WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.176 Was sailor of the year and she made it 00:02.176 --> 00:05.500 up to of the year um presentation and a 00:05.510 --> 00:08.340 banquet or a breakfast . So I showed up , 00:08.350 --> 00:11.359 it was 2018 . I had just taken command 00:11.369 --> 00:14.250 of the US of San Antonio . And I walk 00:14.260 --> 00:16.427 in and they said , hey , there's a , a 00:16.427 --> 00:18.593 gentleman by the name of Phil Beheer , 00:18.593 --> 00:20.760 that's gonna be the guest speaker . So 00:20.760 --> 00:22.871 I go in there and I , I , I hear Phil 00:22.871 --> 00:24.927 speak and I will tell you that I was 00:24.927 --> 00:26.816 inspired and motivated in all the 00:26.816 --> 00:29.129 things that come with hearing from a 00:29.139 --> 00:31.600 man of his caliber . And I went up to 00:31.610 --> 00:33.666 him afterwards and said , Phil , you 00:33.666 --> 00:35.729 inspired me . Uh You're , you're an 00:35.740 --> 00:38.669 inspiration to everybody and his father 00:38.680 --> 00:41.220 Karl Beer . Do you all know who Carl 00:41.380 --> 00:43.599 Beer is ? Have you all seen the movie 00:43.610 --> 00:46.049 Men of Honor ? And if you haven't seen 00:46.060 --> 00:48.282 that movie , ladies and gentlemen , you 00:48.282 --> 00:50.338 need to watch the movie Men of Honor 00:50.338 --> 00:53.119 because it uh is a , a story about 00:53.130 --> 00:55.709 Phil's father , Carl Bashir and I'll 00:55.720 --> 00:57.998 let him talk about it here in a second . 00:57.998 --> 01:00.164 But what I will tell you is Phil has a 01:00.164 --> 01:02.750 uh retired warrant officer . Five from 01:02.759 --> 01:05.629 the army has served over 40 years of , 01:05.639 --> 01:07.790 to our country . Retired last July . 01:08.099 --> 01:11.690 He's a , uh , Huey Black Hawk and 01:11.699 --> 01:14.730 Chinook pilot has done uh combat tours 01:14.739 --> 01:18.629 in Bosnia as well as Iraq . And there 01:18.639 --> 01:20.919 is none finer in our country than , 01:20.930 --> 01:24.349 than Phil beer . So we established a 01:24.360 --> 01:26.582 phenomenal relationship and it has been 01:26.582 --> 01:28.804 my distinct honor and privilege to know 01:28.804 --> 01:30.916 him and get to know him , become good 01:30.916 --> 01:32.916 friends with him over the past five 01:32.916 --> 01:35.027 years . And I wanted him to come here 01:35.027 --> 01:37.249 to speak to you about warrior toughness 01:37.249 --> 01:39.416 about being tough resiliency , right ? 01:39.416 --> 01:41.582 Uh Have him resolve in your life . You 01:41.582 --> 01:43.638 will all face adversity . And I will 01:43.638 --> 01:45.804 tell you if you do not get inspired by 01:45.804 --> 01:47.749 his father's story and his story , 01:47.749 --> 01:49.916 something's wrong . And I think you're 01:49.916 --> 01:51.693 all gonna walk out of here , uh 01:51.693 --> 01:53.749 motivated , you're gonna walk out of 01:53.749 --> 01:55.860 here , inspired and you , I just want 01:55.860 --> 01:57.582 you to know at the end of this 01:57.582 --> 01:59.582 presentation , he is gonna take the 01:59.582 --> 02:01.749 time . If you want to take photos with 02:01.749 --> 02:03.749 them , you wanna get selfies , he's 02:03.749 --> 02:05.971 gonna hang out all morning to make sure 02:05.971 --> 02:08.138 he spends time with each and every one 02:08.138 --> 02:10.304 of you . So thank you for being here . 02:10.304 --> 02:12.527 I'm really , really honored that you're 02:12.527 --> 02:14.638 here and I'm gonna hand it over to uh 02:14.638 --> 02:17.509 Phil . Thank you , sir . Thank you one 02:17.610 --> 02:20.990 moment . Right . 02:23.669 --> 02:25.800 Good morning . Can everybody hear me 02:26.830 --> 02:29.710 before I get started ? Uh The Navy ? A 02:29.729 --> 02:31.869 couple of years ago did a video in my 02:31.880 --> 02:33.830 honor when they made me a honorary 02:33.839 --> 02:35.895 master chief . It was part of the uh 02:35.895 --> 02:39.050 application to the of the Navy . And 02:39.220 --> 02:41.442 instead of me giving you a bio , I like 02:41.442 --> 02:43.609 to show you the video because it makes 02:43.609 --> 02:45.664 sense . It introduces me and I think 02:45.664 --> 02:47.998 you might enjoy a little bit of it . Ok . 02:47.998 --> 02:48.998 There we go . 03:06.639 --> 03:08.639 Born into a proud military family , 03:08.660 --> 03:10.438 army chief , war officer Philip 03:10.438 --> 03:13.550 Brashier is the third son of late navy 03:13.559 --> 03:16.649 massee car , the first African American 03:16.660 --> 03:19.149 US navy diver , whose courageous life 03:19.160 --> 03:21.710 story was detailed in the 2000 motion 03:21.720 --> 03:24.580 picture . Men of inspired by his 03:24.589 --> 03:27.414 father's legacy . Sheer proudly served 03:27.425 --> 03:29.675 his country for more than 40 years . A 03:29.684 --> 03:32.794 graduate of IC M high school . She was 03:32.804 --> 03:35.445 awarded an athletic scholarship to Old 03:35.455 --> 03:37.895 Dominion University where he competed 03:37.904 --> 03:39.960 on the school's wrestling team for a 03:39.960 --> 03:42.126 year before making a decision to forge 03:42.126 --> 03:44.960 his own path in the military . Brasher 03:44.970 --> 03:48.229 enlisted in the US Navy Reserve in 1981 03:48.339 --> 03:50.149 where he served as a jet engine 03:50.160 --> 03:52.460 mechanic and helicopter crew at the 03:52.470 --> 03:54.860 Naval Air Station in Northern Virginia . 03:54.869 --> 03:57.091 While Brasher enjoyed being part of the 03:57.091 --> 04:00.119 air crew , it had always been his dream 04:00.130 --> 04:02.320 to become a pilot , but without a 04:02.330 --> 04:04.570 college degree , he was not eligible 04:04.580 --> 04:07.339 for navy pilot training . However much 04:07.350 --> 04:09.572 like his father before him , Philip was 04:09.572 --> 04:11.739 determined to accomplish his goal . In 04:11.739 --> 04:15.410 1989 he made a blue to green ship after 04:15.419 --> 04:17.619 being accepted to the army's war 04:17.630 --> 04:20.450 officer program and completing initial 04:20.459 --> 04:23.670 Rory wing training . In 1991 he became 04:23.679 --> 04:25.679 a war officer pilot in the Virginia 04:25.679 --> 04:28.359 Army National Guard , serving with the 04:28.369 --> 04:30.429 Army National Guard for almost two 04:30.440 --> 04:33.630 decades . She retired in November 04:33.640 --> 04:37.570 2007 after a strenuous deploy to Iraq 04:37.709 --> 04:40.079 and his father's passing less than two 04:40.089 --> 04:42.295 years years later , she decided he 04:42.305 --> 04:44.476 still had more to give his country 04:44.545 --> 04:46.985 inspired by his late father's famous 04:46.996 --> 04:49.415 words . It's not a sin to get knocked 04:49.425 --> 04:52.555 down , it's a sin to stay down . He 04:52.566 --> 04:54.635 returned to the military joining the 04:54.645 --> 04:57.846 Army Reserve in 2009 and serving as a 04:57.855 --> 05:00.705 rear detachment commander for Bravo and 05:00.716 --> 05:03.855 Delta companies of the 559th General 05:03.865 --> 05:06.575 Support Aviation Battalion located at 05:06.585 --> 05:10.502 for Virginia aviator with more than 05:10.511 --> 05:14.351 2600 flight hours . Chief Bashir spent 05:14.361 --> 05:16.305 most of his military career flying 05:16.305 --> 05:18.305 helicopters , including the Vietnam 05:18.305 --> 05:21.272 helicopter , U H one U , two different 05:21.282 --> 05:23.562 models of the U A 60 Black Hawk as a 05:23.571 --> 05:25.582 maintenance test pilot and two 05:25.592 --> 05:28.891 different models of the C H 47 . He has 05:28.902 --> 05:31.180 flown humanitarian missions to Bolivia , 05:31.180 --> 05:33.511 deployed to Bosnia as part of task 05:33.522 --> 05:35.791 force Eagle and to Iraq as part of 05:35.802 --> 05:39.269 operation Iraqi Freedom . Today is a 05:39.279 --> 05:41.501 command chief war officer with the 80th 05:41.510 --> 05:43.579 training command , a top technical 05:43.589 --> 05:45.589 expert for his command . He invests 05:45.600 --> 05:48.089 much of his time serving as an advisor 05:48.100 --> 05:50.044 to his commanding general and as a 05:50.044 --> 05:52.100 mentor to fellow war officers and 05:52.109 --> 05:54.700 soldiers outside of the military . She 05:54.709 --> 05:56.579 works as a department of defense 05:56.589 --> 05:58.589 civilian at the defense logistics 05:58.600 --> 06:00.690 Agency in Richmond , Virginia and 06:00.855 --> 06:02.774 serves as the president of the 06:03.355 --> 06:06.045 foundation , a nonprofit organization 06:06.054 --> 06:08.815 not only dedicated to inspiring future 06:08.825 --> 06:10.984 generations to sharing the incredible 06:10.994 --> 06:13.584 life story of LA , but also working 06:13.595 --> 06:15.665 with veterans hospitals across the 06:15.674 --> 06:17.834 country to rehabilitate the lives of 06:17.845 --> 06:20.619 women , service members . Together with 06:20.630 --> 06:22.799 his wife , Sandra Roche has three 06:22.809 --> 06:25.630 daughters , Tia Megan and Melan and a 06:25.640 --> 06:27.940 son , Tyler , who is carrying on the 06:27.950 --> 06:30.579 family's proud military heritage as an 06:30.589 --> 06:33.890 army R PC cadet at North Carolina A and 06:33.899 --> 06:34.899 T University . 06:58.239 --> 07:01.880 Thank you so much . Good 07:01.890 --> 07:02.890 morning . 07:05.709 --> 07:07.820 That's ok . We're good . We're good . 07:07.820 --> 07:09.989 Good morning . You know , I am so 07:10.000 --> 07:12.056 amazed . First of all , let me say a 07:12.056 --> 07:14.420 big thank you . And I'm so glad to see 07:14.429 --> 07:16.739 him , my good friend , Cap Moreno . You 07:16.750 --> 07:18.750 know , if the Navy was smart , they 07:18.750 --> 07:20.806 would have put a star in his chest a 07:20.806 --> 07:22.861 long time ago and uh we'd still have 07:22.861 --> 07:22.820 him around , but I think he's gonna be 07:22.829 --> 07:24.940 leaving us here pretty soon . But Cap 07:24.940 --> 07:27.107 Moreno , you are the man , sir . Thank 07:27.107 --> 07:29.218 you . Thank you . It's an honor to be 07:29.218 --> 07:31.329 here as I sit in this museum . I'm as 07:31.329 --> 07:33.496 that video was planned , I was looking 07:33.496 --> 07:35.519 around and uh from my bio , it said 07:35.529 --> 07:37.820 that I was uh born the third son of Car 07:37.869 --> 07:40.290 Bashir . I was born at Triple Army 07:40.299 --> 07:42.077 General Hospital and my dad was 07:42.077 --> 07:44.132 stationed at Pearl Harbor . July 3 , 07:44.132 --> 07:46.170 1962 . So , as I look around this 07:46.179 --> 07:48.401 museum , I'm thinking , wow , Top Gun , 07:48.401 --> 07:51.320 all of that Tom Cruise , why is July 3 07:51.329 --> 07:53.739 1962 important ? Well , not only was it 07:53.750 --> 07:55.917 the day I was born but it was also the 07:55.917 --> 07:58.139 day Tom Cruise was born . We're exactly 07:58.139 --> 08:01.019 the same age . He played a military 08:01.029 --> 08:04.570 pilot , but I am a military pilot born 08:04.579 --> 08:07.980 in Honolulu , July 3 , 1962 . Exactly 08:07.989 --> 08:10.459 11 months after President Barack Obama 08:10.470 --> 08:14.140 was born in Honolulu , August 4th 1961 . 08:14.339 --> 08:16.283 Me and President Barack Obama were 08:16.283 --> 08:18.929 exactly 11 months apart in age . Now . 08:18.940 --> 08:21.051 I'm not saying that to say anything . 08:21.051 --> 08:23.218 But if I want to run for president , I 08:23.218 --> 08:25.162 sure could . If I wanted to Hawaii 08:25.162 --> 08:27.273 became a state in 1958 you gotta know 08:27.273 --> 08:30.399 your history . Um It's an honor to be 08:30.410 --> 08:32.521 here . I wanna share some things with 08:32.521 --> 08:34.632 you today . I don't wanna be long and 08:34.632 --> 08:36.854 boring , but hopefully you'll find some 08:36.854 --> 08:39.077 of this interesting as I share my dad's 08:39.077 --> 08:41.188 story and my story and will culminate 08:41.188 --> 08:43.479 into the final message . And as I go 08:43.489 --> 08:45.433 along , you'll see the theme of my 08:45.433 --> 08:47.880 message is never giving up , never 08:47.890 --> 08:50.359 letting life dictate how your life is 08:50.369 --> 08:52.510 gonna be led due to obstacles or 08:52.520 --> 08:54.719 adversity . See your life was never 08:54.729 --> 08:56.729 promised to be easy . It's gonna be 08:56.729 --> 08:58.507 tough and I'm so glad I got the 08:58.507 --> 09:00.562 audience I have now because you guys 09:00.562 --> 09:02.618 have a lot in front of you . When it 09:02.618 --> 09:04.562 comes to Naval Aviation , it's not 09:04.562 --> 09:06.673 gonna be easy . It's gonna be tough . 09:06.739 --> 09:08.572 But the thing that I'm gonna say 09:08.572 --> 09:10.628 throughout my whole presentation and 09:10.628 --> 09:12.850 you'll get it is never given up , never 09:12.850 --> 09:14.961 given in . So let's start off with my 09:14.961 --> 09:17.919 dad's story . As he pulls the 09:17.929 --> 09:19.762 presentation up , we're gonna go 09:19.762 --> 09:21.985 through this step by step . So who , by 09:21.985 --> 09:23.985 raising hands , who hasn't seen the 09:23.985 --> 09:26.250 movie Men of Honor ? Wow , there's a 09:26.260 --> 09:28.909 lot of homework assignments . Ok . 09:28.919 --> 09:30.141 We're gonna get to it 09:35.309 --> 09:38.770 there . It is my father , she grew up 09:38.780 --> 09:41.002 on a rural Kentucky farmhouse and there 09:41.002 --> 09:43.002 was already three things against my 09:43.002 --> 09:45.224 father that could have stopped him dead 09:45.224 --> 09:47.447 in his tracks even before even starting 09:47.447 --> 09:49.336 his career . Back in 1948 when he 09:49.336 --> 09:51.336 joined the navy , a black man could 09:51.336 --> 09:53.849 only be a officers valet or cook . He 09:53.859 --> 09:56.729 came from a poor uh segregated farm 09:56.739 --> 09:59.989 family in rural Kentucky . And at the 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 age of 17 , he barely had an eighth 10:02.000 --> 10:03.889 grade education . So three things 10:03.889 --> 10:05.944 against my father could have stopped 10:05.944 --> 10:08.056 him dead in his tracks , dealing with 10:08.056 --> 10:10.278 racism , dealing with poverty and being 10:10.278 --> 10:12.299 much uh pretty much illiterate . 17 10:12.309 --> 10:14.031 with less than an eighth grade 10:14.031 --> 10:16.142 education from a Kentucky farmhouse , 10:16.142 --> 10:18.476 wasn't given them much to go on in life , 10:18.476 --> 10:20.698 but he persevered , joined the navy and 10:20.698 --> 10:22.531 continued upon his goal . He was 10:22.531 --> 10:24.900 introduced to the diving community by 10:24.909 --> 10:27.609 being a , a helper down in Key West 10:27.619 --> 10:29.919 Florida , pulling seaplanes . From the 10:29.929 --> 10:32.479 ocean that crashed or had some kind of 10:32.489 --> 10:34.156 mishap . So that's how he got 10:34.156 --> 10:36.100 introduced to diving . He put in a 10:36.100 --> 10:38.322 request to be a diver , but of course , 10:38.322 --> 10:40.045 the navy turned him down . But 10:40.045 --> 10:41.989 eventually they did did , they did 10:41.989 --> 10:44.215 accept his uh uh request to go to Navy 10:44.224 --> 10:46.775 dive school and he finally did go and 10:46.784 --> 10:50.260 achieve his dream next slide . So 10:50.270 --> 10:52.919 there's my father over on this side , 10:52.929 --> 10:54.985 you can pick him out . He's the only 10:54.985 --> 10:56.985 person that looks like him . But in 10:56.985 --> 10:58.929 1954 he did graduate from Navy die 10:58.929 --> 11:00.450 school . Next slide 11:03.000 --> 11:05.000 off the coast of Spain , which is a 11:05.000 --> 11:07.167 true incident . There were a couple of 11:07.167 --> 11:09.389 air force planes that were doing aerial 11:09.389 --> 11:11.222 refuel . One of those planes had 11:11.222 --> 11:13.333 nuclear weapons on board , one of the 11:13.333 --> 11:13.270 nuclear weapons during that accident 11:13.280 --> 11:15.558 that they had at the mid air collision , 11:15.558 --> 11:17.336 dropped a nuclear bomb into the 11:17.336 --> 11:19.558 Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain . 11:19.558 --> 11:21.558 My dad was already on the dive team 11:21.558 --> 11:23.669 that was assigned to go retrieve this 11:23.669 --> 11:25.836 nuclear weapon . But during that whole 11:25.836 --> 11:27.780 shipboard operation is when my dad 11:27.780 --> 11:29.947 suffered his fourth hurdle that he had 11:29.947 --> 11:31.780 overcome because he doing the uh 11:31.780 --> 11:33.669 operation . There was a shipboard 11:33.669 --> 11:35.780 incident where a pipe flung loose and 11:35.780 --> 11:37.891 pretty much severed his leg below the 11:37.891 --> 11:39.919 knee and it almost killed him . So 11:39.929 --> 11:42.096 that's the fourth I describe my father 11:42.096 --> 11:44.373 having to deal with was his disability . 11:44.373 --> 11:47.460 Next slide here he is days after his 11:47.469 --> 11:50.049 leg was amputated at the naval hospital . 11:50.059 --> 11:52.281 See the incident happened off the coast 11:52.281 --> 11:54.503 of Spain , but they flew him from Spain 11:54.510 --> 11:56.621 to Germany and then from Germany back 11:56.621 --> 11:58.566 over to the United States where he 11:58.566 --> 12:00.788 ended up having that leg amputated July 12:00.788 --> 12:03.409 of 1966 . Here's my father getting his 12:03.419 --> 12:05.419 award , his Navy Marine Corps medal 12:05.419 --> 12:07.197 because he did save a couple of 12:07.197 --> 12:09.197 people's lives during that incident 12:09.197 --> 12:11.363 when the pipe came loose and destroyed 12:11.363 --> 12:14.309 his leg . Next slide , this is what I 12:14.320 --> 12:16.431 call my conflict picture . Ladies and 12:16.431 --> 12:18.653 gentlemen , look at the scenario that's 12:18.653 --> 12:20.820 going on . My mother who my father and 12:20.820 --> 12:22.987 my mother made four kids . It was four 12:22.987 --> 12:24.820 sons is thinking my husband went 12:24.820 --> 12:26.987 through a horrendous accident , but at 12:26.987 --> 12:26.799 least I got him home to come home and 12:26.809 --> 12:28.976 raise the kids . So my wife , I mean , 12:28.976 --> 12:30.920 I'm sorry . So my mom is happy and 12:30.920 --> 12:33.031 she's like I got my husband home even 12:33.031 --> 12:35.309 though he might be physically disabled . 12:35.309 --> 12:37.198 The captain trying to give my dad 12:37.198 --> 12:39.476 discharge paperwork was thinking , wow , 12:39.960 --> 12:42.238 you're , you're no good to us . You're , 12:42.238 --> 12:44.182 you're a handicap . We're gonna go 12:44.182 --> 12:46.349 ahead and give you discharge papers so 12:46.349 --> 12:48.460 long . See you later . But the man in 12:48.460 --> 12:50.793 the middle , the man in the middle said , 12:50.793 --> 12:52.738 oh no , I'm not gonna go , I'm not 12:52.738 --> 12:54.738 coming home to raise kids and maybe 12:54.738 --> 12:56.738 you're not gonna get rid of me . So 12:56.738 --> 12:56.570 this looks like a nice picture of 12:56.580 --> 12:58.691 people getting together and paperwork 12:58.691 --> 13:00.747 is being passed around but there's a 13:00.747 --> 13:02.969 lot of conflict in this picture . A lot 13:02.969 --> 13:05.080 of conflict . I call this my conflict 13:05.080 --> 13:08.780 scenario . Next slide . So my 13:08.809 --> 13:11.010 dad set out to prove to the navy that 13:11.020 --> 13:13.500 he was capable of being a diver . The 13:13.510 --> 13:15.640 amputation was below the knee . So he 13:15.650 --> 13:17.539 set out to prove to the navy with 13:17.539 --> 13:19.706 congressional photographers that yes , 13:19.706 --> 13:21.817 I can return back to diving . Yes , I 13:21.817 --> 13:23.928 can be a uh a capable diver on active 13:23.928 --> 13:26.719 duty wearing that £300 dive suit and 13:26.729 --> 13:29.940 do my job . So the Navy wasn't fence 13:29.950 --> 13:31.672 but they had the congressional 13:31.672 --> 13:33.672 photography take , take pictures of 13:33.672 --> 13:35.839 them and they said , ok , well , let's 13:35.839 --> 13:34.750 do , let's see , you do some 13:34.760 --> 13:36.982 calisthenics . Let's do see you do some 13:36.982 --> 13:39.149 maneuvers that you would have to do as 13:39.149 --> 13:41.316 a diver . So you can see he had on his 13:41.316 --> 13:43.371 dress shoes . They told him to strip 13:43.371 --> 13:45.427 down . We wanna see you bending your 13:45.427 --> 13:45.419 knee , making sure that you had knee 13:45.429 --> 13:47.651 capability . You can see my father's in 13:47.651 --> 13:50.169 dress shoes on a slippery wooden wax 13:50.179 --> 13:52.849 floor and a rubber mat . They told him 13:52.859 --> 13:54.915 to strip down , bend down . We wanna 13:54.915 --> 13:56.859 see you , uh , bend your knee do , 13:56.859 --> 13:59.081 doing a pretty good job of that . But I 13:59.081 --> 14:02.500 say wax floor , rubber mat , dress 14:02.510 --> 14:04.677 shoes . The scenario gets worse . Next 14:04.677 --> 14:08.460 slide , climbing a ladder with 14:08.469 --> 14:11.260 weights on his back , dress shoes . If 14:11.270 --> 14:13.492 that's not an ocean accident waiting to 14:13.492 --> 14:15.603 happen , I don't know what it is . If 14:15.603 --> 14:17.603 my father had fallen what would the 14:17.603 --> 14:19.881 Navy have done so long ? See you later . 14:19.881 --> 14:22.103 But look what he had to go through what 14:22.103 --> 14:22.080 the movie doesn't show . Now , let me 14:22.090 --> 14:24.500 just say this . It wasn't just a two 14:24.510 --> 14:26.510 hour courtroom scene that the movie 14:26.510 --> 14:28.621 shows and men of honor that my father 14:28.621 --> 14:30.454 had to go through . He had to go 14:30.454 --> 14:32.677 through 11 months of going through this 14:32.677 --> 14:34.788 kind of maneuver for the Navy to make 14:34.788 --> 14:37.010 the decision . Yes , you can be a diver 14:37.010 --> 14:38.954 again . So just think of my father 14:38.954 --> 14:41.177 going through 11 months of this proving 14:41.177 --> 14:43.177 to the navy that he could return to 14:43.177 --> 14:45.177 active duty as a diver wearing that 14:45.177 --> 14:48.950 £300 dive suit . Next slide , of 14:48.960 --> 14:51.182 course , you have to be strong . My dad 14:51.182 --> 14:53.404 only stood about 59 , but he was pretty 14:53.404 --> 14:55.460 stocky . And again , I say that suit 14:55.460 --> 14:57.238 weighed £300 . So he had to be 14:57.238 --> 15:00.090 physically fit , but look dress shoes , 15:00.099 --> 15:03.859 rubber mat , wax floor , any kind of 15:03.869 --> 15:05.869 miss out could have happened and my 15:05.869 --> 15:07.591 father could have hurt herself 15:07.591 --> 15:09.647 seriously . And then they would have 15:09.647 --> 15:11.980 said so long . See you later next slide , 15:14.109 --> 15:17.020 metal stair wheel weights over his head 15:17.030 --> 15:19.030 in dress shoes . Now , I don't care 15:19.030 --> 15:21.086 what you look like , white , black , 15:21.086 --> 15:23.308 brown , yellow , whatever , what gender 15:23.308 --> 15:25.419 or whatever that would have been hard 15:25.419 --> 15:27.530 for anybody to deal with . Proving to 15:27.530 --> 15:29.752 the navy that he could be a diver again 15:29.752 --> 15:32.086 and trying to show to the navy that yes , 15:32.086 --> 15:34.197 I can be physically fit even though I 15:34.197 --> 15:36.252 lost the bottom part of my leg . But 15:36.252 --> 15:35.880 had he slipped on that , uh , metal 15:35.890 --> 15:38.001 stairwell , the Navy would just wrote 15:38.001 --> 15:41.780 him off . Remember , 11 months of this , 15:41.789 --> 15:43.789 not just a two hour courtroom scene 15:43.789 --> 15:45.733 that they show in the movie Men of 15:45.733 --> 15:47.456 Honor , 11 months next slide . 15:49.679 --> 15:51.790 So they get close to the review board 15:51.790 --> 15:53.568 time where they're gonna make a 15:53.568 --> 15:55.790 decision . They still were convinced my 15:55.790 --> 15:57.679 father was in his dress navy blue 15:57.679 --> 15:59.790 uniform . The , the photographer told 15:59.790 --> 16:01.846 him again . Ok . Uh We're gonna take 16:01.846 --> 16:03.790 some pictures of you . The medical 16:03.790 --> 16:05.901 review board told my dad strip down . 16:05.901 --> 16:04.929 We're gonna make sure you got knee 16:04.940 --> 16:06.996 capability . And after all that , he 16:06.996 --> 16:08.940 had already gone through , they're 16:08.940 --> 16:11.051 gonna tell him to strip down again so 16:11.051 --> 16:13.218 they could see that he had movement in 16:13.218 --> 16:15.329 his knee . What are we doing ? But he 16:15.329 --> 16:17.496 complied , took off his pants , got on 16:17.496 --> 16:19.551 a stationary bike and proved that he 16:19.551 --> 16:21.329 had knee capability because the 16:21.329 --> 16:23.329 amputation was below the knee . But 16:23.329 --> 16:25.329 look what we're putting our veteran 16:25.329 --> 16:27.384 through . This is a man fighting for 16:27.384 --> 16:27.239 his life , fighting for his career . 16:27.250 --> 16:29.361 We're gonna put him through this . No 16:29.361 --> 16:33.020 way , Jose , next line . Now , this 16:33.030 --> 16:35.086 picture isn't that bad . He's at the 16:35.086 --> 16:37.308 naval base in Norfolk . You've gotta be 16:37.308 --> 16:39.474 aerobically fit . That suit does weigh 16:39.474 --> 16:41.586 £300 if you're not fit . Let me tell 16:41.586 --> 16:43.697 you something , you're wrong . My dad 16:43.697 --> 16:45.919 only stood about 59 and let me tell you 16:45.919 --> 16:48.086 a quick story . I'm almost 64 . When I 16:48.086 --> 16:50.141 was a teenager . At 14 years old , I 16:50.141 --> 16:52.308 was already taller than my dad . And I 16:52.308 --> 16:54.419 used to joke with my dad all the time 16:54.419 --> 16:54.169 and he would come back at me with some 16:54.179 --> 16:56.290 sands . But I remember one time I was 16:56.290 --> 16:58.457 in the house . I said , dad , how come 16:58.457 --> 17:00.568 I'm so tall and you so short . And my 17:00.568 --> 17:02.735 dad looked up and said , look here you 17:02.735 --> 17:04.679 little smart . But before you came 17:04.679 --> 17:06.735 along , I was out to sea . So better 17:06.735 --> 17:09.579 ask your mother . So , so , so he had 17:09.589 --> 17:11.533 his little comebacks to keep me in 17:11.533 --> 17:13.756 check because I was a smart . But I , I 17:13.756 --> 17:15.922 I used to tease him all the time . But 17:15.922 --> 17:18.145 the older I get , the more people say , 17:18.145 --> 17:20.256 I look like him so he can't deny me . 17:20.256 --> 17:22.089 But this is at the naval base in 17:22.089 --> 17:23.978 Norfolk doing his aerobic fitness 17:23.978 --> 17:25.978 exercises , staying in shape . Next 17:25.978 --> 17:29.660 slide . So the navy had to uh give 17:29.670 --> 17:31.670 in . My father proved that he could 17:31.670 --> 17:33.726 still be a diver . He proved that he 17:33.726 --> 17:35.781 was still had the agility , he still 17:35.781 --> 17:37.781 had the strength , he still had the 17:37.781 --> 17:40.114 muster to get out there and do that job . 17:40.114 --> 17:39.670 So they had to congratulate him and 17:39.680 --> 17:41.624 give him his job back . Here's the 17:41.624 --> 17:43.847 admiral congratulate my father on the A 17:43.847 --> 17:45.958 R S 43 recovery , which is a ship out 17:45.958 --> 17:47.958 of Little Creek in Virginia Beach , 17:47.958 --> 17:49.291 Virginia . Next slide . 17:54.109 --> 17:55.998 The fifth hurdle that I , that my 17:55.998 --> 17:58.750 father had to go through . That was 17:58.760 --> 18:00.982 probably as hard as , you know , losing 18:00.982 --> 18:03.038 a leg . Wasn't that difficult for my 18:03.038 --> 18:05.038 dad because he always said he had a 18:05.038 --> 18:07.260 good another one . But the fifth hurdle 18:07.260 --> 18:06.930 my father had to go through is one that 18:06.939 --> 18:09.106 I wanna share with everybody . All you 18:09.106 --> 18:11.050 young people wearing a uniform now 18:11.050 --> 18:13.106 because see what my father proved 50 18:13.106 --> 18:15.272 years ago that if you've got a problem 18:15.272 --> 18:17.217 and you state it , the military is 18:17.217 --> 18:19.217 obligated to help you regardless of 18:19.217 --> 18:21.383 what your situation is . Because see , 18:21.383 --> 18:23.606 my father had a drinking problem before 18:23.606 --> 18:25.579 he retired . April 1 , 1979 he 18:25.589 --> 18:27.949 requested help for substance abuse . 18:27.959 --> 18:31.020 Alcohol is a big issue . Why do I tell 18:31.030 --> 18:33.030 that story ? Because I'm looking at 18:33.030 --> 18:34.919 every one of you and if you think 18:34.919 --> 18:37.030 you're alone in this service , you're 18:37.030 --> 18:39.086 wrong . The captain can tell you the 18:39.086 --> 18:41.141 admiral can tell you , the president 18:41.141 --> 18:43.252 can tell you that if you got an issue 18:43.252 --> 18:45.197 and you wearing that uniform , the 18:45.197 --> 18:44.979 military is obligated to help you with 18:44.989 --> 18:47.156 it . My dad proved that 50 years ago . 18:47.500 --> 18:49.722 So I don't want anybody to know in this 18:49.722 --> 18:51.556 audience to think that you're by 18:51.556 --> 18:53.778 yourself . There's help out there to be 18:53.778 --> 18:55.833 had . If you ask for it , the Navy , 18:55.833 --> 18:57.944 the army , the Marine Corps , the Air 18:57.944 --> 19:00.222 Force , they are obligated to help you . 19:00.222 --> 19:02.278 If you got a situation , never think 19:02.278 --> 19:02.069 you're in this thing by yourself . 19:02.739 --> 19:05.010 Never give in . Never let anything take 19:05.020 --> 19:07.069 control of you , you've got help . 19:07.459 --> 19:09.819 Right . Captain . The captain said 19:09.829 --> 19:11.979 absolutely . So the fifth hurdle that 19:11.989 --> 19:14.156 my father had overcome was his alcohol 19:14.156 --> 19:17.280 abuse and he retired in April 1st 19:17.290 --> 19:19.380 1979 . But let's recap , 19:21.510 --> 19:25.069 racism , poverty , illiteracy , 19:25.229 --> 19:28.160 physical disability , substance abuse , 19:28.170 --> 19:30.400 five things that affect this country . 19:30.410 --> 19:32.466 Hell , five things that still affect 19:32.466 --> 19:34.599 every country in this world that he 19:34.609 --> 19:37.180 overcame and still became a viable , 19:37.189 --> 19:39.510 well known citizen in this world . So , 19:39.520 --> 19:41.631 you know what he did when he overcame 19:41.631 --> 19:43.853 those five things , he took the ability 19:43.853 --> 19:45.964 from every one of us to ever complain 19:45.964 --> 19:48.076 about anything . So we don't have the 19:48.076 --> 19:47.959 right to complain if he could live this 19:47.969 --> 19:50.209 life and go through these things . We 19:50.219 --> 19:52.052 have nothing that we should ever 19:52.052 --> 19:54.386 complain about . See , we give too easy , 19:54.386 --> 19:56.275 too many times to simple issues , 19:56.275 --> 19:58.497 issues that can be resolved if you just 19:58.497 --> 20:00.330 ask for help , look what he went 20:00.330 --> 20:02.163 through the five hurdles that he 20:02.163 --> 20:04.330 overcame . So when you think you had a 20:04.330 --> 20:06.163 bad think of what my father went 20:06.163 --> 20:08.386 through and regroup and get back in the 20:08.386 --> 20:10.140 fight never give in next slide 20:12.949 --> 20:14.949 in Hollywood in the 19 eighties and 20:14.949 --> 20:17.060 nineties , there was a very important 20:17.060 --> 20:19.227 man who kind of ruled Hollywood . This 20:19.227 --> 20:21.282 man heard word of my dad's story and 20:21.282 --> 20:23.449 said , we want Fox studio to make this 20:23.449 --> 20:25.616 movie because see back in the eighties 20:25.616 --> 20:27.560 and nineties , this was the man in 20:27.560 --> 20:29.671 Hollywood and whatever he said goes , 20:29.671 --> 20:31.616 he told Fox Studios , I just heard 20:31.616 --> 20:33.949 about this story about Carl , you wanna , 20:33.949 --> 20:35.949 you're gonna make the movie and I'm 20:35.949 --> 20:38.005 gonna make sure it gets made and the 20:38.005 --> 20:40.171 movie came out in November 2000 before 20:40.171 --> 20:42.227 many of you were even born . But the 20:42.227 --> 20:44.282 man I speak of that told Fox Studios 20:44.282 --> 20:44.219 that you're gonna make this movie , man 20:44.229 --> 20:47.420 of honor was Doctor Bill Cosby . I 20:47.430 --> 20:49.708 don't even know what to say about that , 20:49.839 --> 20:51.895 but for those of you that might be a 20:51.895 --> 20:54.061 little older back in , in the eighties 20:54.061 --> 20:56.283 and nineties , Bill Cosby was the man . 20:56.283 --> 20:58.395 And when he told Fox Studios , you're 20:58.395 --> 21:00.561 gonna do this movie and the movie came 21:00.561 --> 21:02.672 out in November 2000 . Well , because 21:02.672 --> 21:04.617 of his input . Now let me tell you 21:04.617 --> 21:06.783 about six degrees of separation . Bill 21:06.783 --> 21:08.910 Cosby . We all know the stories . We 21:08.920 --> 21:11.031 all know what's happened since then . 21:11.530 --> 21:13.419 If you saw my bio , I was made an 21:13.419 --> 21:15.308 honorary chief at my retirement . 21:15.790 --> 21:17.957 There's been four , there's been three 21:17.957 --> 21:20.068 other people that have been given the 21:20.068 --> 21:22.650 uh status of honorary chief by the one 21:22.660 --> 21:24.438 being Ray Mabus who was defense 21:24.438 --> 21:27.189 secretary in 2007 . The next person who 21:27.199 --> 21:29.421 was made honorary chief by the Mec Pond 21:29.421 --> 21:31.829 of the Navy was Gary Lieutenant Dan 21:31.839 --> 21:34.739 from the movie Forrest Gump . The third 21:34.750 --> 21:36.972 person in 2011 who was made an honorary 21:36.972 --> 21:39.969 chief by the of the navy was Bill Cosby . 21:40.660 --> 21:43.619 But in 2014 , because of all the stuff 21:43.630 --> 21:46.930 going on , they pulled his back . But 21:46.939 --> 21:49.599 in July 2022 when Philip retired from 21:49.609 --> 21:51.665 the army , he was given the honor of 21:51.665 --> 21:53.720 being the honorary chief by the , of 21:53.720 --> 21:55.831 the Navy . And I can look at each one 21:55.831 --> 21:57.887 of you in the eye right now and tell 21:57.887 --> 22:00.109 you mine will never be rescinded . Mine 22:00.109 --> 22:02.220 is not coming back . I'm keeping it . 22:02.220 --> 22:04.459 It's forever that's gonna stay . But 22:04.469 --> 22:06.136 you never know six degrees of 22:06.136 --> 22:08.302 separation between folks . It's , it's 22:08.302 --> 22:10.413 just a , it's just amazing Next slide 22:11.869 --> 22:13.980 and there he is the late master chief 22:13.980 --> 22:16.400 master diver car . The subject of the 22:16.410 --> 22:19.099 movie Men of Honor . My dad . Look at 22:19.109 --> 22:21.053 me , look at him . You gotta see a 22:21.053 --> 22:23.220 resemblance . So what he said to me in 22:23.220 --> 22:25.387 that house back years ago doesn't hold 22:25.387 --> 22:27.800 water . So that , that's him . Next 22:27.810 --> 22:31.619 slide halfway through my Iraq tour , I 22:31.630 --> 22:34.229 got sent to Iraq in 2005 . I'm flying 22:34.239 --> 22:36.461 helicopters doing a lot of night vision 22:36.461 --> 22:38.739 goggles , getting shot at all the time . 22:38.739 --> 22:40.850 Every time I went out , I didn't know 22:40.850 --> 22:42.850 if I was gonna make it back because 22:42.850 --> 22:44.961 back in those days , Black Hawks were 22:44.961 --> 22:44.859 getting shot out of the sky and coming 22:44.869 --> 22:47.000 down on a regular basis . So every 22:47.010 --> 22:49.232 night I went out flying , I didn't know 22:49.232 --> 22:51.177 if I was gonna come back . Uh , if 22:51.177 --> 22:53.232 anybody's ever been to Iraq , let me 22:53.232 --> 22:55.454 tell you something . 100 and 20 degrees 22:55.454 --> 22:57.677 during the day time is nothing . That's 22:57.677 --> 22:59.843 a usual occurrence . So it's miserable 22:59.843 --> 23:02.177 over there . You think Pensacola is bad ? 23:02.177 --> 23:04.010 Go to Iraq where it's 100 and 20 23:04.010 --> 23:06.121 degrees . It was tough over there . I 23:06.121 --> 23:08.232 had a hard tour , but halfway through 23:08.232 --> 23:10.454 my tour I found out through a red cross 23:10.454 --> 23:12.732 message that my dad was critically ill . 23:12.732 --> 23:12.540 He was at the Naval Hospital . So they 23:12.550 --> 23:14.661 wanted to bring me back home to be at 23:14.661 --> 23:16.439 his side and my father had some 23:16.439 --> 23:18.606 occurrences . So I didn't think it was 23:18.606 --> 23:20.439 a big deal . So I get back to my 23:20.439 --> 23:20.084 father's side at the port naval 23:20.094 --> 23:22.224 hospital and I come straight to his 23:22.234 --> 23:24.234 room in my uniform , my flight suit 23:24.234 --> 23:26.474 tall strong serving my country flying 23:26.484 --> 23:28.651 helicopters . But I walked in my dad's 23:28.651 --> 23:30.915 hospital room complaining dad is hot as 23:30.925 --> 23:32.869 hell in Iraq . I'm getting shot at 23:32.869 --> 23:34.981 every night . All kinds of complaints 23:34.981 --> 23:37.250 that I was giving my father . I didn't 23:37.260 --> 23:39.427 know it at the time , but my father is 23:39.427 --> 23:41.427 on his death bed . What gave me the 23:41.427 --> 23:43.482 right to walk into his room complain 23:43.482 --> 23:45.649 about what I was going through in Iraq 23:45.649 --> 23:47.871 because let me tell you something about 23:47.871 --> 23:47.439 complaining . There's always somebody 23:47.449 --> 23:49.671 who's got it worse than you . My father 23:49.671 --> 23:51.727 would have traded place with me in a 23:51.727 --> 23:53.616 heartbeat to be out there finding 23:53.616 --> 23:55.838 helicopters for your country , doing my 23:55.838 --> 23:58.005 job . Big strong and healthy . He died 23:58.005 --> 24:00.005 in that same hospital bed five days 24:00.005 --> 24:02.227 later . So again , think about what I'm 24:02.227 --> 24:04.393 saying . Stop complaining . There's no 24:04.393 --> 24:06.282 reason to complain guys . There's 24:06.282 --> 24:08.505 nothing in this , on this plan that you 24:08.505 --> 24:08.319 can't handle what gave me the right to 24:08.329 --> 24:10.162 walk into my dad's hospital room 24:10.162 --> 24:12.385 complaining when I was out there living 24:12.385 --> 24:14.496 my life , my father would have traded 24:14.496 --> 24:16.551 place with me in a heartbeat . I , I 24:16.551 --> 24:15.579 can tell you right now I would have 24:15.589 --> 24:18.510 traded place with him . He was sickly , 24:18.520 --> 24:22.439 he was old and he was dying . So at 24:22.449 --> 24:24.671 my father's funeral in his will , I got 24:24.671 --> 24:26.782 calls from the president all down the 24:26.782 --> 24:29.005 chain of command in the United States . 24:29.005 --> 24:30.782 Yeah , he's gonna be sent to um 24:31.310 --> 24:33.477 Arlington cemetery and we got his plot 24:33.477 --> 24:35.366 ready and all of that . But in my 24:35.366 --> 24:37.310 father's will , he decided that he 24:37.310 --> 24:39.588 considered himself to be a regular Joe . 24:39.588 --> 24:41.754 He wasn't a celebrity . So in his will 24:41.754 --> 24:43.921 at his funeral , he wanted all E three 24:43.921 --> 24:46.032 and below to serve as his pallbearers 24:46.032 --> 24:48.550 and as a flag folders , see , my father 24:48.560 --> 24:50.727 didn't think of himself as a hero . He 24:50.727 --> 24:53.004 thought of himself as a regular person . 24:53.004 --> 24:55.227 So everybody who served at that funeral 24:55.227 --> 24:57.171 detail was E three and below . And 24:57.171 --> 24:59.227 their flag holder , that flag folder 24:59.227 --> 25:01.282 right ? There was the E three and my 25:01.282 --> 25:03.060 dad didn't want to be buried in 25:03.060 --> 25:04.838 Arlington . My dad is buried in 25:04.838 --> 25:07.089 Virginia Beach , Virginia on Virginia 25:07.099 --> 25:09.260 Beach Boulevard at Woodlawn Memorial 25:09.270 --> 25:12.989 Cemetery right across the street from 25:13.000 --> 25:15.550 where he bought his Cadillacs . He 25:15.560 --> 25:17.449 didn't wanna go to Arlington . He 25:17.449 --> 25:19.560 wanted to be buried in Virginia where 25:19.560 --> 25:21.504 he worked and lived . So he denied 25:21.504 --> 25:24.459 going to Arlington . Next slide So 25:24.469 --> 25:26.469 after 30 days of being home from my 25:26.469 --> 25:28.580 Iraq tour , I had to go back . But of 25:28.580 --> 25:30.802 course , I had my Navy Marine Corps and 25:30.802 --> 25:32.969 army buddies as a support system . And 25:32.969 --> 25:35.136 man , let me tell you , they took care 25:35.136 --> 25:35.119 of me . When I got back to Iraq , it 25:35.130 --> 25:37.410 was great having after bearing my 25:37.420 --> 25:39.849 father coming back to a combat scenario , 25:39.859 --> 25:41.970 but to have people who love and , and 25:41.970 --> 25:43.915 took care of me . So that's just a 25:43.915 --> 25:45.970 picture of some of the folks there . 25:45.970 --> 25:49.609 Next slide while I was there , 25:50.140 --> 25:52.251 Admiral Mullen , who was the chief of 25:52.251 --> 25:54.362 naval operations at the time , said I 25:54.362 --> 25:56.362 was at your dad's funeral in Little 25:56.362 --> 25:58.529 Creek . I'm making my tour around Iraq 25:58.529 --> 26:00.751 and I'm so glad to see you back here in 26:00.751 --> 26:00.369 Iraq serving our country . 26:00.380 --> 26:02.729 Congratulations at the time I was AC 26:02.739 --> 26:04.906 W-4 . But man , when somebody walks up 26:04.910 --> 26:06.910 on you with four stars , man , just 26:06.910 --> 26:09.132 takes your breath away . So there he is 26:09.132 --> 26:11.299 congratulating me on returning back to 26:11.299 --> 26:11.280 Iraq getting ready to do combat 26:11.290 --> 26:14.390 missions in my helicopter again . Next 26:14.400 --> 26:17.819 time , my C O though said , 26:18.270 --> 26:20.381 we know you just buried your father . 26:20.381 --> 26:22.603 So we wanna take it easy on you . So he 26:22.603 --> 26:24.770 said , take some leave , go to color , 26:24.770 --> 26:26.937 cut her , relax . And uh when you come 26:26.937 --> 26:29.159 back , we'll get you back in the combat 26:29.159 --> 26:31.326 duty . So I went to cut her and I went 26:31.326 --> 26:33.381 native as you can see . Now , let me 26:33.381 --> 26:35.603 just give you a little bit of a insight 26:35.603 --> 26:37.659 if you wear that garb , the way it's 26:37.659 --> 26:39.881 supposed to with nothing underneath the 26:39.881 --> 26:42.103 slightest wind gives your undercarriage 26:42.103 --> 26:44.381 a nice cooling effect . I mean , I , I , 26:44.381 --> 26:46.714 ok , that might be too much information . 26:46.714 --> 26:46.290 But anyway , I just want to tell you 26:46.300 --> 26:48.467 that , but look , when it's 100 and 20 26:48.467 --> 26:50.578 degrees , you gotta do what you gotta 26:50.578 --> 26:54.130 do next slide . So , before they put me 26:54.140 --> 26:56.251 back in combat duty , they said we've 26:56.251 --> 26:58.418 got some VIP flights that we wanna put 26:58.418 --> 27:00.529 you on . So I got the chance to go to 27:00.529 --> 27:02.696 buy up international and pick up these 27:02.696 --> 27:04.918 two gentlemen right here . One of you , 27:04.918 --> 27:06.973 you probably know very well is Chuck 27:06.973 --> 27:09.140 Norris ? The other one is his , is his 27:09.140 --> 27:11.251 good friend , Marshall . T if you saw 27:11.251 --> 27:13.473 the movie Road House Marshall Teague is 27:13.473 --> 27:15.696 the man that he fought at the end , the 27:15.696 --> 27:15.160 movie , that big karate scene that 27:15.170 --> 27:17.170 Patrick Swayze . Well , I'm talking 27:17.170 --> 27:19.226 about a movie that some of you never 27:19.226 --> 27:21.448 even seen . But anyway , that's another 27:21.448 --> 27:21.239 homework assignment . But anyway , 27:21.250 --> 27:23.250 these two Hollywood actors are good 27:23.250 --> 27:25.194 friends . I flew Chuck Norris from 27:25.194 --> 27:27.083 campsite to campsite while he was 27:27.083 --> 27:30.410 visiting the troops . Actually , I did 27:30.420 --> 27:32.253 not fly Chuck Norris around from 27:32.253 --> 27:34.198 campsite to campsite . The will of 27:34.198 --> 27:36.560 Chuck Norris levitated us around Iraq 27:36.939 --> 27:39.106 as we went from campsite to campsite . 27:39.106 --> 27:41.050 You guys know all the Chuck Norris 27:41.050 --> 27:43.050 stories when he does a push up , he 27:43.050 --> 27:45.272 pushes the world away and all that kind 27:45.272 --> 27:44.800 of stuff . The only man who could turn 27:44.810 --> 27:46.699 the light switch off being in bed 27:46.699 --> 27:48.866 asleep before the room gets dark . You 27:48.866 --> 27:50.754 guys heard all those Chuck Norris 27:50.754 --> 27:52.977 stories but he loves them . I asked him 27:52.977 --> 27:52.439 about that . He said , I don't know 27:52.449 --> 27:54.671 where that came from , but I get a kick 27:54.671 --> 27:56.969 out of him , but he's a cool guy . Now , 27:56.979 --> 27:59.589 that wasn't my only uh encounter with 27:59.599 --> 28:03.449 celebrities . Next slide . When I 28:03.459 --> 28:05.570 was in Bosnia , I got a chance to fly 28:05.570 --> 28:07.459 Arnold Schwarzenegger around from 28:07.459 --> 28:09.626 campsite to campsite as he visited the 28:09.626 --> 28:11.792 troops . When I went to the airport to 28:11.792 --> 28:14.015 pick him up though , when I saw him get 28:14.015 --> 28:13.800 off the airplane with his entourage , I 28:13.810 --> 28:16.032 was like , where's the rest of them ? I 28:16.032 --> 28:18.088 didn't realize Arnold Schwarzenegger 28:18.088 --> 28:20.310 was only 5 11 . I was like , man , when 28:20.310 --> 28:22.366 you see him on TV , you think he's a 28:22.366 --> 28:24.421 six ft 10 giant ? But he's not . But 28:24.421 --> 28:26.588 let me tell you he is cool . I gotta , 28:26.588 --> 28:28.810 I gotta admit it was cool flying Arnold 28:28.810 --> 28:30.977 from campsite to campsite while he was 28:30.977 --> 28:33.143 visiting the troops in Bosnia . And at 28:33.143 --> 28:32.650 one point during the day , we was 28:32.660 --> 28:34.882 getting close on time and I had to help 28:34.882 --> 28:36.993 and get Arnold Schwarzenegger back to 28:36.993 --> 28:38.938 another campsite . So I was at the 28:38.938 --> 28:41.104 helicopter getting everything prepared 28:41.104 --> 28:43.271 and he was with his entourage a couple 28:43.271 --> 28:45.493 of yards away and I yelled out , get to 28:45.493 --> 28:47.604 the chopper look and he turned around 28:47.604 --> 28:49.549 if for those of you who don't know 28:49.549 --> 28:51.604 another homework assignment . That's 28:51.604 --> 28:53.438 the famous saying from his movie 28:53.438 --> 28:55.549 Predator . Get to the chopper . So he 28:55.549 --> 28:54.510 turned around and looked at me and 28:54.520 --> 28:56.464 started laughing . But what was he 28:56.464 --> 28:58.687 gonna do ? I'm bigger than he is . So I 28:58.687 --> 28:58.069 wasn't worried about Arnold 28:58.180 --> 29:00.402 Schwarzenegger . What was , what was he 29:00.402 --> 29:02.624 gonna say ? But I had the chance to fly 29:02.624 --> 29:04.847 him around , which is pretty cool . The 29:04.847 --> 29:07.069 other Gentleman Marine Corps , you guys 29:07.069 --> 29:09.530 know who that is a , er , a , er , I 29:09.540 --> 29:13.099 met in DC and he told me I had that 29:13.109 --> 29:15.220 part in the movie Men of Honor before 29:15.220 --> 29:17.553 Robert De Niro signed on board to do it . 29:17.553 --> 29:19.442 Now , I was talking to Chaps this 29:19.442 --> 29:21.442 morning and Josh , and I said , you 29:21.442 --> 29:23.498 know what that movie would have been 29:23.498 --> 29:25.498 something else with a , er , in the 29:25.498 --> 29:27.776 same position where Robert De Niro was . 29:27.776 --> 29:29.998 But Chaps told me . Yeah , but a , er , 29:29.998 --> 29:32.220 isn't as well known as Robert De Niro , 29:32.220 --> 29:34.331 but can you imagine , had he had that 29:34.331 --> 29:36.331 position in the movie or other than 29:36.331 --> 29:36.250 other than Robert De Niro ? I think the 29:36.260 --> 29:38.482 movie would have been just as good when 29:38.482 --> 29:40.593 I talked to him , he talked for about 29:40.593 --> 29:42.704 30 minutes and every other word was a 29:42.704 --> 29:44.704 cuss word . And I'm like , man , it 29:44.704 --> 29:46.760 takes talent to be able to talk like 29:46.760 --> 29:48.927 that . He is so freaking cool . It was 29:48.927 --> 29:51.038 ridiculous . I , I'm , I'm so sorry , 29:51.038 --> 29:50.609 we lost a man like that . He was , he 29:50.619 --> 29:52.730 was great and I didn't realize he was 29:52.730 --> 29:55.063 that tall . He was just as tall as I am . 29:55.063 --> 29:57.650 He's about 62 . He was about 6263 . And 29:57.660 --> 29:59.882 uh , it was just cool to be with them . 30:00.010 --> 30:01.954 I'm gonna miss that guy . He was a 30:01.954 --> 30:05.849 great guy next slide . So after 30:05.859 --> 30:08.800 my Iraq tour , I retired , I said to 30:08.810 --> 30:10.866 hell with the military , I am done . 30:11.119 --> 30:13.286 You saw on my bio , I retired from the 30:13.286 --> 30:15.119 Virginia Army National Guard . I 30:15.119 --> 30:17.341 stopped flying Black Hawk helicopters . 30:17.341 --> 30:19.508 I was done . I was tired of putting my 30:19.508 --> 30:21.563 life on the line and I was through , 30:21.563 --> 30:23.730 but let me tell you something . My dad 30:23.730 --> 30:25.786 taught me a , a life lesson from his 30:25.786 --> 30:28.008 grave because I was one day I was going 30:28.008 --> 30:30.175 through my dad's memorabilia at home . 30:30.175 --> 30:32.397 I was just , you know , looking through 30:32.397 --> 30:34.397 all his pictures and everything and 30:34.397 --> 30:33.920 what my dad taught me and he wasn't 30:33.930 --> 30:36.619 even here on this planet anymore is the 30:36.630 --> 30:39.069 fact that you never give up . My father 30:39.079 --> 30:41.246 never gave up a thing in his life . So 30:41.246 --> 30:43.135 what gave me the right to give up 30:43.135 --> 30:45.246 because I had a hard Iraq tour . So I 30:45.246 --> 30:47.301 got on the phone , got back into the 30:47.301 --> 30:49.468 service . I didn't go back to my guard 30:49.468 --> 30:51.690 unit flying Black Hawks , but I went to 30:51.690 --> 30:51.520 the army reserve unit about 45 minutes 30:51.530 --> 30:53.390 away at Fort and started flying 30:53.400 --> 30:55.400 Chinooks . Because what gave me the 30:55.400 --> 30:57.622 right to quit because I had a hard Iraq 30:57.622 --> 30:59.733 tour . You're gonna have hard tours . 30:59.733 --> 31:01.956 But you don't give up because of that . 31:01.956 --> 31:03.844 You don't let obstacles adversely 31:03.844 --> 31:06.067 change your direction . I got back into 31:06.067 --> 31:08.011 the military and served another 15 31:08.011 --> 31:10.233 years . I just retired last summer with 31:10.233 --> 31:12.456 over 40 years . Well , actually over 41 31:12.456 --> 31:14.678 years of service , I turned 60 July 3rd 31:14.678 --> 31:18.060 and I retired July 29th . But what gave 31:18.069 --> 31:20.369 me the right to retire when I did ? So , 31:20.380 --> 31:22.491 I got back in the fight . I'm sharing 31:22.491 --> 31:24.380 that message with you . Don't let 31:24.380 --> 31:26.602 adversity change your direction . Don't 31:26.602 --> 31:28.658 let something bad that it might have 31:28.658 --> 31:30.491 happened to you make you give up 31:30.491 --> 31:32.436 because you should never give up . 31:32.436 --> 31:34.436 Never give up . You hear that thing 31:34.436 --> 31:36.547 keep going on . Never give up . A lot 31:36.547 --> 31:36.229 of you are in flight school now , 31:36.239 --> 31:38.072 whatever you're gonna go through 31:38.072 --> 31:40.128 whatever air crew school that you're 31:40.128 --> 31:40.040 here for training for and it's gonna 31:40.050 --> 31:42.328 get tough , but you better not give up . 31:42.500 --> 31:44.500 I didn't give up . My father didn't 31:44.500 --> 31:46.722 give up . And by God , if you wear that 31:46.722 --> 31:48.833 uniform , you're not supposed to give 31:48.833 --> 31:50.889 up . So stay tough and hang in there 31:50.889 --> 31:53.910 next slide . A year ago , a bunch of 31:53.920 --> 31:55.920 navy divers got together and said , 31:55.920 --> 31:57.976 Rashir , your dad was a diver and we 31:57.976 --> 31:59.864 knew you gave , you gave your dad 31:59.864 --> 32:02.031 helicopter rides . We wanna put you in 32:02.031 --> 32:01.729 his gear and see if you can hack it . 32:01.979 --> 32:04.035 Well , let me tell you something . I 32:04.035 --> 32:06.035 put that gear on , it was heavy . I 32:06.040 --> 32:08.207 went down the water and I did not like 32:08.207 --> 32:11.010 it . Who in the world puts an aquarium 32:11.020 --> 32:13.298 on their head and go down in the water . 32:13.298 --> 32:15.242 I was so claustrophobic because it 32:15.242 --> 32:17.464 driving me crazy . But at least I got a 32:17.464 --> 32:19.576 chance to experience what my dad went 32:19.576 --> 32:21.464 through . So those are two of the 32:21.464 --> 32:23.520 famous diving suits that my dad wore 32:23.520 --> 32:25.742 during his time . And I got a chance to 32:25.742 --> 32:27.687 experience it and go down into the 32:27.687 --> 32:29.742 water uh near Panama City in a place 32:29.742 --> 32:31.798 called Vortex Springs . But look , I 32:31.798 --> 32:33.909 just want you to know something . The 32:33.909 --> 32:36.131 pictures where you see me smiling and , 32:36.131 --> 32:38.076 and grinning with that gear on was 32:38.076 --> 32:40.298 before I went into the water . I didn't 32:40.298 --> 32:42.298 look like that when I came out next 32:42.298 --> 32:46.020 slide . So let me just say this . I 32:46.030 --> 32:48.197 came out of retirement . I shared with 32:48.197 --> 32:50.419 you , I got back into the fight . I did 32:50.419 --> 32:52.641 15 more years of military duty before I 32:52.641 --> 32:54.641 retired last year . But look at the 32:54.641 --> 32:56.808 things that happened because I decided 32:56.808 --> 32:58.586 to continue my longevity in the 32:58.586 --> 33:00.474 military . I never would have got 33:00.474 --> 33:02.641 promoted C W five . I never would have 33:02.641 --> 33:04.808 been a command chief , war officer . I 33:04.808 --> 33:06.974 probably never would have been honored 33:06.974 --> 33:09.197 as an honorary navy chief by the of the 33:09.197 --> 33:11.308 United States Navy . All those things 33:11.308 --> 33:13.419 happened because I decided that I was 33:13.419 --> 33:15.308 gonna let a bad Iraq tour curb my 33:15.308 --> 33:17.474 career . I stayed in and looked at the 33:17.474 --> 33:19.474 blessings that I got after that . I 33:19.474 --> 33:21.641 just want your young people to realize 33:21.641 --> 33:23.752 you cannot give up . I keep stressing 33:23.752 --> 33:25.752 that because I want you to know you 33:25.752 --> 33:28.086 guys are just starting , I'm an old man . 33:28.086 --> 33:30.419 I'm 60 . You guys are just starting off . 33:30.419 --> 33:32.530 You can't give up one day . You'll be 33:32.530 --> 33:34.641 up on stage , telling your story to a 33:34.641 --> 33:36.697 bunch of young folks and the courage 33:36.697 --> 33:35.790 and commitment that you put into the 33:35.800 --> 33:38.022 military . You can reflect and get back 33:38.022 --> 33:40.189 to somebody else when it's your time . 33:40.189 --> 33:42.356 But right now , all you guys are young 33:42.356 --> 33:42.030 so you don't have to worry about that 33:43.010 --> 33:46.089 next slide that this is illegal as all 33:46.099 --> 33:48.810 get out . But at my army retirement , I 33:48.819 --> 33:50.930 wore that navy cover because this was 33:50.930 --> 33:53.041 after the made me an honorary chief . 33:53.041 --> 33:55.263 So I know I'm the only army guy who got 33:55.263 --> 33:57.430 to do this , which is probably illegal 33:57.430 --> 33:59.541 as hell , but I did it . And as I got 33:59.541 --> 34:01.819 piped over the side by the side , boys , 34:01.819 --> 34:04.041 you see the navy diver who stood at the 34:04.041 --> 34:06.208 end of the red carpet as I walked down 34:06.208 --> 34:08.152 getting discharged from the , from 34:08.152 --> 34:10.208 retirement and I gave him a salute . 34:10.208 --> 34:12.779 Next slide , my wife and one of my 34:12.789 --> 34:14.938 daughters as we had to rewalk the uh 34:15.590 --> 34:17.689 walking the plank line getting piped 34:17.699 --> 34:20.350 over the side . It's amazing . I share 34:20.360 --> 34:22.304 that with you because that's never 34:22.304 --> 34:24.304 happened to an army guy . Now . Any 34:24.304 --> 34:27.849 army in here ? Oh sir . Ok . Close your 34:27.858 --> 34:30.249 ears . I gotta say this . I love the 34:30.259 --> 34:32.638 navy . I'm retired army but I love the 34:32.648 --> 34:34.888 navy . I don't want that army guy to go 34:34.898 --> 34:36.954 and tell my army buddies that I said 34:36.954 --> 34:39.065 that because I don't want you guys to 34:39.065 --> 34:41.342 get me in trouble with my army buddies . 34:41.342 --> 34:43.398 But I do love the navy and of course 34:43.398 --> 34:45.509 the Marine Corps . You guys are , you 34:45.509 --> 34:49.330 guys are awesome to me next slide . Now , 34:49.340 --> 34:51.507 before I show this video , let me just 34:51.507 --> 34:53.618 say what this all is all about . It's 34:53.618 --> 34:55.618 an old interview with my father and 34:55.618 --> 34:57.673 what I wanna share with you is never 34:57.673 --> 34:59.673 say the word . Can't never let your 34:59.673 --> 35:01.729 kids say the word can . I don't care 35:01.729 --> 35:03.784 whatever the obstacle is or whatever 35:03.784 --> 35:06.080 you have to face . Never give in to 35:06.090 --> 35:08.201 something before you even give it 100 35:08.201 --> 35:10.146 10% effort and try to accomplish , 35:10.146 --> 35:12.257 never say the word cant . So from the 35:12.257 --> 35:14.479 horse's mouth , I want you to hear what 35:14.479 --> 35:16.701 my father said about the word cant . So 35:16.701 --> 35:18.257 go ahead and play the video 35:39.020 --> 35:40.020 I think . 35:52.929 --> 35:54.985 Did you guys hear that ? Sorry about 35:54.985 --> 35:56.873 that . Did you guys think that he 35:56.873 --> 35:59.096 couldn't get much more volume on that ? 35:59.096 --> 36:00.873 Because that's a 40 year old uh 36:00.873 --> 36:02.929 interview . But my father is talking 36:02.929 --> 36:05.096 about the word can't . He said in that 36:05.096 --> 36:07.096 video that there's nothing that you 36:07.096 --> 36:09.373 can't do . If you don't put your heart , 36:09.373 --> 36:11.596 your faith and your drive into . That's 36:11.596 --> 36:11.429 the whole message . That's the message 36:11.439 --> 36:13.606 I've been saying all along is that you 36:13.606 --> 36:15.772 can achieve , you can't accomplish you 36:15.772 --> 36:17.939 guys are proof that you can , you made 36:17.939 --> 36:20.161 it here . So now it's up to you to walk 36:20.161 --> 36:21.995 out of here with everything that 36:21.995 --> 36:24.217 they're supposed to give you before you 36:24.217 --> 36:26.272 leave . Uh Can we pull up the uh the 36:26.272 --> 36:26.040 next thing sir ? 36:30.250 --> 36:33.919 The next , no , you , yeah , you got 36:33.929 --> 36:34.929 this . 36:40.209 --> 36:42.431 Yeah , come up the power point and it's 36:42.431 --> 36:44.487 gonna be the next , the next thing . 36:45.459 --> 36:47.292 Yeah , cut this , this is done . 36:55.840 --> 36:58.007 Ok ? Let me tell you about how history 36:58.007 --> 37:00.060 repeats itself and this is for you 37:00.070 --> 37:02.181 because I wanna give this to you guys 37:02.181 --> 37:04.181 because this actually happened just 37:04.181 --> 37:06.181 like my father had to deal with his 37:06.181 --> 37:08.126 amputation and he thought that his 37:08.126 --> 37:10.292 career was over because he was told by 37:10.292 --> 37:12.514 the doctors it was over in 2014 and you 37:12.514 --> 37:14.570 can flip it into the next slide . In 37:14.570 --> 37:16.610 2014 , I was diagnosed at my annual 37:16.620 --> 37:19.669 flight physical with a fib atrial 37:19.679 --> 37:21.846 fibrillation , irregular heartbeat . I 37:21.846 --> 37:24.379 thought my career was done . What 37:24.389 --> 37:26.611 happened ? I went to the naval hospital 37:26.611 --> 37:28.860 and talked to a Choo that said Philip , 37:28.870 --> 37:31.270 you're not done . We can get over this . 37:31.280 --> 37:33.224 The regulation says that if you go 37:33.224 --> 37:35.280 through this procedure , you can get 37:35.280 --> 37:37.502 back on flight status . So just like my 37:37.502 --> 37:39.669 dad before me had his leg amputation , 37:39.669 --> 37:41.669 he had to go through medical review 37:41.669 --> 37:43.891 board . I had to do the same thing with 37:43.891 --> 37:43.854 the army review board . He gave me a 37:43.864 --> 37:45.864 procedure called a cardio version . 37:45.864 --> 37:48.142 It's like a jump start you put a metal , 37:48.142 --> 37:50.604 a plate on your chest , you put a metal 37:50.614 --> 37:52.670 plate on your back , they put you to 37:52.670 --> 37:54.892 sleep and they shark your heart back in 37:54.892 --> 37:57.360 the rhythm . So after I accomplished 37:57.370 --> 37:59.703 that , got my heart beat back in rhythm , 38:00.129 --> 38:02.185 I took all the stress testing that I 38:02.185 --> 38:04.240 need to take , put all this document 38:04.240 --> 38:06.351 documentation together and gave it to 38:06.351 --> 38:08.351 the army review board . And after a 38:08.351 --> 38:10.573 year later , I was told Philip , you're 38:10.573 --> 38:12.740 fit to get back in the cockpit . See , 38:12.740 --> 38:14.351 I could have let that atrial 38:14.351 --> 38:16.573 fibrillation , that heart thing stop my 38:16.573 --> 38:18.740 career . But I didn't because you know 38:18.740 --> 38:20.962 what my father's car , if he could be a 38:20.962 --> 38:23.129 diver again with one leg , I knew that 38:23.129 --> 38:25.351 that doctor putting trust in him and in 38:25.351 --> 38:27.129 God , that I could get my heart 38:27.129 --> 38:29.185 straight and I could get back in the 38:29.185 --> 38:28.860 cockpit and that's exactly what 38:28.870 --> 38:31.889 happened . So this story is just a uh 38:31.899 --> 38:34.610 what the army did to . Well , first of 38:34.620 --> 38:36.787 all , they want to say history repeats 38:36.787 --> 38:39.350 itself , Carl Bashir did it and went 38:39.360 --> 38:41.471 and got medical attention and got his 38:41.471 --> 38:43.638 career back . And his son went through 38:43.638 --> 38:45.749 the same thing to get his career back 38:45.749 --> 38:47.582 because at that time in 2014 , I 38:47.582 --> 38:49.749 thought , I thought my career was over 38:49.749 --> 38:51.971 being a helicopter pilot . So God's got 38:51.971 --> 38:51.600 a sense of him . He says , Philip , I'm 38:51.610 --> 38:53.666 not gonna put you through everything 38:53.666 --> 38:55.721 your dad did , but I'm gonna put you 38:55.721 --> 38:57.832 through this and I made it . I didn't 38:57.832 --> 38:59.888 get depressed . I didn't go kick the 38:59.888 --> 39:02.110 dog or yell at the kids or , you know , 39:02.110 --> 39:04.277 fuss with my wife . I kept the faith , 39:04.277 --> 39:06.332 got my heart together , went through 39:06.332 --> 39:08.443 the stress testing and got back , got 39:08.443 --> 39:10.554 back in the carpet a year later . And 39:10.554 --> 39:12.610 I'm so glad I got this audience here 39:12.610 --> 39:14.499 because you guys might go through 39:14.499 --> 39:16.554 something medical and they might say 39:16.554 --> 39:16.469 your career is over . But you don't let 39:16.479 --> 39:18.535 them tell them your career is over . 39:18.535 --> 39:20.701 You know , you , you don't let anybody 39:20.701 --> 39:22.868 dictate what your dreams and what your 39:22.868 --> 39:25.020 aspirations are gonna be . My career 39:25.030 --> 39:27.252 could have ended with that hard thing , 39:27.252 --> 39:29.474 but it didn't . All right . Can we show 39:29.474 --> 39:29.370 the next thing 39:37.560 --> 39:39.338 gonna be the , the Ship Light , 39:47.300 --> 39:50.389 the producer of Mr Robert . 39:58.699 --> 40:01.129 Next , the screenwriter of Minamata , 40:01.139 --> 40:02.750 Mr Scott Smith 40:09.610 --> 40:11.719 of Men of Honor , plane chief Billy 40:11.729 --> 40:13.959 Sunday . Please welcome Mr Roberts 40:13.969 --> 40:14.649 Deniro . 40:24.530 --> 40:26.641 Gentlemen . Thank you for telling the 40:26.641 --> 40:28.600 story of Carl . Unfortunately , Mr 40:28.719 --> 40:32.310 Cooper one . Ok . 40:35.629 --> 40:37.719 All of our ladies and gentlemen 40:40.729 --> 40:43.879 and now it's over . Bye with the site . 40:44.090 --> 40:45.090 We've all been 46:53.790 --> 46:56.689 31 . All right . Can you hear me now ? 46:56.699 --> 46:58.755 Yeah , you're gonna have adversity . 46:58.755 --> 47:00.866 You're gonna go through a lot . Hey , 47:00.866 --> 47:03.088 I've , uh I'm gonna wrap up 30 years of 47:03.088 --> 47:05.088 service myself . Uh , next month in 47:05.088 --> 47:07.088 July 20th , it'll be my 30 years of 47:07.088 --> 47:09.255 retire and I'll tell you I have served 47:09.255 --> 47:11.255 with the finest men and women . Our 47:11.255 --> 47:13.366 country has to offer . You're part of 47:13.366 --> 47:15.310 this . You're the next front line 47:15.320 --> 47:17.542 defenders of our nation . I want you to 47:17.542 --> 47:19.542 make sure you take that as a sacred 47:19.542 --> 47:21.764 responsibility . I am proud of each and 47:21.764 --> 47:23.876 every one of you and uh and God bless 47:23.876 --> 47:25.610 you . Thanks . Thanks a lot . 47:25.770 --> 47:27.826 Appreciate it . Come on up . You all 47:27.826 --> 47:30.300 want to just come up . OK ? Oh , you 47:30.310 --> 47:32.739 want Q and A ? All right , let's do it . 47:32.979 --> 47:33.979 So , thank you . 47:40.040 --> 47:42.096 First of all , I'd like to ask , was 47:42.100 --> 47:44.378 anybody bored during this presentation ? 47:44.378 --> 47:46.433 Raise your hand ? I see . I know you 47:46.433 --> 47:48.600 weren't gonna raise your hand . That's 47:48.600 --> 47:50.322 fine . Thank you . I really do 47:50.322 --> 47:52.489 appreciate it . I will share this with 47:52.489 --> 47:54.711 you while some of you get in the uh the 47:54.711 --> 47:56.878 nerve to ask a question in the movie , 47:56.878 --> 47:58.711 Rob . Uh De Nero was actually 33 47:58.711 --> 47:58.699 different people throughout my dad's 47:58.709 --> 48:00.653 career . But you're not gonna kick 48:00.653 --> 48:02.653 Robert De Niro of a movie . So they 48:02.653 --> 48:04.487 carry that character all the way 48:04.487 --> 48:06.709 through . Uh There was no radio between 48:06.709 --> 48:08.820 my grandfather and my dad . They were 48:08.820 --> 48:10.987 just trying , trying to show the tight 48:10.987 --> 48:10.800 connection , the relationship that they 48:10.810 --> 48:13.479 had . So there was no radio , there was 48:13.489 --> 48:15.600 no Russian submarine . Like the movie 48:15.600 --> 48:17.767 shows that came across my dad while he 48:17.767 --> 48:19.933 was down in the water looking for that 48:19.933 --> 48:22.045 nuclear bomb off the coast of Spain . 48:22.045 --> 48:24.267 My parents actually grew up together in 48:24.267 --> 48:26.211 rural Kentucky and my mom wasn't a 48:26.211 --> 48:28.267 doctor , but they was trying to show 48:28.267 --> 48:28.100 the difference in education because my 48:28.110 --> 48:30.277 mother grew up on a farm or her family 48:30.277 --> 48:32.499 had a lot more money . My mom had a lot 48:32.499 --> 48:34.666 more schooling but she wasn't a doctor 48:34.666 --> 48:36.943 that would have been a movie in itself . 48:36.943 --> 48:39.054 And at the end of the movie , the two 48:39.054 --> 48:41.221 hour court scene I shared with you was 48:41.221 --> 48:43.221 11 months . So think of what my dad 48:43.221 --> 48:45.332 went through . You just saw it for 11 48:45.332 --> 48:47.277 months before the , the , the Navy 48:47.277 --> 48:46.620 finally decided he could be a diver 48:46.629 --> 48:48.296 again . So those are the main 48:48.296 --> 48:51.760 differences with the movie . Any 48:51.770 --> 48:52.770 questions , 49:01.310 --> 49:04.120 Morning Mr Beer and Ashworth . Uh the 49:04.129 --> 49:06.620 question I do have to ask you given you 49:06.629 --> 49:08.851 going through that medical process with 49:08.851 --> 49:11.073 a during that time , obviously , it was 49:11.073 --> 49:13.296 a little harsh . What was going through 49:13.296 --> 49:13.250 your mind during that time ? Your 49:13.260 --> 49:15.371 mindset knowing that there's a chance 49:15.371 --> 49:17.482 that you may not fly again . What was 49:17.482 --> 49:19.500 your motivation going forward ? He 49:19.510 --> 49:21.677 asked about my , well , you heard it . 49:21.699 --> 49:24.040 Uh The first thing I thought of while 49:24.050 --> 49:26.550 my career is over . But , but for a 49:26.560 --> 49:28.671 split second then I thought of wait a 49:28.671 --> 49:30.727 minute , it can't be over , it can't 49:30.727 --> 49:32.949 just end like this . I I can't just let 49:32.949 --> 49:35.116 it end like this . So through a couple 49:35.116 --> 49:37.171 of days of making some phone calls , 49:37.171 --> 49:39.171 that's when I got introduced to the 49:39.171 --> 49:41.282 navy doctor who said that we can help 49:41.282 --> 49:43.659 you . So immediately my spirits got up . 49:43.689 --> 49:46.159 I I just prayed for the best and man , 49:46.169 --> 49:48.280 it just seemed to follow , you know , 49:48.280 --> 49:50.336 follow through and it just , it just 49:50.336 --> 49:52.447 happened for me , but I will tell you 49:52.447 --> 49:54.502 having a father like Carl , I didn't 49:54.502 --> 49:56.613 stay depressed for an extended amount 49:56.613 --> 49:58.669 of time . I mean , it hit me that my 49:58.669 --> 50:00.780 flight career is over for a couple of 50:00.780 --> 50:02.891 days . But after that , my faith just 50:02.891 --> 50:02.620 rejuvenated and I said I'm gonna get 50:02.629 --> 50:05.810 through this and I did so depression 50:05.820 --> 50:08.098 only sat in for maybe a day and a half . 50:08.098 --> 50:10.431 But after that I was done , I was right . 50:10.431 --> 50:14.379 It is time to get back up . Good 50:14.389 --> 50:17.209 morning , sir , sir . Good morning . 50:17.219 --> 50:19.275 Thank you for the presentation and , 50:19.275 --> 50:21.441 and over . And um my question is , how 50:21.441 --> 50:23.386 many times have you watched Men of 50:23.386 --> 50:25.497 Honor ? And also do you still uh keep 50:25.497 --> 50:27.679 in touch with Good Junior ? Actually , 50:28.250 --> 50:30.459 there's two movies that if they're on 50:30.469 --> 50:32.525 I'll watch to the end if I happen to 50:32.525 --> 50:34.747 flip through them , one of those is Men 50:34.747 --> 50:36.636 of Honor and the other one is The 50:36.636 --> 50:38.969 Wizard of Oz . So if it's on , I'll 50:38.979 --> 50:41.090 flip through it and I'm like , oh the 50:41.090 --> 50:43.090 movies on , ok . And I'll watch the 50:43.090 --> 50:45.146 rest of it . But uh many times and I 50:45.146 --> 50:45.000 got a chance to be on the movie set too . 50:45.010 --> 50:47.010 So I did get some behind the scenes 50:47.010 --> 50:49.177 detail about how they filmed it and at 50:49.177 --> 50:51.454 the Hollywood premiere . So , but I do , 50:51.454 --> 50:53.788 like I said , if The Wizard of Oz is on , 50:53.788 --> 50:55.899 if Men of Honor is on and I happen to 50:55.899 --> 50:58.121 scroll through the TV and see it . I'll 50:58.121 --> 51:00.288 watch it through the end even today it 51:00.288 --> 51:02.510 is motivating . Good morning , sir . Uh 51:02.949 --> 51:05.110 Warren Duncan . Did you ever feel any 51:05.120 --> 51:07.064 pressure from your father's legacy 51:07.064 --> 51:09.287 stepping in , in military service ? And 51:09.287 --> 51:11.620 if so , how did you deal with that ? Ok . 51:11.620 --> 51:13.842 You heard the question ? Did I feel any 51:13.842 --> 51:16.520 pressure ? My ego is completely clear . 51:16.580 --> 51:18.691 My father is not a helicopter pilot . 51:18.691 --> 51:21.330 I'm good to go if my father a 51:21.340 --> 51:23.507 helicopter probably be different . But 51:23.507 --> 51:25.229 see I gave my dad rides in the 51:25.229 --> 51:27.451 helicopter and uh hey , I , I I was the 51:27.451 --> 51:29.784 man and then I used to joke with my dad . 51:29.784 --> 51:32.007 I said , dad , I'll rank you . And plus 51:32.007 --> 51:34.118 I scored high on the test . I go up , 51:34.118 --> 51:36.229 not down . My dad said , hey , he's a 51:36.229 --> 51:38.451 little smart . You just remember this . 51:38.451 --> 51:40.618 There'll always be a diver looking for 51:40.618 --> 51:40.350 a pilot . Don't never be a pilot 51:40.360 --> 51:43.199 looking for a diver . So , but my ego 51:43.209 --> 51:45.098 was good to go . I mean , being a 51:45.098 --> 51:47.431 helicopter pilot , I forged my own path . 51:47.431 --> 51:49.653 So man , I'm even to this day , I don't 51:49.653 --> 51:51.876 feel like I'm under a shadow other than 51:51.876 --> 51:53.987 by name and of course , under a great 51:53.987 --> 51:56.098 legacy . But as far as a career man , 51:56.098 --> 51:59.409 my career took off . Not down next . 51:59.419 --> 52:01.586 Yes , sir . Good morning , sir . Thank 52:01.586 --> 52:03.586 you for coming and speaking to us . 52:03.586 --> 52:05.808 Second Lieutenant Riel . Uh you spoke a 52:05.808 --> 52:07.975 lot about your father and rightly So , 52:07.975 --> 52:10.141 um but my question is , what influence 52:10.141 --> 52:09.570 did your mother have on your life 52:09.580 --> 52:11.802 growing up ? And throughout your career 52:11.802 --> 52:13.969 in the military ? Well , you know , my 52:13.969 --> 52:16.191 father was in the Navy and uh there was 52:16.191 --> 52:18.302 always time extended periods where he 52:18.302 --> 52:20.469 was gone . So I really have to give it 52:20.469 --> 52:20.360 to my mom . My mom was a great lady . 52:20.370 --> 52:22.592 She raised me , she , you know , taught 52:22.592 --> 52:24.814 me to be honest , she told me to always 52:24.814 --> 52:26.926 respect my dad even though there were 52:26.926 --> 52:29.037 many times when he wasn't there . And 52:29.037 --> 52:31.037 when I joined the military , my mom 52:31.037 --> 52:30.550 said , well , just be safe . See , 52:30.560 --> 52:32.671 mothers really don't care what you do 52:32.671 --> 52:34.838 as long as you're safe . That's all my 52:34.838 --> 52:36.838 mother worried about . I was safe . 52:36.838 --> 52:39.060 Years later you saw my body when I told 52:39.060 --> 52:41.338 her I wanna be a helicopter pilot . Oh , 52:41.338 --> 52:43.671 she said , son , please don't . But she , 52:43.671 --> 52:45.727 she supported me and said , son , if 52:45.727 --> 52:45.449 that's what you wanna do , go ahead . 52:45.459 --> 52:47.681 She said , I know you're just like your 52:47.681 --> 52:47.489 dad , you wanna do something 52:47.500 --> 52:50.120 adventurous . So just please be safe . 52:50.439 --> 52:52.717 That's all mothers want . Just be safe , 52:52.717 --> 52:54.883 be honest and go out there and do your 52:54.883 --> 52:57.590 thing . Next . 53:00.270 --> 53:02.492 Was anybody bored ? We all good . We're 53:02.492 --> 53:04.437 still awake guys . Let me tell you 53:04.437 --> 53:06.659 something . I thank you for this time . 53:06.659 --> 53:08.548 I will share this with you . It's 53:08.548 --> 53:10.919 therapy for me to speak about my 53:10.929 --> 53:13.330 parents in a group that especially 53:13.340 --> 53:15.173 knows about my dad that love and 53:15.173 --> 53:17.340 cherish his honor and his legacy . And 53:17.340 --> 53:19.507 I'm telling you every time I do this , 53:19.507 --> 53:21.451 it just makes me feel a little bit 53:21.451 --> 53:23.507 better because not a day goes by . I 53:23.507 --> 53:25.507 don't think about both my parents , 53:25.507 --> 53:25.340 especially my dad . But when I'm in a 53:25.350 --> 53:27.659 group like this of people who cherish 53:27.669 --> 53:30.090 his legacy , it just takes that pain of 53:30.100 --> 53:32.044 not having him here with me away a 53:32.044 --> 53:34.156 little bit . So thank God , thank God 53:34.156 --> 53:35.878 for all of you and I really do 53:35.878 --> 53:37.322 appreciate it . Thank you 53:41.709 --> 53:45.129 uh photos and all right . So here's 53:45.139 --> 53:47.306 your opportunity . Come on up and meet 53:47.306 --> 53:49.472 the man and uh if you want to get some 53:49.472 --> 53:51.583 photos , let's do it . So let's start 53:51.583 --> 53:53.219 here . All right . Oh .