia we should have won and I’m glad they did but I thought he’d be closer I wanted to go into that fourth quarter you know who’s gonna have the ball I was scared going into the fourth quarter still I was like my home says the ability to pull some crap out of his butt hurry up offense the team looked tired they look they looked outcoached you know they it’s like they couldn’t figure out that defense I don’t know what offensive line was just destroying it yeah that was fantastic absolutely yeah have you seen all the videos of Philly though yes I saw Roy I saw what were the guys like where’d they get the horses and the cop horses they look like police horses I don’t know maybe they took them from the police they would look like drunk fans riding horses in this people carrying like three people carrying whole phone poles oh they just destroyed things destroy things it’s like a hobby now yeah it’s so silly they you know they we win let’s go take out a story shit I don’t understand it cuz they got to pay for it it’s not like the city’s gonna be like whoa where are we gonna get the money little taxes yeah hello you’re paying for that holes aren’t getting filled in did you well let me ask this did you did you get the halftime show this is how I know I was really old right I had some people work they’re like no that was a really deep halftime show I was like yeah it was I was noise I didn’t know what the hell I don’t listen to his music but they’re like oh there was some real messages and they went into the hole and I was like I am old I mean I don’t know any of that well those two have been him and Drake have been going back and forth for a minute and then Kendrick Lamar released that album and it was just all just trash talking Drake yeah and then two of his girlfriends yeah like both like wasn’t Serena Williams was his ex-girlfriend I think he had relations with the other lady that sang with him yeah I took the opportunity to eat some dinner I didn’t even watch it yeah I was like yeah dad is to this yeah but I didn’t know any of that stuff so but I know about it now but one you know change subject real quick Grammys Beyonce getting frickin country album of the year yeah about all those awards well worth it bottom paid for so just make my head it okay whatever John Denver one so don’t you be smart secret John Denver is a national hero these first the precious name all right so let’s go on to one of Trump’s ideas oh and it’s pretty over-the-top well he’s got a bunch of them this is a follow-up article there was a you know obviously the main article where he or Trump proposed the iron dome but now there’s some senators who are putting some detail into the desired missile defense elements for Trump’s iron dome now first off I mean if you go back to Reagan right with Star Wars or the I can’t remember the exact initiative it was oh SDI right yes strategic defense initiative and the concept behind that was like hey if we got something that will keep all missiles out then that we just made all their ICBMs obsolete I get it right I get it and we’re you know MDA still trying to move that way the missile missile well why not throw something out here even if you get a little bit of it okay maybe not weaponizing space but maybe you get some other stuff so president Donald Trump’s executive order to develop a next generation homeland missile defense shield marks a shift in the United States long-standing homeland missile defense strategy which is focused on threats from rogue nations like North Korea and Iran rather than from peer adversaries like China or Russia the order titled the iron dome for America I love that he named stuff like we would name stuff America around having a burger called iron dome that’s what we’re going to put it right at the top of the Gulf of America but it’s so much more fun I mean whether it’s dumb or ridiculous or a great idea it’s so hot there and I love the disruptor part of it so two Republican senators have introduced legislation that would establish more detailed plans for debt president Trump’s new missile defense shield for the homeland to include resurrecting several previously proposed plans and capabilities that were either canceled or placed on the fact burner over the last decade in the bill submitted on February 5th by senators Dan Sullivan Republican from Alaska and Kevin Kramer Republican from North Dakota the senators lay out a plan for missile defense for the continental US coast they would include Aegis a shore systems so I think it’s that Aegis system they just took off the battleship and yep plopped out I think one’s in Poland right now can’t remember where the other one is Oh Poland and Romania so it’s basically just a shoot the SM please all right that’s essentially the shoot the SM things the plan also calls for using blimps for detection of complex threats expanding the current ground-based mid-course defense system or GMD at Fort Greeley Alaska and adding a brand new interceptor site on the East Coast furthermore the order revives a pursuit of space-based interceptors interceptors for missile defense a concept that has been scrapped multiple times in recent history due to technological challenges and high costs associated with the development I was like okay maybe until that space-based interceptor thing is because once again it’s a matter of perspective if you could shoot something down from space you literally have missiles or some sort of object that can come back down and has a very high skill in targeting things right sure sure that could also from Russia or China’s perspective if you’re gonna shoot a missile down it would be incredibly easy to shoot a stagnant city well yeah and and then you’re gonna just start the freakin nuclear arms race all over again right right I don’t think Russia could keep up with it cuz they’re broke but in that case desperation yeah you’re like well like Japan doing the calculations in World War two might as well mess some crap up right now while I got fuel before the embargo kicks in but they’re but they’re already talking about not even putting up weapons but just de-orbiting shit right there we’ve done the stories where they’re like oh we’re gonna put it up there we can de-orbit it whenever we want yeah okay we’ve all heard that statement and all seen those gung-ho officers were like well we just got rods from gods we’re good right right and you’re like no that is not good wow this goes back to the old thing when they they outlawed white phosphorus by like you know convention can’t use against troops is like oh but I can use it against their equipment like they’re LDAs and their packs but I’m not using against the troop yes that’s the same philosophy is like it’s just kinetic it’s not anything that blows up so it’s just kinetic well I think right now the focus would be from ground-based not how Boeing can’t even get back up there get their own people so one of the things they’re saying with putting blimps up there is I found this part funny this may mean a revival of the Raytheon joint land attack cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor system or Jaylens as it is better known so here’s here’s what Jaylens was look at that man that’s a well-hung blimp it’s called an arrow stat so it was designed all over it’s yeah it was everywhere right that particular one you’re looking at is a male that’s a that’s a male that has to get something last because that’s just out of proportion but the Raytheon made arrow stat which you’re looking at was designed to work in a pair one with the fire control system and the other powerful surveillance sensors capable of tracking swarming boats and vehicles and detecting and tracking cruise missile threats from Boston all the way to Norfolk Virginia so like half the coastline that’s impressive yeah man or unmanned unclear okay but three years ago this program people right in the very tip of that thing that’s how you enter and exit look like Jim Carrey in the rhino out the backside got a lot of boats out here guys what do you say all out of three years ago this arrow stats the Jaylens broke free from its mooring station near Baltimore and took a three-hour jump through the skies of Pennsylvania dragging sorry dragging its several thousand foot tether which hit power lines along the way and caused significant power outages this blimp ultimately landed in a grove of trees in the countryside where Pennsylvania state troopers were ordered to open fire on the blimp to deflate it fire it will baby aim for the vein boys you have to shoot it down I mean it landed I guess they’re trying to deflate it’s not gonna take off yeah that could be it was cancelled during its operational exercise at Aberdeen proving ground following that incident so maybe they bring that back and they’re like hey let’s give that let’s give that another world figure out why you’d need a blimp when you’ve got all these unknown unmanned you know higher technology jobs but a blimp could probably loiter for longer now it’s fairly unpowered it’s just okay kind of up there I guess I don’t know and I would assume unmanned then make sense right yeah just put it up there and let it float around for a while the Chinese traversed our entire country with their balloon so Trump’s iron dome executive order also included a renewed pursuit of space-based interceptors the bill would support that effort in addition to containing to or continuing to pursue a robust space-based threat detection later the bill also requires missile defense agency to accelerate the development of its glide phase interceptor the agency chose north of Grumman over Aethenon in September to build an interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic weapons in the boost phase of flight the decision also came early earlier than originally planned they’re like hey get on this like oh shit we didn’t think we’d win the technology is pretty amazing with what we’re talking about it is but can they get there yeah that’s the whole thing I don’t know if they can get their health even even our ground-based interceptors but we got them you know let’s see what goes on with GMD ground mid-course what does that stand for Jake ground mid-course defense system I think so anyway looking up what where the boost phase of the hypersonic was yeah yeah that’s basically shooting it down over foreign countries yeah oh yeah oh yeah yeah right right so but that’s what they were talking about some that other article I read was that’s where they wanted to do the space-based interception from not over boost or just right there after yeah because once it once it goes in the glide it’s so yeah it’s we’re never gonna catch it yep and it’s maneuverable so we can’t you know we can’t chase it yep so interesting maybe a lot of contracts coming out there I suppose I think you just throw up a bunch of Air Force cops out there with some stinger missiles good to go and only potato launchers that’s another bonus to the bunkhole that that guy sticks out it’s awesome I wish I wish we could write skits that would be hilarious winging it so much better usually we laugh on this show and I do love to laugh but actually I thought this was good that we would cover some some important stories I think right so I think a lot of this stuff is out there but let’s talk the VA and drugs so here are two stories from task and purpose that almost came out the same day and they’re related but the first story do you talks about this guy what is his name I can’t remember his name but after Derek Blumke so after kicking six different meds this veteran now studies over medication over medication in VA care so Derek Blumke was on a cocktail of six different meds prescribed by doctors with the D or the VA there was 2017 the 12-year veteran of the Air Force and Michigan Air National Guard was taking Adderall for ADHD Ambien for insomnia gab of Penton for anxiety oh my goodness yeah he said my life was now on fire my startup company in rubble and I was struggling to keep a job and maintain my sanity instead of looking at the list of meds I was already prescribed the VA psychiatrist said let’s try an antidepressant so they added Zoloft to him right for a year and a half white why are they trying to create an active shooter? Adderall is basically meth right man is to bring him down from the meth high right right like gab of Penton is you know it’s many things but I guess for anxiety I’ve never tried that I wonder if I could get a sample I saw a commercial I need this Blumke took Zoloft an antidepressant medication for a year and a half while coming off Zoloft Blumke had an array of symptoms flu like symptoms feeling like the room was spinning brain zaps and missing gaps of time yeah frustrated by his doctor’s approach Blumke started studying the issue of over prescription when doctors inappropriately or excessively prescribed pharmaceuticals in lieu of other treatments what Blumke found or what Blumke has found is a gap in federal data that lawmakers have been trying to close for years the VA does not maintain a system that tracks whether or not a vet who dies by suicide while under VA care may have been over prescribed pharmaceuticals yeah no one is why would they want to track that exactly why would they right but they don’t track it so there’s no like but as soon as they track it they’re like Oh someone’s going to jail is Oh yeah exactly I’m gonna get another job yeah so someone’s maybe I’ll take that Trump eight-month thing yeah the buyout so Blumke this guy now investigates over prescription and other relevant data as a fellow with the grunt style foundation representatives Vern Buchanan a Republican out of Florida and Jerry Connelly a Democrat out of Virginia and other members of Congress have introduced the veteran over medication a suicide prevention act four times since 2019 at some points gaining just over a dozen sponsors a version of the measure was introduced in 2016 by the late Republican senator John McCain from Arizona so they’ve been trying to pass this legislation it didn’t go into what it was but they’ve been trying to get this through Congress and they can’t get it through you would think though if the guy was like hey I’m taking too many meds I wonder what the cost of cutting out five of the six meds and I mean it’s got to be saving money what true but it’s got to also be a combination of a million different factors probably one of them is like there’s so many patients backed up that’s probably the easiest thing just like here you go next next next next you know there’s that but then but we’ve seen they can’t control it they can’t account for the money they can’t account for the equipment why would they account for their drugs yeah but we’ve we’ve seen active-duty people literally go to rehab there were there were two of them in our last quarter that had to go to rehab because of doctor prescribed medicine prescription yeah like it was back pain or something legitimate and then it turned into right it’s still ongoing and then that’s a perfect lead into this next story but let me close out what this guy said it’s not enough to just know the number of veteran suicide deaths which is tragically high we must understand whether there’s a relationship between treatment methods and suicide the new data generated from this legislation will be used to better treat veterans suffering from both mental and physical injuries moving forward so that’s what the legislation is designed to do now there’s you got to be a correlation between over-prescribed and suicide I think there’s got to be a piece I agree and you can buy those medicines have yeah yeah suicidal thoughts please contact your doctor yeah okay and the first number on any health care phone line even active-duty through a size VA was it that first thing that comes up English Spanish suicide prevention sir like your thoughts of harming yourself I salute them for doing that but when you’re I mean I was on opioids for my my prosthetic right my amputate fun and that’s scared because I was so scared of it I was like get me off of this thing but I couldn’t you know there were times at night I was like I can’t sleep without it right so windows you know I I haven’t been there fortunately but I imagine when those thoughts creep up you probably they sneak up on you you’re like why am I thinking this you don’t realize you’re not coordinating the two or if you are coordinated to is like I know I’m probably thinking this because of this drug but I’m thinking it yeah you know you’re not you can’t talk yourself I was like oh it’s okay Marty you’re just on the drug oh good that’s normal oh yeah yeah yeah so when that stuff takes takes doesn’t it doesn’t make your thoughts any different it doesn’t right that’s the problem well let me ask you this I want to ask you this yeah go he’s been put on six pretty heavily induced drugs I’m thinking you me Jake I would have said time out I’m on this I’m on this what do you mean I need to be on four others explain it to me let me understand I mean a rational person would step back and go how are these interacting what are the frickin you know side effects from mixing all the well crap but once again though Marty said it like he might I mean he is definitely feeling something yeah right so that getting rid of that feeling or getting through the pain or stomping or something like that he’s willing to do anything to try to fix that well yeah if you’re a pain is like I just need something for this you know okay this will help you all right yeah that feels a little better but now I’m feeling this and it I I don’t want to minimize you know cuz I we’ve all known people who have been on a ton of drugs and they’re in their right minds but they’re like yeah he says this is for this and this is for this and this is for this and this is for this I mean who wants to just like ah you don’t need any of that go off of all of it yeah the guy’s like well I would like to sleep at night and not you know feel the pain or whatever I mean I get it but it’s a tough one it’s a yeah it’s a it’s a vicious thing and if you don’t like to advocate imagine if you’re just by yourself right yeah yeah you don’t have a wife you don’t have a girlfriend you don’t have a husband somebody an advocate that talks for you yeah yeah you got you got to stare at the walls at night yeah it’s just like oh god so yeah that’s tough but that leads into this next story also from task and purpose where they discovered that well not discovered but they they did a study and they’re like two medications often prescribed together by the VA led to higher mortality risk that while this may be obvious to us now but maybe it’s the point of bringing a study out so it informs the vets so they can go in a little bit better prepared right veterans who are co-prescribed an opioid I’m gonna screw this name up all the time and a benzodiazepine by doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs face an increased mortality risk a new report found opioids are typically prescribed for pain benzos like Valium Xanax and Klonopin can be prescribed for anxiety panic disorders insomnia and seizures well National Academy of Sciences engineering medicine study analyzed VA health records from 2007 to 2019 at the quest of Congress to quote evaluate the effects of prescribed opioid and benzo pharma pharmacotherapies on all-cause mortality of US veterans including suicide the risk of death for co-prescriptions of opioids and benzos has been widely accepted by health experts and federal agencies according to National Institutes of Health the combination of opioids along with other central nervous system depressants such as benzodiazepines alcohol or xylazine increases the risk of an overdose and could cause sedation and suppressed breathing the study also found that veterans were at greater risk if they had received co-opioid and benzo prescriptions compared to veterans who were co-prescribed alternatives for opioids or benzos Derek Blumke the guy we just talked about in the previous article an Air Force veteran researcher who studies over prescriptions told task and purpose that the VA only began referencing veteran benzo use in its suicide report in 2024 oh we’re a little behind the power curve literally I just looked up benzo side effects yeah and it was just it slows down activity in the brain and the nervous system can you imagine combining that with an opioid which slows down everything more too and I guess you’re lucky to make it through the night benzos are incredibly easy to get addicted to and incredibly difficult to get off of right so are opioids yeah yeah exactly so are opioids so according to the annual suicide report released in December suicide rates among veterans experience sedative use disorder often associated with the misuse of substances such as benzos increased by twenty nine point two percent it’s the number and the Department of Veterans Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story I wonder why god dang man you know I used to I used to when I was taking care of my dad the last couple years I used to go into his doctor’s office and record it right because I can never remember what they say it all sounds good and you walk out and ten minutes later like I don’t remember what he said so I recorded he had a good doctor but you know just like I I could like I had any medical background which I don’t and I didn’t know to go hey I don’t know sure if you want to take this and this together dad but nowadays if there if you can’t rely on the docks to go oh I should prescribe both of these together and they’re just gonna give them out like you know motrin and hopefully maybe maybe the story makes some vets think twice but at the same time I know the Vettel the VA will hit you up with oh you’re non-compliant or you’re non you don’t you’re not fine you’re not agreeing with it yeah right right and then he has no right to do right he’s like I’m not sure I want to take a opioid and a benzo you know yeah so how do you push back without the doctor going oh you’re you’re just not as lame as it sounds that’s why they call it a practice because they don’t really freakin now sure sure but if that’s if that’s all you got yeah yeah and he’s telling you to do this you’re like okay can I drink with this and he’s like no like well I have a drink imagine man you’ll get the second opinion is what opioid a benzo and alcohol yeah easy done right doing like you’re just if your brain doesn’t shut off you’re freaking you’re just gonna stop breathing yeah and god forbid you are inclined that way you know towards a suicide ideation that would be the easiest suicide you could ever do be walked right into it man they’re just letting out all I do is I take a few drinks you know I drink this fifth then see you later yeah you don’t have to buy a gun you don’t have to do a rope that’s easy it’s prescribed to yeah yeah it’s prescribed so so yeah that’s scary that’s kind of that’s kind of a crappy thing I hate to do those kind of stories but I think they’re important to try to get out there yeah I mean we chuckle about some of this stuff but for the most part that’s very serious man oh yeah think think about what the hell’s going on before you agree to this stuff and yeah in the past it seems like well I could the doctor won’t tell me bad stuff you know he won’t put me on a bad course maybe inadvertently they do yeah they’re not perfect it pays to know a little bit about what you you know what you’re going in and what they want you to do so it’s not a perfect science man all right well let’s get Jake angry so what do you think of that new sick death you know I from strictly saying from a combat perspective having that guy who’s been on the ground understands the grunt I’m all about it but from a strategic thinking big picture that worries me now if he brings in good people around me who can give me advice on that strategic thinking right okay yeah his inexperience is yeah but I guess I mean if you want to shake things up then get a junior level individuals point of view well because he because we all know most of the leadership is yes man most of the time yep coming up and then right well where’s the ingrained in the system who was sick death before Lloyd Austin Lloyd Austin where do you come from rating on yes which is not yeah no yeah I’m not saying that was any better at all he’s coming out of stark in stark industries right yeah let’s get some I’m all about giving a guy a chance because because when you talk about the swamp and them people that have been in there for 70 freaking years you got to go you got your chance get the hell up already more senators and congressmen we’re just gonna have blank out for their given speeches yeah that’s that’s disturbing to see yeah you know and he’s just like not talking you’re like would somebody just go help the guy all right get medical up there you know I can’t go up the steps himself you can’t yeah the guy froze giving a speech and doing resets up there that’s that’s that’s scare I wish they would do term limits I mean I think everybody in America except for Congress wishes they did term yeah he glitches out more than my Xfinity connection so I I’m with it too and you know government was supposed to be that right you’re supposed to come and serve and then go back to the private sector you know I’m all for that too so anyway Pete Hegseth this one this one was a story from Oh task purpose well I really saw on the website today yeah so from task and purpose Hegseth indicates that Fort Bragg will not be the last base to be renamed and as you guys know they went they went ahead and renamed at least Fort Bragg for now but Hegseth is saying there’s more now don’t shake your head let me get to the twist defense secretary Pete Hegseth vowed Tuesday that returning the name Fort Bragg to a major army base in North Carolina it’s just the start of his efforts to override name changes made to bases that once honored Confederate leaders he said we’re not done here there’s a reason I said Bragg and Benning when I walked into the Pentagon on day one but it’s not just Bragg and Benning there are a lot of other service members that have connections and we’re going to do our best to restore it’s an honor to do so the army changed the name of nine bases in 2022 or 2023 following recommendations by an official naming Commission all nine bases all nine bases were originally named for generals or leaders of the Confederacy but here’s the twist right so they’re gonna rename it back Fort Liberty back to Bragg but on Monday Hegseth issued a memo to the army secretary directing Fort Liberty to revert to its original name but instead of honoring a Confederate general the name now honors army PMC Ronald L Bragg spelled the same way a paratrooper awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II right on so Bragg’s role as a paratrooper matches Fort Bragg’s longtime status as a home of the airborne as a garrison of the 82nd Airborne Division okay I like that that’s I’m on board that’s a good way to get around that but does that mean like if you’re going after Fort Moore to back to Fort Benning now you got like I gotta find a bedding if they thought about the name change in the first place for a good hour yeah and been like is there a way we can maybe not waste a shit ton of money right because we did an article on how much it costs to rename it was millions multiple double-digit millions right and now it’s gonna be millions again to rename it you know they threw those signs away either they can throw them away or they put them out by the curb this like free take me yeah they didn’t they didn’t turn them into the museum for sure no well something’s already directed the doze boys to come into the military and find it so what a perfect example to go guys we’re renaming it we’re putting new signs up that’s millions of dollars if those boys at least get rid of end of your spending good point good great like that’s one thing that almost every military member is like this is stupid everybody we’re gonna spend that money now I mean it was it was ridiculous I mean I remember being in the army when we ordered track that we had track pads piled to the ceiling because of end of year funds you know and so that’s been going on for all new chairs and we got chairs we literally got chairs last year now we got well I’m a piece chairs let’s get a year’s worth of toner cartridges that’s what we do what a printer paper toner cartridge yeah yes no I funds now chairs and office infrastructure only not on supplies right right what does that mean new divider walls a new divider wall this was fine it divides me from that guy well look at look over here we got our dry erase calendar board one for everyone don’t need a good enlisted dude to go in and go this is stupid that’s stupid yeah you’re rid of that no more of that yeah I mean well who knows maybe heck Seth will be open to some of those comments from the lower enlisted I hope I saw a thing earlier on another podcast word he’s he’s over in Germany he went out and did PT with the troops he’s moving on base and then they were he’s like this house is a piece of shit I need a hundred forty K to update this house oh really yeah nice that was what I wasting money there well housing is trash they’ve like every base has come like comments on base housing to write right mark now the chow halls how we did the story where there is no base house yeah living in a trailer private housing base housing was up oh yeah yeah it was not a great idea but stupid so when I saw housing being built at shriever and I was like there’s no commissary out there there’s no nothing you’re gonna make a look at this house you know that’s why they moved the east gate of Peterson why what do you mean because now it’s close enough it’s within the radius of base housing at shriever yeah so it’s close enough yeah yeah so they moved that east gate out there and now it qualifies for base housing on shriever you just have to you just have to drive on the most dangerous road North America to actually get I think it’s been at least a couple years since somebody’s died on that thank God for a while there it was like every other year but it doesn’t mean that you’re not white knuckling that thing in the early morning heading right into the Sun right in the Sun you can’t see anything you just got a parade of really do it just like it’s a you drop down a hill you’re like oh shit my visit it is it is a perfect east west road and there’s a whole like right at daylight savings time or right at that one specific time of year that Sun just shines directly sure into your face you go over that hill and it’s oh it’s oh you guys yeah so dangerous so we could spend some money on that but yeah so anyway that’s you know it’s funny because if you go into some of those bases I read a thing about Fort Hood and how bad a general Fort Hood was I was like how did they choose this guy to name the base after he was terrible he was terrible so anyway I truly believe that was one of those things that were if it wasn’t broke don’t fix it I agree it was such a it was a naive into the yeah to the times yes and it did nothing it didn’t I mean it’s both ways though we literally just caved into the current times and we’re caving the other way yeah and we’re like exactly we made it Liberty as a cave into the times we’re now going back to brag as a as a as a whiplash to whatever that was a tip for their chat meanwhile we’re just dumping millions into this guy’s like ah shit I gotta change again local contractors loving it oh yeah you want me to do I literally just got done doing good all right good boy yep good boy boys I have a you gotta recompete I do have a good history for you yeah sorry what do you got here I’ll get I got a good one for you okay so I’m gonna operation homecoming oh yeah towards our time right anybody know what that was that sounds really yeah it’s the dance where the girls ask the guys operation Sadie Hawkins so let’s see now that would have been a good one back when we were trying to name operation prom night homecoming which one’s real that’s so operation homecoming was a significant US operation conducted at the conclusion of the Vietnam War to repatriate American prisoners of war held by nice this operation took place from February 12th to April 1st of 1973 following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27 1973 it aimed to end the conflict and restore peace to Vietnam it is often said that there were 591 POWs released during operation homecoming and in fact there were 566 US military released in 25 civilians yeah 566 you would think would be more than five hundred millions well there’s a couple CIA operatives yeah John down America as civilians were released one deserves special mention John T Downey a CIA agent was captured by the Chinese during the Korean conflict he was held for over 20 years in solitary from November 19th of 52 to 3 December sorry March 12th of 73 dr.
Kissinger yeah dr. Kissinger negotiated his release as part of operation homecoming 20 years was he all was all that in Korea yes yeah I mean during Vietnam he was he was already in prison yeah so in Korea well correct I think he was held in Korea see as to this phase race one deservers special mention so yeah yeah CIA agent was captured by the Chinese during the conflict he was held for over 20 years in solitary yeah it’s solitary yeah so he was in Korea and brought home as part of Operation Homecoming everybody was flown to Clark Air Base yeah so 12 February started this little song and dance and that’s a big deal that’s that’s the good news of the history that’s really cool bringing our guys home you ever seen the pictures of those guys on the plane they’re all clapping as they land I get no I guess not no you’re I’m gonna have to send you those it’s pretty amazing because the Vietnamese believe it or not North Vietnam wanted to put these guys in nice suits and ties to reflect how they were treated the POW said no no but they only pushed back so far because they didn’t want to lose their freedom well so you’ll notice that they were in light pants a shirt and just a light jacket no time no time is where I draw the line they settled for just that so they that they would still be released but pushed back on you’re not gonna say you know show the American public that you were treating as well there’s no you’re gonna be in a suit you’re gonna be 85 pounds but you’re gonna be in a suit yeah yeah so yeah so that I thought was that was really eye-opening man so that was good stuff yeah very good I don’t know where you get these they’re there I’m really surprised when you pull something out like can we just have a tank battle or something like that he’s got something completely different so I’ll try to make it a little more interesting so here’s here’s something that I heard today that will blow you away and in regards to history Jay yeah I’m I’m still my moment Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson okay John Adams declaration of the independence right both signed it one was a Federalist Adams in Massachusetts the other one was Jefferson was from Virginia as a gentleman they didn’t like each other right but as they got older became really good friends wrote correspondence back and forth letters till the day they died the day they died was July 4th 1826 50 years after the signing they both died on the same day that’s really yeah yeah I had no idea I was looking and I found that I’m like are you that’s pretty cool but they had been writing back and forth in fact John Adams last words was in Thomas back he said Thomas Jefferson survived the day where it was Adams his last words when in actuality Jefferson it passed like three hours before Adams fourth of July he wrote that out to be not to be outdone in my face because they apparently you know history has the letters that they wrote back yeah that’s awesome and how they became such good friends pretty amazing that random weird old thing but that was awesome I was gonna your day in history actually right on before I got shushed you did he was McCain McCain was in that operation homecoming yes he was they brought him home that was he was also in operation homecoming yeah it wasn’t the the the older gentleman who was the Navy guy who ran with Perot wasn’t he yeah wasn’t he released what was his name I don’t remember silver haired yeah Stockdale Stockdale yeah he was a bad he was a basketball player for the jazz but this guy came over his little short shorts just like the guy short shorts but a lot of no time I don’t want to tie yeah James Bond Stockdale you guys vice-amyl vice-amyl aviator was and I feel so bad cuz that guy was pretty decorated and did a lot of stuff and then went through all that POW stuff and SNL just roasted him when he was running for vice president with with Perot so I feel bad I laughed at the time but now that I more appreciate what he did I’m like yeah it’s hard it’s hard it was pretty damn funny and that’s like it’s as much as I think you heard Trump when he talks about guys that were taking POWs they’re losers they were POWs well that was taken out of context okay okay actually that was supposedly heard but nobody could corroborate that he actually did the press rant with it okay well give me the reference I don’t have the reference I don’t know I just hope he didn’t do it because that was I mean of all the goofy things that he does to accuse him of doing that when he says he’s always out there with the troops just be that would be very hard to believe and he’s like all right I can throw this off these guys suck really I don’t think you would say that yeah I hope not to so I want on behalf of that questionable note I say where it ended up so on behalf of all of us here I’d like to thank you for listening today please like share subscribe let us know how we get the comments and make sure next week that you are not like for change over oh that was cute boys 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