Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 16 Oct 2024
Date: Oct 15, 2024
The CDC was closed with no power, so I had to watch the kids. Which is excuse number eight 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 Perot.
Not late for changeover. Our man in the closet down in the corner Jake Wall. That CDC is a racket.
Our little mule Juanito Lopez. Well, I’m back. Thank you.
Thank you. And are not sleepy. No headache.
Anna Mondragon. I’m not. I’m not.
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 a seat. Get involved and have a laugh as we present late for changeover.
Jake, did you find anything more about your uncle? No, I haven’t even contact. They’ve been so busy. Yeah, I forgot to ask you a pre-show.
So yeah, still waiting for that. Are you leaving next week? I will be gone. Yeah, I’m flying out Tuesday and then I’ll be back Thursday.
Do you want to go over his brief military partner’s obituary? Yeah, you’re welcome. I sent you that obituary. Yeah, I got it right here.
As we said, last week or week before, oh September 27. Jake’s uncle Benjamin Franklin Collins the third passed away. What a great thing.
Yeah, Benjamin Franklin Collins. Man, that’s patriotic. Ben was a career Marine enlisting at age 17 with his parents permission.
He made good friends during his tour with whom he remained in touch at the end of his life. He finished his tour and obtained a bachelor’s degree from Chapman College in Orange, California. He re-entered the Marine Corps as an officer and was trained as a pilot.
His first assignment was to a CH-53 heavy-hauler helicopter squadron which deployed to Vietnam. He flew many missions under combat conditions, notably the resupply of K. Son, were under siege during the Tet Offensive. His second tour in Vietnam was as a forward air controller.
He was wounded by enemy fire and forced to crash land. His airplane, luckily nearby friendly forces rescued him. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds.
Back in the U.S., he met and married Louise or Lois Sheffield and together they had a daughter, Jennifer and her son Stephen. They were married for 47 years. Ben retired from the Marine Corps and embarked on a series of aviation related jobs as a civilian.
His last job was as a safety officer test pilot for Boeing. And as soon as he left Boeing, they went downhill. So, Godspeed, Major Benjamin Collins.
That’s great. I can’t wait to if you find out more or if you get little pieces of his history. That’d be great, Jake.
That’d be great. The whole case-on story is an amazing thing. Oh, man.
Yeah. Just to be involved in that. I would have loved to have him tell that story.
He was one of those guys that didn’t really talk about it. They’re all that way. I didn’t learn about any of this.
I just knew that he did two tours in Vietnam and that he was a helicopter pilot over there, which was a crazy job. And then he was an aerial observer. Was that Bat 2-1? Wasn’t that that movie back then? He was doing multiple.
I believe he did carrier landings. He did multiple things. It’s weird.
Either the planes were designed in such a way or just the people who flew them back then were such of a mind. And you described that one incident where he got in the A-10. It was like, oh, I got this.
You know what to do. So he retired from Boeing and he had flown multiple aircraft like planes and helicopters. And so he came up to visit me at the fighter squadron.
Him and his buddy went on a trip to Alaska and they were like, well, let’s visit Jake while he’s up here. And I put him in the cockpit of A-10. I saved the cockpit first and I got in trouble for that, right? But he gets in there and he’s like instant right back to the old memories of, oh, this is how you fire this up.
This is how you do this. This is what you do. Like he could easily have fired that plane up.
No problem. But he could not because of the stroke. Yeah.
He would just slide the dinner bill over to you after he paid for it. He’s like, yeah, I just fill it out. Can’t figure it out.
You do it. I can’t figure it out. I can’t do the tip.
I don’t know how that works. But I can fly this plane if you put me in it. That’s wild.
That’s what it’s crazy. Well, we wish you well on your trip next week, Jake. Yeah, thanks, man.
So, okay, let’s get into the news now, shall we? Juan, thanks for coming back. Ana, thanks for being here. Yeah, this is what makes them not want to come back.
I know. Never mind. But they always come back.
Thanks for showing up on. Some of them come back. Some of them come back.
Taking time out of your evening away from your family. Oh, that’s awesome. Well, I mean, she’s staying up past eight, so that’s great.
Sometimes you all go to sleep before eight. I know, that’s what we’re saying. Really? No, I can’t.
If I do, I’m up at midnight. We had this conversation before we were recording. Like 12 hours.
I’m so jealous of my wife, of you, because I can sleep forever. Not me. It’s like my hips starts hurting, my back starts hurting.
I’m like, ah, bless me. This position is terrible. Just roll over.
It won’t be long. It’s not that easy, Ana. It’s done at that point.
You might as well get up and make coffee. We don’t all have a pat machine to go to sleep with, so. Yeah, you’re right.
Oh, fact. Okay, you got me. You definitely can’t lay on your belly.
Yeah, you can’t. You got anybody you want to. Straight face in the pillow.
You’re just a mess. She’s like, I’ll jam her back, you video right out. Hose off the back of your head.
You can lay in this way and that way. It’s all good. Looking like an alien machine.
It’s got a little humidifier going on. Rolling some air in his face. Come on.
Yes, exactly. It doesn’t sound like that. I’ll tell you that.
Okay. That scared the hell out of me. Everyone’s sleeping through it, so.
Scared me. Come on. I highly recommend it.
Got to tell you. All right, you’ve probably all seen this first story. But it’s so cool that I thought I’d bring it up, right? The SpaceX is from space.com. Of course, SpaceX catches giant Starship booster with chopsticks.
No, I don’t want to call them chopsticks. On historic flight five rocket launch and landing. So, did you know that that Starship is the biggest boost, the most powerful booster ever, ever made? Even more than the STS? Even more than the Saturn? On the Saturn? Elon’s just going nuts over there, man.
Do you see his robots? Did you see the video of his robots? That’s creepy. Was that creepy or what, man? That’s right there. We’re there now, right? I’m telling you, the AI is going to be in your house.
Cooking you breakfast, brother. He’s going to be watching your CPAP and he’ll be like, that’s enough. Or he’s going to slow roll it and just crank up the humidity.
So you get a sign of the thing. The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. Took to the skies again.
And this time it came back. SpaceX launched its 400 foot tall Starship vehicle for the fifth time ever. On October 13th, sending the giant rocket aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas.
The mission aimed to break new ground for Starship and for spaceflight in general. SpaceX planned to return Starship’s huge first stage booster known as Super Heavy. Super uncreative name, but Super Heavy directly to its launch mount, catching it with the quote unquote chopstick arms of the launch tower in a bold and unprecedented maneuver.
And that’s exactly what happened about seven minutes after liftoff SpaceX is Super Heavy, executed what appear to be a bullseye landing, hovering near the Mechazilla launch tower as the tower captured it with its metal arms. So I’ve got two videos on this. And Boeing sat back in awe.
And the door. And the window flew off on the way to the pad. What kind of engineers does this guy hire? Well, that’s impressive.
It’s amazing. So the first one is the official one from Space.com. And when I play it, watch to the bottom right and see the speed of this thing coming in. It’s Mike.
That is going to be incredible. It was so cool to hear the liftoff. And so once again, it’s successful on time liftoff of Starship flight five.
Speed increasing. Has separated from the booster. The booster is there on your screen.
It is making its way back to the launch site. We are going to attempt the catch using the chopsticks. We did hear the confirmation that the command was sent to the tower.
We are. SpaceX has the best production of all these guys. Guys, we should just be about 30 seconds away from landing burn.
It’s going to happen in three phases where we land 13 engines burn off. I’ll follow that speed now. You can see it coming down through the clues.
This is the boom I take right here. It’s not a boom. Coming in hot for the booster catch.
Coming in hot. It’s going to ignite 13 of those raptors and fans on this field. It’s going to be incredible right now.
Oh my goodness. You can see how fast this vehicle is moving. 15,000 kilometers.
Look at that thing man. We’re now down to three raptor engines. Look at that.
We can see those chopsticks. You went from thousands of kilometers to 150. What? This is great.
Look at that. That’s amazing. That’s pretty cool.
I don’t think that speed is right though. Yeah, that was really cool. Marty, you’re looking at the speed on the right.
That’s the one. I’m already on the right. I forget the wrong speed.
I know. The first time I’ve had a test, we have successfully caught the super happy booster back at the launch tower. Bubble miss.
Yeah, that was pretty cool, right? That is cool. So if you would remember, or maybe you don’t remember, but a while ago I had mentioned that because Starbase is down there. Where is it at? Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas.
I was wondering if you could see it from like South Padre. Well, you can’t. So this next video of the same thing is from a user on Instagram with the user sign of KCV underscore 225.
And I love the like the real public reaction. So here’s the same thing. Here we go.
Wow, that looks much different. It doesn’t scream in it. Yeah, that’s scary.
Looks like a cigar dropping to the ground, man. Hey, slow down. That’s really that’s even cooler to watch from the side.
Yeah, from there. These guys are betting on it. They’re tailgating on this landing.
Who was flying it? Or did that just come back on a trajectory that would work? Yeah, that’s a good question because I know the rapping are steerable a little bit. So but I don’t know. Maybe it’s just making small course corrections once it gets to that final trajectory.
You’ve come a long way since I was there. I wonder what the court on is to stay away from there because imagine something screaming that fast. That’s going to be what? A kinetic energy? Yeah, that’s going to be 10 miles or something like that.
I mean, what is it when they launch out of the Cape or something like that? You can’t get that close. Well, yeah, but I’m talking about just the impact of it coming down. Well, that was his little tags at South Padrai Island.
Yeah, whether or not he was really there. Well, so we could do a map quest. Is map quest still around? So we could do a map quest to see if somebody sounds.
To some of the Google maps, maybe. Yeah, no question. If only somebody had a computer.
But it’s still Prince’s direction. Hell yeah, he does. Hell yeah.
Look at this turn right. Right. And then I highlight it.
Right. So I could see it. What’d you do that for? I’ll tell you.
Oh, you’re just trying to get me back for the sleeping comment, right? Dude, map quest is still around. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much.
Like I said, he’s still Prince’s direction. Yeah, you can easily print it out if you want. You get free subscription of map quest with a cricket phone.
Driving distance, it’s 40 miles, 53 miles, but that’s because you have to go around. And it really looks like it’s maybe five, ten miles away from South Padrai Island, like in a straight view. Well, that would make sense.
But SpaceX just got grounded because their second stage didn’t get felt right in the right spot. So at least it didn’t plunk down in South Padrai Island. That would suck.
So yeah, if that ever happened where they killed somebody, that’d be… Yeah, that’d be the end of it, right? I mean, we were… I mean… It wasn’t that long ago that we just threw the trash up there, up in the States. That’s right. Hopefully it burned up.
And everybody’s like, that’s impossible. And then he crashes a handful of them. And now he’s catching them on the launch pad.
And, you know, excitement for space travel is back, man. Ooh, big time. I mean, even the shuttle got kind of boring.
But that’s also NASA. NASA doesn’t know how to dress their shit up. When I saw that, I was thinking I would see the Waley Coyote on it.
Because it looks so cool! That would be a great painting on the side. Very good. Good pull on it.
You’re calling me old with MapQuest, and you pull out Waley Coyote. Okay, just moving on here. What do you guys think that a sailor has to worry about the most? Syphilis.
Ooh, I didn’t think about that one. Oh my goodness. I was like, what do you guys mean? I was like, man, you’re getting sunk by a missile or a torpedo or something like that.
Or being out in sea with 50 sailors. Being under the water. That’s not safe either.
Well, this story might change your mind. So this is from stripes.com. The Navy launches investigation into faulty wells on 26 warships at the Virginia shipyard. Oh my god.
Really? 26. I thought it was just one, 26. No, there’s one over there too.
Oh yeah, I did those over there. You might want to check those out. I didn’t do them very well, but just letting you know.
This is on one submarine or is it like… No, 26 different ships. So Navy’s investigating how 26 warships, including three that are operational, receive faulty welds while undergoing construction or maintenance at Newport News shipbuilding. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro wrote in a letter dated October 3rd to nearly two dozen lawmakers associated with four Senate and House defense committees.
Del Toro said he learned September 24th of the substandard welds that did not follow proper procedure. The welds were done at Newport News, a division of Huntington Industries, which is the sole maker of carriers for the Navy and one of only two firms that make submarines. Owned by Boeing.
The welding deficiencies were made on non-critical components of three in-service ships, the Aircraft Carrier USS George Washington and submarines USS Hyman G Rickover and USS New Jersey. All three ships have been certified as safe to operate by Naval Sea Systems Command, especially since the submarines were underwater when we found out it was like, don’t worry, you guys are safe. You’re good.
But come back as quick as you can, all right? We did correct it, though. There’s nothing to be worried about. Who had the contract? Who had the contract? Was it Boeing? It was just like, the problem.
I’m just curious. A Boeing subsidiary. Technical experts from the Navy and the ship builder are working to evaluate and identify solutions to bad welds on 23 other warships, including ones being constructed now.
As an additional measure, the ship builder is conducting training across the entire welding community and related non-welding trades. So they’re trying to get out ahead of getting their ass cheap, right? So when the Joint Chief is like, you will go train every single one of your swinging welders out there. So they got it.
They’re rapidly putting a PowerPoint together and making it part of their CBT. So of course, out of work correctly. This is what I thought was interesting.
On September 27, Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin announced the faulty welds on social media. Why would you do that? That’s like not a Facebook post. It’s like, hey, we happen to be assigned to the USS George Washington.
Look around. There might be some bad welds. But they put it on social media.
Why don’t they just go straight to Congress and go, look, we screwed this up. The company subsequently launched an investigation made up of internal independent events to validate the reports. Quote, most concerning is that some of the welds in question were made by welders who knowingly violated weld procedures.
Boykin said the ship builder notifies the Navy as well as the Department of Justice. According to Del Toro, the Justice Department is investigating any potential breaches of contract or submission of false claims. So, rest easy Navy, or rest easy sailors.
The Navy’s all over it. Don’t get you an answer in two to three short years. Who served that ship in the first place? They should probably not go with the lowest bidder when we’re talking about contracting for welding.
And they’re like, hey, come on back. In the meantime, here’s a bunch of that tape we saw on the TV that’ll seal hot tubs and stuff. It’s got the phone, can of phone.
If you need it. You may not need it, but if you do need it. Have you seen the screen or anything? It works.
Hey, they did it on the boat. Flex Seal. Flex Seal, that’s it.
I couldn’t remember the damn name. He made a screen door, a screen door bottom of his boat. Yeah, that was cool.
Yeah, so I don’t know if it’ll put up with, you know, two or three pressures. But if you need it, it’s there. Good job, Navy.
All right. You want to hear? We had kind of a horrifying story about the experiments on those. Those guys at the Armory.
God, what was it? Edgewood Armory, right? Yeah, that’s the story last week. Well, this isn’t quite as horrifying, but it is kind of horrifying. So I took this story from Daily Mail and stripes.com, but there you go.
Let’s talk about this. So a marine recruiter who wrote a memoir about the pursuit of teenage recruits has been sentenced to a year in the brig. This is crazy.
I don’t understand the teen recruit. Was it not an of age recruit? Well, 18 steam. She was 17 and needed her parents permission.
All right. There’s a lot of detail missing from the store because they didn’t have the court documents, but I’ll read you what I got. So what’d you say, Juan? I’ll know if I also bears on state, right? There’s like a lie.
Well, I don’t know if it’s age of consent or isn’t like each state has a different age limit. That’s true. I think so.
But then again, I don’t know what federal is federal might have a different because he was on the federal law, right? He was following the federal and state law. Actually, you’re subject to both. Yeah.
So Marine Corps recruiter who self published a memoir about a sexual pursuit of a high school student eager to enlist will spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to abusing his position and violating orders to service at Wednesday. All right. So here he goes.
Gunnery Sargent. Fornicate the youngins. And he was a gunny.
I thought he was going to be like a corporal or something. He’s a gunnery. Gunnery Sargent.
Christopher Champagne, who is then 36, met a 17 year old female at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station of Fort Worth, Texas. She said Champagne coerced her into a sexual relationship, isolated her from her peers and tried to control her life. She met him after moving to Texas in September 2022 and was interested in joining the Marines.
Champagne pulled the teen into his office alone during her first workout with other potential recruits and asked her whether she was dating anyone, according to the claim. He asked her to stay away from other Marines at the workout and then told her, quote, I can tell you’re going to be big trouble for me. And quote, hello, Champagne.
Now, she was fairly willing at first. All right. Champagne then began to invite the teenager to his home where they had sex and he would serve her alcohol, according to the claim.
In May 2023, she said the Marine forced himself upon her while she was sleeping and she had to fight him off. So she ended the relationship the following month, but Champagne continued to text her and threatened to take his own life because of what she was doing to him. He then began to show up at her family’s home, which is when her parents called the police and the Navy criminal investigative service began an investigation.
Still, still, he continued to try to contact the teen and she said NCIS did not take the case seriously enough. She subsequently learned Champagne’s ex-wife had previously filed complaints with NCIS that the Marine had abused and sexually assaulted her. Gunnery Sergeant Champagne then sometime later wrote a book detailing his scandalous romantic relationship in his book, Cosette’s Decision.
That’s what it’s called. Cosette’s Decision. He just made up the name, but it meant that girl.
Champagne openly admits to having a burning white-hot relationship with a young girl whose real name is not being mentioned to protect her as a sexual assault victim. Quote unquote Cosette as Champagne referred to her in his memoir needed parental permission to join the military because she was under 18. So let me show you this real quick.
Unbelievable. That’s the cover of the book, which is still available on Amazon for $14.99. I’ve got a couple of four-star reviews. I wonder if there’s going to be any money from that to sell.
It’s still up on Amazon. It’s going somewhere. The proceeds should go to her.
No doubt. I feel like it’s going to get dramatized through NCIS. Like whatever the city was, like it’s going to be an episode.
I don’t know. Military judge, Lieutenant Colonel David Seagraves on Friday, 27th September at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California sent Champagne to a year in prison after pleading guilty to abusing his position and violating orders. He was also sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and reduction of rank to E1.
He will serve his prison sentence at Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar, the service set. But you can still run out and get his book and you get the honorable book too. So this dude was almost at 20 years if he was 36.
Yeah, he must have been pretty close. If he came in at 18, like all that is for. Now he’s an E1, probably going to get a dishonorable but he can fall back on his $14 book.
Proceeds from the book. That’s crazy. It’s still available.
I’m going to send him a note and ask for an autograph copy. Oh, my goodness. No, I’m not.
I was just paying. I know what’s on Eric’s Christmas list. I’m too old for that crap.
I see that pinned only pan fans post with the cover of the book. They’re like, oh, it’s going to be a hell of a photo shoot. So it’s not Cassette’s decision.
It’s going to be Perot’s decision. Which why there won’t be any picture of people on it because it won’t happen. But I mean, I mean, what is the guy’s mental state? He goes through all that.
And CIA. He’s our NCIS already knows about him because of his ex-wife. And now they get called again.
And there’s a whole lot more to that story because like the family of the girl and the girls said Marines weren’t taking this seriously. And she has subsequently turned around and sued the Marines for five milk. Oh, so we’ll see.
I mean, that’s that’s crazy. But if that gets a lot of press, Marines might just go, let’s let’s get this out of the way. Yeah, yeah.
Actually, when NCIS knew about this guy. So far history, but why did they put a guy like, I mean, I don’t know, he might have been really not reformed. But from their perspective, he might have been reformed.
Why did they make him a recruiter? I don’t know. Like have all the positions putting me in charge of a basic training female flight and don’t make him a recruiter. The rest.
Yeah, you can monitor. I don’t know. I don’t know.
Do they non-vol in the Marines over to be a recruiter? Oh, I’m sure they do. You know what I mean? I mean, I know the army does. I don’t think anybody wants.
They do it in every branch. Yeah, yeah. Well, probably not the Air Force because people are like, I got to get out of this unit.
I’ll go be a recruiter. So what I’m curious, what I’m curious, I was reported, if she reported it to NCIS because now we know that a few years ago, they changed how the DOD does sexual assault cases. Oh, that’s right.
Oh, depending on how because they shouldn’t it shouldn’t go through his chain of command. So I’m curious like if you start pointing that strain. I wasn’t reported.
And then the other thing is she wasn’t technically in the military, but still a case of sexual assault. Yeah, so I wonder like because it almost sounds like it was within the chain of command, which is shouldn’t even been through the chain of command. Well, self-reported.
You wrote a book and let everybody know. Well, self-reported. Maybe those NCIS guys got back to the officer like, this guy just lays low.
We’ll be fine. I was like, hey, look at this book. Have you guys seen that he wrote a book about this? Yeah, I was like, oh, damn it, Christopher.
But the arrogance of that, right? But you know, it’s fun. It’s stuff like this. It’s stuff like this.
Like, you know, when ATC when everything was getting unraveled with ATC and like the with the MTIs and all that stuff they kept pulling on that string. Yeah, right, right. And that was over 10 years ago because I was like, what? It’s like 12 years ago.
It was longer than that. I was still in when they were when they were doing that. But something like this is imagine they start looking into everybody else in their recruitment office that somebody must have known.
I mean, somebody must have been both in elbows and been like, that was bad for a while. But I think that’s been going on for a long time. It just got the light of day.
And there was like, what are these recruiters doing? And I’m like, you ain’t hiring your best to be recruiters. That’s for sure, you know. So recruiters and DIs, I’ve heard horrible stories from recruiters and DIs and the power that they’re invested in with and the abuse they take.
It’s bad. Not all of them. Not a very small percentage, but the ones that do use it to their advantage.
That’s bad news, man. They should have to do like a personality test before they become a recruiter. Well, they’re in the background.
Right, right. And they’re like, hey, why are they making your numbers? And I’m like, well, I’m over my pair or her parents’ house. And depending on what numbers you’re talking about.
No, and you know, the Air Force now, I took my daughter to one of the recruiters a few months ago. So now they you’ll do the ASMAP but they now you do a personality test. You do like along with it and just kind of job you get.
You have to do more tests, cognitive tests, like the way you’re thinking, like some of the questions would be like what’s worse stealing from your friend and not telling them or stealing from your friend. And what was like the other option? Sleeping with your recruiter. So either way, but has like questions like that is to see where you are morally.
And that’s that’s to make sure well, you know, they’re trying to see where they could place you. But the Air Force Academy, one of the requirements to get in as a recruitment for the Air Force Academy is high moral character. That’s what it says on the wall.
That’s the catch all that says they do. You don’t know about this. You’re done.
No more care. So that’s okay. But they have that for ROTC and when recruitment’s down.
So a command I used to work for her last assignment. She became the ROTC commander at I think Appalachian State. And she emails me because I told her hey before you go there, can you make sure that we get good results man? Like we don’t want shit bags.
And then she like a few months later like she’s like Sergeant Lopez you’re going to be so disappointed. But there’s waivers for everything because recruitments are down. They can come in at a 2.0. They have marijuana waivers.
Wait, wait, wait. They can come in into ROTC with like a 2.0. Yes, because recruitments were so low during that time. And so maybe we like that was what back in 2016.
So around 2020, we probably got shitty ass attendants. Now they’re shitty ass captains. Yeah, I know.
But, but no, it’s just, it’s just, it’s just all depends, right? It’s like, okay, the needs of the military and they’re going to waiver all that. Well, and if you read, there was an article not too long ago. Sorry.
Like a few weeks ago, they were talking about how the academies, service academies are not meeting their goals right away. So, I mean, how long? I don’t get too surprised there. Well, but like the Coast Guard just met their requirements.
The Army did, the Air Force did. So all this lowering of standards. Yeah, they’re meeting numbers.
But what’s that force going to be like? I read some of the tutorial. There’s like, yeah, you’re filling your ranks. But what’s that? What’s that going to look like five, six years? Was that on Navy ships? That’s what it looks like.
But there’s actually a study that they’re not enough. What do they call them? Next Gen’s that want to serve and they don’t want to learn like a skill like carpenter, loader, auto mechanic, none of that. It’s like, hey, you know, you’re going to have to come out of your parents’ house and they’re like, what? Yeah, but we’ve been telling them the world’s shit and the economy’s shit and then he’s dying.
You’ve been telling them that since they were babies. Yeah, yeah. Right.
That’s all they’ve been hearing. So why do they need their house? Why they would not want to leave the house. Right.
They got rent free. They got Eric’s only fans page. That’s like there’s no reason to leave the bear, baby.
But that’s the thing. You have to time like me up every time. Like, I don’t know.
My daughter pays me for bills every month now. So she’s 18 and stuff like that. So it’s just like you got to start teaching them responsibilities.
So my look too. Or drastically is boom. He forgot to tell him this month only for marine recruits.
Get an issue of 15% off. Come see me, marine. Hey, you get this free book.
If you don’t really like older men. Hey, we will discuss fatal attraction. If you’re lucky, you might win an Eric or a Papa Bear visit to your parents house.
I wonder if he signed it and sent it to the girls. Oh my God, man. Right, right.
Just the arrogance of that is crazy. I sent a stack for stocking stuffers. Because that’s the decision.
So do you guys think she gets a 5 million? I don’t know. You know, it’s hard to tell. You know, if they grant that, then what I would do is turn back around, go after him from all the money that he made off that boat.
He’s like, cool. He is paid for this. I don’t think she’ll get the 5 million.
She may get something. Yeah, but her problem was she chose a recruiter with the branch of the military that gets the least amount of money. Yeah.
No, that’s true. She should have been with a space recruiter. Then even now you’re talking contract money there, baby.
5 million is nothing. That’s a disclaimer. We believe in her.
So for you young, impressional teenagers, if you guys are trying to join the military and sue them, according to Marty, just join the Space Force. Well, if you follow that logical chain, yeah. You know, but Space Force has, I don’t know what the recruiters look like.
So they’re probably not the the big buff guys at the Marines. Yeah, I have big buff women. Who knows? Well, that was quiet on the pod all of a sudden.
When I were like, hey, let’s get a touch set. There was a unicorn facility there for a while because there’s there was all the branches coming in and out of that facility. And there was a Marine Corps major.
And she was like like in solid nine. And you’re like, Oh, yeah, it was going on like a military night or like a civilian night like a but not deployed night. Okay.
Because it’s deployed. And she wasn’t even in the service dress. She was in normal.
Well, that’s a great transition. So speaking of military nines probably tense. Miss America’s back, baby.
She’s hey from stripes.com. So this has got a this has got a double hit. So Miss America lieutenant from the Air Force Academy Madison Marsh, right? And it involves cops. So there you go.
Cops, baby. So Miss America puts on a bite sleeve against a taste of military service dog trees. She’s catching dogs.
Air Force second lieutenant Madison Marsh, who’s also Miss America 2024, got her first bite experience during a visit Tuesday to the 37th training wing at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, Texas. You ever been there, Eric? Marsh, the first military service member to be crowned the title of Miss America. Don the canine bite sleeve and took part in dog training exercises with staff Sergeant Adam Ganyan.
G-A-G-N-O-N. Gagnon. I know that’s not how you pronounce it, but it’s probably Ganyan.
Gagnon. G-A-G-N-O-N. Gagnon.
Thank you. That’s much better than what I said. A military working dog course trainer with a 341st training squad and learn what military working dogs and their handlers is all about.
Gagnon. Positioned Marsh in front of the dogs and accepted many biting exercises where they simulated real life scenarios for each exercise the trainers encouraged Marsh to swing her body and yell mimicking the type of real world struggle these dogs might face on the job. Lieutenant Marsh said with a smile I felt a little bit of pressure, but it didn’t hurt at all and I felt completely safe.
Those are big dogs. They are big dogs. I mean, I remember my first time talking to them.
There’s the old man dress with the bite sleeve on, right? Everybody wants to put the suit on. Put the suit on. I’m surprised she’s not in a suit and just offered with the bite sleeve.
I was just like, yeah, because that is a bold move. That’s unflattering. That’s unflattering, so.
I would put a, what is it, a suit all over, a whole body face suit. They always put that suit on. They’re like run.
No, they look like a bomb squad person. I’m sure there have been times the arm sleeve has been offered and the dog says, no, I don’t want that. I want your freaking leg.
Yeah, could be. You know what I’m gonna say. No wonder pull a jubilee.
Got him. Here’s some interesting stuff though. The 3 41st training squadron trains over 600 handlers and nearly 300 canines annually.
That’s a lot. I had no idea. That’s a lot.
These dogs are essential partners train for detecting explosives, apprehending suspects and much more. Most of the squadron dogs are acquired, but about 15% are bred within the squadron. Yeah, Marsh met with puppies and observed their early lessons and obedience and environmental conditioning.
She also visited the handlers schoolhouse and connected connected with airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines to talk about the rigorous training and schooling aspiring military working dog handlers must undergo. So she went on a goodwill tour, I guess I don’t really know what she does after winning. Your whole job, right? I guess that’s she’s just a liaison, I suppose, right? On and after that, I think she went to the Harvard Kennedy School.
Yeah, she’s going to school. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. So I thought with Eric’s cop background and with Anna’s perky personality, I thought maybe we could relive the Lieutenant Madison Marsh experience at the 3 41st training, right? Is this so Erica right? After who could be more research.
So Eric, I need you to be back in your tech sergeant parot days, hardcore, bodybuilding, right? Take nice acceptable now, have no time for this weak military stuff. And I need you to be second Lieutenant Madison Marsh Miss America, right? And Jake, you’re the supervisor for Eric and you gotta tell him what he’s gotta do with this Miss America who’s coming out to visit. There was no discussion of this beforehand.
I threw that in. Yeah, I was like no planning here. I need an interpreter through Juanito.
Okay, I’ll go for English to Spanish for you. So Anna, you’re Miss America coming to Eric’s course and you’re like, hey, show me what’s going on, right? Yeah, Sergeant Peratt. You know we got that visitor coming.
Miss America, do not get her bitten. That’s your only job. Yes, sir.
And take care of it. Can I ask why we’re bringing this young lady into my training area? She means nothing to the Air Force. Because leadership has told us this is what’s happening and we are going to smile, salute and put on a good face for public.
It’s good for the troops. Yes, sir. I will shut up in color now, but I will tell you.
She’s a pure memoir fodder. Meanwhile, we cut to the field. Miss America, meet Texargia Peratt, your instructor for today.
Good morning, Sergeant Peratt. Second Lieutenant Mars, welcome to the training area. Do you understand that this is a training area? You will do as I say, you will do as I tell you at the time I tell you.
Do you understand? Yes. Do you understand what today’s date is? I’ve been traveling a lot. I’ve been traveling a lot and I’m exhausted.
Could be the last day of your life if you do not follow my instructions. It’s hot out here. I think my whole uniform, I have t-shirts on.
This is the handler we’re going to introduce Lieutenant Mars. Lieutenant Mars, quiet. I’m trying to explain what will happen next.
It feels like a city, Sergeant Lopez, find the dog, bring it out and put it at the position of attention. All right, I’m gonna go get Chico really quick. Chico.
Chico the nibbler. Come on, Chico. Sorry, Chico.
Lieutenant Mars, this is Sergeant Lopez and this is Chico the badass mauling dog. The mauling dog. I am going to put you in a bite sleeve and it’s only going to come to your elbow.
At which time you will offer the dog the upper arm, not the lower arm or you will lose it. Do you understand? This sounds like a really bad idea. I agree.
A lot of screaming and sitting around. Never mind. Sir, I’m sorry.
Lieutenant Mars failed the course. He was bitten on the leg. She’s at the hospital receiving nine stitches for a terrible part.
You got Miss America mauled. Miss America. I did.
In her cap, by the way, and I wear dresses. Oh, a good height. Have you seen your laminated picture in Sergeant Lopez’s office? And, sir, you destroyed those beautiful pieces of work.
Sir, I don’t feel bad about this at all. Lieutenant Mars should have been in my chair in there. Hey, Jake, how can you ask him? Hey, Jake.
That’s when you ask him, well, what dog was it? Chico! The mauling dog. Chico the mauling dog. Chico the nibbler.
That was amazing. Oh, my goodness. How easily you switched.
That had to be 30 years ago. And he leaned into the camera. Leaned way into it.
And then you scared me a little bit. You’re like, oh. There wasn’t any stuttering.
There was nothing that just… No, we could make some airmen cry if we need to. Whoa. Next step.
Make them cry. You made Miss America cry? I got her good. It’s all good.
You’re like, yeah, you got her mauled. With Chico. Chico the wonder dog.
Well, we’re going to start making Instagram shorts. Like little reels. There you go.
You had me crying in embarrassment. Yeah, you didn’t pull rank at all. Because probably your calf was bleeding.
In training areas, it’s my rank. It doesn’t matter what her rank is. Because you’re in the position of power, right? That’s right.
Now, second Lieutenant Marsh, if you’d like to go get a drink afterwards and we can discuss a book, a book writing, please follow me out for a drink. Miss America’s decision comes up. Do you imagine I’m tired? No, I want to say I’m a professional Miss America.
It’s like, well, you know, I am a second Lieutenant. What would you say? Were you a recruiter? As a matter of fact, I knew this Marine fellow that I roomed with that recruit training. Oh, they’re like, hey, Sergeant Paraka, good job with Miss America.
We got your next assignment. It’s out to Korea. It leaves next week.
Marty, when you’re over there, you’re like, oh, I feel like you’re at the set door. You’re like, good. I wonder what her obligations are to Miss America, right? She’s got still military obligations.
She does winning that award. She’s got obligations to Miss America. She’s got to do the civilian piece of it, too.
Yeah, but Jake, but that’s that’s good PR for that military in the Air Force. So I bet you the Air Force is like, okay, do what you guys will do. They’re like, hey, go do what you need.
Just on a quarter of them, wear your uniform and then we’ll call it good. Because the Air Force is already standing here. Oh, no.
To Miss America. They’re like, hey, Miss America, your DTS is not working. She’s got to have a permissive TUI.
Yeah, she’s probably. Your travel voucher got kicked back. Madison, that hotel’s not within per diem.
With the days in down the road. So she uses her platform to advocate for causes that are both important to the military and civilian communities. Okay.
It’s a recruitment tool for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the military, I mean, she’s going to school after this anyway, right? She got accepted into that graduate program.
So it’s not like there’s a commander out there with his sort report. Like, where the fuck is the second lieutenant? God damn it. I keep having a report short.
I mean, think about it, party, right? It’s like, hey, if they asked me if I’m a young, impressionable girl, why’d you join the military? Well, because I saw Miss America. Like my friend who joined the Marines because some old ass freaking gunnery sergeant. Kept showing up at her parents’ house.
Oh, that’s just bad juju there, man. I’m telling you. So what’s for the images? She’s knee deep in Miss America images right now.
What’s trying to aspire and inspire. The other one just just showed up because he bought her beer. And I was thinking like, hey girl, what’s up? I could buy a beer.
What’s a fireball? All the kids are drinking. Fireball shots. Don’t tell Anna that because she got sucked into the next.
Hey Jake, why are those buzz balls, right? Are the ones in 7-Eleven? Buzz balls? Like that’s what all the kids are drinking. They look disgusting. Yeah, that’s what they’re called.
They look like ornaments. You’re kidding. They look like ornaments.
They look like a Christmas ornament with a can top. Yep. Oh, that would be an excellent idea to decorate your tree.
It is a redneck Christmas tree. With buzz balls. Buzz balls.
Oh, you know what? It’s going to happen. That’s if somebody’s not having done it. They do look like that.
Somebody will do that. Oh hell yeah. It’s a good idea.
That is actually a really good idea. Way too much. Way to get a whole bunch of underage people arrested in the dorms.
We got to make one more stream of lights. Yep. But, you know, there are some commanders who walked in and was like, hey, good decorations.
That looks great. That looks really good. And they’re all like, he didn’t even know what to tell me.
Eric. Tech Sergeant Peratt. I want you to deliver a day in US military history.
Okay. As struck as you did that impression. No, I can’t.
History is too much. So comforting touch. Just a real quick piece before I move on to the history.
I forgot about that. Yeah, I forgot about that. A piece of history for you all.
That’s important. Mata Hari was executed on this day in 1918. Just so you know.
Was he a US? Never knew her. You don’t know Mata Hari? Mata Hari? Yes. Okay.
So you’re not impressed with that. I’ve never heard of her. Okay.
So the date was, moving right along. 23 October. 1983.
Help me out, Jake. A lot of Hari is October. 23 October.
A lot of Hari is October? Well, I can back it off and start on April 18th if you want. I’m just leading up to the story. Okay, okay.
All right. So I will start there. On April 18th, 1983, a suicide bomber driving a ban devastated the US embassy in Beirut.
Killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. Now you would have thought, okay, threat, then identified, we need to bolster. On 23 October, not much was done and another Lebanese terrorist plowed his bomb-laden truck through three guard posts, a barbed wire fence, and into the lobby of the Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut, where he detonated a massive bomb killing 241 Marine, Navy, and Army personnel.
The bomb’s explosive power was equivalent to 18,000 pounds of dynamite. The identities of the embassy and barracks bombers were not determined, but they were suspected to be Shiite terrorists associated with Iran. And it was interesting because a lot of people thought, hey, after the bombing, many questioned whether Reagan had a solid policy aim in Lebanon.
Serious questions also arose over the quality of security in the American sector of war-torn Beirut. And that’s where I said, from April to October, nobody really looked at the security improvements. No in-depth.
So, and then, right after that, he launches Operation Urgent Fury, invasion of Grenada in 25 October, just a few days after, which a lot of people question that too when you had that front in Beirut and you just lost a massive, you know, big loss. So that was a hell of a time in our history there, man, but I ran. How many were lost in that bombing? The total in just the barracks.
Yeah, the barracks. 241 Marine, Navy, and Army personnel. Ah, the last man.
Yeah, he jumped the barricades and everything, right? Yeah, the embassy, they killed 63, including 17 Americans in that one. But the 18,000 pounds of dynamite devastated. Yeah.
Devastated. Now, I know that didn’t happen on 18, but I used the 23 hour cover date because it started in April. That’s fair.
Yeah, it moved all the way up. So I was hoping. And the fact that they were so passive when they just had, months earlier, just still had an attack.
It’s like, Correct. Yeah, that’s crazy. Someone needed to step up with that.
Well, that’s a dark day, but it’s an important day. Well, it’s a day to remember and that’s where we bring it out. Oh, you could have just stuck with Mata Hari and said while she was executed.
And by the way, she blew her antagonist, a kiss as they pulled the trigger. Glad you had. She was the she was a spot.
Yeah, but you know what? I think there was there was never a determination on what side because she was, you know, she spied for both sides. There was a lot of speculation she was fine on both sides. I mean, that could be the greatest ending to the podcast.
If we all did late for changeover. Oh, she’s good at this one. Yeah, that’s what I would have done, too.
12 Frenchmen shot her 12 Frenchmen. Oh, sure. It took two.
Oh, really? Well, I didn’t really. Well, they were really best at her. Tighter to a post.
You know, you’re sneaking more of the Mata Hari history in here. The more I know. Yeah, I find that intriguing.
Because she was, you know, both sides. There was a lot of conversation on both sides of who she was, what she was doing and then using your sexuality for both sides to garner information. That was her thing.
Started at 18 by answering an advertisement in the Dutch News. That’s correct. After her first husband was abusive and slapped her around.
Wrote a book about her and then she went. Memoir. Probably abusive because she’s a floozy.
She knew her power. She knew her power. No, you know what it was? She wasn’t obedient.
She wasn’t listening twice. She was obedient. Tech, Sarge, a prat.
Would you take Sergeant Lopez out with Chico and give him the once over? Sergeant Lopez outside now. Chico. Sit dog.
Got something better in the capital. Nibble on. Hey, Chico’s my dog.
I chained them, OK? Lot of peanut butter in that training. Let me tell you. And cheese.
Made my eyes roll back. Oh my God, that’s end up. We can’t go.
We can’t. We could do a whole hour of quips and just keep going. Big time.
Holy shit, but that was funny. On behalf of all of us here, I’d like to thank you for listening today. Please like, share, subscribe and let us know how we did in the comments and make sure next week that you are not late for change over.
Late for change over. And all the male versions of Mata Hari reenactment dances. Oh, yeah, only pants.
OK, your Mata Hari on your one side. Jake, you’re the other side. No offense to honor, but it’s got more.
We ain’t shaking his ass for money. OK, Eric, you’re not a hurry. Oh, yes, no.
In depth. This is what you want to do with him. Saluzzi.
I thought he was. What was there was a beautiful line about promiscuous flirtatious and openly flaunting her body. Eric Karrat captivated her audience.
Did he write that himself? Eric Karrat with video page. Week of video page. It’s in his memoir.
Papa Bears decision. I love that. I’m going to have to use that.
That’s awesome. Papa Bears decision. You know, what’s funny is like right now, you know, we did that one about the Marines in Japan.
It’s always like the Marines, right? And then like my neck tells me a story about his like recruiter and like this kind of like suspect, like how savage, right? And now right now they’re in Japan and his recruiter ended up like being stationed with them. So I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what it could be trouble.
Strawberry fields. Not only a medical weed store, call it out soon. No doubt.
All you guys, thanks for the week and thanks to everyone listening and watching and we’ll see you next week. Peace out. Have fun.
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