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Twisted Balls & Flaming Intakes Episode 170 · So There I Was

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  Quiet, numbskulls. I'm broadcasting. Hello.
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  You're listening to the podcast. So there I was. This is episode 170.
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  Can you believe it, Faith? 170?
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  That's crazy. That's crazy talk. It is crazy.
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  Look, this one is twisted balls and blaming intakes.
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  One of the few times we've gotten a title right out of the gate,
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  man. I I mean, he hit the ground running.
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  You know, at some point in there, somebody said something about losing control,
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  and I don't think we ever had control of that interview.
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  No. We kind of rolled the grenade under the tent flap with the pinball,
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  and these guys went at it.
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  Who are these guys, you might ask? Well, we have this week Otto from Episode
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  3, Disco from Episode 104, for Vapor from episode 62 and Pisser from episode 160.
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  And then on top of that, we were joined by strut and not this week.
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  Spico couldn't get in until the second half of the show. So you'll hear Spico
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  next week, but we are breaking this show into two because we had two hours and
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  20 minutes with these guys.
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  So couldn't shut them off. We couldn't, we couldn't shut them down.
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  And they're also known as the young guns. Yeah.
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  Which pisser brought up, which was the whole idea and the impetus behind this
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  show back from episode 160. So really good stuff.
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  Real quick announcement. July giveaway winners were Jason, Todd,
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  Captain, and Kevin. And the books are on the way.
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  Takeoffs and landings by Alger Pete Peterson. So thank you to Dusty Peterson
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  for donating those books so we could send those out to the people who are kind
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  enough to share the show.
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  Yeah, and thank you for sharing the show and congratulations.
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  Thank you also to the other people whose mental judgment comes into question
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  on a regular basis and they crack their wallets and send us money.
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  We couldn't keep doing this without your input and help and support,
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  financial support. So thank you, and God bless you all for doing that,
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  because we're having a ball bringing these shows to you, but we couldn't have
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  kept it going on our own. Very humbling. Thank you.
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  So, wow, some crazy stories this week, starting off with twisted balls, man.
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  I'm the PI. Yes. Not what you're thinking, folks. Get your mind out of the gutter. That's right.
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  It's a play on words, so to speak. Well, when you have a refueling probe,
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  on the end of it, there's a ball that has to be pushed in in order for the fuel to flow past.
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  It's basically a one-way ball valve.
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  Yeah. And somebody's got twisted. And when the fuel system started to repressurize,
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  it caused flaming intakes.
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  Yeah. What was it? The tanker guy said, you already got your gas. Why are you back?
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  Great story. May I have some more, please? Great story.
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  Yeah. It was not stopping. No, it was not stopping. Then there's the wildebeest in a bar fight. Yeah.
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  Let's just say what, she deadlifted lieutenants for fun? I don't know.
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  Yeah, or there's the legend of the wildebeest, and then there really was a wildebeest,
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  and that's a great story.
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  Turned out there was. And then I think Strutt referred to this as the time to
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  shit yourself, or how long is the time to shit yourself?
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  Talking about dropping napalm. Yes, yes. That's right in the heart of the weapons engagement zone.
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  They had to get down there, get dirty, and be in the anti-aircraft zone for
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  much longer than they wanted to be.
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  And their experience from Asia months prior led them to believe that this was not going to end well.
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  So they wound up doing pretty good. But thinking of their months prior in Asia,
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  these guys spent a year and a half to almost two years together in the same
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  group of people for the most part. a very limited turnover, which is just unheard of.
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  So that created a bond among these guys from, from starting in Westpac and going to war together.
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  And, and you could tell that they have a special bond that they let us peek
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  at a little bit this week and next year.
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  That was, that was a privilege. Very unique, very special. I felt very honored
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  to be led into that little group for a couple hours.
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  Right, indeed. And we saw some of the text traffic afterwards.
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  They're savage. These guys are brutal.
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  Brutally savage.
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  And they had their Deadbeat Club, which was also talked about this week.
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  May have involved some, I don't know, some Scope bottles.
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  Allegedly. Yeah, allegedly involved Scope bottles. And, well,
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  you know, Scope has sometimes got alcohol in it, so you can keep your breath
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  fresh. That's the point. Yeah, exactly. Sure.
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  We aren't doing it justice, man. I think we should get out of the way and let.
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  Music.
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  The young guns tell it. Yeah, let's let the young guns tell it.
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  Sit on the ejection seat handle. At night, in the world's smallest cockpit,
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  on the tanker, through the weather.
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  Oh, and to the tanker crew who did that, thanks a lot. We really appreciated that.
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  I'm just kidding. No, I'm not.
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  There I was in the Philippines with Strut. Tom Rutledge, Kingpin extraordinaire.
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  And we are going to go do a missile shoot. And that doesn't happen very often.
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  So we're actually going to get to load up, shoot sidewinder missiles.
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  So we launch off and we head out. We're going to go tank and then,
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  you know, pre-mission tank.
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  And then we're going to drop some flares. We're going to shoot some flares.
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  And it's totally cool because, you know, how often we get to shoot sidewinders.
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  AIM-9, probably LEMAs, I guess.
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  Anyway, so we get airborne. We get out there. We hit the tanker,
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  struck, you know, in and out. And then I plug.
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  And as I pull out, on the end of our refueling probe, it's kind of like a ball.
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  When you plug in it, it kind of depresses the ball.
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  And then the fuel flows down. Well, as I pull out, somehow the ball gets twisted.
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  And so it doesn't see back. And I'm looking at it. Or an emotional twisting?
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  And I'm going, yeah. And so I go to put the probe back in.
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  And so what happens is when you put the probe out on a Harrier,
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  your fuel system depressurizes.
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  So that you don't fuel the tanker, the tanker can fuel you.
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  So when it's sitting out there, I'm depressurized.
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  Well, as I start to lower it, the pressurization system kicks in,
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  and fuel starts pumping out the end of the fucking probe.
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  Premature ejaculation there? Yeah, and it starts going down the intake.
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  So Strutt and I are doing the freaking first afterburner test on a freaking
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  Harrier. We've got a chip going out the back.
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  And he goes, fuck vapor, what's going on? And I'm like, hey,
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  dude, my ball isn't reset.
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  And he's like, yeah. And he says, well, you know, try to bang it back and forth.
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  I think I said, well, when I put it in, it bangs. I said, it's dumping fuel down the intake.
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  He goes, oh, that's what that flame is.
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  And so he's like, shit, maybe we can, let's get the tanker back here.
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  So he calls back to the tanker who's already taken off.
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  And he gets them to come back. And, of course, they're suspicious.
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  They're like, hey, you took your fuel.
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  What do you want? These are a bunch of Air Force, you know, freaking boys.
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  They want to get back to freaking Clark and start playing with little freaking
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  brown boys. Oh, oh. Gucci boys.
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  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Air Force boys. Anyway, so Strutt gets them to come back.
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  Strutt, I don't know what you told him. He made up some shit.
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  Gets them to come back and put the basket back out.
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  And he's like, all right. And luckily, I think it was a KC-10, right? Right, Strutt?
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  That was a long time ago, Maper. Okay, I think it's Casey. Anyway.
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  It's a big freaking basket. So Strutt's like, why don't you go back in and replug
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  or just try to bang it back into place?
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  And I'm like, all right. Because I'm thinking to myself, we've done the math
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  already. And we're like, if I can't get this in, I'm going to flame out.
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  Because if you don't pressurize, people say, well, you can gravity feed.
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  Well, you can't gravity feed with an anhedral wing.
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  Remember that, you know, your tips are lower so the fuel doesn't flow into the
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  engine because, you know, and he's doing it.
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  That doesn't work too well. So what kind of thing like?
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  So here we are. What was I called? Scarborough Shores.
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  So Strutt and I are out over Scarborough Shoals with the frick out,
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  you know, off the west of the Philippines.
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  And I'm like, yeah, if I can't, you know, I'm punching out and we can't make it back.
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  And Strutt's, you know, you know, you know, analyzing this shit and talking
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  me through. He's like, all right,
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  dude, put your probe back in that basket and try to bang it back in.
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  So basket comes back. I kind of pull up, put the probe inside,
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  and then I just kick like right where as hard as I could and just bang it.
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  And it breaks part of that basket.
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  And I'm like, fuck. It didn't go down the intake. Luckily, it went over the
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  wing. I'm like, well, that was lucky.
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  Their basket's fucked up. But guess what? The ball's back in place.
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  It's like, hey, what happened? And I go, dude, the ball's back.
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  He goes, well, put your probe in.
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  I did. He goes, you got pressure? I go, dude, it got pressure.
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  He goes, and, you know, Strutt, Strutt is not going to miss a missile X.
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  That's a story of this. He's like, let's go.
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  We go right back in. The tanker leaves with a broken basket, and we just leave.
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  And Strutt's like, you ready? I go, yeah. He's like, all right,
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  baby, let's go shoot some fucking winders.
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  That sounds like a night at you at the Oak Club.
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  Well, there's that. And that's how all great aviation tales begin.
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  Greetings, everyone. Repeat here listening to So There I Was.
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  And I think that's a first for us, Fig, that we've got a show title,
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  Twisted Balls, right in the opening story.
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  Fig, where are you, brother? Well, I'm in an undisclosed location and in my
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  aluminum tube on vacation. And it is my distinct pleasure to welcome...
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  Holy shit let's see so we got auto disco pisser
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  yeah yeah did i catch them all yeah
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  so here let me let me run through it real quick so we got auto from episode
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  three twos off winchester disco from episode 104 coming down like a gun safe
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  with a lot of guns pisser from episode 160 young guns and vapor from episode
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  62 stay in the ejection envelope spike goes running a little bit behind and is going to join us,
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  which means I'm going to go to Strut,
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  with whom I went to.
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  PLC Senior Camp with in the summer of 1983.
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  And Disco will be interested to hear that we share a common friend named Staff
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  Sergeant Gladstone from that very summer.
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  The Devil Spawn himself, who was our platoon sergeant.
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  So real quickly, Strut, what got you into
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  marine in aviation well thanks
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  for having me well so there i
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  was my brother took me to air shows and you know
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  so we'd see the blue angels we'd see harriers we'd see the thunderbirds things
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  like that and i just said well i have to do this for a living because it's cool
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  right this is the coolest thing ever so when it came time to give up smoke and
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  dope and getting all liquored up in high school and go to college and get serious,
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  is I called the Air Force recruiter, realizing they probably had airplanes.
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  So I called them on the phone, and I said, hey, I want to be a pilot in the Air Force.
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  And they said, how's your calculus? And I hung up.
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  What's that? That didn't last long. My cow's fine. What?
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  So then I called the Navy. I went to the phone book and went to my rotary dial
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  phone and called the Navy. And some guy answered and said, hey,
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  I want to be a fighter pilot in the Navy.
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  And he goes, hang on a second. And he's holding his hand over the phone.
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  He's going, chief, chief, do we have airplanes in the Navy?
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  So I hung up. So now I'm at zero.
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  My dreams are shattered in two phone calls. And so I'm wandering around my community
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  college in between classes in Orlando, Florida, the only college I could get into.
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  And so, you know, it's in between classes. They sort of ran it like a high school.
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  And so I decided, well, you know, I'll walk through building three rotunda,
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  you know, maybe, maybe I'll bump into Amy or something.
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  So, rotunda three is usually team...
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  And so usually Rotunda 3 is just jammed up with people.
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  So I walk in there and there's nobody in the Rotunda. It's like somebody threw
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  a damn anthrax grenade in there.
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  Okay. So I looked in there. I go, what the fuck is going on?
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  And the Marine recruiters are there and they've got a nice table set up and
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  nobody, everybody's hugging the walls to get to the nearest exit.
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  It so i marched straight across these guys and
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  they've got a damn video showing an a4 jato take
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  off and all this and i go where do i sign and they
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  start telling me well here's how much money you're going
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  to make here's what the i go i don't need to hear any of that shit where do
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  i sign and that's where it all ended and i they they signed me up for plcs i
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  passed the air test on the minimum score and uh here i am if the minimum wasn't
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  good enough it wouldn't be the minimum that's right,
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  that's right that's right all you gotta do is just get over the finish line,
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  that's right what do they call the last guy in medical school doctor doctor.
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  Fantastic now if you want some more gory details i'll tell you those but that's
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  the short story nice no very cool so yeah so we wound up doing plcs together
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  did did you commission right away or did you have another year of school to
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  go after that? You commissioned after that?
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  Yeah, 84 I commissioned. Okay, yeah. Then went off to, I was a golf company, 84.
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  Okay, okay. So I was Alpha 185, which started in October of 84 because of the, you know.
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  So you guys were all caught up in the general baloney thing. Yep, yep.
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  Go to the fleet for a few years. Yeah, they took my ass off. hey
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  they drug our asses in there and said hey we
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  got too many people laying on the beach down in pensacola you
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  can leave you can pack your shit and leave this is
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  at the end of tbs and i'm like what they
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  go you can leave or or you can pick from this very long list of really great
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  mos's and give up your air guarantee or you can pick from this very short list
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  of shitty mos's and We'll send you to the fleet for a year, and then we'll send
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  you to flight school later.
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  I was an aviation supply officer, school-trained, and I ran a damn warehouse
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  down in Beaufort before I went down to Pentecola to only find these honey company
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  shitbirds ahead of me. Wow.
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  What did you call that? Somebody said, was that General Bologna?
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  What the hell is that? It was Bologna, but it was Bologna, really.
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  That that's the general that came up with this great idea yeah
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  pulled us all out and sent us to the fleet mistake it was
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  a it was a manpower problem because then
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  we finally made it down to pensacola and we
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  are all mustering up there at milton drinking coffee
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  and and they had an emergency meeting main side
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  pensacola get your asses down here right now
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  and your pt gear and we all ran down there and
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  they go oh all you guys that went to the fleet that
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  was all a mistake from now on
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  every ai class is nothing but marines we
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  got to get you caught up unbelievable so there
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  was a giant bubble there really was no bubble which they popped yeah no bubble
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  it's it's so it was actually a circle jerk with a piece of bread and somebody
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  had to eat the bread yeah so anyway the the good news was is I went through,
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  we went through flight school fairly quickly.
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  Well, okay. I know these, there's a little. So Strutt, you remember,
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  you know, Maloney came down and talked to us and remember the Navy all of a
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  sudden showed up and said, Hey, we'll take everybody. Remember that? Yeah.
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  There was a guy in my class. His name was Mark Dola.
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  He was in my bootcamp, you know, cause I did OCS after college and he'd been
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  a wall street stock trader you know pretty successful knew a lot of people when
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  all that shit came down with maloney he wrote a letter to his congressman and his senator,
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  and that's why the navy showed up and they said they won't
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  take everybody i remember the marine corps said you can't have them and the
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  navy said yeah we can fuck off so that's they did a bunch of guys jump ship
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  oh man we had in my class we probably had 30 of people jump ship i was walking
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  I was walking down the hall to go, eat me.
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  And we had a Cobra pilot. He was the SVC for, I don't know, second platoon or third or whatever.
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  And he grabbed me and he pulls me to his office and, you're disloyal,
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  puke, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  So I go, okay, I'll stay.
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  How'd that work out for you? I ended up going in the air because I kind of wanted to go to IOC.
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  And IOC was freaking awesome. And then serving for a year, or it was like 10 months.
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  Serving for 10 months in the infantry was one of the best times I've ever had in the Marine Corps.
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  It was epic. I had such a good time. Well, how did you get infantry and Strutt got supply officer?
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  How did that work? Because I finished way ahead of him in TBS.
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  I wasn't going to go there. I was just curious how that worked.
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  Tom, were you in a golf company?
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  Yeah i was in honey man i was in honey company
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  we didn't get offered the navy we didn't
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  get offered the navy disco we didn't get offered that they
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  dirty their dicks on you hey so hey so i got to
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  throw this one out there too so vapor is talking about philippines and
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  strut and strut and all that stuff i got a great story you're gonna love this
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  one so and i know you'll remember this vapor and i know pisser will for sure
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  i mean i don't i don't know if i will or not but anyway we're so the philippines
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  back back in your game when we were young men so back back then
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  we uh it looks way too real bro go down and have
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  these you sit these big banquet tables in the oak club at the
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  philippines it was freaking epic and you'd
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  get you know you'd bring all the little you know little girls would bring
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  in the menus and you'd have all this food and all this liquor and all this crap and
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  we always we'd all be sitting down there you know talking trash
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  and telling the stories of being idiots and vapor when
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  vapor got done musking girls doing that one and and getting the skin to to regenerate
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  on the top of his toes we'd go to the club and so we're eating chow and we're
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  kind of watching vapor because vapor's sitting there telling stories and stuff
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  and anyway vapor would grab somebody's water glass and you go.
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  And he put it back down and we'd all look at the water glass because it'd be
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  like in front of Turbo or it'd be in front of somebody else going I wonder if he's going to drink that,
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  and they would just keep telling the story and we're just going all looking
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  at the glass and there's all this food coming and all this service it was awesome,
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  it was awesome service in the Philippines It was, it was the last bastion of American colonialism.
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  This is the rated G version of the Philippines, but I remember that the fad became the blowguns.
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  And so, you know, you had those blowguns with the feathers on them,
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  and you had the plastic bead with the metal spike in it.
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  And so these things were fairly impressive.
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  I had a velocity of about 400 per second, and we'd go shoot them in all the
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  walls at the O Club, and you could barely pull the damn dart out.
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  Well, I figured out that you could pull the damn metal spike out of the dart.
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  And so you were only shooting the ball so
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  we'd sit there and lie in ambush and uh somebody'd walk into the damn room and
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  i'd lay down this bead and i'd pump it right into the center of their chest
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  and i mean we we had the best lee harvey oswald impersonations in the world
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  where everybody would completely,
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  fold up expecting this damn metal spike hit him.
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  That's the cleanest story I can come up with. Do you guys remember,
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  I'm going to tell the story of Dog Straw's interaction with the Mew Commander.
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  This is right after Cope Thunder. We've just finished up Cope Thunder, big exercise.
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  Which was awesome. We're all at the club and we're celebrating.
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  Everybody's drinking and they've got the little band going all that type of
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  stuff and if you guys remember the Mew
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  commander's there and he's talking to a
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  distinguished gentleman in a suit and Dog hears
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  him talking and they're talking about like operations and stuff and you know
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  Dog's had a couple of drinks so he walks over there with only the subtlety Dog
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  could show and says and kind of starts listening to him and he says you know
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  like that ain't how you fucking do it and he starts lecturing him and you know
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  the distinguished gentleman says something,
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  and he goes, yeah, you know what the fuck you're talking about, and blah, blah, blah.
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  And the Mew commander says to the distinguished gentleman, sir,
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  what the major meant to say, and that's when Dog clues in and goes,
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  well, if that's the Mew commander and he called that guy, sir, Dog goes.
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  You know, I know he outranks me, but it sounds like you outrank him,
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  and I don't know who the fuck you are.
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  So he says this to the general, and right about this time, the general's like,
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  you know, major, you've, you know, about to start ripping into him,
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  and Rosie was hearing this.
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  And so we were kind of all standing over the drinking, and Rosie runs over to
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  us and says, quick, come on.
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  Everybody starts singing happy birthday to dog. And so if you remember a couple
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  of, we jumped up on the stage, we sang happy birthday to dog and Rosie runs over there.
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  I go, dog, sir, sir, you got to join us for your birthday celebration.
• 23:59
  And he said, this is right in the middle of this general's about to fricking
• 24:02
  rip him a new asshole. And here's that. I see.
• 24:08
  He goes, well, you're out of line, but I see it's your birthday.
• 24:12
  So why don't you just enjoy your evening and have a good time?
• 24:16
  And that's how we got fricking dog out of some fucking serious shit.
• 24:21
  And you're talking to Rosie Greer, right? Rosie Greer.
• 24:24
  And I forget who got up on the stage. Was it one of you guys got up on stage
• 24:28
  and started singing happy birthday?
• 24:30
  Because I remember, yeah, one of you guys, a couple of you, took the mic out
• 24:35
  of the singer, little Filipino band,
• 24:38
  and a couple of the guys ripped the mic out of their hands and just start singing
• 24:43
  it. I remember Rosie doing that, man.
• 24:45
  I remember Rosie doing that and singing the song by Axl Rose, too.
• 24:50
  Oh, Sweet Child of Mine. Sweet Child of Mine. Oh, yeah.
• 24:55
  He thought it was Axl.
• 24:58
  You guys remember the legend of the Wildebeest, yeah? The Wildebeest.
• 25:03
  Remember, we all heard about the Wildebeest.
• 25:06
  Well, the Wildebeest was real.
• 25:09
  So we landed, We ended up in the Oak Club at Okinawa, and we're all sitting
• 25:14
  at the big table at the Oak Club, and the Wilbur Bees is sitting at the damn bar.
• 25:17
  So this is the first time the young guns realized that this person actually existed, right?
• 25:24
  And she was a female navigator on 135s, and she was a power lifter.
• 25:29
  I mean, I sat there and watched her do five reps with two and a quarter in the gym.
• 25:33
  Well, she sits there and gets drunk at the end of the bar.
• 25:37
  She sits there and gets drunk at the end of the bar and we'd never
• 25:40
  talked to her and so she looks over at
• 25:43
  dog and she walks over there and reaches across
• 25:46
  the table and grabs him by the flight suit and snatches him out of his chair
• 25:50
  y'all remember that yeah i do she put his hands on him and pulled him out of
• 25:55
  his chair and we're all we're all up and and then we got to know her and you
• 25:59
  know we're all going out drinking with her and everything and she attacked me one night out in town,
• 26:05
  I ended up in a bar fight with the wild beast.
• 26:08
  Well, you remember we, Disco passed out that night. And while he was passed
• 26:12
  out, we borrowed some of her makeup.
• 26:16
  And we did Disco that night. So Disco woke up a little while later with lipstick,
• 26:22
  pretty little fingernails, kind of back to what he used to do back in Slowtown.
• 26:27
  Oh, boy. And he's like, what's going on?
• 26:30
  We're like, Disco, man, don't ask, don't tell, baby. and we think the Beast
• 26:35
  got attracted to him because I think she was so masculine, she was a dyke.
• 26:41
  Oh, fuck, man. I remember that chick. I saw her at the gym, man.
• 26:43
  The first time I saw her, I went, oh, yeah, that's her.
• 26:46
  I was in her room. I got to her room, just for the record.
• 26:52
  That's when we were getting the makeup. Oh, I saw her doing lat pulldowns of
• 26:56
  like 180 or 200. I'm like, goddamn, you're wrong. You're a freaking beast.
• 27:01
  So the Okinawa O-Club, do you remember Disco breaking up a fight where a Cobra
• 27:06
  guy swings at Sal? I'm trying to intervene.
• 27:09
  Yes, I remember that. Sal Ducks. He was a Cobra guy.
• 27:13
  You're pushing on his chest, and he freaking sucker punched your ass.
• 27:17
  No, no, he was swinging at Sal. And Sal Ducks, I was trying to get in between.
• 27:23
  Sal Ducks, and I got freaking nailed.
• 27:25
  And all you guys did was laugh.
• 27:30
  I'm down on the floor bleeding. Everybody's laughing. Hey, how about Vapor's
• 27:35
  Toes? Can we talk about Vapor's Toes?
• 27:37
  Yeah. Let's talk about Vapor's Mosque. not again,
• 27:42
  so we've got who's in that room it's Rosie Pisser Disco and Vapor yeah that
• 27:49
  was that place was a freaking remember we got that pallet of beer and we,
• 27:55
  pallet jacked it over broke it down brought the pallet in it was like $2.50
• 28:00
  of case and we drank all of it,
• 28:05
  and Vapor destroyed the top of his teeth He ruined it, man. He soiled it.
• 28:15
  Hey, before we get down this path too far, I was telling, repeat earlier,
• 28:19
  I want to give a shout out to the person who kind of really kind of built 542.
• 28:24
  And a lot of people don't know this, but, you know, for the audience,
• 28:28
  the Harrier was a brand new aircraft.
• 28:30
  And these stores here, we went to Westpac. We were the first full squadron to
• 28:35
  go to Westpac. And so before you deploy, you lock in for six months.
• 28:40
  And the reason we're all together right now is because of one guy and it's Strutt.
• 28:46
  Strutt was called by the CEO to build the squadron. And so Strutt went down to 203.
• 28:52
  You know and disco was already in the squadron with strut and he
• 28:55
  said i want you to go down there and pick out the guys
• 28:58
  you need like nine lieutenants or whatever and so strut went down to 203 and
• 29:03
  he was interviewing you know he was talking to his instructor buddies and and
• 29:07
  came over this and and i remember i remember strut told me this story because
• 29:10
  strut was the admin officer and so he went down there and was talking to guys
• 29:13
  he goes look i don't necessarily want the I want the best pilots.
• 29:16
  I want good pilots, but I want good dudes.
• 29:18
  And he is the reason, like me, Pisser, Rosie, Beave, Turbo, Sal.
• 29:27
  He's the reason we are all in 542 is to stretch the guy that built that squadron.
• 29:34
  And then if your audience wants to know.
• 29:37
  We're on a group chat right now. I mean, we've been chatting with each other
• 29:41
  for freaking, we've been friends for 36, and the reason we are is because Strutt
• 29:46
  built this team, and then we did six, so we're locked in for six months.
• 29:51
  We do a six-month Westpac deployment.
• 29:53
  We come home. We're home for two months. We're gone another eight months.
• 29:58
  So we were together, like, straight for, like, 22 months, you know,
• 30:03
  and that's why, you know, I think back on when I got to the squadron and I'm
• 30:07
  like, I've been friends with these guys for 36 years because Strutt put this
• 30:11
  freaking team together.
• 30:12
  So right now, here's the fucking Strutt building the fucking young guns and
• 30:17
  building the 542 that kicked ass in Westpac and fucking Desert Storm.
• 30:24
  I appreciate the accolades. However, we need to make a couple of brief corrections here.
• 30:30
  I was the, I was, I worked in ops at the time. I was the operations officer during the war.
• 30:37
  And Disco gets half the credit here. Yeah, I know it's YouTube.
• 30:41
  Because it was Disco and I that were entrusted by Smoke to go do this mission. Okay?
• 30:49
  And so it was Smoke who was unpopular with the older pilots in the squadron.
• 30:56
  And they remembered Cox. And so me and Disco were getting hell from Chief and Scar.
• 31:03
  And we realized we weren't going to survive it. And so when Smoke realized that,
• 31:07
  you know, he needed us to build this squadron up because he just kind of needed
• 31:13
  some help with some young meat, he sent me.
• 31:17
  And it was actually me and Disco that did that, that went down there and did those interviews.
• 31:21
  And it was Smoke who enabled the whole thing.
• 31:24
  And so the story went like this.
• 31:28
  Well, which ones should we take, Strut?
• 31:31
  And I go we should take all of them
• 31:34
  and so
• 31:37
  basically there there were there were
• 31:40
  no bad apples in the bunch there wasn't any
• 31:43
  any standouts really everybody was awesome so we took this big huge recruiting
• 31:51
  class out of 203 and it changed the entire complex of the squadron which at
• 31:58
  that time was seeded in, well, you can't do that.
• 32:01
  Well, why? Because you've never done it.
• 32:04
  And so we went to a way more aggressive command structure and trained way harder
• 32:11
  and did way more aggressive things after that.
• 32:14
  And so Disco, here's you raise a glass Disco.
• 32:18
  Yeah, Disco. Sorry, buddy. And that, and if I can tell one more story about
• 32:22
  this, cause the guy is so humble, he'll never say that.
• 32:25
  Not only do we have that, but then we also picked up some guys on the way.
• 32:29
  And the guy I want to point out right now is a guy who took,
• 32:33
  that actually went the first Harriers to Westpac, which was VMA 331.
• 32:38
  They didn't have a full squadron, though, so I don't get credit for the full
• 32:41
  squadron deployment. They did a partial squadron.
• 32:43
  He does six months in Westpac, then gets recruited and cross-decks right to 542.
• 32:50
  So he does 12 months straight in Westpac, comes home two months,
• 32:56
  stays with us, does Desert Shield, Desert Storm.
• 32:59
  So this gentleman does six months, six months, 12 plus eight, 20, 20 out of 22 months.
• 33:08
  Raise your toes to Ed Otto, the fleet green, who has the record out of 22 months deployed.
• 33:17
  And in the entire time I was a monitor and cut orders on people,
• 33:20
  I never know anybody who did that.
• 33:22
  So not only we did that you know with disco and freaking
• 33:25
  strut built we recruited guys
• 33:28
  in like auto who's a fucking stud who never
• 33:32
  said no to the fucking country or his squadron or his buddies
• 33:35
  and said yeah i'll fucking do that i don't give a shit how
• 33:37
  hard it was he would do it and then who
• 33:41
  went down and got like some of the two or three guys like that spiko
• 33:44
  who did that strut in disco who went
• 33:46
  and got him you know i don't really know
• 33:49
  i i would love to just to say that that
• 33:53
  i did know how that happened but i can't tell you because it
• 33:57
  all happened so fast that a lot of these
• 33:59
  experienced guys like clance and spiko i think
• 34:03
  that they just they probably were qualified and and i that may have happened
• 34:08
  at the group level somebody else may know more than i do about that but all
• 34:12
  I want to say is Otto it was a pleasure flying with you in that damn war and
• 34:17
  I was glad that we were together and you kept my ass alive and I appreciate it.
• 34:23
  We had some great time. I'll never forget the one.
• 34:27
  We used to always, we hook up with the F-18 because for people that don't know,
• 34:32
  for the first part of the war, they had these what they call K-boxes.
• 34:37
  And there may have been another box, but essentially they were kill boxes that we had on our map.
• 34:40
  And so our mission was, like Strut and I would get up every day and we'd fly
• 34:44
  out there. And we'd typically do two missions. We'd turn it in a small place called Tanajib.
• 34:48
  So we'd fly out there with wall-to-wall, either Rock Eye or Mark 82s,
• 34:52
  which are, Rock Eye is a cluster bomb and the Mark 82 is a big 500-pounders.
• 34:55
  And it would also have a full gun.
• 34:58
  So we'd go out there, we'd link it with the F-18. The F-18 would find a target.
• 35:01
  He would circle. We'd do the wagon wheel at, you know, 15,000 feet or whatever.
• 35:05
  We'd roll in, get the, he'd either laser or he'd put the Willie Pete,
• 35:09
  you know, the white phosphorus mark out there.
• 35:11
  He'd get a mark and, you know, we'd find the target. He would roll in,
• 35:15
  lock the angle rate bombing set on, you know, the thing in the nose there that
• 35:18
  was a TV camera, essentially.
• 35:20
  That would give us height above
• 35:21
  target. And then, you know, either Strutt would lead or I would lead.
• 35:25
  Boom, we'd drop our bombs and, you know, Shaq hit the target, whatever.
• 35:29
  And then we'd always stick around because we'd say, hey, we still got a gun.
• 35:33
  Let's see if we could find a target. So I'll never forget this one time there were these fuel dumps.
• 35:39
  There's this fuel dump and they were like these big, I don't know,
• 35:42
  oil or gasoline filled drums that were probably the size you see when you drive
• 35:47
  down the road, like on the highway in New Jersey or something like an oil refinery.
• 35:51
  And we're like, Hey, let's get that with the gun.
• 35:54
  So auto's in, you know, shoot off my 200. And then he's off Winchester. Oh, sorry.
• 36:04
  We look back over my shoulder and here's this big top on this oil can that It
• 36:08
  just goes off the top. Yes. We got that one.
• 36:17
  Well, you can't let them, let them have any gas. Can you? That's bad. Can't let them have gas.
• 36:24
  We got secondary. Yeah. And kudos to the accuracy that fricking gun, huh?
• 36:30
  Oh, man. I was happy with it.
• 36:34
  Yeah. Hey, I'll tell you another thing about Otto. You know,
• 36:37
  like I said, Otto was fucking, you know, so operational and fleet smart that
• 36:42
  he got sent up to the MET for the big fucking battle plan. This is it.
• 36:48
  And they told me, he said, hey, go along, take notes, you know,
• 36:51
  whatever the fucking Otto says.
• 36:52
  So Otto and I get in a truck, and we hit up, like, the MET command post.
• 36:57
  They're going to do the big freaking brief of what's going to go on.
• 37:00
  And we get there, and I ought to remember what happened.
• 37:03
  The Marine Corps casualty estimates, people always think, oh,
• 37:06
  it's a big cakewalk, there's a storm. And I'm like, man, the casualty estimates were ugly.
• 37:10
  The Marine Corps casualty estimates were 50%, but the Brits casualty estimates
• 37:14
  came in at 70%. And it was politically unacceptable back in the UK for that to happen.
• 37:20
  So we're up there at the MEP, and what people got to remember is the Marine
• 37:23
  Corps, you know, we don't have that much armor.
• 37:26
  I mean, we've got some tanks, but, you know, nothing compared like to
• 37:29
  the army and so we needed some tanks so they
• 37:32
  assigned the brits to us because the brits you
• 37:35
  know these units out of germany were very heavy mech and they had
• 37:38
  a lot of uh tanks so we'd gone up and trained with like the scotch world
• 37:42
  to groom guards and stuff and uh you worked with those
• 37:44
  guys and so we're already we've been you know coordinated with them we're
• 37:47
  gonna fly closer support for the marines and the brits you know
• 37:50
  brits like to go to war with the marines because especially after what happened in
• 37:53
  korea they don't trust the fucking army but they trust the marines and
• 37:56
  so um we're up there at the briefing and what
• 37:59
  happens remember that auto they canceled it and there
• 38:02
  was a guy named colonel carter and he had just
• 38:05
  gotten word from like freaking headquarters that said
• 38:08
  the police aren't going through the breach with the marines cassie's too high
• 38:12
  and they pulled out and they were going to join the left hook with the uh with
• 38:16
  the army and so we go all the way up there and come back and they're like what
• 38:20
  you know and they're like i remember talking skipper's talking to autos what's
• 38:22
  what's the battle plan like we We don't know now it's changing because the Brits
• 38:26
  just got pulled out and we go,
• 38:27
  Brits got pulled out. That was all our fucking tanks.
• 38:30
  So you probably remember more of that stuff about what actually went on, but jump in.
• 38:36
  No, man, that's – honestly, I don't remember too much about it,
• 38:39
  but that, you know, sounds right.
• 38:42
  Yeah, that was fucking crazy. So we did all that work with the Scots Roll Dragoon guards and stuff.
• 38:47
  By the way, we learned – we had boiled egg sandwiches, shit like that,
• 38:51
  and we drove – remember we drove that Cintar, that little frickin' like APC
• 38:56
  they had, Scout vehicle. That thing was cool.
• 38:58
  I mean, these guys are like straight up to the desert rats kind of guys,
• 39:01
  a bunch of Brits whipping around and, you know, frickin' tan armored personnel
• 39:04
  shit. and it was pretty freaking cool.
• 39:06
  But anyway, yeah, so people think like it was a cakewalk, but,
• 39:09
  man, it was not looking real positive. It was a little bit somber.
• 39:15
  And, you know, before that stuff kicked out, I mean, everything turned out well
• 39:18
  because, you know, I think we did a great job, but, you know,
• 39:21
  it was not looking real good there at the beginning.
• 39:23
  I think I don't know. I remember we sat in our damn ready room,
• 39:28
  and that damn lieutenant colonel battalion commander, He sat there and cried
• 39:32
  and told us that we had to save his ass if we didn't wipe out this artillery,
• 39:40
  that they were all going to die.
• 39:41
  This guy begged us to save. Do you all remember that?
• 39:46
  He came in our ready room and sat there and begged us to save.
• 39:49
  I said, I was talking to somebody. I was sitting next to somebody.
• 39:53
  I said, is this damn grunt on his knees in front of us air wingers?
• 39:58
  Is this the first time in history this has ever happened?
• 40:01
  He's begging us to save his ass? Yeah, okay, we'll do it. Yeah, we'll do it. Let's go.
• 40:08
  Hey, you guys don't know. About, I don't know, nine months a year ago,
• 40:14
  Venom got hold of me because there was a guy, Lieutenant Colonel Kurth,
• 40:18
  who had a HMLA squadron over there.
• 40:20
  He was trying to get hold of somebody, and we got paired up,
• 40:23
  and we started shooting the shit.
• 40:24
  Somehow, we started talking a little about Desert Storm and stuff,
• 40:27
  and I had mentioned how I met General Myatt.
• 40:30
  You know it is a coc and he looks
• 40:33
  at me and he says you know i'm personal friends with general my
• 40:36
  and i'm like what in disco the guy lives in san francisco no
• 40:39
  shit and i was like you gotta be kidding me he said yeah he said let me talk
• 40:43
  to him maybe you guys get on the phone god we did a 45 hour freaking zoom call
• 40:49
  like this and i fucking talked to general my like you know 35 years later after meeting at the COC.
• 40:57
  And he told me... That was after you got shot down, right?
• 41:00
  Yeah, so... Yeah. Yeah, I had gotten a helo ride back because they were sending
• 41:05
  orders by helicopter, and so I got a helicopter ride, and I'm sitting in the helo.
• 41:10
  If you guys remember, there was that counterattack out of the Al-Burgon oil
• 41:13
  fields, and they had gotten within 300 meters of his COC, and he wouldn't leave.
• 41:18
  So anyway, the air officer sees me, and he's like, General Mayotte needs to
• 41:23
  fucking see a hairy guy shot down that's out there supporting his grunts and stuff like that.
• 41:30
  Anyway, he told me later, he gave me some numbers. He said like.
• 41:34
  We had like 48 artillery attacks on us.
• 41:39
  And he said, we counter-batteried like 28 of them with our organic artillery and stuff that they had.
• 41:49
  But the other ones, he said, everyone was taken out by Harriers.
• 41:55
  He said our counter battery you guys
• 41:58
  did like one third of the counter battery for
• 42:01
  the second marine division and took out every one
• 42:04
  of them and i wanted to tell you guys that so he was like i
• 42:07
  couldn't believe the guy he's got to be like i don't know how old he was but
• 42:10
  he's fucking old but i mean i'm like holy shit i said no i never really researched
• 42:14
  that but great guy and you know lives in san francisco super good dude hey disco
• 42:20
  what's the name of that hotel in san francisco the Marine Corps. Marine Memorial Hotel.
• 42:25
  Yeah, he's on the board of directors of that. Yeah, he was actually,
• 42:28
  he was the CEO of the Marine Memorial for... Now it's a Huey guy.
• 42:33
  It's the CEO, but before him was Mike Myatt.
• 42:37
  And yeah, he was real involved in the Bay Area.
• 42:40
  But yeah, it was... I remember getting talked to by, I think it was Myatt,
• 42:46
  or it was one of the Marine generals saying, hey, look, you guys are my long-range
• 42:50
  artillery. That was Boomer.
• 42:52
  Yeah, it's Boomer. That's right. Because you said he was basically saying,
• 42:56
  hey, they've got this South African, I think it was South African artillery
• 42:59
  that could outstick our artillery.
• 43:03
  Yeah, we need to get rid of this stuff because we can't, they can outrange us.
• 43:08
  So you guys are going to have to take this stuff out. That's your mission in
• 43:12
  life. I remember we were just constantly just hammering on that stuff.
• 43:16
  We'd go with a, I remember the strike package. We'd go with a harm shooters.
• 43:20
  We'd go with a strike package, all that stuff. We'd just go with all that stuff
• 43:25
  to just take them out. I remember that. I got some numbers for the audience.
• 43:29
  I can't work some of this stuff down real quick. The coalition had 38 nations.
• 43:33
  We had 680,000 on the Allied side.
• 43:37
  And Iraq had 540,000 in Kuwait. Usually you want to attack with a three-to-one advantage.
• 43:43
  Yeah, we didn't quite have that. The Iraqis had 4,200 tanks. We had 3,500.
• 43:48
  The Iraqis had 3,000 artillery and 2,800 APC.
• 43:52
  So that's what you're talking about, Jessica. Remember, Boomer came down and
• 43:55
  talked to our mag and said, hey, that's what I need you guys to do.
• 43:58
  Because 3,000 freaking pieces of artillery they're going to be advancing into.
• 44:03
  And I think we can all look back on that fact and just go, the casualties were
• 44:07
  light because that's all we did for freaking 30-some days is hit self-propelled
• 44:12
  artillery, rocket launchers, and freaking fixed artillery nonstop.
• 44:17
  I mean, we also were the only idiots that did it.
• 44:24
  I think it was Strut that came up with
• 44:27
  the tactic because we had it's like okay you have
• 44:30
  to go in there and take this you have to slow down you have to go low
• 44:33
  get shot at and drop this shit you have
• 44:36
  to wave at the iraqis in the trenches we're like are you fucking are you fucking
• 44:41
  out of your mind and i think tom was the one that came up with his tactics that
• 44:45
  we use well all i was telling you disco all i was telling you disco is that
• 44:51
  the weapon actually had carriage and release limits.
• 44:56
  It did? So you don't kill yourself. That had to be adhered to.
• 45:00
  And they were low and slow without much dive angle, and that was the hand we were dealt. Yeah.
• 45:07
  What was that? You and I had one of the first videos.
• 45:11
  Remember, we did a 45 or 60 degree dive that we pulled out to do a 5 to 10 degree,
• 45:18
  because the shit was designed to get spread.
• 45:21
  If you come down vertically, they just hit in a spot.
• 45:25
  Yeah, we had to go slow and low. Yeah, you got to scrape them.
• 45:30
  Guys, let's go back three spaces. We really need to go back three spaces because
• 45:36
  we're missing a lot of the whole desert storm thing if we don't at least say this.
• 45:42
  We had just come out of Asia. We had just come out of to Crow Valley and they
• 45:49
  shot our asses off in the Crow Valley.
• 45:54
  I mean, let's face it. It took us a while to figure that shit out.
• 45:58
  And in the Crow Valley, we had all kind of terrain to hide behind.
• 46:02
  Well, out in the desert, we didn't have shit to hide behind. No, we didn't.
• 46:05
  And so all I knew was when they put those fire cannon flap wheel shit linked
• 46:11
  up with that 57 millimeter gun, they're going to shred our asses.
• 46:16
  Oh, yeah. That's what we all thought.
• 46:18
  We were sure of it. And so I remember me and Otto are sitting there briefing
• 46:22
  and, you know, it's the, you know, we're talking about what's going to happen out there.
• 46:27
  And I go, Otto, and we termed it, how much shit yourself time was there going to be?
• 46:32
  And that was the metric of coasting in to coasting out.
• 46:36
  And that was a measurable amount of time called shit yourself time. Remember that, Otto?
• 46:43
  No, man. So that's what we termed it. so we knew we knew and you know what those
• 46:50
  son of a bitches never never fucking tied up their,
• 46:56
  acquisition and fire control radars to those 57 millimeter guns and thank god
• 47:02
  they didn't because a lot of us wouldn't be sitting here right now,
• 47:06
  that's 100% true,
• 47:09
  that's freaking nuts.
• 47:11
  Holy shit yeah we were lucky We had a good campaign.
• 47:15
  I mean, you can just tell, like, you know, the whole process,
• 47:18
  right, I think worked really well.
• 47:19
  And, you know, the way that we fought the war was really very effective.
• 47:24
  Right. I mean, getting you know, we had a good rollback plan.
• 47:27
  I would say you could see it actually on hold.
• 47:28
  If you go fast forward to modern times, like look at what Israel did in Iran.
• 47:32
  I mean, you know, not to tell too many secrets, but I mean, taking down the
• 47:36
  integrated air defense, the struts point, you've got to take out the long range radar.
• 47:40
  Then you've got to take out the other, you know, sort of some of the fire control
• 47:44
  radars that are controlling some of those pieces.
• 47:46
  And there's some key pieces to those surface terror missiles and the other guns.
• 47:52
  Right, that if you take those out, they're essentially firing blind, right?
• 47:56
  They can still shoot, but it's a lot less accurate.
• 47:59
  So I think once, you know, tribute to like what we did in Desert Storm and then
• 48:03
  later in OEF, you know, we had great tactics as, you know, the U.S.
• 48:07
  And allied forces. And really, that's a tribute to, you know,
• 48:11
  how we ended up with this few casualties, even in our squadron,
• 48:15
  you know, as we did and and other squadrons and then on the on the Marine Corps
• 48:20
  and, you know, any any of the ground forces. Right.
• 48:22
  I think we really had some of the things, like you say, we learned from the
• 48:26
  Crow Valley was how to do that. Right.
• 48:29
  You know how not to get yourself in that situation.
• 48:32
  It all comes down to lethality and vulnerability. Yeah, there's another thing
• 48:36
  that the audience needs to hear.
• 48:38
  This is important for the audience to hear. Let me finish up on the napalm stuff,
• 48:43
  because what people need to understand is that thing was designed for jungle warfare.
• 48:47
  And so when these guys are talking about, when Strutt and Otto are talking about
• 48:51
  it, so the audience knows, when you drop napalm, you've got to come in very shallow.
• 48:57
  I mean, so we're coming in like 1,000 feet. Here they are!
• 49:01
  They're not even going to fucking fly below 10,000 feet.
• 49:05
  Yet we're delivering a weapon that has to be delivered, but like under 1,500
• 49:10
  feet and like a 5 or 10 degree dive.
• 49:13
  So we were the only aircraft that dropped napalm.
• 49:16
  And the frickin', for whatever reason, the stupid PR, they didn't want to say we were burning them.
• 49:21
  So they said, oh, they're lighting off the oil trenches.
• 49:25
  And I'm like, shit, none of us lit off a fucking oil trench.
• 49:28
  We lit up in infantry trenches.
• 49:31
  And for three days straight, the biggest balls in that fucking theater were
• 49:35
  the Harrier pilots who came in at 20 some thousand feet.
• 49:39
  Did a 60 degree dive, did a fucking high G pullout to get into a five degree
• 49:45
  dive going over infantry trenches with all the fucking triple A still there,
• 49:50
  dropping napalm across to kill
• 49:53
  these guys, suffocate them in their bunkers and hit a big psyops thing.
• 49:57
  That they think that God is throwing fire on them. Nobody else was fucking asked to do that.
• 50:02
  The only other community that I respect that really put their balls on the line
• 50:06
  were the Brent Tornado guys who delivered the Dorendale runway cratering bomb,
• 50:12
  and they had to go down that runway at a few hundred feet,
• 50:15
  and they're the only other guys that flew a profile like us did.
• 50:18
  So people say, oh, fucking Harry's, you weren't so well, I got shot.
• 50:21
  And I'm like, nobody else fucking flew the profiles we did.
• 50:25
  That's what I'm talking about, baby. That's what I'm fucking talking about.
• 50:29
  Rosie and I dropped napalm on T-72. There's more to that story, Vapor.
• 50:35
  Wait a minute. Who else flew napalm? There's more to that story, Vapor.
• 50:39
  All right, Strut. Roll in. Not everybody, not every Harrier squadron dropped computed deliveries.
• 50:45
  You know, that's another thing that we did operationally. We dropped computed deliveries.
• 50:51
  Hey, Tom, who else flew napalm besides us? They were freaking stupid enough
• 50:55
  to. I don't think there was any other, there was any other Harrier squatters that flew besides us?
• 51:01
  Napal? I thought we all did it. 331 didn't, but I thought we all did it.
• 51:08
  Yeah, it went on for a couple of days.
• 51:12
  It's like three days. I got three days of napalm strikes.
• 51:16
  It was like three days. Now, you remember the software problem we had with the cluster munitions?
• 51:22
  You remember you'd come in for the dive and there was no sight.
• 51:25
  Remember, nothing came up until 10,000 feet. We didn't even know that, so we hit there.
• 51:33
  Yeah, you're just like hanging in and going, Hey, it's going to come up any second.
• 51:39
  Yeah, and so what we had to do is 542 made the difficult decision to drop computed
• 51:48
  with the shit that wasn't working right because we knew we were going to have
• 51:53
  to go low to get the right amount of density with the cluster bombs.
• 51:57
  And not every squadron did that.
• 51:59
  There were guys that, there were squadrons, Harrier squadrons that dropped DSL.
• 52:04
  Oh no shit that's bullshit yes yeah
• 52:09
  you know that thing you know i'm really proud of
• 52:11
  the fact i actually look this shit up too you know the the one
• 52:14
  thing about the harrier is we not only were the
• 52:17
  only freaking tack air that never used a tanker we also
• 52:20
  didn't have a dump target that bullshit like they'd
• 52:23
  go out well it's two thread or this and they just had like
• 52:26
  a dump target and you know which is like drop your bombs
• 52:29
  from 25 000 fucking feet we never did that shit
• 52:32
  if we weren't down in there with a fucking target id we didn't
• 52:35
  drop and that's part of being a fucking professional attack pilot because don't
• 52:39
  fucking forget fire pilots make fucking movies attack pilots make history god
• 52:44
  bless america i am i got a question when you're done fix say that again.
• 52:53
  Fighter pilots make faggot fucking movies and
• 52:57
  attack pilots make history look at i'm gonna
• 52:59
  move my f18 i know right hold on
• 53:03
  torpedo planes at midway think about it those fucking
• 53:06
  torpedo planes how much fighter cover did all those torpedo squadrons have at
• 53:09
  midway none and they all got fucking shot down but they threw the fucking japanese
• 53:15
  fighters down to the water so the dive bombers came in there no fucking fighter
• 53:19
  cover there and they sunk the hear you the Kaga,
• 53:23
  the Soryu, and the Akagi.
• 53:25
  One moment like that, attack pilots changed the fucking history trajectory of the world.
• 53:32
  They dirtied their dick. Goddamn right, baby.
• 53:35
  Of the world. Okay. Something you said triggered this. And I want to get either something Pisser said.
• 53:43
  I don't know if it was the ex-o or the CO that said, you guys at one point had
• 53:49
  fired I don't know, like 9,000 rounds in four days of 25 millimeter.
• 53:57
  And the skipper said, or whoever was asking, well, what are you guys shooting at? Everything.
• 54:05
  Anything. Can you add any flavor to that, the specific?
• 54:11
  Because anything, I remember shooting at what it was, a BTR-60,
• 54:15
  some faggot was shooting, and then I saw the little, you know,
• 54:19
  you see that it's the, it looks like a camera shoot. You go,
• 54:21
  hey, they're going to take my picture.
• 54:22
  No, those are the muzzle shooting at your ass. So I turned on and I shot,
• 54:25
  I mean, we shot everything.
• 54:31
  Hey, what? Can I talk about this?
• 54:36
  Yeah, we never came back with bullets, and I know Turbo challenged the number
• 54:41
  that I threw out there, but Turbo was flying with dogs, so those guys probably
• 54:44
  weren't shooting and everything.
• 54:46
  But Strut, I think, introduced the concept of the hot gun, where while we were
• 54:50
  in our dive run for the bombs, we would uncork the gun before and after the pickle.
• 54:57
  So, track, track, pickle, and we never came back with bullets.
• 55:04
  If Rosie and I ever came back with bullets, it was something weird happened. Because the gun jammed?
• 55:11
  Yeah. I can't have a good story on that one. Go.
• 55:14
  And this is pretty funny. So I was with Clance one morning, and it was – I can't think of the name.
• 55:18
  It was like a dock complex on the coast in Kuwait, south of Kuwait City.
• 55:24
  And so Clance and I were flying in there. We dive on this thing,
• 55:28
  and I lock it up with my ARBS TV at the end of the dock.
• 55:32
  You know, and I could see all these AAA pieces out there. I'm like, this is going to be epic.
• 55:38
  So I squeezed. So I got locked up. I squeezed the trigger. And all of a sudden, my RTV goes.
• 55:45
  So the bullets are going all over the fucking place. And then the ground just opens up.
• 55:50
  And both plants and I are like, you know, one of the, like, bug.
• 55:55
  So we both just, you kind of level up, peel out that way and head toward Iran.
• 55:59
  We're just going across the street.
• 56:01
  First of the golfer going, holy shit, look at all the guns shooting at us.
• 56:07
  I mean, there's flak blowing up all around us. I'm like, and we just got to
• 56:10
  go away. I'm like, that was really a freaking brilliant move on my part.
• 56:15
  Well, do you guys remember Mongoose in an all-pilots meeting holding a piece
• 56:22
  of paper in front of his, and he was just shocked by how much 25 millimeter
• 56:26
  we'd shot. Do you guys remember that? Yeah, I do.
• 56:31
  He's like, what are you shooting at? We're like fucking everything.
• 56:35
  That's right before we got,
• 56:38
  snatchers lecture on no more brown star loving and tadpole soup and all that shit.
• 56:44
  You're asking me to be professional. Yeah.
• 56:51
  I'm going to tell he's not here, but Wade Straw, Dog Straw,
• 56:55
  we actually finally got him to tell the story of
• 56:58
  his silver star and i think that's where we kind of got that
• 57:01
  i mean we we kind of you know mongoose you know was a great
• 57:03
  ceo and so on but we also took on a lot of the character of
• 57:07
  our opso operations officers major wade straw and i remember it was like pisser
• 57:12
  and me and and just you know a couple guys we're all at the bar we finally we're
• 57:17
  finally you know kind of cornered dog we're like you got to tell us how you
• 57:20
  got your silver star in vietnam and he's like well Well, you know,
• 57:25
  we had to suppress an LZ and, you know, we had to shoot a lot of shit.
• 57:28
  And he stops talking. We're like, there's got to be more to it.
• 57:32
  And he says, well, you know, we shot till we fired everything.
• 57:36
  And we're like, okay, that can't be it. And he looks at us and he goes, I mean, everything.
• 57:44
  And we're like, define everything.
• 57:48
  And he's like, the rockets, the cannon.
• 57:54
  They're N16 carbines. They're 38 caliber service revolvers.
• 58:01
  And he said they used to go to the club, get the highball glasses.
• 58:06
  You stuck your grip. You pulled the pin up your grenade, stuck them in there, threw them out.
• 58:11
  They broke and the glass would break and the boom would pull and they would go off.
• 58:16
  So they were over the VC canopy open when they were fricking Winchester.
• 58:22
  Emptied their freaking M16 carbines
• 58:25
  had their 38 revolvers and were throwing grenades that's why he got a silver
• 58:31
  star remember him telling they only got a silver star for that remember him
• 58:35
  telling the time he was shit faced and he got called for a mission he jumped
• 58:39
  in the helicopter and he goes I was baked,
• 58:43
  they're out there just shooting everything,
• 58:47
  that guy that's why we emptied our guns because he was a 30-inch service revolver. He was a cool dude.
• 58:54
  Hey, you guys would know this, but when I was working for Coca-Cola,
• 58:57
  I was in Honolulu, and I saw Tiger Tail server going, huh.
• 59:03
  So I ran him down. His dog was the CEO.
• 59:06
  He had, I can't think of his name, Cubby and Anacarico, Chico.
• 59:12
  And he was doing what Pitzer never did, which was lose money to dogs.
• 59:21
  He was cleaning those two fuckers out so he was wiping them out and I'm sitting
• 59:25
  there talking to him I'm like hey so this is classic dog I love that he was
• 59:29
  so awesome he was like hey you stupid fucker what are you doing,
• 59:35
  he had that voice so I go hey sir I got a question for you what the fuck do
• 59:39
  you want to talk to me about,
• 59:42
  I go how do you like being a lieutenant colonel he goes you know what disco
• 59:45
  the thing I like best about being a lieutenant colonel is there that many more
• 59:49
  people I can rub my balls all over his face.
• 59:56
  That was classic. Oh, shit, boy.
• 59:59
  That guy was a great American, man. He was awesome. Every time he got drunk,
• 1:00:04
  he said, where's Pisser? I need my money. Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  I would clean him out. He owed me like thousands of dollars.
• 1:00:16
  Hold on a second. Were you playing cards? Where you rolling dice What were you
• 1:00:20
  doing Poker And I'm going to kick his ass Hey listen You remember Colt Lake What's that Oh yeah Yeah,
• 1:00:32
  So we went up there. It was more expensive than it should have been.
• 1:00:36
  We come back, and all this money's like disappeared.
• 1:00:39
  So, you know, Sue Dooley, the group calls me up and goes, hey,
• 1:00:42
  because I was an S4. Thank God.
• 1:00:44
  Favorite job in the world. So I go over there. I'm like, hey,
• 1:00:47
  what's up? She goes, hey, you guys are missing about $500.
• 1:00:51
  No, it was like $2,000. It was all the rental car money. It was a lot.
• 1:00:55
  A lot. A lot. And I'm going, what? So I'm trying to figure all this stuff out.
• 1:01:00
  And then finally I figured out what it was so Dog had taken his vacation money
• 1:01:05
  with Elaine and he'd spent it to cover his gambling debts with the urinator and I'm going I can't,
• 1:01:13
  there's no freaking way I'm going to take the hit for this because I can't afford two grand.
• 1:01:17
  So I go over there I go back to the squad and go hey sir you didn't have to pony up.
• 1:01:22
  My wife would fucking kill me but that's not my problem You got to back up I
• 1:01:29
  got it. I got to set it up for you.
• 1:01:31
  So what happened is we're going to Cold Lake, Canada, and the skipper told dog.
• 1:01:36
  Hey, take like seven planes, meet us there and get this many flight hours.
• 1:01:40
  So it's dog, six pack, scar, me, pisser.
• 1:01:47
  And so we're going to head there, but we go.
• 1:01:50
  I remember they said, hey, we'll go there via freaking Salt Lake City.
• 1:01:53
  We go, fuck, why don't we go to Hill Air Force Base? Let's go to fucking Reno and go to Tahoe.
• 1:01:57
  So we go there via there well while we're in tahoe we
• 1:02:00
  get in this fucking you know shitty little hotel and we're hanging
• 1:02:03
  out there and i remember the next morning we're sitting out so we
• 1:02:05
  all go out that night the next morning we're all meeting by the pool you
• 1:02:09
  know it's one of those little motel pools you know shitty place and dog
• 1:02:12
  comes walking out and he comes down and he's in those dolphin shorts
• 1:02:15
  he used to wear those like remember those like blue ones and he walks down and
• 1:02:19
  there's a freaking ashtray and he digs around finds like a cigarette butt and
• 1:02:24
  like lights it and starts smoking it and we're like hey sir how'd you do with
• 1:02:29
  the casinos last night well let me tell you.
• 1:02:33
  The lights ain't gonna be going out in fucking reno
• 1:02:36
  tonight if you know what i mean they can pay their electric
• 1:02:39
  bill he lost all the
• 1:02:42
  money for the rental cars so no old lake
• 1:02:45
  we're walking from the barracks to
• 1:02:48
  the squadron and smoke is driving by or you
• 1:02:51
  know he's like why are these guys walking everywhere and i remember he
• 1:02:54
  stops by oh what and he remember he's joking he says uh
• 1:02:57
  did you guys miss the van again and we're a lot
• 1:03:00
  looking like what van and then and it's like by the third day he finally stops
• 1:03:04
  his car and goes why do you guys keep missing the van we're like sir we don't
• 1:03:07
  we don't know what you're talking about he goes there's supposed to be a shuttle
• 1:03:09
  van and that's when he found out we didn't have the shuttle van and that there
• 1:03:13
  was money was missing and that's when he called disco and then said where's
• 1:03:17
  the freaking money and how come there's not vans,
• 1:03:20
  It was in Westpac and Dugent Storm when I kicked his ass in poker to the tune of thousands.
• 1:03:27
  Holy shit. There he is, man. That guy's a fucking great American, man.
• 1:03:32
  Sticks is in the background doing magic.
• 1:03:37
  Fucking dog. What a guy.
• 1:03:41
  Hey, I gotta tell you guys. Do you realize how lucky we were to have that guy as our opso?
• 1:03:47
  How lucky were we to have that guy? Unbelievable.
• 1:03:51
  It's freaking awesome. The thing was, I remember when you were talking about
• 1:03:54
  Strut, because I vaguely remember
• 1:03:56
  you going down the street and kind of grabbing some guys out at 203.
• 1:03:59
  But I remember what we would do is they'd come in in the squadron because that
• 1:04:02
  place was a freaking shit show.
• 1:04:05
  Because I don't know if you remember when we all got caught,
• 1:04:07
  because I remember it was Sal.
• 1:04:10
  Because Sharon went to Gustafson and said, hey, is there any way you can keep
• 1:04:15
  my fiancee from going to 542? And he went, what's going on at 542?
• 1:04:20
  So the ship kind of rolled downhill, got to smoke. He called us all in,
• 1:04:24
  and Strutt took a – I mean, Lyman, me, Vern, Strutt.
• 1:04:30
  It was like five or six JOs. And we're kind of, you know, just kind of going
• 1:04:34
  back and forth. And then I remember Tom throwing a couple fucking hand grenades.
• 1:04:39
  It was beautiful. And I said, well, hey, since he's doing it.
• 1:04:45
  So I started throwing them. And after we're all done, he goes,
• 1:04:48
  okay, you guys can go. He goes, hey, Disco, can you stick around for a minute?
• 1:04:51
  And, I mean, we had a moment, me and Smoke.
• 1:04:56
  It got pretty messy. But the thing was, as we started getting new guys coming,
• 1:05:02
  because that place was a freaking hot mess, the culture was a disaster in 542.
• 1:05:07
  Because I remember when I went to the city. Well, the older guys were loyal to the old skippers.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah. I mean, it was the culture. And they weren't loyal to smoke. Yeah.
• 1:05:18
  It was just a mess. I remember, yeah, because I remember Bubbles hated smoke.
• 1:05:21
  And there was a lot of shit going on there.
• 1:05:25
  And basically, I mean, I remember that we would get new guys in the squad and
• 1:05:28
  we'd pull them aside and say, you know, I remember you grabbing them at 203
• 1:05:31
  and we were going out and we're talking to people.
• 1:05:33
  And it's like, okay, here's what we're trying to do here.
• 1:05:36
  We're trying to create a culture and create a great place to be.
• 1:05:41
  And it ended up being that 542 was the only squadron that you wanted to go to.
• 1:05:46
  It was the coolest place with the coolest people that had the most fun.
• 1:05:54
  Now, what grenade did I throw? I don't remember this. How much trouble did I get in?
• 1:06:00
  Oh, you didn't get in a lot of trouble. I got in more trouble than you did.
• 1:06:05
  But I was starting going, I was kind of going, this is getting awesome.
• 1:06:13
  I remember you saying this because he said something about Spud Winkle and you
• 1:06:18
  go, Spud, he's a fat ass shit bird. And then it just,
• 1:06:25
  escalated from there. I'm like going, this is going to be fucking awesome. I love this, man.
• 1:06:33
  Hey, I guess what the audience to understand is it's all about morale and the
• 1:06:40
  intangibles of combat power.
• 1:06:41
  And there's a disco, you know, he reads a lot.
• 1:06:45
  We read a lot. There's a guy named Lord Moran who wrote a book called The Anatomy
• 1:06:49
  of Courage. It took place the world, the trenches of World War One.
• 1:06:52
  And he said that and he's looking at, you know, the courage,
• 1:06:56
  you know, go over the frickin top over and over and trying to keep morale up,
• 1:07:00
  which is the true level of combat effectiveness is not counting tanks and shit
• 1:07:05
  like that. Otherwise the Iraqis would have kicked our culture.
• 1:07:08
  It's culture. It's fucking all those intangibles. And so he talked about in
• 1:07:12
  there, he said the person that was loved in the trenches was the person who
• 1:07:17
  did their job and had a positive complexion and outlook.
• 1:07:22
  And so I was so fortunate to go into
• 1:07:25
  five 42 with pisser and all the
• 1:07:27
  young guys like this because we had guys like you
• 1:07:30
  guys the audience has picked up on the fact Disco is
• 1:07:34
  just a character and I don't give a shit how lousy crap
• 1:07:37
  was you had these guys like
• 1:07:40
  Disco and Strut who always could put a positive spin on things could smile and
• 1:07:47
  laugh no matter how shitty stuff got whether we're in a mud soaked trench in
• 1:07:51
  Korea or we're sweating our ass off in a fucking tent in Saudi Arabia that's
• 1:07:56
  what makes the difference and there's been great things written on this.
• 1:08:00
  It's the intangibles of combat power. It's morale.
• 1:08:03
  And I was fortunate enough to go into a squadron. Like Disco said, best fucking squadron.
• 1:08:08
  Strutt and Disco built this thing and I've been lucky enough.
• 1:08:11
  And to this day for the audience to know, there's what, 15 of us still left
• 1:08:15
  on that 542 chat that we had and we text each other every day.
• 1:08:20
  We know each other 36 fucking years.
• 1:08:23
  Thank you guys. Greatest squadron ever, man.
• 1:08:26
  Best group ever.
• 1:08:31
  Well, one thing just to add to that. One of the great morale things we had,
• 1:08:38
  if you remember this, when we were in Desert Storm, was we created the Deadbeat
• 1:08:42
  Club. And I still have that picture.
• 1:08:44
  That was in the tent that struck in Turbo and, you know, Disco.
• 1:08:50
  I think you were in that tent, maybe Vapor. We were right next door. I slept next door.
• 1:08:55
  But we set up the Deadbeat Club and we we would periodically before the war,
• 1:09:00
  you know, they didn't have any booze in Saudi Arabia.
• 1:09:02
  But it may or may not have been the case that we would take the squadron vehicle and drive to Bahrain.
• 1:09:10
  And we did actually start off in Bahrain before we moved the squadron up to Saudi Arabia.
• 1:09:14
  And it may or may not have been the case that we would drive to Bahrain across
• 1:09:18
  the causeway, which did have booze.
• 1:09:20
  And we may or may not have pulled up the squadron vehicle with booze after visiting
• 1:09:25
  with the nurses who were still in Bahrain, in the big city, and then come back
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  to Saudi Arabia to stock our supply.
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  And it may or may not have happened that every one of our relatives in the United
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  States sent us booze and scope bottles with food coloring.
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  And it may or may not have happened that we might have known the nurses.
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  Well, it may or may not have happened that we didn't drink really before when
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  the war was getting ready to kick off.
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  We probably didn't drink much at all. But after the war ended, we sure as hell did.
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  Yeah, I remember that. I remember we getting chewed out by Snatcher and Mongoose.
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  Like, where did you guys get all this stuff? Like, what stuff?
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  Talking about. Yeah, what are you talking about?
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  We had a visitor from a fellow squadron who came to the Deadbeat Club after the war.
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  And we had to drag him back. And unfortunately, we drug him on the tops of his
• 1:10:26
  boots and literally wore off. I don't know if you remember this.
• 1:10:30
  Wore off the tops of his boots down to the steel toes.
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  So that was quite a problem the next day for him.
• 1:10:40
  We got Hobsing. We got Calvin Klein. The guys we grabbed in,
• 1:10:47
  because I remember Hobsing got kind of like shit can by 311.
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  He's a great guy we're like hey we
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  want him he's awesome so we grabbed him we grabbed Tom
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  Klein cool guy so anybody that
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  was kind of a misfit that was a great dude 542 was
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  like yep bring him here we want him we want those guys we're good guys we want
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  to kind of enfold them in our culture here because we have such a good culture
• 1:11:12
  we had a great culture by the time we our Westpac culture with the exception
• 1:11:18
  of Spico with our Westpac culture He's not here to defend himself,
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  by the way. I know. That's what's going on.
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  With the exception of my nail polish and fucker pisser.
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  Prick. You know, the Westpac culture was awesome.
• 1:11:35
  We get home and we take it to Saudi. We just had awesome.
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  I mean, to me, I tell people this all the time.
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  I said it was such a blessing to be surrounded by, one, such great Americans,
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  such great patriots, and such talented people it was awesome,
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  All right. Well, I really, really, really feel guilty and bad about breaking in here, folks.
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  But this is where we're going to turn it off for this week because we've got
• 1:12:06
  another hour or so with these guys. Spike is coming in to join us as well.
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  First, I want to thank Styx and Bago for helping out produce the show behind the scenes.
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  Big help. It makes it easier for us to concentrate on the show.
• 1:12:20
  So thank you just for that. Thank you to Badass for the pictures that we're
• 1:12:25
  using in this week's blog post for episode 170.
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  So there I was.us slash episode slash 170.
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  And thank you also all the people who give money every week and every month
• 1:12:39
  to help make this show continue on.
• 1:12:42
  We're blessed to be able to do it. And we're grateful that you think our show offers some value.
• 1:12:47
  So what do you think, Fig, next week? Tune in next week, because Spiko's going to join us.
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  He's going to be an extra addition to the Young Guns.
• 1:12:59
  And, you know, within minutes, Pisser jumps in in his lap and gives him a wedgie.
• 1:13:04
  There's pictures of that. There's all these stories that involve Spiko from back during the war.
• 1:13:12
  And then there's the… That picture made it into People magazine, which he had a copy of.
• 1:13:19
  Trying to give him a noogie or a wedgie you pulled it out and started showing the pictures,
• 1:13:24
  you know of all these yeah so he's got he had it all and then there's there's
• 1:13:29
  a story about a harrier that rolled into an f4 uh let's just leave it at that
• 1:13:34
  that's good yeah and um whoops and then there's the great rotofuel crisis is it wrote a spain.
• 1:13:44
  Right? They were trying to come back. Tankers start breaking. Guys don't have the gas.
• 1:13:49
  You know, he's like making chicken scratch on his knee pad going,
• 1:13:52
  the numbers don't add up here.
• 1:13:55
  Spico was practically falling asleep anyway, with kudos to Woody, apparently.
• 1:14:03
  He was putting Woody in his cot out in the parking lot because he was snoring
• 1:14:08
  so damn loud. It was, you know.
• 1:14:11
  Yeah. Still didn't do it for him. So all that stuff coming up next week.
• 1:14:16
  You couldn't script this stuff. No, you really couldn't. And we couldn't stop
• 1:14:21
  them because we really needed to get all this out.
• 1:14:25
  And so you're going to enjoy it. You will indeed.
• 1:14:27
  So until next week, stay safe and check six.
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  Music.
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  There I was, crossing the pond And you could see that I wasn't exactly fond,
• 1:14:44
  Of all the shit I was wearing on that day,
• 1:14:49
  Now an F-16 is cramped enough But it's even worse With all that stuff supposed
• 1:14:55
  to save your life But we knew there was no way Cause when you're going down
• 1:15:02
  the North Atlantic, man, it's over,
• 1:15:06
  What do you say, Fig? He said it's over We do the best work in town Yes,
• 1:15:10
  and it's guaranteed Certainly, we're colossal.
• 1:15:13
  We're stupendous. We're terrific. We're even suppolative.