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Off The Record: What's It Really Like Being a Marine Raider? (ft. Don Tran)

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0:00 [Music] and welcome back to the careful boys y'all were extremely careful most careful showing the internet today we have don yeah dawn how you doing man good bro how you doing hey get this water bottle out of the frame dude you professional last time you were here was it for ask the expert no he did a jk news with us before it might have been the same day yeah but anyways don owns a company called deep end fitness and they do really cool training in the pool he's also a former raider which is uh marine special operations and he's a sexy dude and now he's a las vegas raider he's a no and he's about to graduate uh from his mba program wow just crushing it in life where uh what's school at usc

0:50 that's ty congratulations nice dude this must be proud man because my parents are okay with my career choices okay they're different how does it feel like to ████ crush life [Laughter] i don't know i would ask you the same same thing bro nobody believes that nobody believes that dog did you get resistance from your parents when you wanted to join the military yeah what do they say oh they didn't want you to join no i mean like i would say it's like half half between like hey you need to do something with your life don't be a ████ up and then another half was like don't go don't do that don't go to war that's so crazy but you went hard you weren't even like yo i'm gonna go there and be like a medic you're like i'm a go there and be a marine raider like you could have chose a job that was like you know i would be the guy that's creating internet

1:41 out there i mean like or something else i want to be that guy right now like let me go let me be the guy that's like the modem guy maybe i'll cook for the guys you know like you know you're doing your service but you're not quite having bullets you know being shot at you but you chose the let me go in to get shot at yeah yeah how did that progress i've always been like addicted to like kind of adrenaline rush but even out of like the branches why did you choose the marine corps and then why did you choose to become a raider after that uh the marine corps i think it was like they have a really high heritage and like tradition kind of sense of being the best unit or the best function in the military so i believe that and i went in that and then i did that for the four years and then also wanted to do something else because i don't think that the marine corps infantry was like where i belonged i want to do something better or something greater so then

2:31 so you're like you're like marine corps is the best you did and you're like it's all right any better yeah was it did you is it because when you went into them that's pretty baller is it because when you went to the military you're like wait there's higher levels to this and then you're like what yeah i honestly didn't even know like anything about the military when i joined ████ recruiters suck huh yeah well ████ my recruiter is all right though yeah he pulled me out of jail once so whoa we're gonna give credit to him yeah were we in jail for stealing dvds at uh ontario mills [Music] are you stealing dvds why not you just wanted it just for the rush just just for the rush really he's an adrenaline junkie he just said it stealing dvd's how did he bail you out like you saw a guy in a uniform come and he was like he's with me he could be yeah

3:22 they took me to the mall jail and then they took me to uh the regular jail and like hey your mom needs to come pick you up you know from the thing we're not gonna press charges or anything like that and then i called my mom and that was like the third time that year so she was like oh sh ████ no i'm not picking you up anymore then i have to call my recruiter that's tight your mom was like i'm not picking you up what made you want to call your recruiter you guys were tied like that he was pretty cool so he was like if you need anything let me know because i need you to hit my quota yeah that's right i mean you know that's exactly why you know but i mean at least he did that though so that was pretty cool it defined the quota what's the what's the question like when you're a recruiter um you do have like like numbers you're trying to hit like in all aspects of the military like there's metrics you're trying to hit to advance to promote right like in any job yeah so as a recruiter you also have that and like they have like districts and stuff that like in this district that you you need to

4:12 hit a certain number or whatever and i only know that because i've worked at some recruiting stations i got injured and stuff and then um there'll be times where like they're like hey that guy's vietnamese hey quan go talk to their family and convince them i'm like i'm chinese uh yeah but you guys like look the same you know you guys that's ████ up you guys you talk to him he's right now he's right yeah that's actually how it happens and then yeah so that's they have like quotas and stuff they're gonna send a white guy over there seriously if a recruiter is like i ████ recruited like x amount like killed it they'll get just uh promoted to what's uh example of a quota like what's the number senior recruiter so i don't know it could be like it could be like no so what happens is like in the recruit so you got to think like uh in every part of the military there's an entire like section

5:03 like a operating sys like almost like like you know like the executive branch let's just lay the friends the entire branch right so in the like recruiting system what you see in like little plazas that's like the bottom then you have like the where they actually was meps right yeah where they actually like uh do the physicals and stuff and then you have like an entire just i'm pretty sure there's a commanding general in charge of recruiting probably right yeah for sure yeah so it's just like the entire system training them training so there's the latter marketing the latter and every single thing okay if you're killing it here then you can you know be like the recruiter of recruiters and then go to like the mep system and kind of like work your way up in that department pretty much finding people for it because oh god go do your spitting mostly just like cold calling like how do they like find people they set up pull-up bars in high schools yes that's the most so the one that's in the

5:54 mall you do the pull-up bar competition i've done it i've done the competition yeah you did yeah you do like high school they'll give you a t-shirt they're like nice we don't need you and they took me i couldn't even jump up i couldn't even reach and grab it yeah that was the problem the ones at the mall what are they doing in that office all day that's what they do they're recruiting and oh but the when they're sitting in there like they they're just setting up different tricks that's like for walk-ins i really like would look at him as like as it works across the hallway and the the mall is like i don't want to work at the mall anymore dude i'm gonna walk across the way i used to always like look in there and be like they're just sitting there they're not asking yeah so like the mall cop is like that's my dream i'm gonna walk into that office one day one day i'm gonna get the courage to do that yeah they're probably doing paperwork or they already hit their quota for so they don't actually walk through the mall and

6:44 go hey you want to be they're not the mall but to high schools definitely do cold calls yeah for sure uh recruiters are born we're talking about raiders here uh what's it right here uh yeah just a special for someone that's dumb there's no ████ can you explain to me i'm a marvel avenger and that's a different branch yeah which which one are you i did the marketing you're doing a good job bro yeah you're killing it you're crushing it explain to him what a raider is and why you joined the avenger after yeah it's just uh the special operations arm of the marine corps so like the navy has the seals the army has the green berets or the rangers uh the air force has their pjs it's just this special operation oh so like what's some what's some special operations are you doing what is there a statistic of like is there a statistic with showing how many marines actually make it to uh raider that try

7:35 to get it um i think there's there's a quota of how many guys they need to get through depending on like the demand of the unit uh of that time right if there's increasing forces needed to go over to key areas in the world like during iraq and afghanistan there's a huge push to recruit more people in but also to get more guys to special operations to get more guys in every functioning unit that goes and deploys and kicks down doors and like do that kind of stuff but is that like everybody who joins marine corps tries to get there or is that like no everybody has their own job right it's just one specific job got it right when you walk through a day in the life of what a raider would do they're like you get the call all right you're going to somewhere right so then you go okay you can't tell your family [Music] right it just depends yeah it depends

8:25 what mission set you're going on and where you're going in the world so how do you get the call you get the call you're like hey boy you're activated like born identity where it's like you're you're in a corporate meeting you're like baby no it's not like ████ i've been retired already don't come back after me you've smoked a cigarette too they're like we need y'all you're the only one that could do it and you're like god damn it damn it and then you're looking at your wife you're like i gotta go get some more ice and then it's a montage of how you're training to get back into ████ yeah dude without i guess really revealing too much i know you guys got secrets to keep what is a general like day-in-the-life job of like what a raider does like when they're working or like what you know like like assassinating bad guys or

9:17 whatever like working or assassinating yeah every day is different if you're in the united states if you're overseas and then overseas depends where you're at what kind of mission you're doing so are you doing missions in the u.s or just training never in the u.s right so let's say you're overseas and you already know it's it's not fun over there what's a day in the life like that yeah what time do you wake up yeah like in afghanistan let's just use the day like that for example when when i was over there i mean sometimes you have guard duties you're standing in a tower by yourself for like four hours in the middle of the like ████ 360 view you get shot from anywhere like that kind of ████ i would say you have one corner of it depends where you're at right if you're in a bad area then everybody has to stand guard right um and then you wake up eat breakfast maybe get a workout in or something with some weights and then uh today's video is brought to you by curology

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11:48 consultation what's breakfast like middle eastern food or mre or what yeah so when i was living in a village you're eating middle eastern food like a goat sandwich goat a lot of like flat bread cucumber salad that sounds good it's actually nice not bad yeah um and then you go on if you go visit like some village elders establish delay of the land and then at night you go on a mission depending what you do for maybe two three days you come back what's a typical mission like what's like a regular mission that's not that like sexy and what's like what's crazy it's a sexy message it goes out there appreciate the bible stuff so like going to a village elder's meeting might be admission right because you're there to go get a key specific piece of information and a sexy one might be like hey we got that piece of information now we develop it we

12:38 confirm where the bad guy is that we're talking about and then the sexy one would be going there and killing that bad guys so most of it is like it's you're trying to break this dude but you don't know his whereabouts so the other missions are just get gathering the intel and all the stuff to put together a plan so there's a lot of politics and maybe even spy ████ going on where you got to get so much information to like create a plan yeah i mean it's like everything every other job like hey i thought it was gonna be like rambo bro like i thought you're gonna go in like plan i mean if you're getting attacked and trying to get someone's trying to overrun you then it would be like i thought you guys get dropped off in the helicopter and your team is just ████ like called on the way down with the parachute [Laughter] sometimes but not when you kill someone

13:28 and you loot them real quick you pick up all your supplies and you get more points okay then you tea bag just kidding just kidding yeah that's a workout so here's a real question right because like when you watch all these movies you don't realize that you know soldiers are also human and they cut out the things like we get travel diarrhea like when we when we're out and we're eating foreign food right you're gonna eat like a goat sandwich maybe a lot of the times if you're on american diet you're gonna get travel diarrhea did you get diarrhea from the first goat sandwich so how do how do military guys deal with that you're like in war and then you're like oh oh you got bubble guts on the battlefield you know there's serious questions we need to suck it up i mean but they also prevent a lot of it do you just ████

14:18 yourself i've definitely ████ myself you just ████ in your pants and just you have to because you can't leave your post i mean like you can get someone to relieve you that would probably be the best way so you can watch yourself if you're like on a mission you're in a sight like there's nothing you can do huh there's nothing you can do you might have to ████ in a pvc pipe sometimes why can't you just ████ on the floor because then if you're in a hide site and you're trying to like do a reconnaissance on you don't want to leave your evidence you don't leave you can evidence the trail see how much of a ████ you already even know that kind of ████ or you honestly need to fix your hat before you call me a ████ [Laughter] that was a good anthony burn bro i'm team anthony now bro were you a specialist in any specific weapon my job was the communications guy and the uh what we call a jtac which is the joint tactical terminal attack controller so i called in the aircrafts for the airstrikes

15:09 so you give coordinates like cool forty five forty six twenty seven seven eight eight is that really like uh is there really like a laser sight thing that you can point a coordinate out is that a real thing uh when you're calling an air strike it's like a ir pointer which just shoots like a laser but infrared so you can't really see with the human eyes but the aircrafts can see it or night vision you can see it there's actually like a laser device that shoots a coated laser code that shoots out and then you have to keep it on the target and then the bomb will identify that laser code on the battlefield and then it will track in on that later that's the coolest thing i think my tax dollars paid for one of those yeah now that's that's tax dollars well coolest uh toy that you got to like play with um shooting rockets are pretty fun you mean

15:59 like this kind of rocket yeah that kind of rockets we gave a lot to ukraine right give a ████ tonight yeah cause they're just blowing up tanks all day you ever have like eyes on target right you're about to shoot the guy like the bad guy and then right when he pulled the trigger he goes up i gotta pick up this thing i do it again and then he goes [Laughter] if [Laughter] what do you feel like your uh your super power for your unit was obviously there's like your your specific job but like what do you feel like your superpower is um your liabilities it's good to stay calm in the stressful situations i would for sure ████ myself was that

16:49 something you had prior to military like a natural ability to kind of become in crazy situations i think like when i was stealing clothes and ████ i always got the adrenaline rush and still able to kind of like think what the process like what i need to do oh you used to shoplift quite a lot i did yeah so do you think that helped you prepare in a lot of weird ways i think like it just helps you like hey to think fast on your feet like what can i do in this situation it's like a gradual onslaught you're like eric bana and black hawk down but stealing clothes out of a mall i had this exact conversation yesterday because i was talking about some of my friends who were just like hardcore like they did burglaries all this stuff and then they they turned out to be great human beings when they became older and i was like i feel like white kids had an outlet of extreme

17:40 sports they'll do the crazy stuff and like get all that you know youthful adrenaline out whereas a lot of minority kids will get into gang stuff and then like that high adrenaline stuff was always realized in gang life and then it's like but now it's like you have way more people doing like extreme sports but i think that outlet is hella important for young males if you have that desire because i remember doing a lot of stupid ████ and it would progress it's like when you're jumping into people's backyards right and then later on maybe you might look if the doors is open so you go inside because it's fun or whatever and it just goes into stealing like maybe you're stealing ████ as a kid and you're like you know what this is really profitable it's free maybe i could just walk in and grab a tv and run out and it goes crazier and crazier and

18:30 crazier but it's like if you could channel that in something healthy man that'd be so cool i once watched this video like this white navy seal dude and then they asked him like how did you know he wanted to be a navy seal and he was like well i found out that it's legal for us to overthrow a government he goes i'm in so it was just like for him it's illegal because he's been breaking into random things and just do crazy ████ yeah he's like wait you're telling me i get to be paid to be a ninja and overthrow the government with just a few people it's like i meant that when you say it like that that's you know that is a pretty cool way to think i regret being too woke in high school because um i had dreams to being in the military right so in junior high and all that i was starting to buy like you remember soldier of fortune magazine all that stuff and i'll start i was starting to study this ████ right and then i

19:20 became a ████ communist and when i was a freshman because and then also i started learning about like oh dude hella mercenaries at the time before anyone even knew about al-qaeda a lot of u.s people who just wanted military training so they could start doing contracting work a cheaper way to do it was to join military camps of like terrorist groups and then they would go get hired at like these military contracting groups well not military they're security contracting groups that like foreign nations will hire and they'll get uh ex-military guys to just private uh mercenaries like black water and stuff yeah and i'm like damn this is crazy and then the more i got into it i was like man if i joined the us military they're gonna use me dude and then it's all over the thoughts of like 14 year old joe yeah

20:11 he's like which militia should i join in order to fight something to write something yeah had a tapioca express just thinking about it i just wanted to play soldier man and then i got to the the side i was like how do i get to play soldier but like not really and i was like the coast guard really the coast guard is the one man that was the one you should have joined the coast guard dude yeah the u.s coast guard but i don't know i think that's pretty awesome though cause like um that's one thing i think uh everyone should actually just try to do is is go through boot camp yeah just mandatory boot camp you don't have to join the military just ████ go just to do it because i want to do that i don't know if i'm allowed to write i think it'll benefit more people than i don't want to do that because you know some countries they have a mandatory like two-year like all-male central military how do you feel about that you think that's a

21:01 good idea for for like just the general public i think i think that makes sense sometimes when i think of like uh like obviously south korea is very popular every every boy has to and if you don't you like you're ████ going to jail or some random ████ right but then you also think about that and you think about like the size of their like island nation almost and you think about like they're all one nation of people yeah that's right like one ethnic group so they have to like represent all one unified thing and then on top of that too population size for their like you know per capita compared to like another giant country like america it like makes way more sense for it it makes a lot of sense to be like everybody needs to be trained if we want to have a fighting chance some countries you can choose military or you can be fire or like police as well yeah because it does build a certain level of patriotism i think i'll be a mailman yeah like giving

21:52 back to the community kind of i'll be a mailman raider kind of like uh like understanding that we're all one ecosystem yeah versus i think in a country that doesn't have it it's easy to go like what's in it for me the whole way through yeah yeah i'm kind of conflicted because a part of me is like i love this country and i want to freaking if it's time to get activated we all got to go we all got to do it right but then the other part of me is like who's in charge profiting from this decision because i think the whole bush ████ them making a ton of money going into all these you know countries a lot of military dudes basically died so the bush family can become rich and i'm like why that's ████ up you know like if it's if it's really really to preserve our freedoms and people were attacking us then i'm like oh a thousand

22:43 percent that makes sense to you know protect our community but then now i'm like oh ████ i don't know man like is it is it worth it is it not worth it i'm kind of coming way that i see it it's like a paid internship you know like you who knows what apple's really doing yeah but you go there to develop all the tools so like the amount of tools that this guy has oh as an individual yeah like the amount of tools like being able to jump out of an airplane go underwater shoot all kinds of different weapons understand how to read a map like a rocket rocket like just the tools that he has as a human being that you get it's invaluable yeah it's like unmatched in any at the risk of being used as a tool exactly just that's what i'm saying like as a paid intern at apple right like but i guess the death part is what makes it like not so much an internship for me or i'm like if i'm acting quite the opposite actually but that's that's the i guess it's the territory of the decision that i make but then i guess if

23:35 we're talking about mandatory because that's kind of what we're talking about is everyone's doing it mandatory then i'm like i hope to god we have a politician that's like not doing it and using the military for their own gain yeah and then hopefully we have someone that's actually doing it because it's like you know we need to protect the country yeah if all the politicians went through the military they wouldn't treat the military yeah like tulsi gabbard bro tulsi gabbard's amazing right now so true yeah i'm giving the thumbnail another argument is like um presidents that have kids before we go and wage war with another country make sure your kid is in that war you know like if like if this is something that you're willing to put the nation to start some ████ better than you gotta bet with your own money too and they can't be protected in like it's only for photo op like they have to be a

24:26 part of a unit we have to fight side by side with them the whole time politicians are just gonna have war kids then yeah yeah they'll be like all right you're a war kid you guys i love you you're a regular kid hunter biden over there [Music] you

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