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Conversations With A Vet - Marine Veteran James "Bo" Ramsey · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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Well, hello everybody. Welcome to Conversations with
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Yvette. Happy Sunday.
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Hopefully everybody's had a great weekend.
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I have a wonderful guest waiting in the wings.
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But before we get to him, a couple of books I wanted to give
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a shout out to. So the first one is by a
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previous guest, author Michael Alexander Payne, also a veteran
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Unshaken Resolve. You can find this book on
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Amazon. A wonderful read, a wonderful
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guest. Second, a big shout out to my
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friend Tim Thomas, also a veteran out of Australia, and he
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sent me a book, his book called Fight Flight Feel.
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And again, this is another wonderful book from a veteran
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all the way across into Australia.
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So big shout out to Tim. Thank you.
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So thank you very much. And if you're interested in
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getting that book, you can contact me at Conversations with
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a Vet and I will get you the information on how you can get
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one. So please help me welcome my
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guest, Bo Ramsey. Hello.
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Hello, how are you this evening? Doing well?
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How are you? I'm doing great.
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Thank you so very much for joining tonight.
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I appreciate it. I know you've been pretty busy,
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lots of lots of things going on. So let me ask you this.
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It's not. It's a question I ask all my
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guests right out the out the gate is to tell me a little bit
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about who Beau was as a child. Oh, as a child, like most, just
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rambunctious, always trying to see what made things work.
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I'd take, I'd tear things apart, not even knowing how to put them
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back together. And most of the time couldn't
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put them back together. But I just wanted to know the
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internal workings. I I always wanted to excel,
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always wanted to be something better than what I was before.
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So sports was always big. I would wrestle, I would play
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football, baseball. Tried basketball.
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Not the best at it, but that's what I would.
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Do nice And was the military something that you'd always
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wanted to do, or was it just something that popped into your
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mind? What was it that made you decide
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to join the military, and specifically the branch that you
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chose? Well, my, my dad, he, he had
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joined the Navy and, and went through boot camp and became a
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corpsman. And my, my uncle, he was a Recon
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in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
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And I'd always, you know, kind of had some, some talk around it
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and everything. And I, I was kind of torn
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between the sports, playing sports at college or where
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they're going in the military, got actually hooked up to go do
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the workouts for football for the summer and decided, hey,
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yeah, this ain't what I want to do.
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And I knew right then, hey, I contacted a Marine Corps
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recruiter. He came out to the house, he
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talked to me. And two days later, I'm I'm at
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Parris Island. Two days, holy cow.
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And so with that, so within two days like you didn't do anything
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in advance any kind of that early.
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I'd signed up for the the I guess they got.
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Delayed entry. Yes, the delayed entry program
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with another guy, the, the recruiter called me and said,
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hey, there's been a, a opening up to come if you want to go
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right now, then let's go. And I was like, I do I really
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want to do it or do I want to continue?
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And it just something in my head said, hey, let's let's go with
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it. And so that's what I did, and
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out I went. So when you signed the papers to
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go. Yes.
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Did you have an open contract or did you have a specific MOS that
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you signed up for? Well, listening to my uncle and,
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and some of the stuff he went through, I, I wanted to go
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infantry. That's where I wanted to go.
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So that's, that's what I went through.
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I I want to go 311 the whole way.
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OK. When you first step off that
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bus, so we're going back a little ways, it's going to
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stretch that memory. What was going through your mind
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when they first step on the bus and they are yelling for you to
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get off and get off? What?
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I was nervous, you know, getting on the bus.
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I'm like, yo, what am I getting into?
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And we, we take the drive. I'm just, I'm nervous and the
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drive there looking out the windows, I finally fall asleep.
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Next thing I know the lights come on, they're up on the bus,
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they're screaming, hey, get off. And it it just, you know, it's
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like, what have I got into so that we get off, get on the
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yellow footprints. And it was chaos from that that
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point on. I bet it was.
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And did you give any thought to stepping on to those yellow
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footprints in the history of those who stood on it before
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you? Well, like I said, my uncle and
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everything that he did during Vietnam, that's always been
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something through my childhood that I've cherished because I
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know that, you know, when they, when they served, they came home
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and it wasn't something that they actually came home to
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people with open arms. When they came back, they were
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sometimes spit on as as he was. They were called names and
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everything. And it, it was one of those, it
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hurt. But I knew what he he sacrificed
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and what he thought because although he wouldn't talk about
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it a lot, there were things that he would he would mention.
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It wasn't until after boot camp that he really opened up to a
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lot with me. Which makes a lot of sense, I
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think. And you know, the fact that he
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probably felt like you now have an understanding you're, you're
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one of the brothers, if you will.
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So tell me about boot camp. What?
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What was that like for you? Oh, you're talking about Paris
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Island? Yes.
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There was a lot of it that I really enjoyed the structure.
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I I really like that. You know, we knew what we were
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doing, where we were going. They had to some of it's
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reflective and some of it is is actually, you know, I, I knew
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before going that they were going to be hard.
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They're going to be pushing you. Everything they got, just like
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through wrestling and football, they're trying to get everything
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that they're trying to get out of you, put you in real life
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situations the best they can. But the actually being in there
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with all these guys that are going through the same thing
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though that the moments that they had and, and just trying to
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understand, you know, this is what they're trying to get from
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me. They're they're doing it in
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unorthodox ways, but they're trying to instill in you
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discipline and try to put pressure on you so that you can
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perform under pressure. So I knew that to begin with.
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So it was one of those things that I enjoyed the Brotherhood
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of Boot Camp. I thought it was weird because
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we never really could communicate together and
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everything because when we start to talk, oh, no talking, no
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talking or this that. But yeah, you could feel because
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we're all going through the same things.
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We're all, you know, getting in trouble for the same things.
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If it I, I was one of those that, you know, when the the
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drums started to come up and say something, I thought it was
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funny. So I would laugh and I would
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have to start, I'd have to start doing push ups and crunches and
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everything. And then all of a sudden they
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come up and say, all right, you, you need to pick somebody out of
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the line to, to come up and help you out.
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And that put me in a bad position because here I laughed
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and did that. Now I got to get somebody up
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there and pay for my, my bad. So that made me feel like, you
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know, I need to watch myself so that I'm not getting somebody
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else, you know, and vice versa. It just you, you build a
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brotherhood with that, that it's through unorthodox waves, but
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it's like nothing else. Even today, we, we stay in
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touch. The the beauty of social media
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and everything is that, Hey, I can, I can send them a, a text
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or send them a, you know, something they can get back with
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me. So I love it, you know, But that
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that was, that was my Paris island.
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What was the hardest part for you of becoming a Marine?
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Getting past myself really, you know, with wrestling, football,
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I've been pushed to limits. But with the Marine Corps and,
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and actually boot camp, they, they took me to where I thought
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my limit was. They took me past that and so
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far beyond. They show me that I had so much
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more to give. They, they show me that, you
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know, my leadership skills, my everything.
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It's, it's, it's amazing that, you know, they can take 18 to 23
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year old kids and, and put that much discipline, that much just
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instruction into them and, and, and give them that confidence
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that they can do what they want to.
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And that's, that's what it did for me.
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I really, I, it's one of those things that I tell, tell my
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kids, you know, it's, it's, it's not the good things that I
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remember the most. It's the things that really were
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the worst and sorry for lack of words, sucked.
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But. You're good.
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But those are the things that I remember the most because they
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changed me and they made me the person that I am because I was
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able to live through them, adapt and and be better than the the
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problems that I have and. That's wonderful.
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So when did you first truly feel like you earned the title of
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Marine? We didn't have the Crucible
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then, so we didn't actually do a Crucible and they they hand over
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the EGA. So it wasn't until actually the
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graduation day, we on the parade that that when it was done and
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over that, you know, I've, I've made it, I can breathe.
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And then the whole realization that, hey, this was just the
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beginning. I've got a whole different thing
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going that I don't have no idea where I'm going to be sent.
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I don't have no idea really what I'm going to be doing, you know,
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other than I'm infantry. So here we go.
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Right. So rolling into that, where did
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your Marine Corps career take you first?
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First, because it was infantry, it took me to Camp Geiger and
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Camp Geiger was it was great. It was a little small.
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Had a, had a, the barracks type, you know, with all the people
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and we would do a lot of infantry skills, the, the, with
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the rifle, we would go out and actually set up defenses,
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offenses and learn the different things from fire team to squad
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to platoon, just the basics of what we're going to be doing
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later on as we engage into our infantry lifestyle.
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So it was good. I, I was actually, we had a guy
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that I actually spent some time with their French Florin Legion.
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And he, he, he, we used to call him humps when we would go on
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long hikes. So he'd call him humps.
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So, and he would do it barefooted.
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And I was like, how do you do this?
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You know, I get blisters all over my feet and everything and
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there you're doing it barefooted.
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And but that's that's one of the things that I remember about
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Camp Geiger more than anything. That's amazing, That's amazing.
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From there, what was your next location that you that you went
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to? From Camp Geiger I went to MCBH
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Hawaii Connie Oi Bay. Wow.
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Yes, I was a Connie Oi Bay and with Third Battalion, Third
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Marines, Kilo Company and Manly. It was a, it was a outweighting
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experience. Well, I show up on an island and
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it's, it's just about dark, so you can't see anything.
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And then they take us over to the base and it, it looks
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amazing, sounds amazing. And you go up there and you're
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supposed to check in. So I go to check in, nobody's
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there and they're like, well, you're good, we'll come back.
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And so I'm like, OK, what do you what I do now?
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So then I had to check in the next day and it was I could see
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all around and, and Hawaii's awesome, especially back then.
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I went back probably five years ago to Marine Corps Base Hawaii
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and it is totally different. It is, there's so many buildings
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there that I, I didn't recognize really.
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I was like, you know, this is where I believe our place used
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to be, but I can't for honestly tell you that's where it was.
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So it was, it was good and checking in was good.
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We were short on staffing NC OS during the time.
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I guess the billets were, were short or they just let some
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people off. So for the longest time Lance
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corporals and above are basically is Lance corporals and
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below you had a few corporals, a few sergeants and there were no
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staff, maybe a one or two gunny and that that was it.
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So you had it. At times, corporals and Lance
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corporals fight, filling up squad and platoon Sergeant
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positions. That's nuts.
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It it is but. When you think about, I mean
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like today, right, and you compare it to today's world.
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So that's a lot of responsibility for a Lance
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Corporal and a corporal. It, it, it really was.
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But the the guys that that I know that did it and everything,
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they were great. They knew their jobs.
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They worked hard in it and it it just ran smooth.
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Like I said, you're taking 1823 year old people and they're
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putting out there and man, they're rocking and rolling with
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everything they've got. That's why I love the military.
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That's why I love my guys. They take it serious and it's
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just when you when you do that, then you, you are awesome and
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so. So tell me about how well, how
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long were you there for? Oh, that's one of those where we
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would deploy out, come back, deploy out, come back and we do
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different things for the total I was there from 94 to 98, OK.
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But during the, during the time we would go to Okinawa and we do
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a six month thing there. We went to Australia, we went to
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Alaska, we went to Korea, We were all over different places.
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So it was one of those things I knew about infantry was that,
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hey, you're going to go see the world.
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It's it's, you're going to be great.
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So, but we were probably 6 months or so every time we come
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back in actually Hawaii. OK.
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All right. So out of all of those locations
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that you were deployed to, did you have a favorite?
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Oh, for different reasons. There's there's a couple of
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different. Australia was great because it
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had so many different environments.
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I guess you could, you had the Tully jungle, you had a desert,
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you had, you know, just different things that were
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there. The people were awesome.
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So that was great. Alaska, you go there and then
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you're you're flying through the helicopters through all these
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river and you're, you're just looking at the scenery and it's,
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it's, it's beautiful. It's like.
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Where can you pay for this type of it's, it's a, you know,
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awesome. And then you get out on the
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ground and it's it's quagmire and it's kind of moving with you
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like a water bed. So yeah, it it's hard to say
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really a favorite because they each different.
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I'll tell you, the one I didn't like the most was Korea.
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We were there during the winter and it was raining.
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It was freezing. And we'd get warm chow.
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And when we get to the actual chow in it, it was raining on
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it. And by the time you got it, it
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was cold. So it was always your, your
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camies were frozen, your socks were frozen.
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Everything we tried to do, just, you know, it was, it was good
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training, but it it was not fun. All right.
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And what was your total length of time in service?
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Four years, Four years active. Four years in active.
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So what is something about your Marine Corps experience that
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people who haven't served would probably never understand?
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The the level of brotherhood that you you get just by earning
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the Eagle globe and anchor. It's it's a fraternity that you,
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you, you, you can find people that you are, are are Marine.
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They're in the Marines without ever asking, you know, it's just
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one of those things that you know, you know, you're a
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brother. You can feel it.
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I you, you were a Marine club, yes.
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Who'd you serve with? You know, it's one of those
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things. And then once, once you even see
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them, you know, it's like you served your whole life with
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them. They're your best bud and your
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friends From then on, it's it's my my wife, kids all the time.
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She goes. You you can smell them out, you
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know, and you, you're sitting all the way across the board.
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And how'd you know he was a Marine?
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It's like, yeah, you know, it's just one of those things.
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Kind of have the air about you. A lot of Marines have that air
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about them, right? More outspoken than some other
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branches too. Yeah, Yeah.
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Well. And I'm not saying that's a bad
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thing, just so you know. So with that, some of the most
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funny or memorable stories that you know you might be able to
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share from your time in the core.
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Oh, there's we were on a this, this was in Alaska one time the
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we were doing a fourteen click movement force on force against
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the Army, and it was supposed to have lasted a week.
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And we came across a people in a defence that were set up for
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army and we snuck in. We, they had their, their
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netting up and everything, but they weren't around any of their
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stuff. So we came in, we, we stole a
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lot of their ammunition, their, their, their stuff and took it
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off and, and brought it back. And that fourteen click force on
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force got called quick and we were going to be awarded for,
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for doing it. And the, the CEO had got us some
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beer and put it in the building and we're next day we're going
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to have a big party and some Marines decided they didn't want
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to wait on it. So they break in to the building
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and steal that beer. And so we went back to work the
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next day instead of having having a party.
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So it's one of those things that, you know, Marines adapt,
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overcome, and we acquire stuff through, you know, yeah, it's
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just what they what they did. That's pretty funny.
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So tell me how your military service affected your family.
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I don't know. Well, my when I was growing up,
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they did my, I don't know how it affected them really, other than
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I didn't get to come home. But my family now, it's affected
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them because my son actually joined the Marine Corps and he
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went into heavy equipment and he had a good, he had a good run at
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that. So that's that.
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I think that's one of my big prides is that, you know, my son
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is a Marine also. That's awesome.
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Yeah. And Speaking of the next
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generation going back, going into the military, if somebody
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was thinking about or considering joining the Marine
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Corps, what things would you tell them?
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Do it. I encourage everybody, not just
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the young, but even if you're older and can fit the age range
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or whatever, take that, get that experience, get the, get the,
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the confidence that comes with actually serving and, and the
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pride that comes with knowing that you were willing to give
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everything that you had for the country that we're, we're
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America's beautiful. We we have so many rights and
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liberties that come, but it's by price and it's by the price of
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the people that were willing to put their name down for, you
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know, doing exactly what, you know, serving.
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So, you know, some of them served through peacetime, some
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of them served through war, but they were all willing at any
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time to give their life for what they believed in.
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And that is, you know, the rights that we live by today.
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So let's go back a little bit to when you made the decision that
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you wanted to separate out from the Marine Corps.
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What what made you decide you wanted to leave and what was it
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like for you as far as resources that were provided?
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The resources were OK. I think they probably could have
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been a little better. And when my son got out, it was
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actually better than when I did the, the, the reasons, I guess
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some of what there were new people coming in that say
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challenge authority a little bit.
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And there were there were older Marines that were getting busted
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down for doing basically. And it was.
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I kind of lost your audio a little.
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So that was. Oh, there you are, one of the
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part. One of the issues.
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We kind of lost your audio a little bit.
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So that kind of I was like, do I want to make a career out of
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this when they're having such a hard time with that?
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OK. And what was the biggest lesson
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that you carried from the Marines into civilian life?
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Can you hear me? Oh, can you hear me?
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Sorry, I wouldn't. Are you there?
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Can you hear me now? Are you there?
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Can you hear me? Hello.
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Can you hear me? Hello.
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Yeah, I can hear you. I'm sorry.
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I can hear me too. I can hear me too, Echo.
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How about now? Can you still hear me?
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Can you still hear me, Bo? I can hear you, but I apologize
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trying to figure out how to put it off of that so.
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Should be able to put it. Maybe just should be able to put
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it. Maybe just just on.
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Hit the speaker on your. I apologize.
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How about how about now Nope? How about now?
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Nope. Well, I can hear you, but go
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ahead. Are we good?
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Well, we, I think we have. I think we have, we have an
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echo. Are you still with me, Echo?
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Go with me. Yes.
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OK. I guess we're we're just going
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to have to power through. So apologies, everybody is out
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there to power through. So apologies, everybody is out
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there. You're going to hear it twice.
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You're going to hear it twice. Sorry.
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All right, if you could, if you could tell us what Semper Fi
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means to you. Means to you beyond the words
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beyond the words. Beyond the words, Semper Fidelis
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always faithful. That means that we are going to
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be there for you. We're going to like it goes back
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to the Brotherhood and it it it transcends generations.
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Actually, we've actually took a a group of the Marine Corps
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League up to Washington, DC and we visited the museum.
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We visited all the, all the different things had had a great
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time and, and, and actually discussed, you know, the, the
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cauldron, you know, that we, we would pass and, and it was a it
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was an embracement, not just from the Vietnam area people the
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all the way through to present day.
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And, and we, we, we were, it's just an acknowledgement that,
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Hey, I'm, I've got your back and I'll always be there for you.
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And that that's what it is. Hey, it's, it's not just a word.
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It's, it's a, it's an oath that is inbred into you.
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And, and I feel it because I still get messages from my, my
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friends that'll surprise me all the time.
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So hey, we're going to come down, we're, we're going to give
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you this or hey, I'm, I'm thinking about you or you know,
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so it is always faithful. It's always there.
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And what does the Eagle, Globe and Anchor mean to you in your
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life today? In your life today.
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Oh, pride. I can see the EGA and it's it's
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just something that I have pride for myself.
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I have pride for my country and I have pride for if if somebody
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else displaying it, I have pride for them because I know what
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they gave to to get that ETAI know what it means to them.
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I know what it means to to the country.
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So that's that's one of those things for the ETA.
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And what would you say to a veteran who might be, what would
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you say to find their place, who might be struggling to find
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their place after service? After service, reach out 22
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strong, you know, we, you know, there's always somebody that's
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going to be there. Everybody's got their daily life
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and and it pulls you away from from what you think you need to
34:34
do, but you can never be there enough for somebody.
34:39
So reach out, talk to them. You'll find help in different
34:43
different avenues, different ways, people that you never
34:46
thought and it it transcends the services.
34:51
It's not just Marine Corps, it's not just Air Force Navy.
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We give up. We give each branch our own
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little different, you know, hazy, you know, I, you know, the
35:05
department of this see, y'all are just a, a shuttle for us,
35:09
you know, and this and that. But when it comes down to it, we
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all did the same thing. We, we put our hand over there
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and said, hey, we're going to take care of America.
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We're going to take care of the people that are there.
35:19
And that's what it was about. So reach out because we all love
35:24
each other and love the service that we had and that's what we
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want to take care of. We're we're one person, one
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nation, and it's under God. Tell me for you, how was it when
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you came back? Anticipate back.
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Did you already have a job? Did you already have a job in
35:42
place? I, I did not, not when I first
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came back. And it was one of those I still
35:51
confident because, you know, the Marines put in that I, you can
35:55
do anything. You can tackle a tank if you
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want to. So I, I knew that, you know, I,
36:03
I'd be OK. And I, I joined the, the
36:08
Sheriff's Department and it was just a good fit.
36:12
It's one of those things that I I did well in and and was able
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to thrive through. How long did you were you in the
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Sheriff's Department? In the Sheriff's Department.
36:25
I started as a jailer right in 98 and I did everything from Rd.
36:34
officer, investigations, captain, chief, deputy and I
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retired in 2024. Nice.
36:43
Nice, nice, nice. What do you think?
36:50
Communities, communities better to support our veterans, To
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support our veterans. One thing that I I've seen
37:01
through the years is that finding a place, I, I've been a,
37:08
a big part of the Marine Corps League.
37:10
I've been the VFW, I've seen the and and discussed with the
37:17
American Legion and everything as far as that Somebody knows to
37:26
go to go to find these people. Where do they go to actually
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talk to somebody? I would love to see a A by my
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county, a place that housed VFW, American Legion, the Marine
37:49
Corps League, all in one place and, and a veteran can go there
37:53
and say, hey, I want to be a part of this organization so
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that I can continue my brotherhood.
37:58
I continue my service to my community.
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I can, you know, just just be a part of that again.
38:09
So I would that's one to see in in a brick and mortar area where
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they can go. Right, because I noticed a lot
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more VFW are closing. There's a lot more VFW are
38:26
closing. Yes.
38:29
And I, I, I wondered if this is just a, a thought for mine
38:33
because we unfortunately our, our V Vietnam Veterans, the VVA,
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they, they are getting older than dying out and they're
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dissolving. So that's going and a lot of
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those were core members within our VFW's and our American
38:55
Legions and and other the other establishments.
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So we need to find a way to bridge those gaps between those
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to keep these veteran service organizations open for, for the
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ones that need something to continue and give them that that
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that brotherhood that they had before.
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What resources are you familiar with or aware of in your area?
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Oh, well, look like we have VS OS.
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Yeah, we have VS OS in my area. We have some at the county
39:40
administration office that they will sign you up and when you
39:44
get out for medical, they'll help you fill out paperwork for
39:49
education, home loan, all kinds of different things.
39:52
If you go on to theva.com, you got so many different other
39:58
things you can actually get emails that that send you
40:03
updates on everything. So in today's world where the
40:08
Internet as is a influx of information for so many
40:16
different things. But in our area, the VA, the.
40:24
The American Legion, VFW, we got the Marine Corps League and that
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those are the ones that that we have here.
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Nice. If anybody in the comments has
40:43
any questions for go for Beau, go ahead and get those foot out
40:47
there for me now. Go ahead and get those foot out
40:49
there for me now. So Jason says thank you for your
40:56
time and service, Sir. Thank you for your time and
40:58
service, Sir. Semper Fi.
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Semper Fi. Tim Timothy says semper fi Bo.
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Timothy says semper fi Bo. Super fine.
41:09
Jason says also that Alaska is on the bucket list.
41:11
Also that Alaska is on the bucket list for him.
41:15
I and from the central central Alaska to the the the shoreline
41:22
is two different Alaskas too. We went back for a cruise and it
41:26
was totally different. Oh wow, my grandmother was the
41:30
grandmother for the 49er for the 49er in Alaska.
41:35
In Alaska. Nice, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Let's see.
41:41
Did I miss anything? What words do you want to share
41:46
with people about veterans that you think people should know?
41:52
Do you think people should know? Wow.
41:57
People should know, I guess if I was putting it in the aspect of
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what we've been talking about, I would say Memorial Day, really
42:10
reflect back on that and, and think about the, the honors and
42:15
privileges that we are afforded every day of our life.
42:19
The people that we, we pay respects for, they're the ones
42:24
that we owe everything we have. They laid, they laid their lives
42:29
down. They they paid the ultimate
42:32
sacrifice so that we can gripe about things that that, you
42:37
know, really they didn't have a chance to.
42:40
So please take that time to reflect back and, and honor not
42:45
only the the the ones that lost their lives, but the families
42:49
that lost the loved one because they also paid that ultimate
42:56
sacrifice of losing a lot of loved one.
43:01
And then, you know, every veteran that you'll ever come
43:06
across was something else. Proud to serve pretty much.
43:11
We, we, we love America. We love what we're, what it
43:16
stands for. We don't always agree with the,
43:20
the chief staff or, or what's going on, but America and the
43:25
people is, is the core of what we're doing.
43:29
And there are our rights as the people is what we fight for.
43:34
And that that's why it's important that we remember those
43:39
that that came before us. So tell me what you're up to
43:45
nowadays. Tell me what you're up to
43:48
nowadays. Oh, now, well, I, I, I went to
43:53
run for sheriff in Warren County and I lost that, that campaign.
44:01
But I've fought back on teaching scuba diving in Nashville, Scuba
44:07
Nashville and that's what I do now and looking to possibly go
44:17
back to road work with the the Police Department.
44:22
OK, nothing wrong with that. OK, nothing wrong with that.
44:26
Not at all. And you still have that drive to
44:29
serve, that drive to serve and to help.
44:32
Always, always. I think that's one of the things
44:35
that most, most veterans have is a a call to service something,
44:44
no matter what it is. I I need to help somebody do
44:49
something or I want them to see what I saw or I want to help
44:54
them get to where they want to be.
44:57
Yeah, that's that's huge. And you find that in you.
45:00
Can you find that in? They continue to help.
45:02
They continue to help serve their community, their
45:06
community, etcetera. Bo, I'm not seeing any other.
45:12
I'm not seeing any other questions.
45:13
You want to say thank you. You want to say very, very much,
45:16
very, very much time. Mattie, your day.
45:19
Oh, you're great. Thank you.
45:22
And if you want to hold tight for me, if you want to go ahead
45:25
for me, wrap ahead and wrap up and we will be with you in just
45:30
another moment. In just another moment.
45:33
Thank you so much. So for everybody else, for
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everyone to say thank you all for joining tonight.
45:40
Thank you all for joining tonight.
45:42
And with any luck, we can find a guest for next Sunday.
45:47
So just stay tuned. And everybody, please have
45:52
everybody, please. Wonderful.
45:54
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