United States Marine Corps

What, what'd you have originally? We can, we're gonna work through this.

So I was in the Marine Corps for a little bit.

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We're gonna engage in transformative practices like baptism that show, "Look, I have embraced the, The Way, and I am moving in, you know, from death to life," is how baptism works, you know? And it's not just religious.

Like, you can, you can imagine a system like the Marine Corps.

Uh, in the Marine Corps, you're gonna swear to protect, serve, and defend the Constitution.

Here's the Marine Corps handbook.

We go to, you know, we eat at this time.

We do physical training at this time.

We go to the, the shooting range at this time, and we understand that this is our purpose in the world, is to, you know, it's almost like knights.

We're gonna serve and protect and etc.

Meanwhile, the Japanese used them to their fullest extent for cover and concealment.

Enemy resistance and problems of maintaining unit contact slowed the Marines' advance.

amidst all of this a marine demolition team threw a satchel charge of high explosive into a japanese bunker which turned out to be crammed with torpedo warheads an enormous blast occurred from off shore an officer watched as the whole of namur island disappeared from sight in a tremendous brown cloud of dust and sand raised by the explosion overhead a marine artillery spotter felt his plane catapult up one thousand feet and exclaimed great god almighty the whole damn island has blown up on the beach another officer recalled that trunks of palm trees and chunks of concrete as large as packing crates were flying through the air like matchsticks the hole left where the blockhouse stood was as large as a fair-sized swimming pool The column of smoke rose to over 1,000 feet in the air, and the explosion caused the deaths of 20 Marines and wounded 100 others in the area.

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the marine attack roi na mer finally at nineteen thirty colonel franklin a hart commander of the twenty fourth marines ordered his men to dig in for the night the troops had come across a good portion of the island now they would hold the ground gained and get ready for the morrow one rifleman robert f graff later wrote about that time throughout the night the fleet sent flares skyward lighting the islands as the flares drifted with the prevailing wind ghostly flickering light was cast from the flares as they drifted along on their parachutes laying in our foxhole my buddy and i were watching waiting and straining our ears trying to filter out the known sounds our foxhole in that sand was about six feet long by two feet in depth and just about wide enough to hold the two of us since i had eaten only my d rations since leaving the ship i was hungry d rations were bittersweet chocolate bars about an inch and a half square and were supposed to be full of energy i removed a k ration from my pack and opened it k rations came in a box about the size of a cracker jack box and had a waterproof coating these rations contained a small tin of powdered coffee or lemonade some round hard candies a package of three cigarettes and a tin about the size of a tuna fish can containing either cheese hash or eggs with a little bacon we dined on our rations drank water from our canteens and prepared to settle in for the night after finishing cha we elected to take two-hour watches one on guard while the other slept also we made sure we knew where our buddies foxholes were both on the left and on the right of us thus we were set up so that any one to our front would be an enemy our first night in combat had started before dawn the japanese mounted a determined counter-attack which was finally repulsed nevertheless it was a tragic night for one particular family a nineteen-year-old marine private first class and his forty four year old father a corporal had been together in the same company back in california but the son was hospitalized with a minor illness and then transferred to another outfit the father boarded his ship prepared to sail for combat alone but then his son was found stowed away on it in order to be with his father the young man was taken off and was placed under arrest his mother however telephoned the commandant's office in washington and told the story of her son's effort to be together with her husband The charges were dropped and the two were reunited for the trip to the marshals.

The son was killed that first night on Namur.

The father went on fighting, alone.

Early on the afternoon of the next day, 2 February, D plus 2, the 24th Marines finished its conquest of Namur and the island was declared secured.

Structures called oyster castles are now protecting a South Carolina coastline from erosion.

In Laurel Bay, a community with many military families from the nearby Marine Corps base, homes and a park sit right next to Port Royal Sound.

But over time, coastal salt marshes and uplands along this coast have eroded away, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse.

With increasing levels of water and sea level rise, increasing storm events, we're seeing that erosion is exacerbated.

You're not going to see medical.

I mean, most SEALs and Marines and special operations folks, I did a little VA kind of counseling for a while.

Most Marines and special operations guys are like, stay the fuck away from medical, right? And if it has anything to do with anything psychological, boy, that is taboo for a few reasons, right? Confidence and your ability to stay neutral on a target, which is very important.

Um, But also, you know, it can affect like your security clearance.

You know, if now you're on antidepressants or different things or amphetamines for Adderall, stuff like that.

You may recall that Secretary of Defense, it's not war, it's defense, Pete Hagsworth, allegedly made a fitness test for harder for women in combat roles.

Well, guess what? In Marines, they already had to pass a fitness test that was equal to men, and 90% of them passed it.

More than the number of male Marines who passed it.

Oops.

Well, if you're going to get rid of women in combat roles, I guess you're going to have to do something more discriminatory than simply make them take the test the boys take.

And I said, you know, guys, we got to get this done, you know, for Duane.

And Jim and Mike, you know, they're both Jim is a U.S. Marine.

And my executive vice president, Mike Levering, is out of the U.S. Army.

So they were dealing with one of their own.

Peking Man and Some Early Westerners The earliest known Chinese are called Sinanthropus or Peking Man because the finds were made near that city.

In World War II, the United States Marine Guard at our embassy in Peking tried to help get the bones out of the city before the Japanese attack.

Nobody knows where the bones are now.

The Red Chinese accuse us of having stolen them.

The Chubb token will probably go down in history as one of the biggest unlocks for crypto.

Today's guest is Chris Perkins, head of Franklin Crypto at Franklin Templeton, who served as a U.S. Marine Corps captain and later led CoinFund and now heads Franklin's crypto investment division.

It's remarkable just how many leaders in the financial sector actually have a military background.

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