Sapper

I mean, I'm not making this up.

Like, this is – comparing the view of – or the orientation of the executive branch – um you know in 1941 to 45 and from 1965 to 73 it's like night and day you know like if you think Roosevelt would have tolerated you know um Abby Hoffman uh or some counterpart like Dudley Pelley you know holding a hundred thousand band protests um waving national socialist flags in Washington like you're dead fucking wrong like why this was allowed and like why this kind of nonsense you know why Cronkite was allowed to be embedded at I-Corps, and, uh, at Longbin, when, uh, you know, NLF, like, Sappers were assaulting it.

I mean, that's a whole other issue, but people didn't realize something was wrong.

Um...

They're very much interchangeable with the term Combat Engineer SAPR, but in order to be an officially TAB SAPR, you have to attend SAPR Leader Course.

And then once you become an old man on this side of the fence, you get to join Sapper Association and relive the glory days and head down to Fort Leonard Wood every April and hang out with the brothers and sisters at Sapper Rendezvous or the Best Sapper Competition.

Last words, appreciate the work that you do, Josh.

Whether you recognize it or not, you're divinely protected.

Okay, same thing with the Ranger tab.

You got Sapper tabs, you got Ranger tab, and you got Special Forces tab.

They just now approved the Jungle tab.

Pete Hexteth has no tabs.

He's never been to any of those schools that actually really, really test you to show you if you've got what it takes.

And I'm going to tell you right now, you know, ranger school is a marathon and it's a brutally painful marathon.

Sapper school is a sprint and it's a brutally painful sprint.

Jungle school is no joke.

A decision follows.

During the flight over the channel, a soldier of the 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, the Oxfam Bucks, or a Royal Engineer Sapper, sitting in the rear seat, keeps the parachute on his lap.

Once the glider casts off, he leans over the back of his seat.

He places the parachute onto the panel, ready for deployment.

Yeah.

Retired Sapper says, "Yes, C4." We had these little-

Yeah, these

... we had these little cubes.

Yeah, I mean, there's, there's still a lot of questions of what my future kind of holds within my Army service.

But, um, I'm heading to Bullock in the spring, and I definitely want to attend Sapper school after that.

Um, and you know, maybe at some point in my future, um, Ranger school kind of lingers in the back of my mind sometimes, just, you know, that, that what if, if, you know, I, I look back and I'm like, "Wow, maybe I could have done that, maybe I should have done it." But, um, you know, I just really want to go throughout the rest of my career and, and my life being able to influence as many people as possible, um, to kind of, you know, reach, reach for the stars, as cliche as that sounds.

And, um, you know, push themselves because you truly can have many different passions and goals that you can achieve, and it doesn't have to be one at a time.