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00:00The Chinese AGI is tailing us.
00:30Any time you hear that there's an adversary in the same waters as you, you have to immediately think, worst case scenario, how am I going to defend the ship? How am I going to defend American assets?
00:41It's just something to be mindful of. Why are they out here? Why are they so close to us? Like, we are within picture-taking range.
00:51So they just, uh, got us fused your horse. Now they're following us on a parallel course.
00:56Our adversaries are masters of electronic intelligence, and they're always collecting on our transmissions and our waveforms and trying to understand better what you're doing.
01:07When they're trying to get collection on us, we're doing the same thing. It's a little bit of back and forth.
01:11Secure the use of Bluetooth and cell phones throughout the ship.
01:14You're always playing this game of cat and mouse. You know, they watch us and we watch them.
01:19There's always that underlying tension. Is everybody ready to go to full general quarters if they needed to?
01:30Are you ready to fight?
01:32These interactions could go bad.
01:35So it's one of these things that could literally change the course and direction of history, not to mention the fact that this would be two nuclear armed powers going toe-to-toe.
01:44So think about that. Chew on that for a minute.
01:47Are you turning?
01:54They've turned around.
01:56Anything can change.
01:57They can drop with a hat.
02:01And we're not actively in a war right now,
02:03but the world is in such a strange, antagonistic, volatile place
02:10that it may well be a preamble to war.
02:16Could we lose a war with China?
02:19Well, absolutely.
02:21And, you know, it might be just we're like, we lose the war because we're not willing to lose as many soldiers as they're willing to lose.
02:27American society is extremely conscious of American lives.
02:34And I think the American public would be absolutely shocked at the price tag of a full-scale war.
02:429-11, 3,000 people died, and we barely were able to process that psychologically.
02:47What, that happened to us here?
02:49I don't know what we would do in a war where 3,000 soldiers could die in a single day.
02:57You know, 20,000 in a week.
03:00I don't even think the military knows.
03:02I don't think anyone knows how America would react to that.
03:04We'll be back.
03:16Dude.
03:17Freaking.
03:19Did I see those videos of crane stuff?
03:22No.
03:23Dude.
03:24Shit's crazy.
03:26Oh, shit.
03:29Dude, bro, you just got blown to smithereens.
03:32Bro, that's kind of scary, too.
03:34Can you imagine when that shit happens to one of us?
03:37That's wild.
03:39With some grenades?
03:40Yeah, with some nades.
03:44Imagine that being us over there, dude.
03:46Dad, I'd laugh so hard.
03:48I would laugh, too, bro, but, like, damn.
03:51That shit's so fucked up, bro.
04:00I need something that, like, gets my blood pumping, you know?
04:04The idea of two individuals just doing everything they can to best the other.
04:09Oh, shit.
04:12I did it again.
04:13I love the competitiveness of it.
04:19I don't like the idea that there's someone better than me out there.
04:22Like, it just fucking irks me, and I don't know why.
04:25Like, it's just how I am.
04:29I didn't have the best growing-up experience, I guess.
04:32But I don't know if it was something then or what.
04:36But I just wanted to be better than the things I was around, I guess.
04:45I bounced around a lot.
04:46My dad actually was in prison for, like, the majority of my childhood.
04:51And my mom struggled with her own things.
04:55In high school, I got in a big argument with my stepdad, and it got physical, and I got kicked out of the house.
05:02And that's what Roland's family took me in.
05:06He had some personal stuff going on, and he moved in with me.
05:10Now he's part of the family, and parents consider him one of their sons and everything.
05:16Being in the house with Roland, I saw, like, what a real family is supposed to look like.
05:19Alicia and Copan, like, they really took me in as their own.
05:23Look at that.
05:24It just worked out.
05:25My dad.
05:27Like, I was the only father figure I had in my life.
05:30And he was a mermaid.
05:33Just be brave and keep your courage calculated.
05:37Yes, sir.
05:39Courage without calculation will get you hurt.
05:41Yes, sir.
05:43Price was part of our family.
05:46And they went through the whole process together, and I did everything to make sure they was prepared for it.
05:50Because, you know, when I went, I didn't know what I was getting into.
05:54I had no idea.
05:57Going to combat, yeah, there's going to be consequences, whether it be mentally or physically.
06:02And it's the mental stuff that I, me as a parent, worries about most.
06:07Losing your buddies is probably the biggest, toughest thing to deal with.
06:13And so just, like we're talking with Roland Price, it's make sure they're not really prepared, but understand that's a likelihood.
06:21Have you lost buddies?
06:24Yes.
06:26Yes.
06:28Um, it's, you know, whether it be suicide or whatever, but yeah, it's tough.
06:36Yeah.
06:42Copeland had a lot of night terrors, and it scared me to death, and he felt horrible, but they always say they do really good at training these Marines, but they do not train them very well to go back to civilian life.
06:59Family is not just blood, you know.
07:04It's someone who's always there for you no matter what.
07:08Even the fact of them possibly having to go to war, it does, it scares me, you know, as a mom.
07:14I can't imagine those moms that have received a phone call or have had people show up at their doorstep, you know, and I can't, my heart just breaks for those moms.
07:28All right, Team Green Bay, we have the gun shoot on the flight deck.
07:48Stand clear of the flight deck. We'll conduct live fire gunnery exercises.
07:51Hey, hurry the fuck up!
07:54With all training in the Marine Corps, you kind of see a, like, crawl, walk, run mentality.
07:58We have to get a gauge on who are these Marines, and who should we put into what role.
08:03You definitely want to target your high performers, compare all these guys against each other, and see who's ready for the next step of getting promoted and then filling those senior roles.
08:12Yes, we do.
08:14We got this, then.
08:16Better win.
08:18You're ready to win, you know what I mean?
08:21You're gonna reload on the move as you move up to the barricade.
08:24Once you're on the barricade, you can reload with a mag of eight.
08:27Four shots on each target from whatever position you want.
08:31All right, did you listen to a word he just said?
08:33Yes, I did.
08:34All right.
08:35I kind of got lost, like, halfway through, though.
08:37Run it through me.
08:38So you're standing, right?
08:39It's two, two, drop to an E, two, two, reload, run to the barricade, and then it's four and four.
08:46Oh, is it me? Is it me?
08:48Yeah!
08:49Once these are re-faced, you're gonna grab them and pick them up.
08:51All right, are you ready?
08:52Yes, sir.
08:53Again.
09:00Me and Roland compete in every little thing we do.
09:04Price is super driven about being the best.
09:07He wants to be better than everyone.
09:10Once he moved in with me, he got super competitive.
09:16I want to be the best, like, machine gun leader I can be, you know?
09:22I want to lead the best damn gun section I can.
09:26I want to have that responsibility.
09:28And so that's why I cannot fail.
09:36Shit, there's not very many holes in this one.
09:39One, two, three.
09:41Fuck.
09:42Three hits?
09:43Three on this one.
09:44One, two, three, four.
09:47Seven?
09:48Seven hits total?
09:49Damn!
09:50One.
09:51One.
09:52Four.
09:53Three.
09:54One.
09:55One.
09:56One.
09:57Two.
09:58One.
09:59One.
10:00One.
10:01One.
10:02Three.
10:03I think I feel like I did all right.
10:1314.
10:14How many hits, Smith?
10:1514.
10:1614, hey.
10:17Way better than Seymour.
10:18You might need to give him a lesson or two on how to shoot.
10:20Yeah.
10:22It wasn't too bad.
10:24Rolling's great.
10:25Rolling's rolling, you know?
10:27He's fucking doing rolling things.
10:28There's a very low tolerance for failure, there's actually no tolerance for failure,
10:35which is why so much effort is put into training forces.
10:44Really what makes the Marine Corps special is these infantry battalions matched up with
10:49flying squadrons and the relationship between the two units.
10:55The 31st MU has always been at its core about putting a reinforced infantry battalion, a flying
11:01squadron, and logistic support on Navy ships under one headquarters and sending it out
11:08into harm's way.
11:10And, I mean, the jet's just doing so much on so many different levels.
11:16It's advanced data links, intelligence gathering, a full-on fighter.
11:21It's a pretty impressive piece of kit.
11:23It is all about supporting the Marine on the ground so that they're as protected as possible.
11:29They have the support that they need.
11:33There's a high level of trust that goes into that, and you put each other's lives in your
11:37hands so we can make it home to what's the most important part, uh, and make it home to
11:41our families.
11:42I'm Captain Kevin McGinty, callsign Fused, and I'm an F-35 Bravo fighter pilot deployed
11:49on the USS America.
11:54I'm the newest pilot to the squadron that's in this ready room on the boat right now, trying
11:58to prove myself, trying to prove that I can hack it with the rest of them.
12:05That was good.
12:06Coming in for the break.
12:07Yeah.
12:08Worked down well, right?
12:09Shwacked that timing.
12:10I heard my downs.
12:11I heard my downs.
12:12I heard my downs.
12:14I originally went in thinking I wanted to be a Navy fighter pilot, but while I was there,
12:31some of the biggest role models I had were Marines, and then I got orders out to Iwakuni,
12:36Japan, and I've been a Green Knight ever since.
12:39It wasn't until probably getting my callsign that I really felt welcomed into the fold.
12:46You typically earn a callsign by some sort of antics you do, a play on your name, or if
12:53you resemble a certain individual.
12:55So tell me what FUSE means.
12:58Give me a quick version of that.
13:00Yeah, FUSE is an acronym.
13:02Some say I resemble Zac Efron.
13:04That's the second half of the acronym.
13:06The first half of that is classified.
13:08FUSE, so fat, ugly Zac Efron.
13:11It's his call sign.
13:13Call sign.
13:14G-3, 5-3, I'm in here.
13:16Sumo, 5-2, he's got you loud and clear.
13:185-3, I'm at 18-5, inbound for you.
13:205-2, cleared to join, echelon left.
13:21Doing some aerial refueling, it can be a very dangerous task.
13:27There's been accidents around the tankers, so the slightest mistake can't, yeah, can have consequences.
13:34After a desperate search for five Marines missing after a mid-air refueling accident off the coast of Japan,
13:41Their refueling tanker was attempting to refuel an F-18 fighter jet.
13:48When the two airplanes collided.
13:49I would say that's the riskiest part of the mission.
13:55I would say that's the riskiest part of the mission.
13:56Roger, that's right.
13:57Roger you, that's right.
13:58You're ready to kick them out.
13:59Trial left.
14:00Coming out on the right.
14:01Coming out on the right.
14:02Coming out left.
14:03Coming out on the left.
14:04Their refueling tanker was attempting to refuel an F-18 fighter jet
14:10when the two airplanes collided.
14:12I would say that's the riskiest part of the mission today.
14:17Roger, that's right. You ready to kick them out?
14:20Trial left. Coming out on the right.
14:23Coming out right?
14:24902. Coming out on the left.
14:28Panther 5-2, go right to the stern.
14:32That's a 5-10 on the move.
14:34Man, 5-3, you're cleared. Contact left.
14:38We'll see if he hits it.
14:43Swing and a miss right.
14:51I think I'm on the left.
14:58Miss him on the left.
15:01Man, these guys are kind of struggling today.
15:03Wait.
15:046611, this is Japan Satellite, US4.
15:08You are now approaching Japanese airspace.
15:10See you.
15:12I'm awake.
15:12I'm awake.
15:13Flying over.
15:14Northwest of Yonagurimaya.
15:15God damn it, I can't hear anything.
15:206611.
15:20Oh my fucking God!
15:22Can you turn off the car?
15:23Yeah.
15:24Keep on.
15:25Okay, gonna play right.
15:36Contact right.
15:37Speed.
15:44Contact left.
15:45Contact left.
15:46Free.
15:48No player on the left.
15:50Stay on the back.
15:51We're doing four.
15:53Four.
15:54Roger.
15:59Center five.
16:00Three.
16:01Satisfied.
16:02Center five.
16:03Clear disconnect.
16:04Go.
16:05Echelon right.
16:06Center five.
16:07Three.
16:08Quick disconnect.
16:09Echelon right.
16:10You have eight.
16:11Next.
16:12Over.
16:13Help.
16:20We learned a ton, right?
16:21We learned a ton about these constructive kills and it's not a technical problem.
16:35It's a human problem, right?
16:36A lot of the reasons why these things didn't go is because nobody owns it.
16:40There's not unity of command.
16:42It's like a bureaucratic black hole.
16:44So I'm just going to pretend I'm in charge of everything and get on the same page and they'll
16:48do it.
16:49They'll...
16:50I build it.
16:51They'll come.
16:52But that's the way it's gotta be.
16:53Somebody's gotta be in control of this thing.
16:55I mean, the thing that's frustrating, guys, is that this is not a fucking surprise to
17:00anybody.
17:01Sir.
17:02Hey, sir.
17:03Didn't realize you were here.
17:04Chris, you know I've been fucking watching this shit, dude.
17:07You know?
17:08Anyway, I didn't mean to fucking squash the conversation, but I had to fucking play some.
17:13How's it going out there, Chris?
17:15Really good.
17:16Really good.
17:17We learned a ton.
17:18Whether it was command and control, air defense, aviation comms, there's a lot of
17:22things.
17:23You know, just figuring out how to do that and, uh, you know, the rotational nature.
17:26Son of a gun.
17:27So I always want to get going.
17:30Yeah, that was my boss, Lieutenant General Roger Turner, and the purpose of that call
17:36was to explain the certification process and provide a bit of context.
17:41All right.
17:42Where'd you lose me?
17:44With cert-ex, they bring in duty experts.
17:48These are Marines that understand the function of whatever we're doing for that evaluation,
17:54and they understand also how to get feedback to make us better.
17:59And then I'm obviously watching.
18:00Careful, AVO-AI.
18:01I think you're looking at...
18:02A healthy chain of command requires a healthy climate where people have that sense of
18:07psychological safety and trust, and they can say, hey, this isn't right.
18:10We need to fix that.
18:11It's a predictable fucking train wreck.
18:13They put you on the scale.
18:14They test you.
18:15They measure you.
18:16And then they pass judgment on you.
18:18So everybody loves that, right?
18:20Sir.
18:21All right.
18:22All right.
18:23All right.
18:24All right.
18:25All right.
18:26All right.
18:37Yeah, boy!
18:41It's an open deck!
18:43Carry on.
18:44Take your seats.
18:49Green Bay, radio check.
18:50All right.
18:51Good afternoon, gentlemen.
18:52This is the VBSS confirmation brief.
18:53The 31st MUSE VBSS mission, it is the next training event to conduct.
19:02The acronym actually stands for VISIT, Bore Search, and Seizure of Target Vessels,
19:07that you want to know more about, but have to physically occupy and potentially take control of it.
19:12All right.
19:13We will locate and track around objective Echoes.
19:17Initial query is conducted by Green Bay.
19:21Green Bay will take station three to 500 yards off of the VBSS port quarter.
19:26Gentlemen, with clear deck, Panther 5-1 and 5-2 will launch, descending as low as 500 feet to fly over the bow of the ship,
19:36and then climb back to our 6,000 foot and above block.
19:41This phase begins with Alpha Element conducting a fast rub insert out of our MH-60 onto the flight deck.
19:47And then we will begin our movement towards the bridge.
19:51We'll be going out with 41 packs as a raid force, as a sniper platform, and comm strat.
19:56We made a sniper engagement plan with help from my team on the Green Bay to be ready to brief in front of the Mew commander.
20:04How are you feeling about standing in front of the tent?
20:08Depends if you get nervous with shiny collars.
20:11... at the section with Bobcat 8-1. Next slide.
20:14Gentlemen, I will be briefing the sniper engagement plan for our team that is on the Green Bay.
20:19That will be Ronin III, led by Sergeant Owens.
20:22Their purpose is to allow the Green Bay to assume position and to protect the raid force during actions on.
20:28Their weapons, they will have the .50 Cal Sasser and the Mark 22.
20:33Thank you, gentlemen.
20:34Thanks, Miller.
20:35The VBSS team, supported by the ACE, will rapidly seize control of the CCOI in order to set conditions for CPR-11's prize crew.
20:45In reserve, we have CSAR, TRAP, CASVAC, MASCAS, etc.
20:51We are addicted to acronyms.
20:54I think sometimes people think it gives you more authority when you talk like that.
20:57And then I always find it's interesting.
20:59Usually I'll ask if you know what the acronym means.
21:01That's a good rule.
21:02If you don't know what the acronym actually stands for, you probably shouldn't use it.
21:06I can't remember what all the VBSS stands for.
21:09There's so many acronyms that I know what stuff is.
21:11But when people tell me, like, what does it stand for?
21:13I'm like, I don't know.
21:14It's something like Vehicle Born Search and Seizure, or Boarding Search and Seizure.
21:20It's something like that.
21:21I'm gonna look so stupid.
21:23Yes, it's visit.
21:25Yeah.
21:26Visit.
21:27We're just here to visit.
21:29That's all.
21:30You know?
21:31We don't want to impose.
21:32We're just gonna visit for a bit.
21:34And then we're gonna board it.
21:35We're gonna search it, whether you want us to or not.
21:37And then we're gonna seize it.
21:38Which usually implies just a nice little visit.
21:40You know what?
21:41Do you want some of those?
21:42Put it on the cantaloupe.
21:43Do it.
21:44Okay.
21:45Now.
21:46Do it now.
21:47It's not gonna be any good.
21:48Here we are, on the mess deck.
21:49This is the one mostly for the peasants and whatnot.
21:50Like the lower ranking steerage that hardly counts as a life form.
21:56Look, here's some of the lower life forms now.
21:58Look at them.
21:59Hell yeah.
22:00So over here, the first class petty officer association mess.
22:04It's in this little slanty door.
22:06and it's just something special.
22:28It's just a smaller area to eat in.
22:30TV in the corner, you're gonna want to see it.
22:32It's a big one.
22:34The next echelon up in culinary care, the chief's mess.
22:39So this door with the real pagan-looking symbols there,
22:45it's for, like, people who outrank me by, like, one rank.
22:49It is goofy, like, the arbitrary separations
22:52of who can eat where or whatever.
22:56All right, so coming in here is the ward room.
23:00Again, I'm not really technically allowed in here,
23:03but you can look in, uh, and that's where all the officers eat.
23:09But they'll have, like, enlisted dudes walking around
23:12with, like, a white cloth napkin and draped over their arm.
23:16Like, I don't know, more Coca-Cola, sir.
23:18So this is just for officers.
23:20So if any enlisted dude were, like, come up here
23:23and try and sit down and, like, rub shoulders with the shiny,
23:26you'd be demoted and then thrown overboard
23:29to think about what you did.
23:31And then they may turn the ship around
23:33and pick you back up, or they may not.
23:38Sir, come up.
23:41See? You hear that?
23:42We were coming from the ward room,
23:43and that chief called me sir.
23:44He assumed I'm an officer.
23:46One, I look old, and two, we came from the ward room.
23:50Because I'm enlisted, I'll never be able to sit down there
23:52with that demographic of people in the military.
23:57You'd have to get a college degree.
23:59I hate computers.
24:01And I'm too old.
24:03I'm too old with too many dependents
24:04to try and start over with something else.
24:08Hey, what's up?
24:09Yeah, officer, probably not the best route for me.
24:13They don't want me in charge of too many people,
24:15because I don't color in the lines too well.
24:22I got in with Party Boy Jeff.
24:24I'm hunting for fat bitches on.
24:27Hey, flash your crop top, Jeff.
24:32You're reading the Louis L'Amour book.
24:34Yeah, I got a whole book.
24:35Well, do you tell? Do you really?
24:36Yeah, you want some?
24:39Well, Dead Gum, not only is it probably about
24:41the Wild West's fastest gun,
24:44but it's also America's fastest-selling Western writer.
24:48This one's the first time there's a paperback.
24:50Is that right?
24:52I'm a big dreamer, and I love writing,
24:55and I love poetry, and I love books.
24:57The last snow.
24:59Global warming is a thing, ain't it?
25:00I tell... John Messman was ahead of his time.
25:03Right?
25:05Roos, he's a trip.
25:08A young buck who's gotten into this whole Western motif,
25:13and that's cool. That's cool.
25:16But guys will pick on him from time to time,
25:18like we pick on everybody.
25:20Roos, does this give you flashbacks, bro?
25:22Yeah, he's locked in.
25:24Oh, he's locked in, dude.
25:26The c-c-cowboy.
25:29What's up?
25:31He's getting as much of this conversation
25:32as he would if he didn't have his headphones in.
25:34I'm very old-school.
25:38Like, if I had the option,
25:40I'd go back to, like, the mid-1800s
25:43if I really could.
25:44Like, straight up.
25:48I fantasize about living in those times,
25:50running off from the law, falling in love.
25:55You know, you read these stories of, like,
25:57how men were back then,
25:59and I was like, man, those guys were true men.
26:01Guys who had to figure things out,
26:03they had to protect their family.
26:07I got a big family back home.
26:10It's hard being away,
26:12but I feel like being here,
26:14I'm protecting them to my fullest capability.
26:27Can't wait till Logan's home
26:28so we can go to the farm ponds.
26:30Yeah, well, he'll be getting home
26:32beginning of fall-ish,
26:35so we'll be able to crappie fish.
26:38Then he's gonna have dad to drink
26:41the beer on the side.
26:43Oh, yeah, he's gonna have to drink
26:44his Pabst Blue Ribbon
26:45that we've been saving for him.
26:49We were all missing Logan.
26:52Not just myself, but everybody.
26:54The neighbors, friends, family.
26:56And I have a friend that works at a printing place
27:00here in town in Morris,
27:01and she helped me print this out.
27:04He actually goes everywhere with us.
27:06He goes to birthday parties, graduations.
27:11He was a rough-and-tumble kid.
27:12I don't want to say he was a loose cannon.
27:14He might tell you that he was a loose cannon.
27:16You know, but nothing in his younger years
27:20ever told me that he wanted to shoot people
27:23and be lethal.
27:25I really don't know where that exactly came from
27:28or where it happened in his timeline
27:31of being a youngster.
27:32I know he watched all the war movies
27:37and picturing himself, like, going out there
27:40on the front lines, you know, giving your all,
27:42maybe giving your life, and he would always be, like,
27:45looking up the different battles and stuff like that.
27:49I think I introduced him to his first 20-gauge shotgun
27:53when he was six.
27:55Like the wind, he just took off with it.
27:57You know, he shot his first deer.
27:59He shot squirrels, rabbits, pheasant.
28:04Uh, he found a love for it.
28:13I want to join the Marines, kill bad people.
28:18Tell me what you know about the Marines.
28:21Um, guns, fighting, shooting, killing,
28:25training, getting jacked.
28:29You're probably gonna die in it.
28:34You know, him choosing to be a Marine Scout sniper,
28:37I was so proud.
28:38I watched my little boy become a man.
28:45I know he understood the dangers of it, and that you're trained
28:52to kill people.
28:53And that's...
28:55I just, I supported it.
28:59Yeah, it was good.
29:00I've been reading cowboy short stories now.
29:01Can you get a picture of us?
29:02Like...
29:03But there is that...
29:04I like to call it, like, that Billy the Kid side of me, where I'm like,
29:08fuck, I just want to go out guns blazing and do the job I've been trained to do.
29:14Like, stacking bodies with the boys, that's like the whole, the whole of, you know, in the chest and the heart, um, feeling about it.
29:29Green Bay, this is really you.
29:31Green Bay has received warnings on fast-to-be-abound antenna craft.
29:36Ascending at the Green Bay operator.
29:38Send DATF alert to 60.
29:40Send DATF alert to 60.
29:4160?
29:42Yeah, we jumped right to 60.
29:43All right, to be armed.
29:44Oh, yeah, you guys ready?
29:45Yeah.
29:46All right, let's do it.
29:47There are various little exercises that we get to participate in, including DATF.
29:53DATF is Defense of the Amphibious Task Force, and that is taking our naval assets, the ships, weapons systems, our guns, and combining it with all of the Marine Corps assets.
30:06If there's some hostile naval force coming that we can detect, we need to be ready to defend the ship.
30:13If somebody decides they want to pop shots at the USS Green Bay, like, gotta deal with us first, you know?
30:19So DATF usually is just playing against the clock.
30:24How long will it take us to get the weapons, notify the personnel, get ammunition, and then get everything situated and in place in order to defend the ship?
30:36You can't want to kill people and go to war and then be bad at it.
30:45You gotta train for that so we can get it right.
30:48You know, you talk about fighting and winning, and that really means killing.
30:54And that's a hard thing to talk about.
31:00But you have to accept the reality of this business.
31:05We spend a lot of time and effort on generating lethality and preparing and practicing.
31:11And you have to be kind of bloody-minded about these things.
31:13The point of this whole thing is to kill our enemies and destroy their things.
31:21And you gotta think that the adversaries out there are doing the same thing.
31:24Like, they are practicing right now to kill you.
31:26I'm gonna kill you.
31:40T.T. free, guys. Cap here.
31:41Just want to, uh, touch base with everybody.
31:44As we head south and stretch our sea legs a little bit, we're expecting to get some, some heavier seas.
31:49Uh, we are expecting today to encounter the seas that are upwards of about eight to nine feet.
31:57So it's time to make sure that things are stowed properly and that we are ready for that.
32:02For those that are prone to seasickness, that's what scopalamin is for.
32:06Let's put those patches on and be ready to go.
32:10Check now.
32:14All right, what's going on with our new friend up here?
32:17Have I?
32:18Of how long till we intercept track and change course?
32:21Seven minutes, ma'am.
32:22Okay.
32:23So just, right, so they're coming this way, but in seven minutes, we're gonna go back that way.
32:30The last couple days have been really long days.
32:33Early, early mornings, late, late nights.
32:34And every day, it's just, all right, we gotta keep going.
32:37It sounds dark, but there is no end to the tunnel.
32:41Which is why I just keep running at the next milestone.
32:45Well, the next milestone for me, I guess, would be, um, would be command at sea.
32:53My goal is to become a captain of a ship.
32:56Next time.
32:57Next time.
32:58Next time.
32:59Next time.
33:00Next time.
33:01XO executive officer runs all the admin schedules timeline for the ship.
33:05So every time I come up here, it's a line out her door, uh, for people wanting to actually talk to her.
33:10So it can be a struggle to get in her ear, but, uh, you just gotta wait it out.
33:14Yeah.
33:15We're gonna check in the other one.
33:16I think it's an easy fix.
33:17And I think it's just, it's just comms.
33:18Yeah.
33:19It's the easiest thing ever.
33:20When I came into this office, the first thing I did was, like, I put up pictures of the baby and my husband.
33:25But I read a lot of leadership and management books and they talk about how when you're a woman, they tell you not to put pictures of your family up because it makes you seem uncommitted to the job.
33:38For men, they actually recommend that men have pictures of their family in their offices because it makes them seem trustworthy.
33:44Good morning.
33:45How are you?
33:46Good.
33:47I think it's very important for the women on board to exceed the standard so that we can prove our place on board.
33:59Take station about our vessel.
34:01Over.
34:02Take station about our vessel.
34:03Over.
34:04There's a certain amount of exercises that we have to do to get certified as a mew.
34:19So we practice ad nauseam because the goal here is to always try to improve in your craft.
34:27The fighter pilots are actually the jet guys.
34:36What I am is an attack helicopter pilot.
34:41The one specifically that I fly is a utility helicopter.
34:45Is a jack of all trades.
34:48We try to be a master at all of them.
34:51What makes you badass?
34:53What makes us badass?
34:55I fly quite possibly the most historic aircraft in the United States Marine Corps.
35:02My squadron has been around since Vietnam.
35:06They have fought multiple places from the Middle East to supporting natural disaster events.
35:15We have the most professional, hard-charging instructor pilots, and it's a culture that starts from your very first brief.
35:24Mike, do you have your model?
35:29You have ten minutes.
35:31We are making little helicopter models for the walk-through we're about to do.
35:37Oh, you did it 3D.
35:39Yeah.
35:40That's pretty good.
35:41You're sucks, dude.
35:43Dad just got hit.
35:46You know, people call me dad.
35:49It's kind of weird.
35:50I'm not a dad.
35:51I've never been a dad.
35:52Never been married.
35:53So it's pretty funny whenever everyone asks me, like, how that came about.
35:58What's it stand for?
35:59Yeah.
36:00It's a...
36:01It's a deep dark time in my life.
36:05Well, all right, all right.
36:07So I was a younger co-pilot on a long, fun night out.
36:12My friends sent me home in a cab, and everything that comes after the cab, uh, is where my call sign comes from.
36:18Sorry, Mom, but, uh, unfortunately it stands for drunk and disorderly.
36:21Yeah.
36:22Cool.
36:23What's that over there?
36:25No one should like your call sign, but once you get it, like, you own up to your mistakes and just kind of push on with it.
36:35Leadership comes in a bunch of different forms, and one form that I learned is that you're going to mess up, but two, that it's okay to come back from it.
36:46You know, like, that it's okay to work hard and to prove that that's not the stereotype that, uh, that will follow you.
36:52All right, so the walkthrough is exactly the same as the flight is going to be.
36:57The more realistic you can make your sticks and make the walkthrough, the more accurate it's going to be for real life.
37:03Start time.
37:04Drop the power.
37:05Over.
37:06Back.
37:07Turn.
37:08Turn.
37:09He's at your nine.
37:10Keep pulling.
37:11Keep pulling.
37:12Keep pulling.
37:13Get the lead.
37:14Get the lead.
37:15There's a sense of pride that comes whenever you send off an aircraft for a big mission or an aircraft that hasn't flown for a while.
37:20And being able to be one of the pilots that gets to do that, it's an honor.
37:24Now he starts to increase altitude and decrease while he's able to turn.
37:29If he puts both of you on one side, that is, like, the most unideal scenario, because then he's going to probably be on the outside shooting through you.
37:41The last thing 14-year-old me would have thought would have been, hey, you're going to join the Marine Corps and fly attack helicopters and shoot things and work with some of the coolest people that you've ever worked with.
37:53And I think if 14-year-old me can see me now, he'd be pretty stoked on that.
38:02Good morning, Team Green Bay.
38:04On today's plan of the day, we have VBSN mission and flight work window starting at 1,200.
38:09Go, pack, go.
38:11Hey, fellas, start getting your stuff together.
38:13They're expecting us on the bridge.
38:14Time now.
38:15Yeah.
38:16No killing stuff.
38:17Stay back.
38:18Just a quick couple of notes.
38:19We're going to go rendezvous with the ship, do a VBSN visit port search and seizure event.
38:29The VBSN we're going to be conducting is a practice raid with the Marines to go board another vessel.
38:37It is dangerous in a lot of ways, because we get in pretty close to the other ship.
38:42It's a really good training exercise for both the blue and the green side to work together.
38:47Number one, kick us.
38:48Number two, take names.
38:49Number three, have fun.
38:51Number four, be safe.
38:52Number five, repeat.
38:58My exercise is going to be high stress.
39:01I mean, it really is the culmination of everything that we've worked up to until this point.
39:09What's going on?
39:10What's going on now?
39:11We're active.
39:12We've got three jets that are setting it right out right now.
39:14We're active.
39:15Fly quarters, fly quarters.
39:18Man your fly quarters station.
39:19Fly second catwalk.
39:20Fly quarters.
39:21Flying the F-35 Bravo.
39:23Going to go thump the ship.
39:26It means we're going to do a low altitude, higher speed flyby of the vessel that we're going
39:35after today.
39:36If there's hostile targets or they come in contact with enemy forces, we're able to still remain
39:41overhead to provide close air support.
39:43Good afternoon, Captain Reese.
39:44I am going to be Bobcat A-3.
39:45Bobcat A-3, fly second.
39:46Come on in here.
39:47Router break in three, two, one.
39:48Router break in three, two, one.
39:49Router break in three, two, one.
39:53Router break in three, two, one.
39:54Router break in three, two, one.
40:00Router break in three, two, one.
40:01Jay boom!
40:32We're at 300 feet, speeding up to 100 knots.
41:02I've got a telecast, too.
41:05Hey, here comes Spitz Link.
41:07Dude, they're close as shit.
41:08Yeah, they are.
41:10Here comes the Raid Force.
41:11Raid Force.
41:12Oh, that's dope as fuck.
41:13They're moving.
41:15Yo, that pilot is cooking.
41:20Raid Force, expedition, over.
41:24The Maritime Raid Force will be the ones that are going on the ship, kicking down doors.
41:33But my teams will be supporting with precision fire.
41:37We have one of my teams, Ronin 1, on aerial sniper on the Huey.
41:42And then we have Ronin 3, on the LPD, providing security for the Raid Force.
41:52Most importantly, when the Raid Force is getting onto the ship, that's when they're most vulnerable.
41:56Fuck yeah.
42:02All right, look alive.
42:03Get ready for call-outs.
42:04Make sure you're checking all that shit.
42:05Make sure there ain't no one pointing guns at them.
42:09I've got two and one-one.
42:12Armed.
42:12No.
42:16I see him.
42:17Stay on.
42:20For the purpose of the training exercise, it will be a mixture of enemy and civilian roleplayers over there.
42:26They'll be given fake weapons.
42:28We have to deduce who is who.
42:30You got to be careful.
42:31You know, you can't be just shooting the people on the ship you're trying to save.
42:37We can't tell currently.
42:38There's no weapons to be seen right now.
42:41This feels crazy as fuck.
42:42Blowjack Stern, I got a guy with a gun.
42:45He's laying down.
42:47He's laying on his back.
42:48He's laying on his back?
42:49Yeah, he just walked down on the gun and laid down on his back.
42:52Yeah.
42:53There's two more just popped out, one-one.
42:55Yeah.
42:56Two rifles.
42:57Two rifles.
42:58Three rifles.
43:02All right, you saw that guy just walk behind that pillar with two rifles?
43:05Yeah.
43:06You staying on him?
43:07Yeah, I'm on him.
43:08All right, I got the guy who came moving.
43:09Yeah, he's just hiding behind that pillar,
43:11and he's got two M4s, one in each hand.
43:14Looks like he's waiting to ambush.
43:16Hey, ask if I can engage that guy.
43:18He looks like he has hostile intent.
43:20Sir, so those aren't people we saw on the lower deck.
43:22They just took two rifles and four personnel and pushed into the pilot house.
43:25Like enemy?
43:25Uh, we assume combatants is based on the, uh, the rifles.
43:28Yeah.
43:33Okay, confirmed.
43:34Target is neutralized.
43:36Okay, go back to your sector.
43:38Hey, that 25-mile bike is up!
43:40It's our 25-millimeter cannon.
43:41Okay, we got to do something on that.
43:41All right.
43:42Hey, 25-mile bike's up now.
43:43It's oriented at the helos right now.
43:47Can we request permission to engage?
43:48Bobcat is three, DS5.
43:4925-mile bike's immediately below you.
43:50Suggest increased altitude to clear line of fire for sniper.
43:52Got me, y'all.
43:53Um, okay.
43:54Can we do it?
43:55Can we do it?
43:56Can we do it?
43:57Can we do it?
43:58Can we do it?
43:59Bobcat is three, DS5.
44:0025-mile bike's immediately below you.
44:03Suggest increased altitude to clear line of fire for sniper.
44:08Got me, y'all.
44:10Um, okay.
44:12Yeah, I got it.
44:18Yeah, I got it.
44:22Bobcat is three, DS5.
44:2425-mile bike's immediately below you.
44:2825-mile bike's immediately below you.
44:31Copy.
44:32Okay, copy.
44:33Copy.
44:40Rape Force is at the bridge.
44:49They've got the key spaces.
44:51All of them?
44:51Yeah.
44:52Whoa.
44:53Roger.
44:55Is that the area we're leaving?
44:57Looks like they are.
44:58You know, I think we've done well up to this point.
45:09But championship teams rarely win two championships in a row, and that's because they stopped doing
45:15the things that got them to the championship.
45:18And if you do something again and again and again and nothing happens, it's easy to get
45:22lulled into a sense of complacency and not treat these events with the proper degree of respect.
45:28It went pretty smooth.
45:29It went pretty smooth.
45:30Communication between the team was pretty good.
45:32Getting behind a long gun and pointing at another ship, that's always fun.
45:36I wish we just had a chance to actually shoot somebody.
45:39I'm gonna get pissed off by throwing this fucking gun off with me attached to it.
45:45That was fucking fast.
45:46Very fast.
45:47Would've been nice if we could've taken a couple more shots, but it didn't make sense in the
45:52scenario, so we didn't do it.
45:54So whenever you spend months on a boat and all you've done is work out and eat and read,
46:00you're craving for something that seems worthwhile to do.
46:04One day we're all gonna die.
46:08I don't wanna die in some car accident or a disease or cancer or some slow death.
46:13It's like I wanna embrace death to, like, the fullest.
46:17You know what I mean?
46:18Like, I feel like there's nothing more honorable than going out at a battle where you have more
46:26of a purpose, you know?
46:29I just wanna feel like I've done my part.
46:31I've done my job, and I wanna feel validated as a Marine.
46:39Really, we're all kinda in that same boat that a big part of you wants it.
46:46A big part of you wants that conflict.
46:47You wanna know that you have what it takes, that the other dude on the other side of the battlefield,
46:52he's trying to do the same thing you're trying to do to him, and, like, the prize and the consequence
46:58is the greatest out of any contest.
47:01It's not a matter of a scoreboard.
47:02It's not bragging rights.
47:03It's who gets to live and who dies.
47:06And I think testing yourself in that way is something that a lot of men hunger for.
47:15Ah, my mind keeps going to, uh, Colin Team.
47:25He was in Charlie Company with me.
47:27Goofy dude.
47:29Uh, he could make anybody laugh.
47:31He had, like, this big, tough-to-like curly hair.
47:34He was a machine gunner, and he wanted to do machine gunnery things.
47:39So he got out.
47:41Well, an opportunity came up for him to be able to go help out in Ukraine.
47:46And I know a big part of him took it because, like, I dedicated this many years out of my young life,
47:53his early 20s, to learn how to do this.
47:56But this is my last opportunity to experience what I signed up for.
48:00Um, found himself in a machine gun position and being overrun by Russians.
48:07Yeah, but then that kid...
48:24He could have run off at any time.
48:26He could have displaced.
48:27He knew how to do that.
48:29But he essentially made a promise that he was gonna hold that piece of ground,
48:34with machine guns like the cornerstone of a defense,
48:37and he didn't give it up.
48:44When people sign up for the military,
48:47they're thinking,
48:48I will prove myself to myself.
48:51That I'm worthy.
48:53That I'm courageous.
48:54That I'm brave.
48:56That I'm strong.
48:59But in order to do that,
49:01you have to kind of want to wind up in combat.
49:03It's a kind of rite of passage.
49:06So I've heard that there are support groups for people who haven't seen combat.
49:11You know, it's a sort of strange mirror image of the support groups
49:16for people who have seen combat who are traumatized.
49:18And it's interesting that there's an equivalent trauma,
49:22which is one of shame.
49:24I'm ashamed that I didn't do more.
49:26I'm ashamed when someone tells me I'm a hero and buys me a drink.
49:31And, I mean, shame is one of the most devastating human feelings.
49:35And really crippling.
49:36How will you find purpose if not in combat?
49:43You can combat.
49:44Okay.
49:45Okay.
49:46Okay.
49:47Okay.
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