0:00 No, it's not that. You just learn how to just just deal with it. >> What's it called? 30-mile ruck? >> That's what I'm saying. You learn how to deal with it. You're going to ask questions like, "Hey, do we have a break?" >> You got to make out with your platoon sergeant. >> No. You don't learn how to deal with it? You ain't gangster, bro. >> What about 30 ████ You don't make out with the platoon sergeant? [clears throat] >> Deal with this, Silbs. >> And welcome back to another episode of The Careful Boys, where we got Soupy back from boot camp with us, y'all. >> Boot boot boot boot boot boot boot >> Hey, tell us about your first drill. What's a drill? >> Drill is when you report to your unit and then that's like your station, your duty station kind of in the active sense. So, like you got to report to your station, your unit, and then you got to do at least once a month, you know, once a month type of training. But, it's not really
0:51 like one day out of the month. It's usually like 4 days, 2 days, 3 days. It all depends once again on your job. >> the recruiters ████ lie to your ass. >> Oh, yeah. Tell us the like what what's that like? >> So, when you go to recruit, you're like, "Oh, like I'm like, oh Do you think about recruiters? Shout out to any recruiters out there. Sorry, but they're like used car salesman and I understand it. You got to like try to get people through the door. But, they'll be like "Oh, you know what? Yeah, I don't know if the military is for me. I'm also like trying to do either my job or go to college or whatever." And they'll be like, "Oh, dude, you should just join the reserves." I'm like, "Oh, what's that?" "Oh, dude, it's just like it's just one weekend out of the month." I'm like, "Oh, like a 4-weekend That's not too bad." And then you find out one weekend is not Saturday, Sunday. It could be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Sometimes it could be a whole week. You're like, "Oh, so the the definition
1:41 of weekend is different in the military than it is in the civilian side." >> Well, how is the weekend more than 2 days? >> I don't know. But, by the time you're in there, you're ████ So, you can't You just got to like ride it all the way through. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. >> And once again, it's depending It depends on your job, right? So, it all depends. And they trick they It's not like this is a bad thing. I believe this is something everyone should know, you >> He's going to say a bad thing once he gets out. Right now, he's not allowed to say it's a bad thing. >> No, I mean, it's not even It's It's not even that bad. Like, dude, once once a month, that for regular, that just kind of transfer as like, oh, once a month one day a month, one day out of the month. >> I remember when Bart was a reserve, right? And then we were like trying to do JK ████ in college, and I was like, why the ████ I thought you said you were a reserve. Why the ████ you always going out there doing hiking ████ And he goes, I don't want to go either, but
2:31 But he's like, I don't know why. And I'm like, it feel it felt like every weekend he was going off doing military ████ We couldn't get nothing done. >> How long were you How long were you doing JK at that point? >> So, I started JK in 2007, and I got out in 2009. So, there's still a good 2 years that I was still a a reservist. And I'm trying to shoot funny videos, but then only every every weekend out of the month, I'd be gone. And then in the summer, you have to do 2 weeks. >> Yeah, that's what I'm doing right now. In July. >> Oh, it's 2 weeks out of the month? >> No, it's out of >> the year. >> Out of So, it's every weekend I mean, one weekend a month, and then 2 weeks out of the year you have to do it. >> Yeah. It slows down after that. But the cool part is um you know, the training we do, we just do it anywhere else. CQB, large-scale combat, patrols, and ████ like that. That's what the drill is.
3:22 My la- My first drill was 4 days, and we just did a rifle call. We did a lot of PT, running, and a lot of paperwork and stuff. It was fun. >> So, the drill is kind of like training. Whatever your job is, you have to train to do it. So, if you're like, they on top of it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, so if you're like a motor T, then you're working on trucks, you're taking Humvees apart, doing whatever. If you're infantry, you're still doing CQB and all that stuff. And you're And uh they actually train you pretty hard because they know they have to cram pretty much like a month worth of training into the weekend. So, you actually go pretty high-paced. >> Wha- What's the What's your favorite thing you did in there? >> In drill? >> In No, in in boot camp, anything you anything. All of it out of all of it. >> Uh dude, honestly, shooting like the Carl Gustaf, the AT4s, the the you know >> The bazooka thing. That's sick. >> Um an American RPG, shooting the 240
4:12 machine gun, belt-fed, like stuff like that was fun. But a lot of the other fun stuff was like because I was squad leader at one point, I was commanding my I was like controlling my team when we got attacked or ambushed. So, a lot of react to ambush, react to contact. It was a lot of like battlefield and fighting drills I was doing. >> So, when you're squad leader, you're calling like the shots? Like they they give you an objective and then you go you send your your players out like a coach? Like how does that work? >> Yeah, pretty pretty much. Like so, we're getting contact from the right, then I tell my guys, "Yo, get information, get online." So, you tell them you guide them what to do the whole time. And then at the end of the day, you got to report, and the drill sergeants going to check on you and report how well you did or how well, you know, what you could have been doing better. But those are the fun stuff. It was like actually going out there, training how to fight, training how to
5:02 do large-scale combat. >> Did you ever have a wax on wax off moment where like you feel like you're doing something that's pretty ████ like during like boot camp and training? And then and then like later on you're in the field and you're like, "I know why we had to do that stupid thing now." >> Yeah, yeah. Pretty much like the whole time until our last couple weeks of training. >> Don't you think it's the other way? Isn't it more like wax off wax on? They like do really really really cool military stuff and then they get like finished with boot camp and now it's like now go be like a a salesman or something. >> Feels like it. >> Kind of. >> Cuz he's talking about belt-fed ████ you know, machine guns and stuff holding like American RPGs and like he might not even get deployed. Like right? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, well, active duty doesn't get deployed as much at all. Compared to like ████ National Guards. >> What? >> Yeah, National Guards deploy way more.
5:53 >> they get deployed the most. >> Is it cuz actives just holding down the fort already in different bases and like >> It's the ROI. I think with Reserves they pretty much Reserves and National Guard, they invest so much into you but you're only giving back one weekend a month. >> Mhm. >> So they're like to get their money's back worth in training cuz you're technically getting trained just as much as active duty, but they're down to go anywhere anytime. But these guys we only get them one week in a month. So if there's going to come to go to war, I need these guys to go first. >> Or like >> fodder? >> Or if there's a flood or whatever in like Louisiana like >> Humanitarian uh missions. >> Yeah, yeah. We get activated. >> Cuz you got to you got to know how to shoot your RPGs in case of flood. >> Damn right. >> What about when >> No more. >> More it's like uh more it's like we're disciplined enough not to do stupid stuff during emergencies and we're over to assist. We're aware, we know physically we're strong, mentally we're
6:44 tough to where we can help people out in any worse situation. Cuz that's the situation we're put in in training and all the times anyways. You know what I'm saying? >> Fire. That's the clearest you've been all day. >> That's yeah, literally other than the the drunk slur. >> More that. More that. >> You had beer and food. >> Yeah. >> Just beer and food. >> Um what about you know when you got out of boot camp and you're like ████ thank god I'm not in a jail environment anymore. I'm a civilian. >> When you went to your first drill WERE YOU LIKE >> OH, ████ I'M ████ BACK IN THIS ████ >> NO, NO. I was like super uptight and everybody was like yo, chill out. >> Oh, it's not boot camp anymore. >> No, it's they they said you're you're ████ out of OCS. You're done with boot camp. Relax. Everyone has their phones out, everyone's chilling. When it's time to train they put it away, time to train. But other than that, relax. It's not a big deal. Everyone Even the active duty like my buddies in active duty, I call
7:34 them all the time. They said the same thing. Yeah, everyone's on their phones chilling. >> chill now. Everyone like treats you like an adult. >> Yeah, you have to go through basic and you whatever it is in the beginning to earn your right to have freedom again. And I kind of went to a deep thought where I was like, "Yo, what if basic was actually like a What if that's how communism works? You can't do ████ You're always under construction. And then once you once you graduate and ████ like that, you get all this freedom. And that's what America is, baby. >> Wait, so like you think [laughter] like >> That's how That's how deep I thought it. >> Like North North Korea North Korea is just constant boot camp? >> Yeah, think about something >> Dude, that ████ sucks. >> Dude, dude, North Korea tells you what to eat and ████ huh? >> That's true. That I believe. >> They tell you what kind of haircut you can have. >> Damn. >> Dude, communist countries they'll tell you when to eat or how to eat or how to buy. >> I don't think it's like boot camp, but I'm going to let you run with this one. >> Yeah, I mean I'm not saying it's exactly
8:24 like boot camp, you know. We all have our rights to do whatever ████ we want. I'm just saying at the end of the day you're you're told what to buy, you're told when to buy. You're told to live a specific way the whole time. >> North Korea look like they're always like a soldier though. Like everyone's clothes. They all look like they're constantly in war. >> That's what I'm saying. >> What makes your butt cheeks tighten up the hardest? Like now, like when you have to go back cuz you go back like every month. What makes your what what happens in there that makes your butt cheeks just tighten up and you're like, "Oh, f███." >> If they announce the the next one, 20-mi ruck. Are you Are you like >> No. Now you're just like it dude, you know No, it's not that. You just learn how to just just deal with it. >> What if they go 30-mi ruck? >> That's what I'm saying. You learn how to deal with it. You're going to ask questions like >> Hey, do we have a break? >> You got to make out with your platoon sergeant. >> No.
9:14 >> You don't learn how to deal with it? You ain't gangster, bro. [laughter] >> What about 30 ████ You don't make out with a platoon sergeant? >> Deal with it, Sips. >> [laughter] >> Hey. What you think, Megan? Make out with him right now. Get over here and kiss these lips, boy. >> going to do that. Come on, guys. >> think I'm gay just cuz I want to kiss you? >> Come on, guys. >> Hey, I think I I think I think you're cute. >> Uh-uh. >> You look like you gained weight, soldier. >> Mhm. >> That sounds like a Marine thing, bro. He sounds like a Marine drill instructor. >> Maybe, maybe. >> Yeah? >> They just all sound like 30-50? >> Yeah, Army they just That's how they be talking. They don't know what >> [screaming] >> You know what I mean? Like the Marines I feel like they're like "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." Like they're very structured when they talk. >> Yeah, yeah. >> The drill sergeants in Army they just they just be talking to you.
10:05 >> They don't have like knife hands in your face? >> "How are you?" >> Like that? >> No, they just go like "Hurry the ████ up! Get this ████ done!" They just talk to you normal, you know? >> Oh, I see. >> Compared to the Marines >> Yeah, they just sound like they actually talk to you like human being, whereas Marines it's like they have like robotic lines that >> "Hurry up! I got to take a s███!" >> They talk to you normal? >> Yeah. >> If you are walking down a hallway and like you see a general or something, your butt cheeks get tightened up all the way up? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to Good morning, sir. Or or or when you're in the ████ uh battalion and they walk in "Company, attention!" And everyone has to just go into attention until they release us. >> Cuz they're like a god. >> Or yeah, you just don't know why they're there half the time. You know what I mean? If they're there sometimes it's something that either they're going to talk to you or brief about you or you're someone's in
10:55 trouble. Like the whole battalion's in trouble or something. But yeah. How's your drill weekend for you? >> Sounds fun. >> It is, it is. >> What's your What's your rank? >> I'm only a uh E2. Super wack. I'm just like a I'm private. But then >> What's below What's below private? >> E1. >> What's E1? >> Participation award. >> Wait, you said private? >> I'm like I'm private too. >> Private too? >> Private too. >> That's how the Army works? Okay. >> Uh-huh. PFC >> Cuz there's different rank structure, that's why. That's why I had to ask him. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, like it used to be funny cuz my um my cousin was dating this dude who was in the Marines and he came over and my grandpa was a lieutenant colonel and as soon as like he saw him he was like freaking the ████ out you could tell in his in his head he's just so used to being like oh ████ >> You ever see those reels on like Tik Tok or IG where there's dude they're just
11:45 hanging out or sleeping and then just to ████ with like a room full of people sleeping someone go attention on deck and they're like oh ████ >> Yeah yeah yeah yeah. >> And it's just a dude ████ with them cuz they're announcing that like a high ranking officer just came in. >> Sick. >> Yeah. >> Yeah it's like ingrained in you. >> funny to see that. >> And you'll see people like >> [snorts] >> like this and snap to attention cuz it's so ████ ingrained you're like oh my god that's crazy. >> Cuz you just don't want to get smoked you know. It's inconvenient. >> smoke you so much that you're just ready. You're just always ready cuz they smoked you so much. >> Do it at a retirement home they'll probably all feel like they're ████ 20 [clears throat] years old again. >> ████ Somebody's just paraplegic you're trying to get them back. >> [laughter]
// end of tape