Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 12 Jun 2024
Date: Jun 11, 2024
Let go of Jack and grab your cat, because you are late for changeover. Your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith, and I’m joined by Mr. History, Eric Berrock in Colorado, and our man in the closet, Jake Wall.
What’s going on, guys? Good to see you. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates, pertinent to all guardians and to our earth brown branches as well. So take your seats, get informed and have a laugh as we present late for changeover.
That was not easy. Earthbound, because I had brothers last week, and then I crossed it out and put branches. So I have Earthbound brothers branches.
Good to see you guys. Little mule is supposedly out of the baseball game. Double header with the kiddos.
Double header with the kids, right? Gotta play dead. Eric, how was Florida? How’d your Florida trip end up? Florida was amazing. What was your best round of golf you shot? Ooh, a 96.
Out of. You know, par is 72, if that helps you. Oh, yeah, okay.
You didn’t say what was your… Do it. I’m not a good golfer. I just have a good time golfing.
So yeah, but we had a great day at the beach. We ate at a place called the Ugly Grouper. Amazing food.
Great drinks. And you were on the Gulf Coast? Yeah, Anna Maria Island on Holmes Beach, man. It was beautiful.
Do you see where they closed all those beaches over around Panama City? Yeah, up north. For all the sharks. Oh, yeah, that lady got chewed up.
Yeah. Literally. There was several sharks.
And we’re talking. In the Gulf Coast, man. Shindeep water.
We’re not talking deep water. Yeah. Oh, was it? Really? I didn’t realize it was that shallow.
They’re in shallow water, man. That’s not fair, man. That’s it.
Come on. Gotta be a barrier. Let us walk.
Save the sharks. Save the sharks. I mean, we’re already risking urchins and fucking eels in shallow water.
So, you know, I got sharks up there. Fuckers. Gotta save the sharks.
There goes 10% of all the listeners. Oh, they went. Any motorcycle rides, Jake? Last week.
It was rainy last week. Just commuting. I rode my bicycle about 20 something miles.
I have to ride to a destination. So, I rode across town to meet up with friends for beer and bullshitting. And then rode back.
That right back is always dicey. Yeah, it’s definitely slower. Because you talk yourself into it going there.
You’re like, this is such a good ride. Oh, going there. It’s a breeze.
I’m so smart for doing it. And then you kind of look at that bike after you had it. You’re like, fuck, man.
Well, it’s becoming, you know, it’s dusk and it’s raining. And you’re like, you know, I’m already here. I got to do it.
Yeah, right. Drink a beer and enjoy the weather. Yeah.
So, I wanted to bring this up to you guys. I had on my second day of my new job, this is a small company. Yeah.
It’s one of those, you know, how the contracting goes, you know, big company, small company. Well, this is a small company, but they’re hiring like crazy, but it’s a small company. So, I go up there and though, you know, they got everything’s nice.
It’s kind of like when the MCS at Buckley was really nice, you know, first off. And now it’s a shithole. It started off as Highlands Ranch.
Now it’s like the MCS is like Aurora. Now, you know, it’s like, there’s like, there’s like broke down cars in the whole. You got to walk over people sleeping.
Every military area has like a chair closet, right? Where all the dead chairs go because nobody wants to actually load them up and take them to DRMO, like, or Dermot. It’s like Pixar should do a movie on all these broke chairs, you know, with no arms. Yeah.
And the wheel half the wheels are missing out the feet, you know. Somebody was picking at the embroidery at Cibbers. Cops, cops.
Some big stain on the seat cushion. You’re like, was that coke? Somebody couldn’t hold it, right? Cops. And they, they always have their knives that they got to play with.
So there’s always an etching mark out of the brick and arm rest. Or the chairs that are locked in the reclined position that will never come forward again. That’s a cop chair there, baby.
Yeah, yeah. I go over there and they have a huge snack bar, right? You know, and just like anything you ever wanted. And it’s almost like a grocery store, like all the sodas are pushed forward, you know, dressed like dress.
And I was like, holy shit. So this is a building that they occupy? This is their headquarters up there in Boulder, right? So I take a, I take a coke and I, and I walked up to the kind of HR person. I was like, Hey, where do I, where do I pitch, pitch in for the snack bar? She goes, no, that’s, that’s complimentary.
And I was, and I was taken aback, you know, for 30 years I’ve been like a snack bar. Yeah, right. And it’s so ingrained into me that there was a thought.
It was like, this is all free. And there was a fleeting thought. It was like, I should just grab a bunch of shit right now.
I don’t know why that thought. Put it in the box. Take it home.
I have to write it. Meanwhile, HR is like, you know, I don’t have to put like 25 and 10 pennies in there. So it sounds like I’m pitching in a whole lot more than I’m pitching in.
My company did the exact same thing, but it was nothing healthy. Candy bars, chocolate. Oh, of course.
So you’re eating all day long and you go home and you’re like, oh my God, I’m 30 pounds heavier than I just walked in the door. Yeah, absolutely. But that’s the other thing up there with this company.
It’s headquarters is in Boulder. I’m going to be working out of Buckley, but it’s headquarters in Boulder. So as you might expect.
Most of those guys is primarily software guys. And there’s some ops sort of ops guys, but there’s non software guys, but the majority of software guys and they’re all freaking real thin. And I mean, like, they’re like, I was talking with one and he goes, yeah, I get here at six.
You know, I leave at three, but I’ll probably go on a hike before I go home. I was like, whoo, you’re young, you’re young. Marty’s like, ew, well, we’re not doing that.
Well, I didn’t want to be the old guys. That’s the goal of these jobs. You want to drink? You want to go to a strip art? That’s what we should do it.
He would have looked at me like I was an alien from a zoo. But in my hiking buddies, we’re going to the strip. Who are you? What are you? Dinosaur.
So, you know, so it was interesting to all the flashback snack bar stuff. And, you know, the the mandatory go, go, go help them bring that stuff in. You know, they went to Costco.
Go help them bring it. And the stack bar was always it always fleeced the crew. You know, there weren’t they weren’t competitive prices.
Yeah. Why am I paying $1.50 for a frickin hot pocket? You just got 50 of them for like 25 cents a piece. Yeah, exactly.
We got to go buy another group. Well, that’s exactly or we ever around when somebody got lost, somebody got in trouble for the accounting of the snack bar. Have you ever seen that? Oh, yeah, I’ve seen it.
I’ve seen it. Someone’s going to jail. Yeah, somebody got in trouble for it.
You know, they’re like, they’re skimming off the snack bar. We had a great snack bar at the schoolhouse. Right.
Because it’s tech school kids, you know, there’s a community of kids. And then and then there’s nothing else around there on Vandenberg. So we would make and, you know, make good prices.
But right, right. But we always they can’t go anywhere. They go to they go to the dining facility class and back to the barracks.
So yeah, you were fleecing. I’m left and right, baby. So is this new employment look like it’s going to be something you can work with? Something? Oh, yeah, definitely.
Yeah, definitely. I dig it. Now it’s I got to go back.
I just got read out of all my tickets at Buckley. And now I got to get read back in all my tickets. Yeah.
To the SSO or to the intelligence side? Well, I got to read back into my SCI. So I got to get all those. Intelligence for the other side.
No, no, no, no, it won’t be on the NRO side. So it’ll be the SSO. But the SSO.
Well, it depends on who the contract owner is. Like we had to go. That’s right.
That’s right. The company got to go out to different places. And my last job was managed out of LA.
Oh, and they would have an they had an agreement with the SSO. With the SSO out at Schriever. That we would go get read in out there.
But then that SSO would immediately transfer the ownership of those things. So you know, it was nice as we had a contract with AFRL out of New York. And I happen to know the SSO from our military days.
We were stationed at Pete together. So he sent he did up a letter for me that said I can be I can read in the tickets without him having to go there or go to Buckley and get, you know, an assist. I had the authority to do it based on his letter.
So my guys all came to me and didn’t have to travel any day. All right. That’s great.
Tell me this, Eric. Why? Why is one why is SSO be such a power trip and why to does every SSO think that every other SSO doesn’t know what they’re doing it wrong. Absolutely.
Every day is doing it wrong. Why there is not one SSO that consistently does it the same as any other. Yes, I know it’s maddening.
So we worked with AFFMC. We worked with what’s the base up in Massachusetts. Oh, God.
No, God up there. It’s not cod. It’s the other one.
Anyway, Hanscom Hanscom Hanscom. Oh, very good. Jake.
So the SSO there requires us to submit a letter requesting Bill. For those people who will be supporting the contract that are going to be read in SCI. So once we identify how many people they send back.
Here’s your list. Here’s your bill at list. Here’s your numbers.
And then I have to or I had to submit a letter to them. Identifying the person going into that bill. Once they approve that, they would do an Indoc assist to the SSO at Buckley.
And our person once that Indoc assist was arrived, they’d go to Buckley. Get the Indoc. The paperwork was sent back to Hanscom.
What a pain in the butt, right? AFRL says, Eric, here’s your Indoc authority. Do the 4414, read them in. Send me the 4414, we’re good.
See? Yeah. Some use it. Some don’t.
Some, you know, do billets. Some just say read them in. So I used to have to go when I was doing testing.
And every once in a while, they’d have to test a retriever from Buckley. They’d have to go down a shriever. Well, shriever has, of course, the RA.
But then when they were doing testing was the MCSB inside the RA, which had its own SSO. And they would always go, oh, we don’t show you. And I was like, well, the guys at the RA showed it.
It was like, oh, yeah, but they didn’t contact us. And it’s just like, God bless you. Yeah, it’s very frustrating.
And the ones that think they know more than the others. You know, when we had J-PAS, if it showed your tickets and it didn’t identify the owner of those tickets in J-PAS, they’d lose their shit. Because the contractor, if it was under the contractor’s smoke code, security management office code, they would lose it.
They’d go, no, no, the contractor can’t read you in on tickets. It’s got to be another SSO that owns it. And I’m like, does this make any sense that they’re going to do the exact same thing that I just did? I don’t understand it.
And I don’t understand why SSO’s, security guys, aren’t, you know, the last thing they want to do is just lean a little forward. They’re like, hey, I’m leaving at 3.30. So if you want the car. Do you guys know the SSO at Buckley? His name’s Woody.
Big guy, older. Big guy, older. He’s a nice guy.
And he’ll at least entertain any ideas. If it’s not Woody likes, he’ll tell you no, but he’ll listen to it. I love it when you actually get there and your bar’s not right.
And all they get is like, yeah, your bar’s not right. Sorry. Sorry you traveled across the country for this, but you probably should have called him.
Last year, we traveled to England. There were two of the five of us that were on the back of the page. Back of the frigging formal submission and everything.
The three on the front got processed. They never flipped the card over. I was literally standing out, standing out in the parking lot with the VP.
Him and I are standing in the parking lot, catching a county bus back to town in our suits because our clearance hadn’t been processed. The organizations that deny entry period are just wrong because they can turn right around, grab your social, look it through. Yeah, they could.
Through a number of databases. I would always do that. If you showed up at my door saying I need to see so-and-so, I would validate your clearance for the day.
It would be a long-term bar for the day and you could come in. It was never finished. You’re an anachronism.
You’re a rarity baby. To be fair, this was UK and it was foreign visit. Sure, but it sounds exactly like me standing in front of the Shriever guy going, oh yeah, they should have, your SSO should have sent this down.
Oh, my SSO is gone for the day. Oh, sorry, there’s nothing I can do. I looked at the form and I looked at the form before it and I was like, are they going to backside? They’ll flip it, they’re professionals, they know.
Before we get into our pre-plan stories, I saw this story pop up. I didn’t even send it to you, but it’s a story that just came out today in stripes.com. White House rejects the 20% pay raise for junior troops and the end of marijuana testing for recruits. So the White House came out and said, no, we don’t like it.
So that junior troop one was kind of a dick move because it went all the way up to E6. That’s good. Well, I guess.
E7, 8, 7, 8, 9. Yeah, it’s going to screw up all that pain. Yeah, yeah. So E6 and E7 were like 50 bucks off.
I think we addressed that last year. I mean, if you raise these guys, you really got to ripple all the way up through the, at least the enlisted core. You could, the officers will be fine.
We’re not going to touch them, but yeah, you don’t want, you know, an E7 making a hundred bucks more than E6. More incentive to depart the job. That was exactly it.
Yeah. It was like losing tons of the top three up their BAH. Yeah.
You don’t have to touch their base pay, but you can make it easier for them to live. Give them a housing allowance. Give them something above the poverty level.
But I thought it was interesting since we covered that the other day, that the marijuana testing, they’re like, no, they’re putting it off. The problem is they’re putting it off. Like, I know, I know.
They’re going to have to deal with it. You’re right. You’re right.
Well, remember too, though, years, but they said if you’re clean for a year. Oh, now it’s not even that. It’s not even a year.
It’s like 30 days. When I was there, it started as a year. Right.
But now they’re saying, yeah, just come back in 30 days, drink a bunch of orange juice, come back in 30 days. But that’s the thing. That’s what’s stupid about it.
Right. I agree. It is now legal in the majority of states in one form or fashion.
And that’s a great point you brought up last time. So you have to accommodate for that. They’re doing something that’s legal.
And then you’re saying, no, you can’t do this. You can’t come in. Because you did something that was totally legal.
It’s great and federal. But federal’s… And they still haven’t been able to do that. And that’s what I’m saying.
Federal needs to address it. They need to stop kicking it. They’re going to keep kicking it.
The pool is going to get this big. They’re not going to have a pool. It’s already small as hell.
They keep kicking it down the road. Everybody is smoking dope. All right.
Let’s move into the… I can’t get Marty to smoke at all. I’m telling you, man. He’s stingy.
No, no, no, no. Every rental car in Vegas, when we were going out there for work trips, we would open up the door and be like, oh, nope, next. Nope.
I’m like, yeah, Lee, they have a hot box in this for a week straight. And it’s like, come on. And it might not be the guys renting it.
It might be the guys who work at the rental car. Cleaning it. They were parking on it.
They got the lemon flavored Armor All. Yeah. There’s that, there’s that smokers.
Like, you ever get to a smoker’s car on the windshield? And you got to go. It’s like that on the green. Oh, man.
Last week in space. Last week, we had two big launches on the fifth of those six. You’ve been tracking that, Eric? See that little bit.
They were significant. One was from Boeing. So it was Boeing Starliner.
And one was from SpaceX. SpaceX launched their Starship. So the first one was covered, or both of these were covered by spaceflight now.
The first one on Boeing, the headline is third times the charm for the Boeing Starliner crew flight test. So remember, they tried to launch it before, but they had a helium leak in the Centaur upper stage. So they pulled that off.
They thought they had it every time. And they did get it fixed. At least enough to launch.
But it’s Boeing’s time. There’s a whole new time frame for Boeing. It’s their own thing.
At least on Boeing time. They distracted with other things. It’s funny that Boeing and SpaceX are both competing to be the carrier for this Artemis moonshot, right? But NASA seems to be more in bed with Boeing than they are with SpaceX.
I think that’s interesting. What? Yeah, I know. Maybe because SpaceX doesn’t donate billions of dollars.
Well, I wonder, is SpaceX still getting subsidized? Probably. Probably. Good question.
They got government contracts for sure. Yeah, definitely. After two launch attempts on May 6th and June 1st ended with Scrubs, the Atlas V rocket roared off pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, beginning a more than week-long mission for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams.
Liftoff took place on June 5th at 1052 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, marking the first crewed flight for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft after years of delays and setbacks. The spacecraft successfully completed its orbital insertion burn and circularized its orbit 15 minutes into the mission, or one hour and 15 minutes into the mission. Blader working around multiple.
Now, this is what I didn’t understand. So Starliner went up there and docked with the ISS. Okay.
But they had a rough go of it. They had to do some funky stuff and they almost aborted the docking with the ISS because they had multiple helium leaks. Helium again.
This is on the vehicle. The Russian on the ISS was blowing up to the blog. They had multiple helium leaks and thruster problems.
The crew of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft wrapped up a challenging rendezvous. They did successfully dock with the ISS. But they had to close some valves and then open them at the last second.
They had to do some funky stuff. So good on them. Good on the ground and good on the crew for being able to accomplish it.
But they’re like, whatever, springing leaks all over the place. Then after, it was in that hole whacking it with that crowbar. I can’t wait.
They’re in there and pretty good. But, check it out, boys. I just saw that the other day.
I just saw that the other day. So after it reached orbit, two more helium leaks developed that prompted flight controllers to close valves leading to the affected plumbing or manifolds while they analyzed leak rates and potential workarounds. Closing the manifolds took down five of 28 reaction control system jets in the ship’s service module and three of 20 more powerful OMEC thrusters.
Wilmore and Williams planned to, but they successfully made it. And they’re up there. And I think they come back later in the week.
So good on them. It’s pretty cool. But that’s still like, god, they still got issues.
Welcome to Boeing. Welcome to Boeing. Yeah, that’s kind of issues.
So the second launch, or the launch on the sixth was by SpaceX. So SpaceX is still experimenting with Starship. That’s this is creative.
We got Starliner and Starship. Who makes the, who was a Boeing that made the Dreamliner aircraft, the plane? Yeah, Boeing’s Dreamliner. It was Boeing that made the Dreamliner, right? So they’re like, hey, how about Starliner for them? Oh, yeah, that’s a good one.
That’s a good one. Give that guy a raise. So SpaceX, they launched Starship, but their big move on this launch, because it just launched, it went like suborbital.
But the big one was to make sure that their heavy booster was recoverable. So this was the big test. For them controlling their heavy booster back into a splashdown.
And they launched out of their Houston location, right? I can’t remember what that was called. Starbase. That’s right.
Starbase out of Houston. More creativity going on right now. So that was SpaceX’s big goal.
So Starship was the first time, or Starliner, first time they had crew, they made it with the ISS. Fucking huge, right? Starship, who’s already sent up crewed missions, I think, right? Or have they? SpaceX has sent up crewed missions, but I don’t know. Starship has.
But anyway, their big goal was to recover this heavy rocket booster. So it’s interesting. E. Rodenberry is turning over in his grave today.
Well, it’s interesting. So these two launches were a day apart. So I went and made a cut up of these two launches, right? And you can see the difference.
One, I mean, they’re both talented, obviously companies and teams, right? But one is, in my opinion, it’s like watching like a concert cellist perform. And you go, oh, she’s really talented. And the other one is like watching the Beatles come to America.
And you’re like, holy shit, this is crazy. So I switched back and forth. So this is Star Starliner versus Starship launches.
So here we go. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Ignition and liftoff of Starliner and Atlas Five.
Hearing two American heroes drawing a line. They’re already heroes. Did you hear her line? Two American heroes drawing a line to the stars for the rest of us.
Wow. That would have been great in 1968. You’re a little behind the power curve, man.
It’s good. It’s a good line. It’s like, you know, they wrote it and they’re like, I’m using it.
I’m using that. Hell, yeah. Butch and Sonny, right up there.
Butch is having a good old time. Yeah, it’s the third test one that they’ve taken, or Butch has been in. Oh, really? Butch, the wheel hadn’t fallen off yet, has it? Calling NASA mission control here in Houston that the spacecraft has begun rolling into the right attitude for its passing.
So they got an external camera. Got an external control officer here in the room, seeing good data on that. So this is Boeing and NASA.
Now, before we get too far into it, remember that part in Apollo 13, right? Where they were supposed to be broadcast on TV and nobody really cared anymore because NASA had done it so much, they were so successful at it and it had lost some of the public’s interest. You’ll notice that maybe NASA still hasn’t learned because as we flip back and forth, you’ll see the difference. Okay, here’s SpaceX.
And I think they blew the mic in right away. There goes the mic. Good night.
But look at this view. How did they get this view? That’s bad ass, right? That’s freaking awesome. That is cool.
You can see the shock waves, too. Damn, that’s cool. Yeah.
Yeah. I like the information at the bottom, too. I do, too.
That bottom thing is really cool. The altitude and the rocket engine. All right.
30 seconds into flight. The rumbles are still building here in the raptor’s nest. We’re seeing 32 out of 33 engines lit on the Super Heavy right now.
Coming up shortly, it’s going to be maximum. Yeah, it lost an engine. We have maximum aerodynamic pressure as we go uphill on the vehicle.
Okay, now we’re back to the NASA. NASA switched to a depiction, a cartoon depiction, right? So they did have the camera there when the shroud came on. But you see their bottom display.
You would think that tracker bar would be filling in. They don’t. Team on the ground reporting that they saw the accident covered on top of Starliner that’s been protecting the spacecraft’s docking system through its climate orbit.
They saw that jettison as planned. Staging was good. You have good control.
And now the second stage is two Centaur engines have ignited pushing Starliner into space fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. See how they did a big jump. It did a big jump.
Yeah, yeah. It’s like a checkbox kind of thing. I was kind of expecting it to like, oh, it’s getting closer.
Oh, it just felt like I get the Centaur one. Okay. See, and then they go back to the depiction.
I’m like, yeah. It’s kind of a letdown. All right, we’re back to SpaceX now.
SpaceX is like, throw some fucking GoPros on it. That’s what they go. Let’s go.
Okay. So they lost their booster. Now you can see the bottom left is the camera on the booster.
The bottom right is the camera on Starship. Yeah. All right.
Oh, yeah. Okay. I remember what was going on with this.
Yeah. So now the booster’s turning and firing its engines to go back to Earth. Confirm ship under its own power booster, boosting back.
Looks like all 13 are lit. Kate, we got a booster on the way back to the Gulf and a ship on the way to space. That’s freaking cool.
That’s the closest I’m ever going to get. But yeah, at least the video. All right, the first stage.
Currently performing the boost backburn. This is expected to last a little over one minute. This propels the booster back toward the coast, taking it to a landing in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
As you can see on your screen in the bottom left-hand corner, we were only using the 13 center engines from basically from here on. Looks like they’re shut down. Heard confirmation there of the backburn shutdown.
So that’s their main goal. So they achieved their goal. Everything else is gravy on that, right? Right, right, right.
Yeah, but it gets even better. That’s of excitement. So right here.
Even that view is really, really cool. This is our view of the jettisoned hot stage. As we mentioned, this is a temporary fix to help reduce the weight of the booster.
So we have the super heavy booster. Future iterations will have a lighter weight integrated hot stage structure that won’t need to be jettisoned. So they just acknowledge, we acknowledge space junk, but rev to no space junk.
We’re just going to come bring it back in and look how good we are with space junk. So we’re back to the NASA, right? Again, they’re showing the graphic depiction of this. Now the event, which should be cheered even harder than Starship, was the vehicle separates from the Centaur upper stage.
Yeah. All right. Now it’s piloted by himself.
That should be huge, right? This is more professional though. You’re not some freaking bullcrap startup, hoorah, free serial people. But they’re like almost bored with it.
Professionalism. Boredom is professionalism. They’re announcing it like they’re freaking going to golf.
And then they switched this telemetry view. I don’t know if that nine iron’s a good shot. Good idea.
You’re not getting any. LVSEP confirmed. Yep, LVSEP.
Good to go. Guys, give me a cup of coffee. We will be exciting, igniting 13 engines.
And I compare that with their booster coming down doing a powered D-cell into the water, right? Which was there. This is a great view on your left hand side is a view. It’s three views from the booster and your right hand side of you from the ship.
And you can see those grid fins on your left hand screen rotating and turning. And there’s the water. That landing board must be done.
And you can see the water’s along. Oh my God. How cool is that? We have blast down.
She may even have a toy with her right now. I don’t know. It looks like a super heavy booster.
Congratulations to this very good team. Wow, they’re excited. Ship trajectory terminal, guys.
Now, I thought it was funny if I go back just a bit. Jake. I don’t know who these guys.
I mean, they’re all SpaceX employees, but I don’t know what they do. But you see the mission control guys up there at the top. Yeah, they’re in there.
And these guys are behind the glass, you know, they can’t hear. But you know, these guys controlling the stuff are annoyed. At all the ones that they forced to come in there and cheer on, right? No, they might be excited.
So look, we’re so crusty. We’re like, how do you find joy in this? We would be annoyed. You’re like, sit down and shut up.
I’ve got eight more hours of watching this telemetry. Yeah, exactly. You guys are going for pizza and beer.
Yeah, you’re right. Maybe I am. Four slices of cold pizza.
That’s it. That’s what we’re. Yeah.
We’ll bring you some back, guys. Ship us out to a terminal, guys. That was absolutely incredible.
The first successful splashdown of the Super Heavy Booster. Love seeing it just tip over into the water before losing that footage. But don’t you think by now, NASA would be like, we need to do something that’s just like more enthusiasm.
Generate people’s excitement about what we’re doing out here. You know? But they’re still like, no, we’re professional. They’re like, that’s why no one’s watching you.
Yeah. And they just said, on a new vehicle, two astronauts to the ISS on a new vehicle. That should be, that’s bigger than what SpaceX did.
Yeah, that’s pretty impressive. That’s bigger than what SpaceX did. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
No, you don’t think NASA can’t land shit. NASA can’t bring back anything. But they said, SpaceX has already launched thousands of bodies up there.
We’ve launched thousands of bodies up there. SpaceX just figured out how to land a Super Heavy rocket body. Yeah, that’s pretty cool.
And you know, to this day, tracking rocket bodies from the fucking 70s. And they said the next Starship mission is, their goal is to take that heavy rocket body and pinpoint land it on the tanker or whatever on the pad. That’s pretty cool.
And I was like, man, that’s pretty brilliant. I mean, but I also can see the discussions with Boeing and NASA. And they’re like, hey, do we have room to put any more of these cameras on there? And they’re like, no.
No. No. Yeah, but it would be as like, how much is one of those cameras? It’s only a hundred grand.
And they’re like, no, no. SpaceX, or sorry, NASA’s NASA’s just worried about funding. Any extra funding is going to heart attacks for whistleblowers.
So they don’t have anything, they don’t have anything extra. And new wheels for the other planes, man. Come on.
Yeah. New doors. Is it the third? Is that the third whistleblower that’s had an accident? Yeah, it’s it’s coincidental.
It’s it’s all accident. Yeah, it’s like they’re using Clinton realtors or something. Two suicides and a heart attack.
At least they’ve got one better at making it less. It’s not the same ailment. Something else.
Dude, that guy was left handed. All right. Only improve on the second one.
Come on. We’re going to take your benefits away, dude. You can’t at home.
So you about being crusty and cynical. Boeing’s suicide people left and right out there. You guys been out to Maui, right? Maui.
You ever go climb the volcano up there? Holly Akala. Holly Akala. I think it’s going well.
Space Force wants to put seven telescopes up there on that mountain. Maui doesn’t want it. But they don’t.
They do not want it. So from the Air Force Times, Space Force Telescope proposal on Hawaii volcano meets Maui opposition. Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on last Wednesday voted to oppose a US military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Holly Akala volcano, the latest observatory project to meet objection in the islands.
The US Space Force and Air Force want to build a new facility on the top of Holly Akala, Maui’s highest peak to track objects in space. However, the Maui County Council voted nine to zero to pass a resolution opposing the project. The measure said Holly Akala’s summit was a sacred place used for religious ceremony, prayer and connecting to ancestors.
Now, that’s interesting that they say that because there’s already a facility up there. You know, the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron has the Maui Space Surveillance Complex already up there. So they wanted to build seven more telescopes within like an acre attached to that and let those let those telescopes be radar controlled by the 15th SPSS.
Nope, right. So I remember when I was out there for Scofield in Scofield barracks in the army on Oahu and the Marines wanted to do a practice beach landing on the northwest side. You know, it’s not the main tourist place.
They wanted to use those beaches up there and they proposed and this was 96. And the argument was was like, no, that’s native burial ground. That’s sacred ground.
We don’t want you doing these practice landing. So it’s like this card they keep pulling out. It’s like the entire island sacred burial ground for everything.
But that’s what they claim, right? So yeah, I would you. However, however, the resolution said that Holly Akala is more than just a mountain that some of this considered it. I’m not going to pronounce that Hawaiian name.
It’s considered realm of the gods and continues to be a place of deep spirituality for native Hawaiians to engage in some of these traditional practices. Native Hawaiians claim the project is desecrating sacred spaces and is negatively impacting their mental, emotional, and spiritual health. I mean, the facility that’s up there already is already bad enough, right? But it is interesting because the resolution went on to say that the space force hasn’t finished cleaning up a 700 gallon diesel fuel spill at the site of its existing telescopes.
The spill occurred last year when a pump that supplies fuel to a backup generator failed to shut off during a lightning storm that just kept pumping diesel. There’s also, I remember they were talking about, there’s an aqueduct or a reservoir around one of those telescope places. Oh, there is.
And so native Hawaiians were pissed because they were having the potential of having a biohazard issue. Sure. Yeah, why not, right? I mean, that’s the thing.
We’re sitting there going, how dare they have the audacity to do this? And yet the military is like, we had a massive fuel leak at Pearl Harbor. We’ve had a freaking oil leak in the diesel leak up on the top of the mountain. My bad, we don’t really have a best history of maintaining a good relationship with the environment and the community out there.
Well, after this fire, it’s even worse now. They’re already very negative. Yeah.
I mean, my mom grew up in Oahu and said as a kid, she would go down to Pearl Harbor and they would go crab it. I don’t think you can do that now. I mean, it’s too overdeveloped.
It’s too poisoned. Yeah. So you’re right.
They have a point. They keep throwing the sacred thing out there, but yeah, I don’t know how much traction that has. Pull any bullshit out if you kept messing up my area.
Hell yeah. Right? That makes sense. Take a ground.
But they’re going to build anyway. You know, that’s what’s important. Haleakala rises to 10,000 feet.
So that’s 10,000 straight feet from sea level. It already hosts multiple University of Hawaii observatories and an existing collection of Space Force telescopes called the Maui Space Surveillance Complex. Protesters tried to block the construction of a new observatory on Haleakala in 2017, but building went ahead anyway.
And the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope released its first images in 2020. So they were like, hey, thanks for the protest. Yeah, we listened good on you.
We’ll name it after somebody. And in fact, we’ll build you a protest area when we’re all done. We’ll pave it and everything.
That’s nice. Hang out with your signs. We’ll put food trucks.
So you guys can come back. Bring in toilets for your porpoise. So it’s interesting now, you know, being out there.
And I know there’s a small portion of the population that is that much of an activist out there in a way. But there is kind of, you know, foreigners go home attitude on the off touristy places. Agree all that.
You definitely feel it. Well, and like I said, after this fire, Maui has a bad case of it. We don’t Oh, yeah, the fire.
That’s right. I forgot about that. We do not want you here.
The fire. Yeah, that’s right. Who knows how that started.
Marty, how much are we sending the Ukraine? Not as not as much as Maui needs. That’s for sure. Oh, yeah.
Well, we’ll build two valleys for this last year. We couldn’t. Yeah, no kidding.
And that’s and that’s yeah, I don’t even know. Was it two hundred and something million? 235 something like that. Oh, there you go.
Boom. All right. Let’s let’s get our defender going.
So this comes from Air Force dot mill. All right. And Eric, I really need your opinion on this.
So I don’t have one. Air Air Force security forces command reaches final phase of fielding model defender gear model a four year initiative to monitor four years. A four year initiative is it almost makes you think that.
Hey, remember that thing you guys started at the beginning of the year. I was like, Oh, shit. Yeah.
Yeah. It’s like, are you guys making progress on? I just think it was more along the lines of the VA started it. Kind of the right now.
So for your initiative to modernize the day to day equipment of active duty Air Force security forces defenders reached its fifth and final phase. With the award of a thirty nine million dollar contract for state of the art defender gear. The Air Force Security Forces Center.
I said command center worked with Air Force material command logisticians to get the equipment into the logistics right in this inventory control system. Who said this Master Sergeant Derek Walton. AFS a Air Force security forces command model defender and gear for life program manager said quote because of this effort not only will it be easier to account for equipment.
Account for equipment defenders will now be able to move from one installation to another with their model defender individual equipment kit under the gear for life program. That is new. This means they will no longer need to have that equipment issued at each installation as they progress in their careers.
So I wonder if that’s going to be like an initial issue at tech school. And then you’re carrying that for the rest. Yeah, I mean, you use that gear in textual.
I would see wouldn’t see why you wouldn’t be able to make it all standardized issue. Yeah, there you go. You don’t have to reissue it.
There’s going to be have to be some sort of closing clothing allowance or reissue at some point or or pawn shop allowance. Like shit, I’m missing five pouches. I better go down to Dan surplus.
Yeah, that’s going to be a problem. And plus, the requirements are going to change on the deployments. Well, depending on that’s a good point.
It didn’t bring up deployments here. But this article does hint is like this. This is what you need.
Everywhere you go. Operation brim frost. I don’t know cold, cold, cold desert.
Really, really always works. Always, always unisex. The establishment of the model defender individual equipment kit was crucial as it standardized gear across the Air Force Security Forces Enterprise enhancing operational efficiency, ensuring the safety and professional appearance of personnel and fostering modernization within the total force.
Said Dennis Rod Regret Rod Riga’s individual protective equipment branch chief. So well, I think the get go. I’ll say I like the idea.
Oh, I like the idea too. But was there that much variance that it needed to be standardized? Oh, there was a lot of different. You just go through any gate.
Yeah, load bearing equipment back when we didn’t wear vests. We didn’t wear protective body armor. Yeah.
Remember when we carried the old Vietnam. Yeah, and we had an LBE underneath. And that could be a two stripe, two strap in the back or a single in the back.
No, the two that’s where that’s Korea. Yeah, you had the Vietnam era and Korea. So it was whatever fit that Air Force Security Forces Center started the new initiative by developing a standardized equipment list of 23 items, which sounds not very much, which was then coordinated, amended, and approved through major commands and security forces headquarters.
This resulted in a final model defender individual equipment kit. Let me show you. So it’s interesting.
A weird picture. But that those are the items, right? Here’s how it’s supposed to be all assembled. I don’t know if that’s body armor or if that’s body armor, is it? So that’s put it all on there, but that’s kind of individually.
So equipment rollout to the field is expected to begin in December with full delivery to the field by early 2025. The finalized model defender kit consists of M4 magazine pouches, M18 magazine pouches, dump pouches for easily storing a variety of items like empty magazines, holster adapters, MOLLE belts, a web belt that allows gear to be attached in a variety of configurations, utility and handcuff pouches, flashlight and baton pouches. That took four years.
Well, I get what they did. And I like the idea. The concept is awesome.
But I still say depending on the environment you’re in, this might not be applicable, especially on a camouflage site. Well, here’s the thing, right? And they’re like, OK, guys, here’s the final. First off, we got M4 magazine pouches and they’re like, we switched to the six hour.
Shit! The M4 is the rifle. Yeah, but now you get the six hour rifle, which is a different ammo, which is a different size magazine. No, the six hours, the handgun.
No, no, they replace both. They’re swapping out to six. Yeah, they replace both and it’s got bigger ammo.
I didn’t know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
That’s what I was saying. It was like, here’s the M4 pouches. It’s like, we don’t have M4s.
So it’s going to hold more than 30 rounds? No, the round is bigger. It’s not a 5.5.6 round. It’s that NATO round.
Well, the 5.5. We did this story, Eric. The NATO is the 5.5.6 round. No, no, no.
It’s bigger than the 5.5.6. It’s almost like a 7.6.2 round. Oh, it’s a weird. It’s a weird configuration.
Look at up the new six hour rifle. I don’t remember what it’s called. I’m going to have to look at that because I haven’t seen it.
We did the article. It was like, oh, but we did. We did handguns.
So we did replace a handgun. That’s true. That we did replace handguns, but now they’re fielding the carbine or whatever it is.
The six hour rifle. Yeah, it’s a different. It’s a different.
So it’s an XM5. XM5. Yeah.
And that’s what these guys are. These guys are patting themselves on the back and they’re like, hey, four years, but we got it. First up, M4 magazine is like, it’s an M5.
Damn it. I wonder if the pouch would be designed to fit it anyway. It probably will.
Yeah, it’s not. It’s not like you’re going from 5.5.6 to 7.6.2 round. Yeah, it’s.
But who knows the way they designed it. They’re probably like, oh, I guess we got to make a whole bunch of new patches. That’s another $39 million that you’re going to need to pay.
So. Well, and just the fact that they’ve now included body armor for daily wear. That’s something that we never wore.
And if you had. Was that issued only in certain? Never. Oh, it wasn’t in the inventory.
We did not. Now with that said, remember we talked about emergency service teams at certain bases. Right, right.
We as a unit would purchase body armor for the emergency service teams that were doing their thing. Not for general issue to the regular squadron. Yeah, so this is all new and I like the fact that they’re all wearing it now because I mean the thread is everywhere.
It’s just it’s just it seems like a no brainer. It’s like, hey, these guys are going to have a standard issue. Now, if you want to augment it.
But you know, that’s that’s up to each base, but you’re going to get a standard issue load, right? And yeah, imagine that they haven’t had that until this study came out is interesting. No, I mean, you certainly had a standard load for your weapon when they issued your ammo and your weapon from the armory. Right.
Standard load. You wore a handcuff and units knew where to put it on their belts. Yeah.
So it remained consistent, you know. Okay. So if you didn’t put your handcuff right behind your handgun, you didn’t want close proximity, you know, center of your back middle left.
It was all designed by the unit training section. And the army had that the army had that with all their L.B.S.O.P. You know, because, you know, your first date pouch had to be the same place. That way, if somebody was laying on the ground, I was like, oh, I put my first page pouch in my pants pocket.
You’re like, no, I know right where it’s at. So I get that. Well, in the same with we started wearing tasers, right? So a lot of units were so you didn’t want the taser on the same side as your hand got.
You pull the wrong thing. You pull the taser up. You pull the handgun, you pull the taser.
Oh, sorry about that. But I think this is good because as we’ve talked about in the past, Security Forces missions are evolving. They’re being able to do much more than what we did as standard security guys.
So I really like the fact that the equipment is matching the new missions where it’s evolving. You’re going to be in harm’s way. You’re not just sitting on a base plane traffic cop anymore.
Well, one thing I did, I noticed that they didn’t recommend on that basic issue was the the duct tape holder, you know, so you could have a big round roll of duct tape for all the shit that security forces is going to break. It needs to put back together. Well, that’s a concept that will never change.
All right. So now it’s time for this show to be philanthropic. So we’re going to give back to specifically the military, but we’re going to get back to the military, but specifically, specifically the Space Force.
That was not easy to say. That was a tough one. That was a tough one.
So every military branch, depending now it’s different, depending on who you look it up and what website it is. But generally, every military branch has a patron saint watching over them. Somebody that the soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen can all pray to them.
The again, this differs, but generally this is it. So the army patron saint of soldiers is St. George. The Navy has St. Nicholas, who is a patron saint of sailors or seafarers.
The Air Force has Our Lady of Loretto. This is a patron saint of pilots and air crews. The marines have St. Barbara and she protects against thunder, lightning and accidents involving explosions or gunpowder.
Space Force doesn’t have one yet. So I thought we could propose on this show a patron saint for the Space Force and send that up. Maybe General Gutlein will see this and go, hey, that’s a damn good idea.
Thank you. Thank you, Lee, for changeover, for thinking of this. Bugs Bunny and the Wily Rabbit, Coyote.
So, Eric, I think you had a pretty legit saint. I thought it was a good submission. So why don’t you go over it? Now, I wish you had told me so I could have looked it up and done a picture of it.
Yeah, I understand. Well, and I really believe that this will apply to Space Force. Because there’s a piece of this saint that I think will apply.
So, my selection was St. George and you already spoke about him for the army. St. George. Yeah, George.
But what else? I mean, obviously, each saint has a multitude of things that they’re… Yeah, I wanted to give you a little background. Right? So, St. George died April 23rd in 303. He was also known as George of Lata.
He was an early Christian martyr who was venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army of the Cappadocian Greek origin. He became a member of the Praetorian Guard.
So, again, the Praetorian Guard is the ones that protected the emperor. Right? He was the man. Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor.
And I can’t pronounce this guy’s name. The Diocetian. Diocesan.
That was the emperor at the time. But George was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints, heroes, and martyrs in Christianity.
And he’s been especially venerated as a military saint since the Crusades. All right, so that’s the background. Now, he’s got a number of events, but his biggest legend revolved around killing a dragon.
And here’s where I think it relates to space. Why are you laughing? It’s because of what I feel about space. So, you know.
Damn you. St. George and the dragon. But, Jerry, you make a joke of this.
So, there are several stories about George fighting dragons. But in the western version, a dragon or crocodile made its nest at a spring that provided water to Celine, believed to be a modern day city in Libya. The people were unable to collect water and so attempted to remove the dragon from its nest on several occasions.
It would temporarily leave its nest when they offered it a sheep a day until the sheep disappeared and the people were destroyed. This was when they decided that a maiden would be just as effective as sending a sheep. That’s a, that’s a justifiable transition.
So, the townspeople chose the victim by drawing straws. This continued until one day the princess straw was drawn. Oh, snap.
The monarch begged for her to be speared, but the people would not have it. She was offered to the dragon. But before she could be devoured, George appeared.
He faced the dragon, protected himself with the sign of the cross and slayed the dragon. After saving the town, the citizens abandoned their paganism and were all converted to Christianity. Frickin’ George, man, rockin’ it.
What a battle. Not only saving maidens, but converting the whole village. There you go.
Part of the story, too, was he allowed the dragon to follow the princess back. The story goes, he spoke to the king and said, if you allow me to baptize you and convert you all to Christianity, I will then slay this dragon for you. Of course, the king and all the villagers said, yes, we will convert.
They all converted. He cut the dragon off. Yeah, he blackmailed them.
Yeah, he blackmailed them into freaking Christianity. They couldn’t really say no. So I tied King George to these space alien dragons.
Oh, yeah. Razzling dragons. So we had to kill the Space Force dragons.
I’ll take that. All right. That’s my saying.
You gotta kill the aliens. I like it. Saint George, patron saint of the Space Force, killing aliens.
I don’t truly think we need to identify ones for Space Force. There’s enough out there. Oh, how dare you.
Oh, dear. Well, we didn’t need that little commentary on the end. I apologize.
My saint is Saint George. I like it. My saint, the one I propose, is Saint Wilgefortis.
Wilgefortis. Wilgefortis. Lesser known saint.
I like it. Well, yeah, she’s not in the top 10. But she’s in.
She’s definitely on the playing card, right? Oh, yeah. She might be in the back. Yeah, she might be in the back.
You gotta deal a few hands to get on the bottom. It’s kind of dusty. That’s right.
She’s cute anyway. Wilgefortis is a female folk saint whose legend arose in the 14th century and whose distinguishing feature. Maybe I should preface this and say, um, in light of the house proposal for the Air Force and Space Force to do a three-year experiment with beards.
Wilgefortis, whose legend arose in the 14th century and whose distinguishing feature is a large beard. According to the legend of her life set in Portugal and Galatia, she was a teenage noblewoman who had been promised and mares by her father to a Moorish king. To thwart the unwanted wedding, she had taken a vow of virginity and prayed that she would be made repulsive.
In answer to her prayer, she sprouted a beard, which ended the engagement. In anger, Wilgefortis’ father had her crucified. And I just said she was cute.
I recount that statement. Don’t you like ladies with beards? That’s okay. We all have our type.
So, she’s got nice hair all the way around. In anticipation of the Space Force study, that’s not going to say no. And the beards that it’s going to produce, both male and female, I propose Saint Wilgefortis as the Space Force Saint.
Wow, I believe the nail has been hit on the head with this one. You’re rocking those beards, man. Wait, wait.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. All right, I’m going. Also down there on the lower part of the rack, I’m going with Saint Gemma, or Saint to technically Saint Gemma Galgani.
She was the patron saint of back pain and back support. This poor lady who became seriously ill with what was believed spinal tuberculosis. Not only did her back pain become severe, but it came necessary for her to wear and have an iron back brace and lower back support.
Oh, Saint of Lumbar support. Lumbar support is essential in the Space Force. The disease eventually progressed and she eventually became completely bedridden, earning her 20% VA disability.
Okay, I added that part. She was only able to move her head and arms, but she was a fervent worshiper and she became Saint Gemma, the patron saint of back pain. Wow.
My nominee. Sorry. That’s my nominee for the patron saint of space.
If we put a beard on her, you guys got it nailed, man. A beard and put a dragon in the background? We got a beard. Maybe we’ll be the first, maybe the Space Force could be the first force to have a three-in-one saint.
Yeah, I like it. Might you say the Holy Trinity? George Gemma will gefortis. Oh, you got to come up with something.
That’s awesome. Gigi Debbie. All right.
I would let the viewers decide, but that’ll be like one guy. Come on, Mom. Try him in for once.
Where’s Teenie? I can’t count on my wife because she won’t listen this far into the podcast. But Teenie might. Oh, she only listens to the short.
Is your son still listening, Eric? Occasionally not as often as he used to. We burnt him out. So, you know, our own family is abandoning us on this.
I vote for Saint Gemma. I’m going to get us all pendants. I’m going to go with Gemma as well, man.
I think the back aches sitting at a terminal. Come on. Saint Gemma.
Lower back because the majority of space force is sitting down. Even the astronauts are sitting down. Oh, yeah.
They’re allowed to ride. For the second half, though, let’s go the Holy Trinity. I like all three.
All right. That’s our that’s our last. Saint Gemma to be the patron saint of the space force.
So, well, do you have history or did we just cover history with all the saints? Oh, I have one if you want to talk about. Oh, nice. You want to talk about.
Do you feel strong? We’re pretty wishy-washy last week. Oh, he was excited. Well, that’s because I felt bad.
Either that or he was insulted that we’d gone so long. No, I felt bad because I didn’t follow up with what you sent me. Because I really wanted to do that.
But I didn’t call you out on the podcast. No, but I’ll call you out on this podcast. Yeah, I should have.
My bad. My bad. Wait, I called Marty out on it, though.
I said I like how you didn’t do it because Marty’s like hint hint, Eric. I’m not saying what you need to do. Well, but that was all because we’re all gun shy because General Petty was out.
So we didn’t want to. We didn’t want to be our normal selves. Right.
Right. That’s valid. So tonight, you know, I was going to stick with the whole D-Day thing because, you know, you had multiple days of detail D-Day where those events were.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. But I said, you know, what would be really nice is to see what was happening in the Pacific during the same time.
Oh, yeah. Pacific was completely has been completely forgotten during this period of time. Right.
Yeah, man. And that battle was still raging. So between, let’s say one June and 19 June of 1944.
So the 11th was included. All right. And what would become known as the Barry honest turkey shoot.
U.S. carrier based fighters decimated the Japanese fleet with only a minimum of losses at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Really? Yeah. So about the same time, we’re winning some big stuff in the Pacific.
The security of the Marianas Islands in the western Pacific were vital to Japan, which had air bases on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. U.S. troops were already battling the Japanese on Saipan, having landed there on the 15th. And any further intrusion would lead to Philippine islands and Japan itself vulnerable to U.S. attack.
The U.S. 5th Fleet commanded by Admiral Ryman Spruance was on its way west from the Marshall Islands as a backup for the invasion of Saipan and the rest of the Marianas. The Japanese Admiral Azawa Jizaburo. Yeah, that’s probably dead on accurate.
Yeah, decided to challenge the American fleet ordering 430 of his planes launched from aircraft carriers to attack. And what became the greatest carrier battle of the war, the United States having already picked up the Japanese craft on radar, proceeded to shoot down more than 300 aircraft and seen two Japanese aircraft carriers losing only 29 of their own planes in the process. Oh my god.
It was later described as a Turkey shoot, the Marianas Turkey shoot. What what carrier was it? That launched our planes? Yeah. Oh, you’re digging in, but I think I can find it.
I thought he would have that at least. I’m looking. For it, the for it.
It was okay. Yeah, we’ll call it the hornet. No, no, don’t call it the hornet.
The hornet is the one that do a little. You might as well throw the enterprise out there. There’s only enterprise out there for enough things, right? It doesn’t say which one.
Oh, come on. What was the Turkey shoot? What was the name of it? The Marianas Turkey shoot. Yeah.
This is great because we’re all researching. I was actively looking up St. Gemma pendants actually for you guys. Do they have them? Yeah.
When the Catholic shop is like 90 dollars. I like these. These guys.
That’s a lot. That’s exactly it. Oh, it just says the Navy’s.
Oh, the whole fifth fleet. Oh, 24 aircraft carriers. Well, it was the biggest carrier battle.
Wow. Of the war. Yeah.
Yeah, nice. Okay. All right.
I thought maybe it just came from a double. That Pacific gets overlooked. Lexi.
We’ve had that. There’s one discussion multiple times. Well, there were some light carriers too.
Right. Right. Yeah, so.
Yep. Very cool. And what was the date on it? One June through 19th.
The 19th pretty much. It was that it went that long. Well, the planning.
The whole we’re going to meet them. We’re going to engage them. Yeah.
So the battle was the 19th. I dig it. I dig it.
The actual contact. That was 43. I thought that was 44.
But 44. Sorry, I didn’t pay attention when you first. 44.
19 44. June 19th or 20th 44. Oh, nice one.
Yeah, I dig it. So good stuff. Like I said, we could have dug more into the European.
But some of those you don’t hear. And that was the whole. That’s part of the point of doing the day in history.
It’s not do the big major milestones. It’s like, hey, let’s do some. And you’ve been great at that.
Well, and that was a huge battle for some Pacific. That was starting to change the. The direction that Japan was going.
Well, it was right. Right. Yeah.
That’s a great one. That’s cool. Uh, any, any sign on the Gemma pendant? I’ll get us all one.
I’ll buy it. But not the Catholic store. Because, oh, no, the Catholic store was huge.
I could go down a federal and probably get one for. Yeah, exactly. Good job, gentlemen.
I’m going to propose that up to a general good line and whoever else will listen and, uh, we’ll see. Let’s see. It might be instrumental.
It might be instrumental. You never know. Uh, all right.
Let’s go. I’ll end up unless you guys got something else. No, no, no.
I’m still thinking Trinity. The three trinity that George Gemma will afford us. You know, we’ll afford us is spot on.
Maybe, maybe I mean, we, we, we, the space force should be the first. Right. To do something to have like a trinity of saints to put.
I like it. So if, if you’re worried about what we’re going to encounter in space. Right.
And, uh, you don’t want to shave and you got lower back pain. You’re covered. You get the trifecta.
I don’t know why. How could you not be more protected? Can you imagine what the pendant looks like with a dragon and a big guy with a lance and a freaking beard, a big, a big lady with a back race and a freaking full beard. I think it should be a lady in night’s clothing with the spear and the dragon with a cane.
You know, and then you got all three with a long. Oh, she’s got back pain. She hasn’t shaved in months and she’s slaying this alien.
I like it. Any graphic artists who are listening to that, please send us. Oh, that’d be awesome.
That’d be awesome. Jan it up. Oh, I’d be half of all of us here.
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So we can propose it to space for us for the patient’s sake. Yeah, photo shop. We’ll do.
Oh, that’s true. Yeah, dude. Use paint.
We don’t care. We’ll put it up. Thanks for this week and I’ll see you next week.
Shut up. All right, guys. Have fun.
And pray.