Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 09 Oct 2024
Date: Oct 8, 2024
I took a shower after PT at the gym and realized I forgot my boots. Which is excuse number six for being late for changeover. Your 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 my peeps? How are you? And our man in the closet, Jake Wall. I used to hate that.
You’d have a mental checklist of everything you needed before you left for the gym. You’re like, I got it. Oh yeah.
Right. Right. But the boots, you had no recourse unless you, unless you want to drop in and you look like the whole thing.
We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all guardians and to the other lesser branches as well. So take your seats, get informed and have a laugh and we present late for changeover. Gentlemen.
Good to see you. Not sure where Ana is. She’s very late for changeover.
I don’t know. She’s looking for a fat guy’s overalls in the cornfield. And to find a webpage only fans scrunchies on the arms.
Yes. Good to see you. Jake condolences on your uncle, Benjamin Collins.
And we’ll hopefully we’ll go over his career next week. So yes. But just want to tell you that ahead of time.
Sorry to hear that he passed. Wait till, wait till you guys hear it next week. It’s a hell of a career.
Yep. So, uh, you guys have a good week. I’ll go with the job.
Everything good. Retirement’s tough, man. It’s hard work.
Why do you got to do that? What do you have to do? Do you have to go? Yes. I’m just going to go. Yes.
Yes. That’s correct. Yes.
Yes. Was the sauna not up to your desired temperature? No. The club posed the golf.
It was perfect. I was telling Marty two days playing golf to get in the bar. That’ll be the third day.
Life is good. Damn it. See, I, I, and we were talking about retirement too, and I can retire and if the housing market plays out and I sell the house and I buy a new house, hopefully that’s taken care of.
Then all I got is just, uh, kind of utilities to live off of, but that doesn’t mean that I got enough money to go to Greece and Maui and fucking globe drive. Well, I got to tell you 25 years ago, if you’d have told me that I’d have been ready and prepared for it, I’d say, hell no. There’s no way.
There was a couple of things that fell into place when I worked for site tour and it was a privately owned company. Don’t go only fans. I didn’t raise enough money there.
Don’t play it off. For further support of Mr. History’s retirement, retirement, go to his only fans. Ask for Papa Bear.
10% off first. Employee owned at site tour. I was there for four years and then when they sold, I made a nice chunk of money that I was able to roll over a couple of times with some of the last.
But you weren’t vested in that ESOP, were you? Immediately. Same way with ICR, the company that I still consult for. Yeah.
Parsons does that too. Yep. So things fell into place for me that allowed me to retire.
And then the additional plus was my wife. So that was helpful too. That’s plus plus plus plus.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, we can all marry a rich, hot looking. And she still appreciates that comment married up. Yep.
But then, you know, the other side of that is that they’re like, wow, you really, you really slummed it, didn’t you? I was at the wedding in Iowa and there was this lady there drawing characters. You know how they make you sit in front of them. They draw you.
Yeah. And it’s supposed to be fun. Hey, you said you look like an old man.
Yeah. It looked like Teresa sitting with her grandfather or something. I was like, this is a good one.
That’s the luckiest grandfather ever. I look, we’ll keep it as it’s my money. I have so much money that she loves.
Charming personality and knowledge of history. Get some every time. Yeah.
Swoon like in the olden days. History days, boys and girls. Know your, your history books.
It’s all all the nice women. Well, let’s get to the news, shall we? This, this first story is kind of a, it seems boring until you hear about the payload. All right.
So from military.com, the FAA gives SpaceX the OK to launch just one, just one Falcon 9 on an asteroid mission for Europe. So what had happened a couple of weeks ago was SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon up to the ISS, but their, their stage that came down the second stage. It had a rocket misfire and so it didn’t land where it was supposed to.
So the FAA grounded them for that. Yeah. It’s like we just throw them in the ocean, right? With a parachute, if you were lucky.
Yeah. You didn’t land. So they grounded them.
So while no public injuries or public property damage was reported, the FAA required an investigation. It marked the third time this year. The FAA has grounded the Falcon 9 and a second time because of an issue with the rockets second stage.
And it’s, it’s not even going up. It’s returning the second stage. It didn’t run into an airplane or anything.
Good lord. Right, right. The FAA state of SpaceX submitted its mishap investigation report and a request to return to flight on October 4th.
So the FAA on last Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, which launched on Monday, the 7th of October, just ahead of the hurricane. They were like, we got a small window, launch it and they went, man. So the FAA gave the okay because the payload for that Falcon 9 was the European Space Agency’s HERA mission, which is a follow up to NASA’s DART mission.
Have you ever heard of DART? I haven’t either. So the shitty dodge. That’s right.
Very good. Good pull, man. You got to look up when the last time a DART was made.
Anyway, NASA’s double asteroid redirection test, otherwise known as DART. They launched that thing in 2021. And the mission was to go out to this known asteroid and see if we could hit it with this with this capsule or this whatever it was, you know, wasn’t a warhead, but it was something.
Right. So they hit it. Well, the HERA mission they just launched on Monday is supposed to overfly the site of where it hit and see if there’s any like damage or a hole.
I don’t know. So but DART was part of a planetary defense test to see if a potential Earth collision could be avoided through human intervention. That’s pretty cool.
It must not have been a big thing because one, they got to send this probe that goes look and see if it did anything. But if it had, that would have been all over the news. Right.
NASA would have touted that like, look, we can do Armageddon right now if they ever come if they ever come in. Well, they don’t have the results yet. Well, that’s true.
That’s true. And I have a question. Does the FFA, the FAA, could not FFA, future farmers, farmers of America.
Yeah. F.A.A. Sweet jacket. Since when does FAA control space, airspace over a launch or even a return to Earth, right? Well, they rounded the rocket.
I think it’s because it was coming back in airspace and it wasn’t controlled. Yeah. And I don’t know what the target area is.
It just said it didn’t land in the designated area. I was just surprised to hear F.A.A. involved in controlling the space of this rocket, whether going or coming. Right.
I don’t know if they controlled the space of it, but they grounded the company. Basically, that’s what I mean, though. I didn’t even think they were charged or had the power to do that.
Yeah, I think I think they still do. Yeah. So anything that launches, they’re like, well, you know, maybe it belongs to us.
You got to get us to approve. Right. You got to pay the fine.
You know, you got to pay the pay the license fee or whatever. So pay the dead man the coin to cross the river. Sorry.
Had to go to the store. A.K.A. taxes. The European Space Agency probe, HERA will fly back to the same binary asteroid system visited by NASA’s DART with HERA task to perform a post-impact survey of the DART target.
So. Wow. So that’s cool that we can do it.
Do we have information on when the results are going? Well, let’s see. They launched DART. It impacted the asteroid in 2021.
And now we’re launching the satellite to go take pictures of it. So. Couple of years.
It could be a while. Yeah, I don’t know how far it out. I don’t know how far out the.
Where’s the asteroid belt? Is it between us and what’s what’s the next planet out? From the moon? No, from from the earth. Look like a biologist. Get out of here.
Look like an FFA. Yeah, I control over America. Talk about F.O.F.A. future only fans of America.
There you go. I like it. Well, clearly, it wasn’t that big of a deal because they’re like, you’re grounded.
Well, we got a short window coming up and they’re like, OK, fine. OK, but you’re still grounded. You know that, right? OK, so OK, but after this, no more.
No more. They say we are in control. We need that European money.
So yeah. Interesting that NASA, that’s the one that shot the DART at the asteroid, is it didn’t follow it up with its own satellite to go take pictures. All right, European agency to do that.
So anyway, international, global, global protection. What if I say to you, were you ever down a shriever, Eric? I worked on shriever when I first became a contractor. Right.
So when I say shriever, what comes to mind? What are just some of the quickest thoughts to come to mind? Mine is stupid restricted area. Well, the walk, right? The parking lot. Or the frickin’ turnstiles.
Horrible weather, right? Yeah. Always windy or just trash hill. Right.
You know, you got all that stuff for sure. But you know what? One thing shriever did have is a pretty damn good dining facility. Right.
That served after hours and everything. That was nice. If you worked a mid, you walk down there, get something to eat.
You could sit or you could take it out. It was great. Or even during the day, you know, you could you could send people on a food run just to the dish.
That was nice. Yeah. Well, we talked about it when it was just like a Reddit post or it was on Facebook.
But now it’s an official story. So for all those listening troops at shriever space for space, will now have to bring their own to go boxes for the dining hall. All right.
This is from another article that I scratch my hairless head going. What in the hell? Well, let me give you the behinds of it. Right.
Let me give you the behinds of it. Space Force Guardians of Shriever Space Force Base in Colorado will soon no longer have takeout boxes provided to them at the dining hall, meaning troops will have to bring their own containers from home if they want to take meals to go. Complaints about the upcoming change quickly took over the Space Forces page on the social media platform Reddit.
A spokesperson for space base delta one confirmed a military dot com Wednesday that the change would take place on the on base dining facility or defect on October 15th. So next week, all you mid shifters. Bring your Tupperware.
Better get something more than just your hand. Now here’s the tricky part, right? A spokesman said as a 15 October Shriever defect would no longer provide takeout containers for patrons. This initiative is part of our ongoing efforts to reduce waste and minimize our environmental impact.
Meanwhile, if you have an MRE, that’s all waste. That doesn’t decompose. So switch to cardboard.
Like yes, they do. They are like they do have styrofoam friggin or whatever. Remember the box next nasties that we get those car.
Sure. Yeah, Chinese food style. Individuals who wish to take their food to go either.
Like you think about it. You know, there’s some airmen bringing to maybe one Tupperware to work and that thing stays there and they hose it out in the break. All right.
We should go back in the town hall and they go like this. Right. Absolutely.
Yeah, well, they’re not running their dishwasher in their dorm room. Yeah. Oh, I think that’s going to get a lot.
Unbelievable. This is a sick airman. Yeah.
What was the discussion that said, I wonder if we can. Well, hold on. The space based delta one spokesperson said guardians can bring their own from home or can also buy their own takeout containers from the on base coffee shop.
On money maker, doesn’t it? The hours of that coffee shop are not an early like 830 to friggin 330. So if you come in for your mid, that shop’s already screwed. If you were sitting on shift guard guard post, you know, damn well, you put, you put in your order and then you just pray.
Yeah. You pray that it’s going to be something relatively edible because you never know what the kid’s going to run into when he goes in there. Nope.
Right. He might’ve forgot. He might’ve got the wrong order.
They might not even have what they said they have. So you imagine having to get your Tupperware to the guy to give. Yeah.
Yeah. I didn’t bring my Tupperware. You got Tupperware.
I can borrow. Good. I just put it all in one.
Is that cool? You guys just figure that one out. We used to have one guy that was responsible for running hot and cold liquid. It was called three, four, three being hot, four being cold.
Right. So you’re picking up three, four tonight. You’re, you know, echo one, pick up three, four, three, four.
All right. So you’d get hot and cold, but then they’d be mixed. It’d be in containers.
Come on, man. We can’t figure out which coffee goes in what container. Yeah.
I can’t imagine what my freaking, my Tupperware would have in it. Right. Coming back.
And you ain’t getting no drinks. I wonder if they’re going to still have drink cups. You know, that might be, that might be just like, nope, no more drinks.
Unless you bring your own, you know, something. I can only envision a bunch of guys thinking they’re important, sitting around the table going, how can we get rid of this fricking requirement of providing box lunches? Right. Well, while the initial is aimed at reducing waste on base, the spokesperson added that they hope it will give troops on base the opportunity to not take the food out and to take a break and enjoy a meal together.
Oh boy. Yeah. Right.
If you’re on crew, it’s like, get your fucking ass back quick. Well, I, they said, I want to take a, I want to take a break. I want to enjoy a meal.
What do you think the over-under is like, how many months will it take of this before the base commanders are like, all right, this shit will just buy. You know, nowadays, nowadays they might just complain on like Facebook on that. Yeah.
Aaron page so badly that they might just cave to it. Yeah. If I find buying books, but listen to how much they can say.
Oh, David Duffy, who at the time was identified as working for the camp Humphries and Korea food management program office when they did the same thing, said the program has been used at other installations and has saved depending on usage up to $60,000 a year. Look, I don’t know, maybe for some 60, if it was coming out of my pocket, 60 K is a lot. That’s a lot.
If it’s coming out of the government facilities pocket and we all know how ridiculous there’s, there’s dozens of other things they could stop doing other than this. But that’s not the worst thing. Were you Jake, were you there or did you leave when they were doing the BRAC stuff at Buckley? Right.
And they’d cut everything down. They cut everything down, but they had, they had one more big cut to make and they’re like, chow hall fits that perfectly. So they cut the chow hall completely at Buckley.
And then they gave vouchers for a while to pay. I was like, well, you can go to Burger King. What for every meal? Sometimes people just use no common sense.
I don’t wonder why retention is rough. Yeah, we make stupid decisions. We used to have great clubs.
We used to have like the phase of the clubs were not like people would come in on Saturday and Sunday just to go to brunch at the like Sunday to brunch at the club. When you had the club or the officers club, it would be, I think is the only bowling alley still. Maybe for Carson has one, but I don’t know.
The bowling alley was always great. Bandy does, but nobody else. But I mean, Buckley doesn’t even have a dining hall.
I don’t understand why. They did a big old push to make that an active duty base. And then they’re doing everything not to make it an active duty base.
Right. That’s stupid. It’s dumb.
And why is the military? What are the three things? I can’t remember what it is. That you don’t fuck with enlisted, right? It’s time off, it’s pay, and it’s food, right? Why’s the military keep fucking with everybody’s food? Food. It’s the simplest piece of the pie you can ask with.
Like I have no food. All right. Let’s go on about our business.
The Pete dining facility used to be, I mean, this, this all makes us sound excessively old. But he used to be like you walk in and you got kind of like a fast food, quick food line. Right.
Right. And then you had like a main course line and the meals and all that. Yeah.
And then Pete shut down half of it. And then it just, then it got to go. Like you, if you’re a retiree, you only get two hours or one hour and they were shutting down no midnight chow anymore.
So back in my day, I got to Charleston from Turkey. I was an airman, moved in the dorm and medias before I got married first time. And easily you walk in the dining facility for breakfast.
You walk in the dining facility for lunch and you walk in the dining facility for dinner. And you have either you wanted a cheeseburger or odd dog. That was the fast food or you went to the high course.
Yeah. And that was perfect. Yeah.
And you can walk away from there and be happy. Yeah. We wouldn’t spend 20 bucks a day eating three meals.
Oh no. Back in my day, you had the card that you just got. Yeah.
Oh yeah. The punch. Yeah.
Right. Right. We didn’t start paying until like after three years at Charleston when I was there, man.
When you had to pay a small sum or whatever it was. If you were a meal card, you scanned, huh? Yeah. Maybe they figured it was cheaper to trade food for beards.
Like we’re giving you beards. Tattoos as well. Beards and tattoos.
Yep. You get no food, but you get beards. Beards or tattoos.
Yeah. Makes total sense. You happy now? You happy? Young guys we’re trying to relate to you? You know, every time we talk about- We still like to have a meal.
Every time we talk about one of these stupid stories, it reverts back to, oh look, the VA lost 90 million dollars. That’s exactly it. Well, then I understand completely.
I understand completely. Well, that- I like how you say 90 million. It was 1.3 billion.
Yeah. I was being- You did 0.0. Okay. Nice.
So that’s the number, but you get the drift. Oh, yeah. I do get the drift, and what a transition, Eric.
That was fantastic for this next story. This next story is horrifying. It is absolutely horrifying.
And it almost sounds like it’s not real. It almost sounds unbelievable. So from stripes.com, right? Vietnam era veterans exposed to nerve agents and hallucinogens in secret military tests seek years of back benefits.
All right. Brace your ass for this one. Ready? Vietnam era veterans exposed to nerve agents, hallucinogenic drugs, and the classified military research program more than 50 years ago are appealing for retroactive disability benefits after a federal court ruling found their constitutional rights were violated.
Now in their 70s and early 80s, the veterans were sworn to silence and restricted from reporting the debilitating health effects from the program, which included paralysis, cancer, depression, and psychosis. They were also restricted from obtaining disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs according to the court. It gets better.
A 2023 ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington is enabling service members for the first time to obtain VA disability compensation retroactive to their date of discharge. An estimated three to five thousand veterans who participated as human test subjects and classified studies that the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland are believed to be alive today. That’s not everyone who did it.
That’s just who’s still alive. There’s potentially 5,000 guys still alive? Yes. The facility was established in 1948 primarily as a center for researching chemical warfare agents.
But military equipment, protective clothing, and pharmaceuticals also were tested at the facility according to the VA. The Vietnam era veterans were considered volunteers in classified studies that began in 1956. They signed consent agreements prior to participation in experiments but said later they were not informed of the risks.
All right. Here’s where it gets just crazy. How can it get any crazier? Let’s get it.
No, wait, wait. About 7,000 military personnel participated in the test until the Army disbanded the program in 1975 according to the Defense Department. Edgewood Arsenal now functions as the Army Center for Research, Test, and Development in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense.
The court found the secrecy agreements that the participants signed, which carried the threat of criminal penalty if violated, effectively denied them due process and disability compensation to which they were entitled, said Mark Jones, the attorney for several of the veterans. Edgewood veterans said they thought they had volunteered to test military equipment in the 60s and 70s but were directed instead to military research labs for human trials using chemical substances they received in gas chambers by injection and other means. They were exposed to at least three highly poisonous chemical agents during the Edgewood experiments according to court documents.
Some of the agents were known only by numbered references with the prefix EA for Edgewood Arsenal. But through the court documents, they found out they were EA3580, a form of sarin gas, EA3547, a derivative of tear gas and scopolamine, a highly toxic chemical test as a true serum, but that can cause psychosis. Holy crap, this is the stuff of freaking horror movies.
Yeah. Like, oh, somebody escaped from Edgewood. Yeah, yeah.
Dude, oh, there’s a military experiment going wrong. Like, literally, this is… That’s the basis for so many movies, but they really did it, man. Think about, to your point, I’m like, I thought I was pretty smart joining the military.
I’m thinking maybe I won’t. Well, I just… Did you guys get your anthrax shots? I’m starting to feel like a freaking… Jake got seven. So did I. I did too.
And malaria shots. And the service connected illnesses and injuries of the veterans from the experiments were not recognized by the VA until the secrecy agreements were partially lifted by the Defense Department in 2006, according to court documents. So now they can try to get VA benefits, but there’s still some pushback on it.
So… Unbelievable. I was trying to find out from the story, a story I didn’t go into. It was like, what were they given to volunteer for this stuff? I like the pushback.
Why would you… You’re like, literally, my name is on the Edgewood Arsenal experiments list. They’re like, what symptoms do you have? Do you have three people that can corroborate? No, it’s more like this fingers down and that fingers up. Oh, see what happened to that finger right there? Well, that was part of Edgewood.
What we need you to do first is go through physical therapy. Oh, yeah. Eight weeks of that.
And then come back and we’ll reassess you. And they’re like, got that one out the door. So, yeah, that is… I want to look up Edgewood… What is this called? Edgewood Arsenal.
There’s got to be something on that by now, right? The first thing was a wiki page about this. Really? Yeah. Did you find one already? Yeah, I already closed it, but yes.
That’s got to be just scary shit. But didn’t the military do… What were the experiments that they did on the… The black guys, right? The black guys. The Tuskegee experiments.
Yeah, the Tuskegee experiments. Syphilis. Yeah, yeah.
It’s just like… I know they put all the ones that were watching the atomic detonations and stuff with ditches. Just look out there and look at it. They have a picture in Fort Sill of the one artillery piece that fired a tactical nuke.
And you can see the artillery piece in the foreground and you can see the mushroom cloud in the back. And there’s like seven guys, you know, with the dark glasses. Just stand there and look at that.
It’s like… I’m sure that was really, really good for you. You would say? That’s just crazy. But I just want to know what they offered to get these guys a volunteer for like tests.
Oh, you get a free night off. You get to go to McDonald’s. Yeah, it’s an easy assignment.
Yeah. I mean, what are you going to do? Just find this NDA, right? Or whatever it was. We’ll take good care of you.
Jesus Christ. I mean, Simon on your choice after this. The list of experiments they did is crazy.
Gas chambers, injections, sarin gas, true serum. It’s fucking ridiculous. For those of you listeners wanting to join the military.
There was like eight or nine different compounds that they were… Oh, is that what it says? Oh my God. It lists off. It’s crazy.
Edgewood Arsenal. I’m surprised somebody haven’t made a movie about that. It’ll be like a… It’s probably what we’re all based on.
This is probably the oldest shit and we just now figure it out. I could have been, but it was just a couple days old. All 12 people that listened to this are like, you idiots.
You never heard about that. We were telling each other that in grade school. Could have been.
Yeah. And we’re like, this is crazy. Has anybody heard this? But the court stuff just came open in like 2023.
So now they’re filing lawsuits and I think that’s why the article came up. Yeah. But I’d never heard of Edgewood Arsenal.
Nope. Yikes. Brought it to the front.
Is that the Wikipedia you just attached? Yeah. Oh my God, man. That’s the name of the articles.
Edgewood Arsenal, human experiments. Great, good. By the way, your closest planet to the Earth is Venus.
By the way, Venus. What’s the outer planet? What’s the fourth planet in the solar system? I thought you wanted the closest. Venus.
No, I wanted the fourth planet because I think the asteroid belt is in between that, right? It’s between the, it’s the area between the gas giants. Or is it between three and four? I think maybe four and five. I can’t remember.
Anyway, thanks, Eric. I’m going to ask my four-year-old. It says here Mars.
I’m going to need like the foam balls. You know, Mars. The big yellow ones of sun.
Did you mean Mars? I had sticks going on. Oh, Mars. So maybe it’s between Mars and Jupiter.
Is that it? Is Jupiter the next one or Saturn? Is Jupiter the fifth? I don’t know. Well, it should be between those two. Like those are the dividing line.
So anyway, I think that’s where they were going out for the NASA DART mission. But I don’t know. Jupiter is the fifth, butt cracks.
We’re so Jupiter. Here to help in any way I can. Marty, we cannot introduce ourselves as space nerds.
I know, I know, but we’re not really. I mean, we forget all those things. It is.
It’s between Mars and Jupiter. There’s a big. Yeah, that’s okay.
Yeah, yeah, the asteroid belt. So in other words, you made me look dumb when you knew the answer the whole time. No, I looked at it.
No, no, no, no, none of us did. That’s what he’s making fun of. He’s like, we don’t know.
That’s exactly it. I knew it was between the gas giants and us. Yeah.
But then. Okay, thank you. All right, speaking of that.
Well, let’s turn this whole frown upside down about Edgewood Arsenal. And let’s go to this article. I’m going to read more about that one.
Yeah, we got to bring that back. That’s tragic. But let’s laugh a little bit.
This was an article I found from a website called We Are The Mighty. All right. So eight examples of the military’s dark humor.
You have dark humor? And I actually replaced one of them. So anyway, they’re pretty good. Then we can laugh about this.
It’s not unusual for troops to have a nonchalant or comical attitude about the worst of humanity. Sometimes comedy is all they have to make it through hardships that are unimaginable the most and not this unimaginable, but just fucking boring. That sucks.
Rainy mids, you know, all that shit. No, no, no container for food. And those who have deployed to remote locations and hot zones know this humor all too well.
So let me prep the. Let me hide that. Let me take this off.
Okay, so it’s a mix of some videos. And some pictures. Some of these are some of these are pretty old, but it’s good.
It’s good to see him again. So this first one is Santa’s visit to the Coringall Valley in 2007. All right.
Ready? That’s what Santa says. That’s awesome. Oh, my God.
That was Santa at the Coringall Valley in 2007. So I don’t remember that in the documentary. No, but there is one from Restrepo in here.
So that’s pretty good. That’s all had his own documentary, too. Yeah, Coringall.
Yeah. Restrepo is good, too. Restrepo is always good.
And the outpost is great. The outpost is good, too. All right.
The second one is Army tankers send off a platoon leader. You know how they do, you know, you strap you to a chair, wet you down, whatever it is, when you’re leaving. Yeah, his Army tankers sent off a platoon leader this way.
So this is what they did to their platoon leader. Oh, they taped him to the main gun of the M1A1 Abrams. That’s freaking awesome, too, man.
It probably took many of those guys to subdue them. I’m sure he didn’t. Yeah, that was not a willing job right there.
But that’s pretty good. How high up is he? About six and a half, seven feet up? Oh, he’s probably eight feet up there, but I’m sure they depressed the gun, but they still had to struggle him in there. He’s hanging there pretty securely.
Just duct taped and strapped to that. That’s a lot of duct tape. Yeah, that’s pretty good.
And they saluted him, which is cool. That’s awful nice of them. A little respect goes a long ways.
Yeah, and if they didn’t like him, they would have just let him walk out the gate. Yeah, that is valid. So all right.
Number three is a picture called shoot him. Oh, no, it’s pretty good. Give him your kid.
You have to keep the note. Like I was stupid. Yeah, I know.
Yeah, yeah. Keep me note. Yeah, this one’s shoot him.
That’s true. Shoot him with an arrow to the guy next to you. So those are hot bean or apple or whatever.
They’re he’s got a picture on the back of his on his back that says shoot him with an arrow at the other guy. So okay, good. Before you go, check this guy at the far right’s camouflage in the face.
You still got a mustache though. Just one color? Nah, well, it’s dark color. So much for breaking up the outline, you know.
It looks like Jester and Tudo at a party. I’ll tell you what, that is just weird, man. It’s good Jake, that’s good.
Well, they’re Marines and his hands aren’t camo either. So yeah, what are you going to do? Um, it’s always nice when they give you the, um, the digital cam stuff, but all your equipment is still the, uh, BDU pattern. The Woodley green forest.
Uh, very helpful. All right. Number four is called wait for the flash.
So it looks like a 50 cal, maybe on top of a helmet. Or maybe a top of five ton. It says Iraqi photos with an arrow pointing to the barrel says, look here.
Smile. Wait for the flash. That’s pretty good.
Uh, number five is, oh, this is from her strepo. If you guys remember this one, this is getting shot by single shot Freddie. So it’s a quick clip from her.
She was closed. Hunter, what’s going on right now? Been shot at by single shot Freddie. Who’s that? I have a feeling he’s a blind Afghan man somewhere between the ages, 60 and 75 years old, and, uh, he likes to scare the shit out of us with these single shots that he takes be getting real close.
So we’re all hiding right now. How come you think he’s blind? Well, because he hasn’t anything yet. I may have to go back and rewatch her strepo.
It’s been years since I’ve seen it. It’s been years. Uh, all right.
That one, this one is here’s how ELD explosive ordinance personnel scare each other. Oh, this is going to be terrible. He’s got a suit.
So the guy’s diffusing some like artillery show and he’s getting the guy behind him has a bag ready to pop it. Obviously a stage picture, but that’s great. That’s a good one.
It really is. That’s a good one. Uh, seven is robots driving, uh, APC.
So it should have, it should have said like robotic driver of an APC, but I’ve done study, you know, that’s actually a guy who’s standing in that. So that’s pretty good. Awesome.
Uh, that looks like a lab. I think that’s a lab, a Marine one. So, but, uh, yeah, the boredom we’ve made that looks like a robot standing out of the, uh, the hatch was wearing a red shirt underneath too.
Yeah, that was weird. Red hoodie. So, uh, okay.
This last one I think is on the set of a movie and I think they have a Marine advisor on the set of a movie. Cause at the end they asked him if he wants to be a assistant director. So that’s why I think they’re on a movie.
Um, but it’s called once a drill instructor, always a drill instructor. So it’s a bunch of civilians consulting with this Marine. The guy he yelled at ran away.
So I don’t know what that was. It looked like he was on a movie set or something like that. But, but man, that voice so piercing.
It’s I admire those guys. You can turn that on like that. That’s that’s pretty good.
That’s really good. So those were good, Marty. I liked those.
Hey, this is a nice little, uh, nice little break, a little, uh, refresher. Well, take us home and lift our spirits. Eric with some more U S military history is becoming a hit.
It’s becoming a, this is one of my favorite. All right, so I’m going to give you a couple of hints on this one. Cause you may have seen the movie.
It’s starred Gary Cooper, world war one, Gary Cooper. No, no. Well, wait, wait, wait.
Well, only world war one besides 1917 there’s, wow, that’s German. So it could have been Gary Cooper, right? This is Gary Cooper, black and white. Okay.
Oh, you got me. Well, I figured I may be dating myself slightly here. Let me help you out.
This is a great story, man. All right. On October 8th, 1918 never loses faith in us.
We disappoint him every time he keeps going. So enthusiastic. That’s what I’m saying.
It’s the, it’s the drive. It’s a spirit. It’s right.
A little bit. October 8th, 1918, United States corporal Alvin York. Oh, right.
Alvin York reportedly kills more than 20 German soldiers and captures an additional 132 at the head of a small detachment and the Argonne forest near the Muse river in France, where quotes later earned York, the medal of honor. So let me, I want to give you a real quick rundown of this thing. It’s amazing.
The events of October 8th, 1918 took place as part of the Muse Argonne offensive. What was to be the final allied push against German forces on the Western front during world war one, York and his battalion were given the task of seasoned German held positions across a valley after encountering difficulties, the small group of soldiers numbering some 17 men were fired upon by German machine gun nest at the top of the nearby hill. 17.
Yeah. 17 men, York. Yeah.
York had, what would that be? Like two squads, maybe. Yeah, maybe. What were they doing? Were they like a scouts or something? No, they were tasked with seizing German held positions across the valley.
17 guys. They’re like, okay, go get those machine guns. Anyway, they were fired upon by the machine guns nest at the top of the nearby hill, the gunners cut down nine of those 17 men, including a superior officer, which left York in charge of the squad.
And I love this part. This is quote from Alvin York’s diary. All right.
So as York wrote in his diary of his subsequent actions, those machine guns were spitting fire and cutting down the undergrowth all around me. Something awful. Now, remember he was from Paul mall, Tennessee, big time country boy.
He was a conscientious objector trying to come in when they were they were trying to draft him. He was refused. He was refused.
So they were cutting down the undergrowth all around me. Something awful. I don’t have time to dodge a tree or dive into a brush.
I didn’t even have time to kneel or lie down. As soon as the machine guns opened fired on me, I began to exchange shots with them in order to cite me or to swing the machine guns on me. The Germans had to show their heads above the trench.
And every time I saw a head, I just touched it off. Touched it off all the time. I kept yelling at them to come down.
I didn’t want to kill any more than I had to, but it was day or I, and I was giving them the best I had. Damn. So several of the young American soldiers follow York’s lead and began firing as they drew closer to the machine gun nest, the German commander thinking he had underestimated the size of the enemy squadron surrendered his garrison of some 90 men.
To these 17 guys. Yeah. Because of the fire that they were able to lay down.
Yeah. This German commander thought there were many more men than what they really had. Whoa.
Yeah. So on the way back to the allied lines, York and his squad took more prisoners for a total of 132 men. Yeah.
Though Alvin York consistently played down his accomplishments for that day. He was given credit for killing more than 20 German soldiers promoted to the rank of Sergeant, and he remained on the lines, the front lines until November 1st, 10 days before the armistice was signed. In April of 1919, York was awarded the highest American military decoration, the medal of honor.
Sergeant York. Frickin great story. That’s great.
And he was a conscientious objector or religious. Yeah. He was, you know, as a country boy, big time, religious guy to the point I’m almost fanatical, thou shall not kill.
So he takes this, I’ll call it a getaway for a pilgrimage into the mountains in Tennessee. And he said that God told him that you will have to protect you and your family and going to war was okay. Wow.
Even though his request to be a conscientious objector was a fused anyway. Yeah. The hacksaw Ridge guy.
Yeah. The hacksaw Ridge guy. He was a seven.
Oh, Doss. Yeah. Seven day Adventist.
Yeah. The hard core guys. Yeah.
The hard cars. Yep. So wow.
That’s really cool. So what was the date? What was the date of that action? October 8th, 19, 18. Oh man.
Well done, Eric. That’s a great story. If you ever get to see the Gary Cooper movie, it’s funny.
It’s a little ridiculous too, because Gary Cooper’s behind this tree and he’s using a turkey gobbler call and the journey will stick his head up. But it’s pretty cool. It’s a good story to watch.
You know, and without hearing that, that whole story, I there’s remnants of it in my history, but I get that confused with. Sort of right. Oh, I think my internet crapped out.
You dropped out when you said you, it reminded you the Audi, you got an Audi Murphy story. Yeah. The Audi Murphy story.
So we’ll have to go over that. Well, maybe we can have a new competition. I’ll propose it to you guys after we stop recording here.
So see if you think it’s tasteful or not, but ruin the surprise. Anyway. Nice job, Eric.
That was a good one. You’re surprising me the last two or three. I really, I really, kudos to you.
You fellas mean so much to me. I have to work extra high. I have a new found respect for all this history because look what it’s produced in you, you know, success, but beautiful wife, fantastic retirement, successful only fans page.
It means a lot, man. Golf all day, fan all night. It’s long hours, bro.
You got to be ready for it. Well, we got a market that Mr. History, Mr. History G-string. Oh, I’m still all about the frickin’ overalls with some oil and corn.
Well, the Mr. History oil and scrunchies, a lot of glistening, a lot of glistening, the corn oil. Well, too bad Anna would have got a kick out of the glistening talk, but too bad for her. We are at Endept, gentlemen.
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