Fort Bragg

Yeah.

Cause I know Dan Cooper talks about, um, Fort Bragg below Fort Bragg, there being what he calls temporal management command, which is where the time, time missions are, you know, happen out of, if that's true.

Um, yeah, so that's, go ahead.

The FPI, FPI, a, that's what they call it.

And now we have between 6,000 and 7,000 breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

And in Fort Bragg that we opened last week, which is a smaller one.

And get this.

You'll love this, Laj.

Of our military.

They got the first 10 bases.

And just the foot traffic through them, you know, Fort Bragg, 2,600 for breakfast, 2,600 for lunch, and 2,600 from zero.

Wow.

Part of their mission was to be on standby to some degree.

The 82nd Airborne Troops were in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but they both got spun up at the last second.

They had absolutely no idea what they were facing, and they had to do their best.

The book is Cabell, James, Hassan, and Jerry Dunleavy.

So, you know, the Carl that ran the program sent a note to these division commanders.

So I went off to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg.

started service as a platoon leader.

Did that for about, I guess, I don't know, a year and a half or so to include getting back to Ranger school and completing it successfully.

After that, I went off to the, the, The next, the infantry advanced course, which is to teach captains how to be commanders.

And while I was at that program, I was kind of in the window for the opportunity to volunteer for special forces and decided to do that.

So I left the infantry and came back to Fort Bragg to go through the special forces qualification course.

Okay.

Yes.

Or so most of my time in the, in the teams was spent in California and San Diego, Coronado, um, stints here and there, some in Fort Bragg and, you know, around the world deployments.

Um, but yeah, it was, uh, moved there and I guess went in the Navy May of 2006.

And then, uh, Yeah.

So being a medic in the SEAL teams, corpsman.

uh, special operations combat medic is what it was called.

So it's at Fort Bragg.

Uh, it's a joint school army Navy, uh, with some Marines, but it's Navy corpsman with the Marines.

When I came back, I had an interesting excitement.

I was at Fort Bragg in the 82nd.

Then I went to Germany.

Had a wonderful three years in Germany.

So it's very interesting.

I could talk about it for a long time.

But what happened in the early 70s, I was stationed at Fort Bragg.

The Army was going to eliminate the Chemical Corps because they felt like there was no longer a threat with chemical or biological warfare.

The entertainment industry treats them as interchangeable tools, however.

But in the strategic corridors of Fort Liberty and MacDill Air Force Base, they're entirely different instruments.

Take the Army Special Forces, the Green Berets.

Their core identity is not defined by kicking down doors.

no where's the um where's one place that you went to space a

space a uh i've been to many many places uh overseas the best one man overseas ramstein airbase is the by far the best uh space a terminal on the planet i would say one of my top top five i guess nice and then stateside wise um don't know they're all pretty they're all pretty decent uh bwi going taking space a through bwi is actually pretty interesting sometimes um delver delaware uh joint base uh dixon mcguire up in new jersey uh pope air force base right outside of fort bragg or whatever it's called nowadays um Took a couple of flights from the West Coast, from Sacramento, whatever that air base is out there in Sacramento.

I forget what it's called.

Travis, maybe? Travis, yeah.

Of course, this is a very veteran-heavy district I mentioned.

It includes Fort Bragg, but then it also has Hope County, Moore County, places with a lot of veterans and active-duty families.

And Ojeda has really run on an anti-war message.

And he's someone who comes in and says, I served for 24 years in the Army.