The American Military Brit

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This is the American military Britt,

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shedding light on the realities of military life. Now, here's your host, US Air Force Staff Sergeant Christopher Clark. Hello, and welcome to the American military Brit podcast. This is a podcast where we talk to different military members to figure out the full story about the military, not just the rumors, but the actual story from those who were there and took part in military service.

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Hello, everyone. This is the American military Brit podcast. So for the podcast today, we've got a special guest. It's funny, and I joke with this guy, and I say like, it was good to have him on the podcast. Because I often ask people, we're both in the Air Force Reserves. And I often ask people, like, who has the better voice are the two of us, because it's like, you know, people say I've got the accent and all that stuff. But this guy, like, if I had an American accent, or an American voice, I would want to like sound like this guy, to be honest. So let's just begin. We got Eric on the show today. So let's just begin with just kind of tell people who you are and like what you do and stuff like that, man, I appreciate it. Yeah, so my name is Eric love and good. Reservists out here at Nellis Air Force Base. come from a pretty big family. I'm one of 11 kids. So we hail out of Peoria, Illinois. Got two kids, Man Ray trying to raise them little Joker's man been in the military? It would be was it 17 years in in September, so I don't have too much longer. But I did that I've done us to combo split I did about eight and a half years on active duty. And then the rest I'm just fulfilling in the reserves right now. So

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and then like, what do you because I know we've spoken a little bit like as far as what you do. I know you do like voiceover work, because I was like trying to get into that stuff as well. But obviously I'm not in any way, shape or form. Yeah.

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I've just been dipping into it. But I know. You said you've done a couple of commercial Yeah. So. So I have I've been doing it for probably like,

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let's, let's say, easy five years now or something like that a little bit, probably a little bit more. A little brother actually got me into it. He has a kind of a deep voice like us. But it's it's more distinct. He has he has a we were talking about before this. He's actually on TV. He's a news anchor in Raleigh, North Carolina. So he just has that voice or whatever, man. And I remember one time I was back home visited him before he had moved and he was like, Man, you ever thought about you know, doing, you know, voiceovers? And like not I really mean. He said, No, dude, he's like, you really, you should probably look into it. So he's kind of telling me the setup of the things that he did. And so I looked it up in Vegas, and I actually found a a teacher here. Her name is Melissa, most man I love that lady. Yeah, she's a she's a part of the voice actor studio. And so I went to the first class, it was kind of like an introduction into voiceover. And if you didn't like it, you just didn't like it, you know, and you just kept moving on. But if you did, she kind of helped you out of like, where your voice would be most appropriate at. All right? So I took the classes and everything like that. And at the end of my classes, she was like, Well, you know, your voice would be really good on commercials. She said, especially car commercials,

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you know, doing and she told me to look into live announcements and stuff like that. So I've been dabbling in and out of it. And so I started kind of looking online doing some stuff, and some people reached out to me, man, so I've done like I said, I've done a couple of commercials overseas. I've voiced characters in video games, for like a little games on the phone and stuff like that, like in life, stuff like that.

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One of the more recent ones I've done I did to just I just did a commercial spot for a local radio station here in Las Vegas. So I've done some things man and I love it man. It is really if I if I could do that full time man that that'd be great, man. But I'm a contractor for the government right now. It's but the goal is to do that. If I can you know what I mean? You can you can earn some money in that as well, man, like, but yeah, your contracting job. Like what is that? What is it so so I can't say what it is. But so yeah, so I've done I've been doing effort, man. Shoot nine almost 10 years now, man. Yeah, so I

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was able to secure that job. Oh, when I came off active duty man, I've just been doing it ever since. So it's cool, man. It's real cool. See, this is the thing about US military guys. Man. There's a lot of stuff. We have to keep a seat. Oh, yeah. Whatever. It's classified or whatever. But one thing is well, I'm gonna ask you about here like your How did you get into the military? Like what made you Was there a specific moment because a lot of us have moments in our life. Like, you know what? My life sucks. I'm just gonna go join the military or join the Air Force or whatever. So was there a moment in

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your life where you like film, my older brothers. Two of them were in the military and my older brother Brian, he's still in right now. He's a captain in the guard. And I remember watching him get deployed in like, kind of doing his thing getting traveling and stuff. And so it interested interested me. And so, when I was in high school, the, you know, all the branches come around high school, and they're like they started trying to peddle you know, you know, a cone or a arm, you come here for coming to blah, blah, blah. And the one people that didn't show it was the Air Force. So the Army showed up Navy soda, marine soda. And so I'm like, man, we're like my brother. I knew he was in the Air Force. I know, there's a local thing around there. So I went to their office, and I'm like, Hey, man, why don't just show up to the he's like a smart ones come here.

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I'm always curious about people's basic training experience, because me personally, I didn't get yelled at that much. To be honest, I didn't really have too much. It was always things happening to other people, because I would laugh all the time. Yeah. When we were marching, he'd be yelling at people while we were marching, and I'd just be laughing the whole time. So I'm always I'm always just curious about how people's basic training and like, tech school, you know, I hate tech school. But anyway, people have already heard enough of that. So yes, your What was your experience like? So interestingly enough, like I said, I'm from pure Illinois. So it's about an hour and a half, two hours outside of Chicago. And so, the day that I was supposed to leave to go to basic training, I was supposed to meet my recruiter. So I pulled up and everything I say, I got dropped off. And inside, there's a limousine parked outside. And I'm like, oh, shoot, man. That's pretty cool. Therefore, he lit it up for you. Oh, really? He was like, yeah, he was like he said, the driver knows to pull over and pull up. Get you some peace on the way up, man. And so I actually drove up to get to go to Chicago was to leave out of Chicago. I had pizza on the way and it was the same year that the the White Sox had won the World Series. So I didn't sleep that night, man, and I'm a White Sox fan. So

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but we left that night, you know what I mean? So we leave Chicago, land in San Antonio. You know, they bus us down to the you know, the one thing and so I was in a 326 I think it was and it was in the middle of night. You know what I mean? It was high. I went through I went during September. So it was it was burning up man. And so I remember I had my I had a tank top one, or like a they call it wife beater or whatever. So I had that one, but I had another shirt on top of that. So it's getting hot man. And I'm like, Dude, I'm sweating like most I take that off and I'm just standing my wife beater. And certain Boone man, he wasn't my TI but he's my brother flight ti big dude, man. I mean, that's one of the biggest humans I've ever seen in my life. He used to play for the Miami Hurricanes and only reason why we know this because during our downtime, he was so so many his highlights and dude was a monster who was six foot six to 80 something man, just a beast man. And I remember I took off my shirt and he so my TI wasn't there the night that I got there. And so he brought us upstairs and we were standing against our lockers and everything. So I take my shirt off, and he's a muscles

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so he started laying it to me, man. And so

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we're sitting there, you know what I mean? And we're waiting there. We really don't know what to do because RTI is not there. So he said, Man, you have to be here in the morning, Welcome to hell and he slams the door or whatever. Right? So throughout throughout all the while I'm in basic training, RTI finally gets there like and it's like a couple of days later so I didn't even meet my TI until like two or three days late. I don't know what was going on. But we just did meet him he was the name of stars and green. So we finally meet him we're all in the day room. And he's passing out jobs to everybody right? Everybody has a job or whatever. And for whatever reason, he just skips over me. And so for like three weeks I didn't have a job so I everybody's out doing like latrine duty. It is sweet minister. I'm walking around just socialize. What's up with you man? How you doing? It was good with you. Boy, you have a job.

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Why do you think that was just because like maybe the other guy told him? I do. I have no idea but I literally I didn't have a job for like three weeks straight man. And so

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after about the third week, we're in the day room. And we're it was mail time so we're open up our mail read our mail or whatever man in our dorm chief at the time I got some trouble for something I really don't remember. And so I'm sitting there you know, I'm talking to one of my boys and then one thing he said Hey, hey you what's your job? And I'm looking around like Who me?

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Yeah, you wait a Oh, like odd I don't know. He said you the new dorm chief? I was doing it for the rest of the time after that.

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Yeah, that's crazy. Oh, yeah, cuz you said the dorm chief got in trouble Yeah, he got in trouble. Yeah, yeah. So they may he'll they slid him to the element leader. And then they made me the dorm chief is all dorm chief for the rest of the time for our flight man. Because I was doing chief I had to eat by myself. I couldn't eat with anybody else man.

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And after after I forget what week it is that you get your nametag or whatever man. I remember. I was in I was sitting down man and my TI he was like dorm chief. Cover your nametag up. Come here. Oh shoot, man. So my last name is loving good. And so I cover my nametag up. I stand in and there's like three female ti sitting at the snake pit with him whatever. So he was at he's a Hey, ladies. What do you think this good looking young man last name isn't a lie. Oh, damn weird and stupid and all this stuff or whatever. So I've moved my name and they were like loving good. What do you think you Oh, it was as our day starts around and we do it all by guys, man. Hey, man, I can't complain, man. Back to train. It was kind of cool.

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Let me tell this because I don't think I mentioned the story in the snake pit. Right. So the snake pit is like you go there and it's all the tea is sitting in the what is the

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chow hall whatever. And my mighty I did this to me once mine because everybody knew I had a British accent. Yeah. So he brought me over to the snake pit. And he's he's just like, you know, I do try it. Sir trainee Clark reports as ordered and like, he's like, let's listen to this form.

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And one of the guys is just like, what, what did you just say? And they just like kind of, you know, they're just of course just making fun of me because I'm

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just I realized I've never I don't think I've told that story on this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. So you went What? What year did you go through? So I went through basic training in? Oh, six. Okay. Oh, six. So you were there in September, September. You left in like maybe what? It was like the first week of October?

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Yeah, yeah. So it was only six weeks. Six weeks? Yeah. So six weeks. So I left in September. Let them like the first week of October because I remember was my birthday. During that time that I live and interestingly enough, like I said, it was October. I mean, so it was still hot. But the day that we graduated

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we did the there's that run that you do afterwards. Running? Yeah, the Emerald it snowed. This notice in its own Yo dude, I had never seen that before, man. So that and then it got hot again, like the next day or whatever, man. And so we did that. We hopped on the bus and my tech school was in Keesler. So we didn't have to fly anywhere. I just I just took the bus. And you know, we stopped in shown ease on the way and then we you know, we ended up at Keesler Air Force Base. And so when I got the Kiesler there were too many.

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There are too many of us in this class. And so when I remember when they were telling everybody when their class dates, they didn't tell me anything. And so one of the mtos came to me and it was like, Hey, we got to meet people. You're gonna have to wait until the next round of classes or whatever, right? So for six, six weeks, I do nothing but lift weights and eat man.

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Same thing happened to me as well. Did they not put you on like, no detail? We were we were Washington con No, sir. No, dude, I literally got up. I went to breakfast. I went worked out and I chill for the rest of the day, dude.

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Obviously, we're both. We're both in the reserves. Now for everyone, just like we're both at Nellis. That's our like, Assignment Now, if you will. But I know you said you were active duty before. So I'm just kind of curious. Like, what was your What was your first base after so? So after tech school, I went down to I was stationed in Little Rock Air Force base down there in Arkansas. So I was down there for Oh, shoot. That was like five and a half years or something like that. Yeah, yeah. So I was there. I was there. Yeah, they could they kept telling me there though. It probably won't be like, you know, four years or something like that. But ended up being like five and a half. So yeah, I was down there. That was my first assignment, man. So yeah, it was like what was what was after that? So after that, I got a I got this phone call one day, man, right out of nowhere. And they were like, Hey, we do you know, some special projects, blah, blah, blah, would you be interested in doing it. And at the time,

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I had already been deployed. And I miss my son's birth. And so in order to not get deployed again, I had the option because I didn't know where I was going after a little rock or whatever, right. And so I had the option to either do that as a four year control tour, because at the time I was married, and I was like, Well, I don't want to miss my son's birth again. So I'll take this job that way. I know I'm controlled. I don't have to deploy, you know, and I can actually see my, you know, be there for my son's birth. So they're like, some people told you about us. Army. Some people told us about you. We heard that you're good at what you do. Would you be interested in this job? And I was like, oh,

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we'll see. You know what I mean? So they flew out. They met me at a Starbucks owner at Little Rock Air Force Base. Never met this guy before. It didn't know what he looked like. He just he came up to me and he was like, Yeah, man. This is what he's I can't tell you what you're gonna be doing.

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But it's going to be in Las Vegas and blah, blah, blah, this and that. And he said, so would you be interested? I was like, No, that's right, man. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that's how I came out here, man. And I've been doing that. Doing that for quite some time. Oh, wow. Okay, so yeah, this this dude's full of secrets.

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But no, like, Arkansas. So I was because, like, I had a similar situation where, you know, I don't know about you, but I wanted to go overseas, because, you know, everybody was everybody was getting like Germany. Yeah. Korea, and I'm just like, Yo, that sounds really cool. And then I got Missouri. Yeah, I was there for five years. So that was but then after that, obviously, I went overseas, but like, Were you happy to stay in America? Oh, absolutely not. No. I mean, because like, as we talked before, I wanted to travel, you know what I mean? And so when, when I when they handed out assignments at tech school, I just saw I saw little rock in for whatever that is. It didn't click in my head. But I saw a AR, which is, you know, the initials of Arkansas. And I thought it was Arizona. And I was like, Oh, that a bear. You know, you're alone. Yeah, I didn't didn't even register my mind. You know what I mean? And so the the MTL, she was like, sweetheart, that's not that's not Arizona. She said, you're going to Arkansas. And I was like, where's Arkansas?

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So But was it was it good, though? It was good, man. I mean, I met my wife down there. You know what I mean, I had my son down there, you know what I mean? So and I met a lot of people that I'm still friends with today. So I mean, it turned out to be a good assignment. One thing that I did, I mean, that I've kind of learned just being in the military, you make the best of where you're at? You know what I mean? And so when I got there, you know what I mean? I had never, I had never been really outside outside of like going on vacation. I've never really been outside of Illinois. So it was a new experience for me, you know what I mean, just being in the military was a new experience for me. So I was just embracing everything that came with it, you know what I mean? So it was definitely different due to the fact that the South is very much slower than the north. And what I mean by that is that, like, I'll tell you this story when I first got when I first got down.

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I knew some one of my boys was already down there at the time. And so he was telling me all the stuff that I needed, like, you know, I would go to Walmart and get all this stuff for the dorm. So you don't have a lot of, you know, room and whatever. So I went to Walmart, and I'm walking around and I have a Texas a&m Aggies shirt on. And so in Arkansas, they don't have a national team that they don't have a protein. So they are real, really big on the Razorback football down here, man, they are huge on that. Whatever, right? So I'm in Walmart. I'm walking around, and every hour that I go down, I see this dude, and he's looking at me, man, and so is bizarre. I mean, I'm in a solid white dude. It's crazy, man.

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And so He's following me every hour that I go down and so I finally get to the I finally get to the to checkout. And he was like, Oh, you only have around here Yeah. And I was like, Nah, man. I'm not he said Hey, you can't be because you got a that Aggie shirt on? And I said oh, yeah, man. He's uh you liked them? I said no, I said he's just a shirt that I'm wearing you know what I mean? He's okay cuz this race back coaster down here. And they know they got that pig so we call do he did that in Walmart. And it echo like 10 Other people echo throughout Walmart's at OSU man. Let me get out of here.

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Yeah, so we're just gonna get into your your deployments are Yeah, just joked earlier about like, Kenny actually took because this guy has been real mysterious. Like I was saying so. I don't know if because I deployed to Jordan and Qatar. So I didn't. I always kind of wanted to go to Afghanistan or Iraq. But you know, obviously, they're the most dangerous places, but like, where did you Where did you deploy? So I went to downtown Baghdad, I went to Iraq. Yeah, yeah. So I was in between downtown Baghdad, that's where my supervisor worked at. And then I mostly did my time at camp victory in around that around that area. And but I when I got to pull it off, I actually uh, we landed in

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Qatar. So we were there for I was there for like two to three days and I you know, and they got the pool and the, you know, the Burger King and I'm like, Oh, that's cool. Let's get it.

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Yeah, you ain't staying here.

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And I actually got deployed with the army. I didn't go with the Air Force. I feel the army slot. And so I went with the I always forget that it but it's the it's the they have the great past with the black horse on it. I went with them. And so when I got there I was the there was a couple of there was like one other other Air Force guy but we were all a mixture of Air Force, Army Navy and Marines in in our in our code. I was in the joint contracting unit. And so when I when I got there,

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because I was with the army, you know what I mean? Like, they were intense and stuff now. I don't know. I mean, a lot of people know you know, it is

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A big difference, you know, with Air Force TDY and everybody else's TDY So, my TDY I'm used to the Hilton's, you know, I'm used the

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very very boozy stuff and so when I got there, I'm looking for like, okay, you know, we're we're gonna hotels, they're very they're like, man, that's your car right there. And

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so that night that I got there you know, I ended up having a sleeping in a sleeping bag. And I set my car right next to the air conditioner. So I zipped it all the way up or whatever. And during the night I felt these feet run across my face. And I was like, Oh, heck no, man. So the next day I got up and I went to my jobs. I don't know what got to change around here, but I'm not used to living in these types of conditions I need

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so I ended up I ended up getting a heart in a trailer. I had a roommate for a little bit but he ended up getting for deployed somewhere else. So I had a room I had cable TV in there I had a shower in there man.

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People This is why the other branches make fun of us

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oh my gosh, now that's all I've ever had was no in Qatar it was like the trailers. Jordan it was the big old tent where like there was a whole bunch of people in there you had your own bunk like yeah, bunk in the bum bum and I had my I had a key to my joint and everything man and and while I was there, like I said, I was one of the only Air Force guys there. And the the guy I worked for he was a general real man, he's one of the bill was his name. I can't think I'm drawing a blank on his last name right now. But he was one of the most genuinely nice people I've ever met in my life man. And so when I got deployed my wife at the time she was April May she was actually eight months pregnant. So my son was born like a couple of weeks after I got there and so I was telling my my general because I had heard of them about them letting some people go back and you know to me for the birth whatever and he was like man we're not gonna be able to do that he said what I can do for you as he said we can set you up with this computer Baba blah with internet and he said you can a be there for the entire time for us for so he set up this special room for me

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had a connection back to Skype of back to the hospital. So actually watched my son be born on on Skype minutes. Yeah, so I was I wasn't there physically, but I was able to be up and like I said that he is just like I said he was a great great guy, man, great guy. And so

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because of I don't know if it's because of that, but he just kind of took a liking to me. And so everywhere he everywhere he went, he kind of took me with him to places or whatever. Right. And so my job there I actually I actually scheduled like the helos and, and

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did administrative work and did scheduled the convoys and stuff like that. And so but he didn't travel like that he actually had a British Special Forces team that he rolled around with a lot, man. And so they Oh, they are for whatever reason, man, they just took a liking to me. So they took me out shooting with them.

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Any anytime he had to go meet dignitaries at alpha palace at all for palace, he took me with him. I wouldn't golfing at the top of that thing, man like, like it was just it was a it was a pretty cool deployment. But I mean, there were some times that we came under attack, man. And yeah, and I remember one night we were all working late one night, man. And we had raised

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trailers off like basically they were sitting on like cinder blocks, I guess you would say. And right outside of our of our offices. A lot of trucks always passed by there. And there was a big divot in the middle of the ground. So like, there would be trucks that have like super heavy stuff on it. And so when he went into the ground kind of shook our building, whatever. So we were sitting there working late one night in our in our building sick and we didn't think nothing of it. And it was I mean, we just thought it was a truck passing by. And then we felt another one and it really shook us man. The British asbestos special forces team ran in there, they grabbed his our generals, his his flak vest and his helmet, and they yanked him out of the office. Now me I don't got to see a whole lot to know, hey, I'll see him running. I'm catching up to him. You know what I mean?

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So we are basically under attack that night, man. And I remember, it was like a couple steps down into the button and you could go directly into the bunker. And for whatever reason do I don't because it was in middle of the night. And so in Iraq, they all have street lights, you know what I mean? So it's pitch black out there, man. And I remember for whatever reason, I got to the top of the stairs and I just looked up man, and I don't know what it was it was a mortar rocket or whatever. But he was coming straight for our building man. And I remember I froze like I could not move do and did you ever see the sea ramps? No, I've just heard of

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Yeah, so they are a string their ear piercing loud dude. And and so because it's in the middle of the night, their automatic gun system, whatever. So when they when danger is in the vicinity, they just blow it out of the sky. So that thing goes off. It kind of gets me back into the motion, whatever but I remember I was looking at the sky and it looked like a scene out of Star Wars because the traces that were coming to booths are coming out of that they were like red hot, and it just blew that thing out of the sky. I do like that. That is a seared into my mind, man, like just being able to see something like that man and light is man. He was crazy. But a couple of guys actually died that night.

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Because a mortar hit there, there there who say we're actually asleep. And I don't know what happened. But I mean, it basically incinerated them while they were still in bed. So they never even made it out of the bed, man. So isn't it? I mean, it was a very humbling experience to to be over there, man. I'm not gonna lie to you.

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Alright, so I think I mentioned this earlier. We're both in the in the reserves. We're both at the 920 sig theoret at Nellis. So I'm just curious, you said you were in for like, eight and eight. Yeah.

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Same, same, same amount that I was in as well. So what made you because I mean, I hated active duty, I separated but like what made you what made you separate. So at the time, I was still married, and

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you know, I that was my pretty much my, my second assignment or whatever. And, you know, anytime that and I was coming up on having to leave and so anytime, you know, you have to do that you being married, you know, your spouse has to, you know, kind of stop what they're doing in order to, you know, kind of, you know, tailor their life to yours or whatever. So at the time, that, you know, my wife at the time, she had gotten to pharmacy school. And so I didn't want to pull her away from that, man, you know what I mean? Because I mean, she had been following me for all this time. You know what I mean? You know, my alright man is your time. Now, you know what I mean? So, I came off duty, so she could, so she could do the her pharmacy school man. And then so, yeah, that's, that's cool. That's always cool hearing people say like, you know, this is the reason I stayed in was because of like, you know, they just have a child. Because of their family, like looking for me. Single guys. I could do whatever I want. I just made the decision purely, like selfishly. Yeah. You know, I guess you just you decided to just do do this and stay here. Yeah. And to be honest, I mean, if she, if she would have never went to school, or whatever, I mean, I would have stayed in I had no problem with active duty, you know what I mean? I mean, you like I said, I mean, I originally joined to travel, you know what I mean? And to be able to, so I wouldn't, I would have went somewhere else, it wouldn't have just been here to just been somewhere else. So So yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say don't ask for duty. I mean, I had no problem with after duty. It was just like I said, you know, I knew for us at the time, I was like, Well, you know, if that's what you say you want to do, then I'm a I'm gonna do my best to try and make it happen for you. So, so I've just finished and I figured at the time, you know, I had talked to a couple people about it. And they were like, well, you know, usually 10 years is like the halfway point of like, when you want to make your decision whether you want to stay or not. And I was like well I'm at eight and a half you know what I mean? I'm like and I just don't want to throw away eight and a half years you know, just for just for nothing, you know what I mean? So I'll say You know, that's 12 more years you know, just finish out the rest of the reserves or whatever it may I had I had known nothing about the reserves whatsoever you don't lie so used to make fun of reserves, you know what I mean? Because when I was at a Little Rock Air Force Base, I used to see them combing the weekend I was like, boy, I do because of health right?

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Yeah, I remember like when I was in Missouri, we'd have the you know, the reserve and guard you'd have just what is it called the defect defect? Yeah, if I could just be pair sir. Like I just I wake up in my dorm just like Oh, I'm gonna go to the if I get some food. And the lines are just whew, yes, sir. What is going on here and you just kind of look at people they don't take care of themselves as well as like even me being in the reserves. Now. I'm just thinking, Man, I don't take care of my appearance. Yeah. So yeah, you know, you make fun of them. And now you're like one of those. Yeah, definitely, man. And I'm a I'm in that deadline when I'm at the town hall, right.

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Do you think would you ever go back active duty so I wouldn't I see like what I'm doing now as a contractor. So if I wasn't this far along in it, I probably would consider it matter of fact when I had when I had came off active duty probably like a year after that, I get this phone call and it's active duty and like they were like hey, you know we know that you you know your reserves now blah, blah, blah. But what would you ever consider coming back on after duty and at the time I was making, you know, some good money with it, you know, and I say well, if you willing to you know, give me the rank that's equivalent to what I'm making right now. Maybe I'm back on board now. Well, you know, we can't do that. Oh, like Well, hey, no one making this phone call you have

Unknown Speaker 29:55
like a general

Unknown Speaker 29:59
money budget.

Unknown Speaker 30:00
If you think you'll stay in Vegas oh no I'm not saying no no no long term though. Long term I want to get back down south somewhere man I like to South man and I really my goal is to a Find somewhere with some water I can put a fishing pole out there man and a and just fish the rest of my life away

Unknown Speaker 30:24
cool, man. Well yeah, we'll leave it there. I just want to obviously thank you for coming on the pipe. Absolutely. Yeah, just great conversation. Good to hear your your experiences and whatnot. No, no, dude, I appreciate you having me. Oh man who's doing this pretty cool, man. Op you continue this man. I think you'd be successful doing this though. Yeah. Thanks again for coming on.

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