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Off The Record: Bart & Joseph Had the Same Job in the Marines

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0:00 [Music] welcome to another episode of careful boys today we have with us Mr Cool Joe LL Cool Joe celebrity photographer Regular Joe now he's Joe photographer yeah among many other things so art wasn't here when we had Joe last time and I think we discovered that you guys may have had similar jobs in the Marine really yeah what was your most 3043 same here Navy Seals dude right tell them tell them pretty much who don't fly without Supply pretty much I heard like in the world of logistics and supplies in the Marines you guys are the guys that like

0:51 are face paint and you're just like grabbing the pants and then getting the uniform for people and ironing and stuff is that is that what you guys do no that's definitely not lot of folding no they're the guys that when stuff falls off the back of the truck they go like this exactly that's pretty cool that when did you say it was called it depends so like I was a 3043 but at my unit I was actually a 3051 which is like a warehouse guy so it depends like like you have your job but kind of like any other workplace whatever you get trained for when they send you to your unit yeah you kind of have to mold and adapt to the needs of that one so everything I learned at Supply school I didn't use I have to get retrained on being like a warehouse person so were you behind a computer or yeah I was behind a computer see I wish I had that you wanted that job yeah why why is that better uh just

1:43 because I feel like you you have on Facebook to do around like yeah you can go on and I feel it's more important like Myspace and stuff like that it felt more important I feel like the computer guys yeah uh in a sense it was definitely we had a little like thing against like warehouse and like you know always in the AC they're always in oh it's like the office it's a little more cush yeah it's an office job yeah so imagine your gym and then now you're in the warehouse and you're like man supposed be over there why am I over here like that what what can you do to get placed like that there's nothing I have to go to another unit probably might what are we doing driving to Fork cliff and getting some like shoes and ████ ended up being funner oh because driving is fun yeah cuz like just in the warehouse it's more blue color feely so it's like you could get away with like like oh ████ and you just put a bunch of

2:34 like what they call like if facts which is like personal first aid kits you can get get away with ████ like that versus in the office there's people with brass like you know like higher ups walking around all the time so you can't really ████ around or you can't be like yo check out this ████ new Playboy I just SM you know the warehouse Antics doing in the warehous there's more Warehouse Antics that's our military the cool thing that you told us last time was how uh people had to be a little nicer to you so that you would approve certain like amenities oh yeah all the time I feel like Supply if you can attend to attest to it is just like you know we kind of you got to come to us if you want anything mhm so you know you don't want to piss off Supply so you had guys sucking your dick in order to give them their ████ magazine all the time all the time Supply was it like

3:25 unifor everything wow anything so imagine you this is you right imagine your infantry and you're like ████ man the last 20 M hike my ████ backpack's been killing me cuz like this strap is breaking so I've been carrying this on this side right and then but you called me a ████ a month ago so you come back yo can I swap this for a new back pack and I'm like I remember you called me that's the last one we got bro so you're like hey good luck with that [Laughter] spine out so a long time ago like when when Bart uh can you tell him what you did in Korea I just want to see what he thinks of it and if it's something he's ever heard of okay so um I was at a reserve unit mhm and uh we were going to Korea which is Camp mujuk have you been there no I okay

4:15 so it's like Camp Muju it's like in in psan and it they it's where they kind of like practice in case North Korea invades and stuff so they do like this whole orchestration and they want to just make sure like like uh like force Readiness or whatever and then so there was word going around that they need Korean translators to go with like the uppers to go there I'm not Korean I'm Chinese but I'm like to these white folks they don't know so so my homie so my homie was like I'll volunteer to go and then I was like he's like dude you should just do it too and I was like yeah they probably won't know either you I'm like what am I going to do like usually you know when you're like a lance corporal which is kind of like a ████ rank you just do ████ work anyways everywhere so I'm sign up I did a background check it was like ████ this thick cuz you're going to be with like the top brass of the Marine Corps

5:07 and the top brass I love how in the background check they didn't even check if you knew Korean cuz you have to get a top secret clearance normally you have to take a test right to just show that I didn't take a test basic Career Test that's why start it cuz of this full bro I ended up doing the whole paperwork thing I I I I applied to do the whatever and even the whole time where in a ████ plane flying to Korea and I'm just like damn I can't believe all of this is going through we get off the plane we get on base uh first we went to an army base and I think that's that's when we changed from civies into our Camis and then uh then we went to the um the Marine base and then that's when the the first like Korean uh Marine gets on the bus like yelling whatever all kinds of

5:57 stuff and that's when the the commanding officer like hey go talk to him I like hey What's Going On Shut the ████ and then that's when he start saying all kind of he was say all kinds of Korean ████ and I was like I'm so sorry did you did you know a little bit no dude I was like I'm so sorry so he speaks a different dialect and then that's shut the ████ that's go get my best friend that's what you use I was like Hey Park Park I was I think he speaks the same dialect and then so park would come I got this sir no worries that was pretty smooth he would say he would like start translating and I would just emphasize certain word like oh yeah yeah 0800 yeah yeah yeah chow chow yeah yeah there yep yep yep yep so funny bro that's amazing and how long how long did you survive like that did they ever like get it like find out that like Yay this

6:47 guy doesn't never wow oh cuz you knew your homie was with you so like if anything needed to pop off I did ████ bricks though is once we got there um so like all the ████ what is it called the all the ████ ranks you have to like watch the radio and he my my best friend got the day shift 9:00 a.m. uh yeah 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. I got graveyard cuz there's only two Asians like we better split the Asians up the Koreans so I was the Kore I was 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. and I'm like ████ no one ████ no one ████ ask me anything how long did I go on for 3 weeks three weeks oh but nothing nothing I got so ████ lucky cuz you know how in uh the Korean military there's mandatory service right

7:39 so the Korean Marine that I got paired with for night shift he's one of those Rich Korean kids I went to international school so he speaks English so I was like oh my ████ god so we're like okay this is this is cool if I don't understand something I'm like hey what the hell are they saying then I can like translate that ████ was crazy D trans for you and you trans English the Korean Marin was speaking English you just translated his English a little bit better right on camera I'm have a picture off camera have a picture of the other Marines I'll show you which one is the one that's imagine if like a captain or some ████ had a there was like a troop of Koreans right and he goes oh I got to I got to hey Quan come over here and then you have to translate to a whole troop what he was saying oh my God ladies and gentlemen all right today we're going to do this drill and I can see today we're going to do this

8:30 drill you're going to copy the same thing he was going to pretend Korean I this's probably going to be like oh my God ladies and the gentlemen he's with an accent you have more of an accent than the guy who said oh my God that radies and the gentlemen so out of like things that you know in in in your experience in military how crazy is that that's pretty freaking wild deep ████ oh yeah he could have definitely got it from deep ████ the ████ out of that bro free vacation he gone to military jail huh you think he would have gone to military jail something like that uh depending on your higher ups if you I don't know if you were like really cool with them or not but like if you had a higher up

9:24 yeah that's some funny ████ though tell the story he's like I can hear this full breathing bro back that was a crazy story can't believe I did that did that so he could go to Korea dude there's some crazy ████ like one of our section leaders so in the in our unit he had like gold wings and gold bubbles which is like so he's pretty much like a Recon dude and you're like dude this guy's a bad ████ yeah he's like a badass ████ and then in the Korean Marine base like cam Muju it's all ████ up like every nothing's connected so like the computer labs here whatever everything's in all different places so you have to go to get like some computer lab time when I was at the computer lab I would see he was a staff sergeant he would go up on the computer and you know he's like a bad Recon ████ and the first thing he types it is adult friendfinder.com

10:15 a hookup site and I'm like what the ████ this trying to ████ meet up with some Korean loc of bust nuts it was just that is kind of badass bad ass though fcking it was just a crazy time I feel like Recon guys are literally always on their own schedule yeah they just do whatever they they're allowed to just do whatever yeah they could grow out a beard if they want they could some of them have piercings are they considered more like special or what do they do like just small missions and they can do whatever the ████ they want they just have their own rules even their own budget are they more like Espionage they go through like an a separate an extra like step of training and they're like more special forces they kill ████ yeah so they have like different missions so it's like you take out this dictator you go over here and

11:05 whatever like if if we're in like a base or your unit or whatever like let's say you have a Commanding General you probably never talked to that ████ and there's like 20 layers and then your your direct boss you're like his little ████ but this guy's this guy's little ████ this guy's this like that but the it's like working for Apple like no one working there actually talks to Steve Jobs guys they could be a ████ rank and they'll have a probably direct working relationship with the general secret mission and then that and then above the general is probably some guy in the white house so they have a direct pass so they're like the Eric B and black IP I black IP black down Black Hog down you know what I'm talking about he played like that random role where he was just like doing his own ████ yeah all those guys yeah yeah like that are those the guys that the government guy comes and goes we need you back from retirement yeah yeah if

11:56 they're like super experienced yeah but that's the batt on Adult Friend I get it how do you how do you get there like friend fighter you make an account you got to click the bicycles become a Recon guy oh it's tough man yeah what does that train you just have to actually pass the like they have their own boot camp and training so once you get into the fleet which you know every standard Marine gets to then you can opt in to go to like uh either Recon or Mar or something like is that like people at the very beginning of their Journey they have the intention of wanting to be that or is it more like everybody kind of like goes into the general gets presented and then it's like out of the 100 like three people are ████ gangster and then that's when they're like hey you guys should

12:46 join this thing it's like a mixture of both yeah literally like a mixture of both is there ever any pressure to version of buds pretty much it's like the Marine Corps version of buds or hell week or whatever you want to call it and it's ████ hard yeah you never wanted to you weren't interested ████ no I'm with them on that bro we got a chill job man boot camp is already hard tell me this is even harder than the boot camp n Fu I was like ████ that dude cuz like so in uh when were you in the Marine Corps from uh September of 07 to May of 2018 okay so you still had well that's a long time you had a PFT did you were you in when they have that new thing was like combat fitness test yeah yeah I was yep

13:36 I know what the combat fitness test was but uh when I was in they only had a PFT which is like your physical fitness test and it's already hard enough to get perfect to get a perfect score to even qualify for like Recon school you have to be able to run two of them back to back to even get qualified so that's like the that's like the starting canvas what's in this test so to get a perfect score you have to run a 18 minute 3 Mile which means you have to be able to run pretty much 5 Mile uh I mean a 6 minute mile pace and then 20 pull-ups everyone could do 20 pull-ups pretty much unless you have super long arms might be hard oh no I actually do that 20 pull-ups and then 100 um 100 sit-ups or something like that but the the the run is what kills most people but then you have to do this and then do another one and still get um a perfect

14:29 and then that qualifies you to even go to that school but then once you go to that school then it's ████ hard and like at least half drop out and this is like half people that have already become Marines drop out not even civilians but half Marines drop out and it's mainly for like like injuries and stuff like that are not taking care of your body while you're in there yeah like people's mind people's minds want to complete but their body can't keep up with their minds what are like perks maybe that those guys receive over like I I guess regular military heads oh look at that badass right there oh he's ████ Recon so it's just badass that bad oh you can't ████ with them on a physical level mental level they're just ████ extreme badasses afterwards I think in the corporate world they recognize that you know MH like they'll treat someone with like a Recon or Navy SEAL type thing as if he has an NBA

15:20 because his leadership or his ways he can analyze things like oh this guy has like like strategy so he's like a knight and Shining Armor yeah and were you guys the guys that help the knights get on the horse I go I go this is how you put on a backpack properly really good all right you ready to go put the armor on we have the limited backpacks for you sir that's great dude the funny the funny like going joke too is you know like we're in charge of like counting and inventory all the stuff that comes in but because we take care of ourselves we'll be like okay Kanan you get this you get this Joe you get this and then if there ever is some Big Field exercise like the Infantry guys they have all the beat up ████ and Supply always shows up with the nicest thing that's so

16:10 [Applause] funny that's real like I thought you said there's no more backpacks like what the ████ like oh I we had this one if you see infantry gu with nice stuff you know he has friends in supp know he no I've been had this though I had it for a while like when I was so when I was deployed right we we would um I became friends with the cooks and calm and the reason why I became friends with them is because we had like a little refrigerator on our lot so whenever we came cool with the cooks they' always give us food and stuff like that we store it in refrigerators and then calm we were actually able to get like WiFi and then uh cell phones and stuff like that so we can call back home and then we just exchange gear and that's dope damn yeah so it it it's always a benefit to be it's its own like little relationship like I trade you this for this and knowing the cook is probably

17:01 the first thing you'd want to do huh oh yeah cooks are dope which area or which like category of like position has like no ████ bartering leverage infantry infantry he's laughing at him dude he's like ████ idiots like who has nothing to offer you and they're just like just infantry infantry dud losers huh even with like serious jobs cuz they it's the most dangerous and at the same time you get the s████████ equipment cuz like let's say you here some stupid ass like field exercise we got to do 17 miles or some ████ and then like let's say you have a motor T homie and then you're like hey you need an assistant driver don't you goes yeah I don't got one so I don't have to do the 17 miles anymore I'm in the truck with them hell yeah what you do your assistant driver yeah yeah cuz you can't it's Buddy system so no one could drive any vehicle by themselves you know so you could like if

17:51 you know people then you can like I'll give you a free backpack let me be your assistant driver oh wow see you later suckers ████ you don't want to be the one falling out and going into that truck though I'll tell you that yeah yeah yeah not the back of it oh what do you mean so like when you're you're normally in like two lines right and you're doing this whole entire like hike through the mountains and the hills and stuff like that as long as 17 miles if you so when people start to fall out so you're in two Lin so when people start to fall out you see them fall out towards the middle and start going towards the back going towards the back and then you have the truck that all the way in the back that picks up all the stragglers so if the instructor yeah so if the instructor's like oh you're ████ slacking and get in the back and then so now you're riding in the back all the way to the finish line and then once you get to the end where your

18:42 destination is you get out the back of the truck you know you were sitting in there riding the whole time because you couldn't keep up with the the rest of the people then everybody looks down at you because you're like oh you piece of crap you didn't have to do all this ████ you just got a free ride D never assistant driver like he's a piece of crap because those are you have to have that so even though you didn't walk any of it that's pretty good it's better to not do it than to do it and then fail exactly if you guys if you guys go on a 17 Mile hike like how many pounds of equipment do you guys have on a lot dude how many pounds like what's you got carry your tent you got to carry ammo you got to carry your weapon extra how many pounds is that easy 50 to 80 easy 50 to 80 you got your yeah you got all your MREs you got to eat you got extra set of Camis you have so much it's don't let you have to have a full combat load to yeah it's that whole thing filled

19:32 ████ yeah must be nice to see everybody walking you're just sitting in the truck if you but that's you're holding the rifle the whole time right you're holding the rifle you have secondary or just just primary depends on like your position but for me I didn't have one I just had my rifle so if you have people that have like machine guns or Saws and stuff like that that's break those down and then other people in your platoon have to carry their weapon and help you carry the parts to that weapon yeah cuz you have a big machine gun cuz the barrel itself could be like 20 lb damn just a barrel and then some of them you need spare uh spare barrels cuz some of them they're like you shoot so much it gets red hot and it's not accurate anymore so you have to switch it oh like warps yeah so some of the systems have extra parts it's huge so much to think about man that's why you got to be assistant driver you got to carry Sho put in the truck dude you figured

20:23 out all the hacks during your time and service man is it even possible to like go through that and then go straight to becoming an officer or like a desk guy or a strategist or you have to go through all of that after boot camp after boot camp like um do you have to work different jobs and then you can be officer and all that so everyone has to go through boot camp and has to go through either MCT or S SOI so there's some sort of like field ████ you have to do before you get so everyone experien like the suck pretty much before you go off and do other jobs then to be an officer you you have to get like a four-year degree and then you you have to go do boot camp again another officer style boot camp it's a different one yeah they call OCS officer candidate school but that one sucks ass too and it's 6 months long isn't it 6 months long I forgot I think it's like yeah

21:13 like six months and those things there's no favors though there's no assistant driver in that in those training that's like once you get to your unit then that whole barter system works but when you're in any of the schools or any of the like training there's none everyone has to go through through it oh wow how long is Regular Boot Camp 3 months 3 and 1/2 months ████ dang 6 months you want to go you should go we should try one they have the things in where they have like little berries like little boot camp things or they have like a a PFT where everyone comes and tries to do a PFT at base yeah oh maybe they're trying to recruit people you want your life to suck I wouldn't be I seen a little girl she did like what like 15 16 pull-ups before wow yeah yeah they're like that's

22:03 not 20 yeah no but some of the guys can't even do that many oh yeah it's cuz a lot of testosterones dropping these days dude I saw this one guy do like ████ two in boot camp and the instructor like who's your ████ [Music] recruiter

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