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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rally Pointers fall in lazy and gentlemen, this is your host,
James the Sarge Hemingway alongside Paul Poleshi. How are you
doing today, Paul.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm doing great. Good morning America.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And welcome to once again another fantastic episode of Rally
Point Radio show. And also, as always, folks, we can't
go any further unless we say hello to our producer,
Zaying the Brain. How are we doing? Goodod morning, outstanding
Today folks, We're going to sit here and kind of
take a step back and kind of reintroduce Paul to
America and kind of set our kind of tempo for
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the upcoming last quarter of the year and take it
from there. So Paul, take it away.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, just to bring you back up to speed, I
was originally from Patterson, New Jersey, so we'll hold you
in New Jersey. People out there, keep watching our show,
keep listening to our show. I was drafted in nineteen
sixty six and did one tour in Vietnam, and when
I came up this show as a guest, I kind
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of got hooked on it and I really am enjoying
where we're taking this show. So my background is a
little bit different than you're going to be used to
because of where and when I was in the service.
I was not a career service person, so mine is
a little bit different and I have a little bit
different view on some of the topics that we talk about,
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and believe it or not, even some of the new
modern military as some words and phrases that I am
not familiar with at all. But I want to be
dedicated to doing what the program is about, and that's
about making sure that our veterans are aware of all
the services, they're aware of all the benefits that are
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out there for them, and also to tell our history,
whether it was from World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, or
the current all the things that are going on currently world,
but to make sure that our military story gets.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Out there most definitely, and folks, again, I think at
this particular time, it's a good time for us to
kind of rally up the troops and kind of our
refocused while we're here. We started this journey nearly three
years ago, and it's about veterans and our family and
our communities that house us. And one of the things
I will say that a long time ago is that
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veterans helped veterans is still as true today as it
was when we served in our served in active duty
or any duty during that particular time, and this show
is centered around providing that same service even after we've
left our active careers. Most importantly, folks, as we know,
in the world we live in, things are complicated, and
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things get kind of they change with time. But to
one thing that's consistent is that in the military, as
a veteran, we're still our brothers and sisters keepers. And
the one thing we are here at the show is
to make sure we provide veterans in their families and
their communities with accessible resources to help improve the quality
of life for the veteran, their family, and their community.
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I will say that when I met Paul almost what
six months ago, six months ago, he has a Vietnam mural,
so to speak, and I was educated on Hamburger Hill,
and he brought a guest. I forgot his name, but Paul,
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maybe you can refresh my memory.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, we had Mike Lansford.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, it was Mike Lansford. And from that day forward
he told his story Mike, and I will say this,
I felt moved by his story for the simple fact
he told, he expressed and shared a story that I
believe he's kept with him for a very long time,
and it felt great for him to get it out
after a certain period of time. And by by by
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artificial product by product. Rather, this is kind of therapy
for the veteran to share their stories with you to listeners,
because basically is what we do and is what we
promise to do for our duties. And I think it's
a I think it's an obligation on our behalf as
veterans here at Rally Point to make sure that the
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veterans who have these stories share them because they do
have value, and especially now, the best mentor for our
veteran is another veteran, and this is what our show does.
And getting back to Paul, his mirror was nothing less
than fantastic. And how about you paint a verbal description
of what you provided? Are you have?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, it's it's all of the photographs that my unit.
Now my unit was in Vietnam from nineteen sixty six
to nineteen seventy two before they rotated home. It's all
of the pictures, artifact, any that my unit members felt
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would tell our story. They've mailed them to me. It
just I had a few of my own. I had
about ninety nine pictures that survived because of the environment
over there. But it's twenty four feet long. Now I
still have hundreds of pictures that I can't that I
don't know what to do with them, and I still
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get more. But it tells the story of not only
what we did and what we accomplished, it also tells
it shows you visually how we lived, where we lived,
and what we did. We were kind of a unique group.
We were one five to five howitzers, which up until
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Vietnam only went where there were roads. And if you
remember a movie that Back to the Future when he
said we don't need no stinking roads, well that's what happened.
They brought in these huge helicopters and started moving us around.
So we became the first air mobile howitzer battery of
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one five fives, which changed our whole our whole life.
What we did, where we went, how we went there,
and that's what the display shows. And it's more to
tell our story to see the military, when you tell
them something, they may not have done that particular thing,
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but they understand what it took to do it. So
it's more geared towards civilians. It's more geared towards letting
people know what the military does and how they do
it and why they do it, and a lot of
it has never been done before. And that goes on
today as it did in nineteen sixty six one when
we were from a little base on the Cambodian border
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to all over the jungle and rice patties in Vietnam
for the next until nineteen seventy two. So that's what
it's all about, and it kind of sticks with my
goal is to let people know what the military does.
All of the military, whether they were Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines,
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or even the Coast Guard was in Vietnam also, so
we were all.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
There most definitely, and as usual, thank you for your sacrifice,
Paul and those who are the Vietnam I've said it once,
I'll say it a million times, and I hope that
my audience and listeners can appreciate this is that their
time and service, i'll say, World War two, Korea, Vietnam,
their sacrifices were and are the foundation of the benefits
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that we veterans have here today. And one of the
things that we're trying to do here is to tell
every veteran who's served their country, from the merchant Marines
to the Coast Guard the Space Force, is that no
matter what your MOS, which is military occupational service, your job,
you serve your country and your function is as important
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as the front lines. You get us ready, You get
us battle ready before the battle even starts. And also
the little tidbit not to leave my producer out zaying,
your father was in the military correct World War two?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeahsion US Army, ninth Division, forty seventh Infantry h Company,
and he was one of the men that landed on
D Day on trying to remember it was it Juno Beach?
I think it was Juno Beach.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, really yeah, And to that effect, folks, that's how
serious we take this. Because it takes a village to
raise a child, it takes a village to support a
veteran in the same breath, and that's why we're here today.
And thanks to you, we have grown and we have
had the opportunity to embrace and create other veteran organizations.
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First off the top of my head is, oh my goodness,
gracious ladies and gentlemen, I'm having one of those days
warrior wellness, warrior waless, solutions, resolutions, resolutions. And I know
you guys heard of Justin Lipford, one of our co
hosts here. He has sprungboard offer of disc show in
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programming and went independent and he goes out. Imagine this, folks,
former YMCA or current YMCA instructor. He goes out and
he finds veterans that are looking to get in better shape.
And remember this, as we say in an army, strong mind,
strong body. The body fouls the mind. Wherever you put it,
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it will follow. He has gone out and he finds veterans.
He puts him through what a thirteen week program? I
don' a thirteen week program to from from nuts to
bolts to rebuild? What do we build the veteran mentally,
spiritually and physically, because folks, you need all three to
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be successful. And with Amana Makanu and our host, she
belongs to both Justin's organization and she is a board
member on the Honor Flight and you have the Honor
Flight situation in Southwest Florida where they take and they
current they help celebrate the careers of veterans of any
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branch of any time. I believe that they have a
flight coming out of a Sarasota in October fourteenth, and
they fly to Washington. They see the monuments and they
give homage to those who have sacrificed, those who had
make it. They go see the wall and they give
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reverence to those who have served our country as it
should be. One of the things I sat on the
show a couple of times in the past is that
I do not believe in celebrating on fourth of July
Memorial Day or Veterans Day, our Pearl Harbor Day. We
should celebrate every day because if it was not for
the sacrifices and the efforts of those men and women
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who are our veteran brothers and sisters, the America that
you know would not exist. And another byproduct of what
we do here, folks, is, for you guys who don't know,
for those who horror listening, the suicidal rate of in
America has gone in the wrong direction. Specifically for veterans,
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it used to be twenty two a day. It's not
past forty. And also the other demographic that shares that
same unfortunate statistic our seventeen year olds. Any child under
the age of seventeen in America. So we have our
veterans and seventeen year olds of the highest suicyle rate.
And one of the things we do here is we
give acknowledgment to that that's a problem. Again, when you
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give people hope, and we had this conversation about suicidal awareness,
we provide them an opportunity to voice their stories and
find value in the lives that they have. And again, Paul,
what's your take on that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, you know, I think what we need to realize
that only well, right now it's about seven percent of
the nation's population was in the military. It's even less
now as we get older, the new volunteer Army, it's
going to be around one percent or less that I
will actually have served in the military. And that's an
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amazing switch from seven percent down to one percent. So
when you think about suicide rates, when you think about
different medical problems with our military, we need to put
more resources into it. I know I've harped on it before,
but if you're a veteran and you have not signed
up to be part of the via medical system, please
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do so. You may not need it today. I would
love to see that you can't get out of the
military until you're registered. But I understand there's a waiting
period for it. There is, which to me doesn't make
sense because they're going to wait six months for you
to have a problem before we put you in the
via medical system. Some of these things I don't understand,
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but we can on this show. Keep bringing stuff like
that forward. Make sure that more resources go into both
mental and physical health, make sure the counseling is there,
make sure that we put the appropriate funds there to
help our military veterans when they leave the military and
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join us in civilian life.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Most definitely so. And folks, remember this one of the
things that we do here on the show. We don't
sit up here on a microphone by ourselves. We are
thankful to have a community that is veteran Rich dav
the m that's the VFW, the American Legions. The core
mission is to unify the veteran community and provide them,
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hopefully resources And one of the things I've started to
talk about about the legacy of the veteran and folks,
it doesn't matter about where we've done and what we've
done in the military, it's the core fact of who
we are for our country. We're at a standard, folks.
I'll tell you right now. One of the things I
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have found to be proficiently true is that any veteran
who served in any branch has done a particular courseet
of skills, and with that, when they transition out of
the military, we still have those skills and are very
applicable to everyday in life. One of the things I
really appreciate is that we make great employees and great
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managers for the simple fact in the military, that's what
you're doing twenty four to seven th and we have
one of the least call out rates because if you're sick,
you can still work. And one of the things I
do appreciate is that one of the values that we
have as veterans, we have a great work ethics and
we bring value to any team that we're brought into.
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And that's what we're trying to do here at our show,
remind the veteran of the value that we still have
to this day. And I truly believe with my heart
and soul that if we're able to resurrect that sense
of purpose that's still with us. And Paul correct me
if I'm wrong, that I feel that suicidal rates will
go down when we give our veterans the concept of
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hope back that they are still functional, They're still a
part of a team. The veteran team do each does
our purpose in the positioning of life or function of life,
and we're at a particular time may change, but our
function and our value still remains consistent because we can
teach a younger generation what may be lost with time.
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And that's one of the things I do believe that
veterans are the best mentors for our youth and folks.
Remember that's why we have the legacy program pertaining to
veterans with the Library of Congress. Our stories carry value,
and one of the things we have to is to
save that knowledge because once it's gone, it's gone. If
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it's not recorded, it's perished. It's a perishable item.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, there was a sergeant one time. We were sitting
in a bunker and we were talking and he said,
there's a civilian job for every military job or every
military person, and I thought worth shooting one hundred pounds rounds.
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I don't know if too many civilian jobs that would
that would applied to, but what he was talking about
was our ability to work under pressure, our ability to
say out of the box, our ability to react, our
ability to plan to make things happen. Those is what
he was talking about. But of course, as a nineteen
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year old I didn't see the connection until many years later.
I thought, Okay, we'll figure this one out. But his
words were true. The military, the experiences and the training.
You've got to understand that when we go into the service,
When any young person goes into the service, their training
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starts from day one. It never stops. It just continues
until the day they get out of the service. And
there's a lot of those things that we learn a
lot of cases by actually doing are transferable. They really are.
And employers once they realized that the organization I went
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to as a civilian, realized that the military was a
great source for hiring for us. So we had a
lot of ex military. Of all the branches, we always
gave each other a hard time about that, of course,
but we all work together. And that's the other thing
is is that you understand what a team is all about.
Whether you're on that team or doing something related, you
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understand how you pull together. So yeah, it's just mind boggling,
and that's why we still care about all of the
veterans that are still here and that we still want
them the best for.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Them most definitely. And folks, you are the most important
component to this equation.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I will guarantee if you take a moment, you know
of a few vets or a veteran family, or your
dad's family. The vet and those stories that you probably
heard as a child were fascinating, and I will task
you with this opportunity call our show, contact us, Paul, myself, Amanda,
Justin Rick and for those who don't, who remember back
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in the days of year one, it's a matter of
we need to preserve these stories. Dane Boyle the coach,
he is a phenomenal inspirational speaker. We need stories like
his and yours and the ones that can bring to
our program to help assist in the mission of preserving
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those stories. And hopefully I was actually thinking here, Paul,
like you know what, and I had a question to
ask that go on a tangent. When you get those pictures,
did he actually tell you a story per picture?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It depends some of them. What's not uncommon is for
us to get together and this happened many years ago
one of the guys in our unit. He said, I
keep having this reoccurring dream about one of our artillery
pieces having around go right into the wheel, another like
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a mortar round go into the wheel, and I had
to laugh. I said, well, that's not a reoccurring dream.
That actually happened. So so yeah, there are stories with
all the pictures. I love when the kids come over
and say what happened here? You know, because I don't
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have captions under every picture. It's just it was too
difficult to do. But yeah, there a lot of it
is to be questioned, you know, ask me what happened.
I'm very open about it. The kids always have. They
have the most intelligent questions that that sometimes are mind
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boggling that they look at a picture and ask what
was going on here? Why did you do that? Some
of the adults ask, well, how did you bathe? I said,
I have my Vietnam helmet. Don't ask me how I
got that home. That's a story for another time. But
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I say, well, there's my bathtub. It was we shaved
out of it, we washed out of it. We did
all of that in our helmet when we had enough water,
and that's how the conversations go what did you do
with this? What did you do with that? Why is
this here? And so that's really what we need to
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do as veterans, to continue to tell the stories of
the events and why we did the things we did,
how we learned to do the things we did, and
how we dealt with the pressures. The pressures never go away.
They're still here and they never will go away. It's
just something in your life that if you remember as
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a kid, that just you never forget. Well, we were
young men, and guys like the sergeant were the old men.
They were probably wow, you know, and then some of
our officers are colonels and so forth, they probably were
in their forties approaching fifties. Talk about ancient.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh good lord.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So yeah, I mean there's stories like that that that
we we need to continue to make sure that that
the veterans tell America so they know what we're about,
and also to inspire a new generation of military people
to come on board, because they will learn a lot
and they will give a lot to this country. But
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we can't forget them when they're done.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Most definitely, most definitely, and I'll say this, some of
the best people have had the honor to be acquainted with.
They have had aspiring lives after the military. I personally
believe that it wasn't for the military. And I won't
speak for them, they'll speak on their own accord that
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the military gave them core competencies to make them who
they became later in life. And folks, I will say this,
I have seen all the John Wayne movies, and I'll
say this as a advent army person, I knew I
was going to the army where I watched the Green Berets,
and we're talking about early nineteen sixties, late nineteen fifties,
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and for that one movie, I sady, yep, I want
to wear a green and that this made an impression
upon me, And folks, I got a bachelor's degree, I
got an MBA, and go know what the best, I
learned more about myself in the military during my time
than anytime thereafter or before. So one of the things
we will do here at the rally point, we will
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give value back to our veterans. Because I'll say this,
and going back to the conversation I was having earlier,
Paul Pleshi's memory Wall of sorts unifies time and branch
And what I mean by that is you'll have a
brother or a sister from Afghanistan walk up to that
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display and the engagement conversation and you'll be surprised. Fifty
years have passed from Vietnam to now, but some of
the same lingos still. Oh, it's still There's.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That amazes me too. It looks like when I have
I've talked to a few gentlemen that have been in
the different conflicts and they will use the same terms.
Yet the technology has changed dramatically, but what they do
and what we did is still the same. You know,
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there's still the same core mission, the same thought process,
but the technology has changed and it is changing rapidly.
So I mean, who would have thought that the military
would be using robots and drones? Yes, I mean not
even in the Star Wars that I think that was
going to happen, you know, I thought that was way
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out there, and now it's becoming true. So but yeah,
the military is just it's a type fraternity.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It really is. It is the world's biggest fraternity and
sorority is the United States Military. And I will tell
you this, this world is not big enough for you
to walk into a building and I'll say I call
it swag. Whether you wearing have tattoos or in a
business suit, you can pick out a veteran in about
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three seconds in a restaurant. That's my thing. I can
without worrying anything that's military.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I had. I had a guy that I was working
with well these twenty years ago, and he said to me,
because I never talked about it, and he said to me,
when were you in Vietnam? And I said, how did
you know that? He said, I was there. I can
pick it out in a heartbeat. So yeah, we recognize
each other. Just just something about like you said, a
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swagger or the phrases or just something that we can
pick each other out.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
And and folks, and that's one of the things this
shows about. We're going to bring value to our veterans.
Well the value already there, but rigg to remind our
veterans and you the value that we still have for
our country. Yes we're not serving, but we can serve
our country in different ways. And if you're hearing us
right now, folks, and you know somebody, send them on
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down to the Rally Point Radio show because your stories
is what makes which make our show what it is,
and above all, above all, if you know a veteran
that's not maximizing their benefits, send them to us. This
is a big, big lighthouse saying, rally here to get
your benefits. Because I know people say I'm successful, I
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don't need the benefit. I'm gonna let the next guy
have it. That's not how this works. You need you've
already been accounted for for your benefits. If you're a veteran.
The minute you raise your hand and you take that oath,
you're you are a number in the eyes of our government,
and you're expected to have a particular life lifespan and
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to utilize the VA services. You are a number they've
already calculated a decade, two decades, five decades ago. Word
War two doesn't matter. The point of matter is this,
If you fail to use it and they feel that
we are underutilizing our benefits, they will reappropriate that money
to something else. Now I'll get political this one time,
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which is not really political. I believe that there's enough
funding in our government to take care of every single
veteran in the United States, including housing and medical. But
the key phrase is you have to utilize it or
have access to it. And this is what we're here
for to let you know you want help to get it.
We have a plethora of Veteran service officers who will
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assist you, yours truly the Sarage. I will assist you
if need be, to get you through that process, to
get it started. That's how important this is. And folks,
if you want to talk about improving the pride in
the in the pride of the veteran, let's talk about legacy. Now.
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I thought that we're around a lot to our folks.
We need to maintain the legacy of the veteran and
pass it on to our next generation and family.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And with that, Paul, I think we pretty much covered it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think we did okay with that, folks, We'll move
on to our next portion. Okay, folks, it's another installment
of policily. Caffet in it with our own Dane the
coach boy. How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
How are y'all living the dream? We're doing great here today.
We want to sit there and reflect on you know,
as you know, we're about to hit the new new quarter,
the final quarter of the year, and we thought we
have a little show on the reflection of the last
three quarters and what that means on the impact into
our future. Again, coach, you introduce yourself to those who
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are new to our show and new to you.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Hello, everybody, Hey I am I like the idea of
gain the coach. By the way, Boyle, that's me and
my mission and vision of purpose is to help you
ultimately remember and live the life you have while you
create the life you love. And that's what we are.
And I was a fourth generation veteran. I coach both
veterans and civilians and combine that. And it's interesting because
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I often get asked just randomly having a conversation at
the checkout and sharing my It's who I am, right,
and they're like, were you active duty? I'm like yes,
and then it just goes were you a high school,
middle school coach?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
So it's actually who I am. And everything comes back
to health and purpose. Health and purpose because without your health,
nothing's possible, and with your health, everything is possible. So
today I want to challenge all the listeners to take
a step back, take a few moments and reflect on
the first three quarters of the year. What went well,
What have you done well? What did you step into
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literally figuratively. Why you ruck with Paul, or you've bucked
with anybody, or you've walked? What did you do well?
It's so easy to only say I have not done
X or my job sucks, because what about the fact
that you've done something right? You've done something well. Every
literally every coaching call that I have, the first thing
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after we say hello, good morning, how are you? Is
what's gone well? And it flips the script and at
first it's it's a challenge because it's not the norm. Right,
It's like, we can bust it. It's too hot, it's
too cold, the political climate, the kids have been butt heads,
whatever that looks like. But what did you do well?
Because you're only as good as your latest comeback. So
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if you decided to move your body a couple of
times a week and you did it, kudoshi five. But
what if you didn't do it well, let's talk about
might I have not talked about this on the show before,
and then feel free to chime in w's and else.
So everything's either a w. Now if these are a
win or a lesson, not a loss, it's a lesson.
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So if you were successful in your health, your fitness,
your purpose, Why did that happen? And how can you
double down on that? If you weren't as successful as
you wanted to, what's the lesson you learned so that
you can move forward? If you guys ever heard of it?
Kind of framed as w's and l's wins and lessons?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
First time I've heard of your coach?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, first time for me too.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I personally I like that.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
So one of the things that I coach and teach
is that everything we do we should have a fifty
percent chance of failure. And what I mean by failure
and really we should reflame. That is a lesson. So
is it challenging, Yes, if you didn't get to walk
a mile, what's the lesson behind it? But that's the
potential failure, But it's not a failure, it's a lesson.
Why did you do it? Why didn't it happen? What
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can you learn from it? And every time we get
to kind of double down on that, what's the next level.
We also talk about design or default. Are you living
by design? Maybe you're creating that vision and purpose or
default And it's just very rote the same thing. So
if we have a winning lesson, don't be afraid to
challenge yourself because you will learn and when you step
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into that lesson, you can be better next time. All right, man,
So this is a two way street. I could talk
all day this. I've been doing this for thirty some years.
I've been on earth for over fifty years. But all
you need something, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You know when you said look back over the last
three quarters, and I was trying, and I say, trying
to walk and to do a mile. And now after
three quarters with the with Justin and the crew, we're walking, right,
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three or four miles four times a week. I mean,
that's a big accomplishment at trying to get for a while,
and now I'm doing three or four miles and it's
not you would think that it would be drudgery that,
oh my I have to do four miles. I'm never
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going to do it. Now we're going. That was only
four miles, you know, And so when you do look
back on it that way, you're right, it's an accomplishment.
And now I look back and say, why wasn't I
doing four miles a year ago? But being part of
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a group and having somebody like Justin saying okay, we're
going to do this and working up to that. I'm
sure that no, I don't remember back, but the first
couple of times I walk with them, I'm sure I
didn't call him some nice names because I know there
was a big effort to do a mile, and now
I'm doing four saying gee, maybe maybe we could do
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it on Saturday and Sunday too. But so you're right,
you have to look back at your accomplishments and look
back at a year ago. Doing a mile is now
a failure or a lesson that I could do more
than a mile. It wasn't a failure, it's an accomplishment.
So you're absolutely right. You have to look at both
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sides of that to understand where you were to where
you are.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
One and Coach, I'll say I've had the actually before
I get started, thank you for your sacrifice and thinking
for being part of our Rally Point USA family. When
I first uh, when we first spoke many moons ago,
I always impressed. And folks, you have to understand I'm
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one of the most stoic individuals on the planet, and
when during my time here on the show, is that
when I say the coach is the real deal, I'm
saying Tony Robertson has nothing on the coach. Right now,
let me tell you something. I will tell you that
so inspired on him on looking back of getting out
(35:03):
of my comfort zone and moving forward and doing things
to you know, learn from the lesson and double up
on the successes is straight up from the coach. And
that is a flawless strategy to the point where and
I'm and coach are going to beat me up for
this one. There is a show that we talked about
the Pursuit of Happiness, It's the Inside Job. And am
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I going, Oh, that'd make a great title of a book.
And one of the things the coach had said, like, so,
why don't you just write it? Am I going, I
can't write a book? And no, and behold and manuscript
was put out four months later. And one of the
things I wanted to do with that is keeping with
the theme of our programming, is that that's a resource that
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reads easy, and it's the influence of the coach is
so prominent in that I feel that my goal for
our next quarter coming up into the new year is
that I bring him to South with Florida and have
him have him share five minutes with a few veterans
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and see how he impacts their lives. And again, folks,
I'm a hard egg to crack and it took him
up what fifteen minutes, and I'm sitting here right now
ideas for a book and it became a book. But
I'll say this, folks, he it's it's his philosophy and
I'm just putting it a little week rally point us
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saying this, man is you know, I'm thankful to have you, coach,
and our goal to make you the resource for the
United States veteran and their families period.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
I appreciate. I appreciate that, and I'm humbled by that.
And I love, first of all my pleasure to serve
and just following the footsteps of my dad, granddad, a
great granddad. And I love that you took action to me.
Everything that I teach, coach and believe is about taking action.
So when you tell me, when wherever we have a conversation,
whether it's with Sarge or Paul or Justin or Amanda
(36:57):
or whomever, I'm going to listen to your dream and
I'm not going to say how. I'm going to say wow,
And then I'm going to challenge you to take your
first step and thought, writer's right, Writer's right, so right,
and even if it's not as good as you want
it to be, you'll get better tomorrow. I want to
share a personal story about taking action. This isn't specifically
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veterand based, but about two years ago, girl wazer Jessica,
who lives in Oklahoma and I live in Texas. We
were taking a trip and I called fit to explore
experience and we were taking the group to Italy and
she reached out and she wanted to come. She didn't
have the finances to come at that time, and then
I had to ask. He said, do you have a passport?
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He didn't have one. I said, well, there's your first action.
Step is to go get your passport. And with the
next five to seven days she went to the passport
office that got her passport, and eighteen months later she
joined us to go to Mexico because she took action.
Sorr As you took action by writing the book you
put out today that you want to bring net to
Southwest Florida. I'm all in, brother, whatever it takes to
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get me there, to have a conversation, to educate, motivating
and empower veterans, to wake up and be amazing every day.
You just tell me when and I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well, let me tell you something again. Early in our
segment today, were talked about the numbers of suicidal ideation
in our veteran community has gone up from twenty two
to over forty. And I'm going, well, whatever we're doing
is not working. And I feel that I feel more
comfortable than ever to say that. I feel that sometimes
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we need to be caffeinated, and you're the caffeination that
I think our veteran community needs to have that self
belief that they can accomplish and do. Like Paul said,
he's now wondering why he wasn't doing four miles before
he started wrecking with Justin and Amanda, that simple spark
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of possibility, hope. And I'll say, I say value has
tremendous impact on us veterans, and we don't think we
can do it anymore. And I think that's the mindset
that kind of starts that dark journey down the wrong path.
I can't do this. I can't do that. One negative
thought after another. And brother, let me tell you something
(39:20):
for me to write up to have the idea to
think I can write anything from hearing you tell we
came up with a title just in a conversation shows
me the magnitude of impact you can potentially have on
a whole dynamic of veteran and veteran families without a question.
And I'm I'm your you are I believe a hidden
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gem in the rough. And when you come down the
South with Florida in twenty twenty six, people better watch out. Impact.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
We're going to ultimately turn positivity in the possibility that's
we're gonna do yes, sir, you know that's about that.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
That's the key to most of this stuff is that
you have to stop saying can't. Yeah, there's certain things
that I can't do, but I can do a lot
of thing other things that just move me in the
right direction. And that's with everybody. I get a kick
out of when we get somebody new, and when we
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walk and it's not there's always somebody that will drop
back and stay with them and bring them on because
you know, yeah, we walk at a different pace because
we've been doing it for so long. But I think
it's kind of neat to look back and say, Wow,
there's nobody behind us anymore. We're all together again, everybody's
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come up to a certain level. And I guess that's
what what you're talking about, coaches. We got to bring
everybody up to that certain level, not necessarily to the
same performance, but to the same level.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I like that, right, Sorry, to bring everybody up. We
are better together, we are stronger together, we are more
united together. And it's purpose over paced. So it doesn't
matter how fast you go work, somebody's going to drop back.
And here's the thing. When you were at the back
and now you're with the group, one day, somebody's going
to show up that was where you were, and you
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know what you're going to do. You're going to drop
back and you're going to invite them to continue, come
back the next day, the next day, then they'll be
with the pack. And then the next time somebody new come,
they'll drop back and help them come up. And that's
how we stay stronger, and that's how we're connected, and
that's how hopefully we really help the veterans realize that
they have meaning and they have purpose and they have connection.
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We just have to get them to join us.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
One hundred and again, coach, one of the things that
comes very naturally for you is like you see that
that that potential. And I think that's one of the
things that holds a lot of us back, is that
we feel that our prime days have passed us and
we're trying to sit there and coast through life. And
I don't know about the whole coasting thing, because sometimes
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you take that passive perception in the life of coasting,
you tend to lose out an opportunity or potential of opportunity.
And I think one of the most powerful teachings for
myself and hopefully our listeners is that possibility is the
gas of probability, and it's it's if you don't have
that desire, it's not going to happen for you. And
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when you have that fire hiring inside, there's it possible
that will happen.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Right. We want to stoke that fire. We want to
remind you that vision of that little boy or little
girl you had on time and somebody told you you can't,
you can't, you can't, and that's not true. Now. We
may not be as fast as we were twenty years ago,
we may not be as strong, but we just pivot
on what we can do, want to do, and how
we do it and what I know about most veterans
is we're resilient and we may not be the fastest,
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but we're going to finish as a group. As a group,
and like Paul said, we're going to take your hand
and we're going to drag you up the hill in
a good way. We're going to pause if we need to,
We're going to catch our breath we need to. We're
going to tell you I believe in you. We're going
to inspire you. And when we get to the top
of the hill, we're going to high five and have
the biggest freaking smiles we've ever had. Why because we
did it, we didn't do it alone, and we empowered
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somebody else to join us.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
And that's how it's got to be. That's the for me,
that's the veteran way, because in any mission and any branch,
nothing is done on a singular level. And nothing and
I'm hearing in the back of my head by days
of boot camp and goes, I don't care who finishes,
who gets to the top first. I care about when
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the last person gets there to join us. All that's
when the mission's over, When the last person makes it
home or accomplishes the same mission, and that's the good
thing that we have with you at coaching. I think
I evermiss to forget to do this for America. Can
you tell remind America what you do, how you inspire
people in Texas, and what you do as a life coach?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
One of the easiest ways to connect with us is
to join one of our two legacy rock clubs leg
Legacy of Rock CLUBB Southwest Florida or Legacy Rock club Sagine, Texas.
That's an easy way to do it and connect and
just jumpstart and we with the rucking. We do it
apart together, if that makes sense. So if you live
in one of the cities that we do it, you
can join us live. If not, we can still support
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you by sharing a high five, is selfie, et cetera.
As a life coach, my true mission is to help
you age with awesome, be fit to explore again, whether
it's to climb that hill with your unit or your friends,
or whether we just literally got back from ten days
in Ireland and we hyped and we connected and we dreamed.
Am I how we do that or why we do that?
(44:42):
As we create a visit vision for your life? What
do you want and we get fed up with friends,
fitness finances and say I'll say that again, and I
say get fed up because it's cute and it's funny
and you will remember it. But what do you want
your life to look like in the next three years?
Not ten years? And ten years is going to pass.
I've got and gray hair to show that. Ten years
is that. But three years you can take. You can
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take immediate action, and all of a sudden as you
start to manifest that, which means taking and making decisions
for things to come true, three years is going to
fly by. Family, What do you want to look like? Friends?
I believe as adults, if we don't purposely create friendships,
we won't have them. We're not I was a high
school athlete, so I sat with my buddies after athletics
in Texas that we talked right. But now if I'm
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not purposely creating friendships, I won't have any. And then
your fitness right, so mental, physical, and spiritual health, what
does that look like. I don't want to be hooked
on a machine. I don't want to be in a
nursing home. I don't want my kids up to take
care of me. You know those kind of things. So family, friends, fitness, finances,
you're don't have to tell me. If you retire from
the service, and you have retire then you have a
four oh one k or or you're broke. But what
do you want your money to do for you? And
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then your faith? And that's your purpose in life. And
Mark Twain reminds us or reminds us or tells us
that the two most important days of our lives. And
this is why I think vetsins will really fly when
they dial into this is the day you're born, the
day you find out why it was a purpose, whether
it's four years, whether it was twenty five years. Your
purpose was to serve in the military, hopefully make America greater?
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And now what's your next purpose? What does that look like?
And it takes some introspection, it takes thought, it takes commitments.
But here's the deal. Like Stard said about writing his book,
you know how you start. You write one page, we
take one action of those five things, family, friends, fitness, finances,
and faith. You move the needle forward. That might have
been longer than you wanted.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
But no, that's spot on right there. And I'm like
going like wow again, coach. Every time you're on the show,
there's something new I'm picking up and I'm michaeling, like, wow,
that's like some that's like the five things you just listed. Family, friends, fitness, finances,
and faith, I think are the core things. I believe
some of our and myself included veterans are deficient in
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and one or the other. And I believe that at
certain particular times in our life we get focused on
one forget the other full or two or three or
you know, in peril, and we lose focus. And I
truly believe, and I true believe that as a veteran,
I believe that we should always have a mentor in
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our lives and you never stop being a mentor. Mentors
and the mentors, and I think that your program here
is like it's beyond phenomenal. It's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's really uh a peach, so to speak.
I'm at a point where I'm like, how can you
articulate an epiphany or the the core an epiphany that
(47:37):
is so universal that it's simplistic and you like go like, huh,
that's that's doable, family, Okay, And like it's not like
a high tech secret like I think people make a
mountain out of a little mohill if you just approach
it systematically like you've You've said, coach, and uh, I'm
just all struck every time you're on the show.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Thank you when you say that, because I try to
literally and figuratively trim the fat. Because everything that's easy
to do is also easy.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Not to do, Yes, sir, Yes, So what are your
thoughts on that point?
Speaker 2 (48:14):
I can make more excuses up, there's always a reason
why not. That's easy. But you know, it's kind of
it's kind of changed, and in my attitude that you know,
I've done a lot of things over over my lifetime,
(48:34):
and I've gone in a lot of different directions. I
mean from high school, my goal was to get out
and then I ended up being a trainer and teaching again.
So something that I hated school became my passion was
(48:56):
teaching and instructing and doing things like that. So yeah,
that's all part of life is how you go and
the direction you take, and it's definitely going to change.
I mean, what I'm doing now for sure is never
would have been in my thought process twenty years ago.
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But keep moving forward, and that's the way we accomplish it.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
So when you say that is moving forward or change,
one of the reasons that I created the three year
Vivid Vision is because it's malleable, it's ever moving, it's
a living document. And when you create your vivid vision,
every life changing event, you should re examine that vision,
whether it's death, divorce, birth, marriage, and I believe every
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year you should reexamine it because the person you are
on December thirty first is not and will not and
should not be the same person you're on January first.
And my hopes and dreams were a lot different at
twenty two, twenty three. Now they're in my fifties. So
that's growth, that's progress. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, your priorities changed constantly as you get older.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
For sure, and it doesn't make them good or bad.
But I think if it becomes stagnant, like stinky water,
then we lose that hope, like Starge talks about. And
that's part of what's happened with the veterans is we
had a vision to make our world better and then
that connectivity, that connection has now gone. How do we
rekindle that? And so again I was a high school coach.
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Go back even further, I was an athlete. There was
always I worked for my dad for a decade, so
for me, there was always a purpose that was way
bigger than me, right, whether it was winning a game,
whether it was coaching a game, whether it was making
my family's business prosperous so that it could help support
my lifestyle, my dad's and my three sisters, you know,
and then going into in the service too, it's like
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there was always something bigger, And I think that's something
that once we leave and separate from the service, whether
it was four years like I serve or retirement, we
lose that and we have to rEFInd that because it's
really deep. If we examine who we are, it's who
we are and that connection and a bigger picture of
growth is what fuels us to get up every.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Day outstanding and as always, coach, it's always a pleasure
having on our show and thankful we have you here
once a month, and in twenty twenty six we got
to bring you out here and have you do that
live time.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Hey, coach, you gave us another expression. Today you say purpose, purpose, overpace, overpace,
and today you gave us sure stagnant over like stinky water.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
Well, people remember stories and so the more analogies you use,
I think the more that you'll be able to bring
them back and so put them into action.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
That's funny, all right, Thank you very much, post coach.
And is there anyway our your listeners can find you online?
Speaker 4 (52:00):
Absolutely so, I mean Dane Boiled, d A N E.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
B O.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
Wiley. If you google it, you'll find me on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube,
and my personal Facebook page. So reach out, tell me
you heard about the rally Point. Let's start the conversation today.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
Thank you very much, sir, you have a good time.
God bless I got you. And once again, folks, that's
our show. And right now I want to thank our
guests for being on there, and I want to thank
you our listeners out there for keeping us here helping you.
If you have any concerns, comments or ideas for our show,
please contact me at Hemingway at one Rallypoint dot org.
(52:35):
That's H. E. M I N G W A Y
at one Rallypoint dot org. And at this time I
want to thank my producer for being the man behind
the mics. I think that's pretty much for our show
for today, this miss
Rally Pointers fall in lazy and gentlemen, this is your host,
James the Sarge Hemingway alongside Paul Poleshi. How are you
doing today, Paul.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm doing great. Good morning America.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And welcome to once again another fantastic episode of Rally
Point Radio show. And also, as always, folks, we can't
go any further unless we say hello to our producer,
Zaying the Brain. How are we doing? Goodod morning, outstanding
Today folks, We're going to sit here and kind of
take a step back and kind of reintroduce Paul to
America and kind of set our kind of tempo for
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the upcoming last quarter of the year and take it
from there. So Paul, take it away.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, just to bring you back up to speed, I
was originally from Patterson, New Jersey, so we'll hold you
in New Jersey. People out there, keep watching our show,
keep listening to our show. I was drafted in nineteen
sixty six and did one tour in Vietnam, and when
I came up this show as a guest, I kind
(01:03):
of got hooked on it and I really am enjoying
where we're taking this show. So my background is a
little bit different than you're going to be used to
because of where and when I was in the service.
I was not a career service person, so mine is
a little bit different and I have a little bit
different view on some of the topics that we talk about,
(01:26):
and believe it or not, even some of the new
modern military as some words and phrases that I am
not familiar with at all. But I want to be
dedicated to doing what the program is about, and that's
about making sure that our veterans are aware of all
the services, they're aware of all the benefits that are
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out there for them, and also to tell our history,
whether it was from World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, or
the current all the things that are going on currently world,
but to make sure that our military story gets.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Out there most definitely, and folks, again, I think at
this particular time, it's a good time for us to
kind of rally up the troops and kind of our
refocused while we're here. We started this journey nearly three
years ago, and it's about veterans and our family and
our communities that house us. And one of the things
I will say that a long time ago is that
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veterans helped veterans is still as true today as it
was when we served in our served in active duty
or any duty during that particular time, and this show
is centered around providing that same service even after we've
left our active careers. Most importantly, folks, as we know,
in the world we live in, things are complicated, and
(02:49):
things get kind of they change with time. But to
one thing that's consistent is that in the military, as
a veteran, we're still our brothers and sisters keepers. And
the one thing we are here at the show is
to make sure we provide veterans in their families and
their communities with accessible resources to help improve the quality
of life for the veteran, their family, and their community.
(03:13):
I will say that when I met Paul almost what
six months ago, six months ago, he has a Vietnam mural,
so to speak, and I was educated on Hamburger Hill,
and he brought a guest. I forgot his name, but Paul,
(03:34):
maybe you can refresh my memory.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, we had Mike Lansford.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, it was Mike Lansford. And from that day forward
he told his story Mike, and I will say this,
I felt moved by his story for the simple fact
he told, he expressed and shared a story that I
believe he's kept with him for a very long time,
and it felt great for him to get it out
after a certain period of time. And by by by
(04:00):
artificial product by product. Rather, this is kind of therapy
for the veteran to share their stories with you to listeners,
because basically is what we do and is what we
promise to do for our duties. And I think it's
a I think it's an obligation on our behalf as
veterans here at Rally Point to make sure that the
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veterans who have these stories share them because they do
have value, and especially now, the best mentor for our
veteran is another veteran, and this is what our show does.
And getting back to Paul, his mirror was nothing less
than fantastic. And how about you paint a verbal description
of what you provided? Are you have?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, it's it's all of the photographs that my unit.
Now my unit was in Vietnam from nineteen sixty six
to nineteen seventy two before they rotated home. It's all
of the pictures, artifact, any that my unit members felt
(05:03):
would tell our story. They've mailed them to me. It
just I had a few of my own. I had
about ninety nine pictures that survived because of the environment
over there. But it's twenty four feet long. Now I
still have hundreds of pictures that I can't that I
don't know what to do with them, and I still
(05:25):
get more. But it tells the story of not only
what we did and what we accomplished, it also tells
it shows you visually how we lived, where we lived,
and what we did. We were kind of a unique group.
We were one five to five howitzers, which up until
(05:47):
Vietnam only went where there were roads. And if you
remember a movie that Back to the Future when he
said we don't need no stinking roads, well that's what happened.
They brought in these huge helicopters and started moving us around.
So we became the first air mobile howitzer battery of
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one five fives, which changed our whole our whole life.
What we did, where we went, how we went there,
and that's what the display shows. And it's more to
tell our story to see the military, when you tell
them something, they may not have done that particular thing,
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but they understand what it took to do it. So
it's more geared towards civilians. It's more geared towards letting
people know what the military does and how they do
it and why they do it, and a lot of
it has never been done before. And that goes on
today as it did in nineteen sixty six one when
we were from a little base on the Cambodian border
(06:55):
to all over the jungle and rice patties in Vietnam
for the next until nineteen seventy two. So that's what
it's all about, and it kind of sticks with my
goal is to let people know what the military does.
All of the military, whether they were Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines,
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or even the Coast Guard was in Vietnam also, so
we were all.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
There most definitely, and as usual, thank you for your sacrifice,
Paul and those who are the Vietnam I've said it once,
I'll say it a million times, and I hope that
my audience and listeners can appreciate this is that their
time and service, i'll say, World War two, Korea, Vietnam,
their sacrifices were and are the foundation of the benefits
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that we veterans have here today. And one of the
things that we're trying to do here is to tell
every veteran who's served their country, from the merchant Marines
to the Coast Guard the Space Force, is that no
matter what your MOS, which is military occupational service, your job,
you serve your country and your function is as important
(08:10):
as the front lines. You get us ready, You get
us battle ready before the battle even starts. And also
the little tidbit not to leave my producer out zaying,
your father was in the military correct World War two?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeahsion US Army, ninth Division, forty seventh Infantry h Company,
and he was one of the men that landed on
D Day on trying to remember it was it Juno Beach?
I think it was Juno Beach.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, really yeah, And to that effect, folks, that's how
serious we take this. Because it takes a village to
raise a child, it takes a village to support a
veteran in the same breath, and that's why we're here today.
And thanks to you, we have grown and we have
had the opportunity to embrace and create other veteran organizations.
(09:05):
First off the top of my head is, oh my goodness,
gracious ladies and gentlemen, I'm having one of those days
warrior wellness, warrior waless, solutions, resolutions, resolutions. And I know
you guys heard of Justin Lipford, one of our co
hosts here. He has sprungboard offer of disc show in
(09:29):
programming and went independent and he goes out. Imagine this, folks,
former YMCA or current YMCA instructor. He goes out and
he finds veterans that are looking to get in better shape.
And remember this, as we say in an army, strong mind,
strong body. The body fouls the mind. Wherever you put it,
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it will follow. He has gone out and he finds veterans.
He puts him through what a thirteen week program? I
don' a thirteen week program to from from nuts to
bolts to rebuild? What do we build the veteran mentally,
spiritually and physically, because folks, you need all three to
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be successful. And with Amana Makanu and our host, she
belongs to both Justin's organization and she is a board
member on the Honor Flight and you have the Honor
Flight situation in Southwest Florida where they take and they
current they help celebrate the careers of veterans of any
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branch of any time. I believe that they have a
flight coming out of a Sarasota in October fourteenth, and
they fly to Washington. They see the monuments and they
give homage to those who have sacrificed, those who had
make it. They go see the wall and they give
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reverence to those who have served our country as it
should be. One of the things I sat on the
show a couple of times in the past is that
I do not believe in celebrating on fourth of July
Memorial Day or Veterans Day, our Pearl Harbor Day. We
should celebrate every day because if it was not for
the sacrifices and the efforts of those men and women
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who are our veteran brothers and sisters, the America that
you know would not exist. And another byproduct of what
we do here, folks, is, for you guys who don't know,
for those who horror listening, the suicidal rate of in
America has gone in the wrong direction. Specifically for veterans,
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it used to be twenty two a day. It's not
past forty. And also the other demographic that shares that
same unfortunate statistic our seventeen year olds. Any child under
the age of seventeen in America. So we have our
veterans and seventeen year olds of the highest suicyle rate.
And one of the things we do here is we
give acknowledgment to that that's a problem. Again, when you
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give people hope, and we had this conversation about suicidal awareness,
we provide them an opportunity to voice their stories and
find value in the lives that they have. And again, Paul,
what's your take on that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, you know, I think what we need to realize
that only well, right now it's about seven percent of
the nation's population was in the military. It's even less
now as we get older, the new volunteer Army, it's
going to be around one percent or less that I
will actually have served in the military. And that's an
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amazing switch from seven percent down to one percent. So
when you think about suicide rates, when you think about
different medical problems with our military, we need to put
more resources into it. I know I've harped on it before,
but if you're a veteran and you have not signed
up to be part of the via medical system, please
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do so. You may not need it today. I would
love to see that you can't get out of the
military until you're registered. But I understand there's a waiting
period for it. There is, which to me doesn't make
sense because they're going to wait six months for you
to have a problem before we put you in the
via medical system. Some of these things I don't understand,
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but we can on this show. Keep bringing stuff like
that forward. Make sure that more resources go into both
mental and physical health, make sure the counseling is there,
make sure that we put the appropriate funds there to
help our military veterans when they leave the military and
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join us in civilian life.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Most definitely so. And folks, remember this one of the
things that we do here on the show. We don't
sit up here on a microphone by ourselves. We are
thankful to have a community that is veteran Rich dav
the m that's the VFW, the American Legions. The core
mission is to unify the veteran community and provide them,
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hopefully resources And one of the things I've started to
talk about about the legacy of the veteran and folks,
it doesn't matter about where we've done and what we've
done in the military, it's the core fact of who
we are for our country. We're at a standard, folks.
I'll tell you right now. One of the things I
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have found to be proficiently true is that any veteran
who served in any branch has done a particular courseet
of skills, and with that, when they transition out of
the military, we still have those skills and are very
applicable to everyday in life. One of the things I
really appreciate is that we make great employees and great
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managers for the simple fact in the military, that's what
you're doing twenty four to seven th and we have
one of the least call out rates because if you're sick,
you can still work. And one of the things I
do appreciate is that one of the values that we
have as veterans, we have a great work ethics and
we bring value to any team that we're brought into.
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And that's what we're trying to do here at our show,
remind the veteran of the value that we still have
to this day. And I truly believe with my heart
and soul that if we're able to resurrect that sense
of purpose that's still with us. And Paul correct me
if I'm wrong, that I feel that suicidal rates will
go down when we give our veterans the concept of
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hope back that they are still functional, They're still a
part of a team. The veteran team do each does
our purpose in the positioning of life or function of life,
and we're at a particular time may change, but our
function and our value still remains consistent because we can
teach a younger generation what may be lost with time.
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And that's one of the things I do believe that
veterans are the best mentors for our youth and folks.
Remember that's why we have the legacy program pertaining to
veterans with the Library of Congress. Our stories carry value,
and one of the things we have to is to
save that knowledge because once it's gone, it's gone. If
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it's not recorded, it's perished. It's a perishable item.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, there was a sergeant one time. We were sitting
in a bunker and we were talking and he said,
there's a civilian job for every military job or every
military person, and I thought worth shooting one hundred pounds rounds.
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I don't know if too many civilian jobs that would
that would applied to, but what he was talking about
was our ability to work under pressure, our ability to
say out of the box, our ability to react, our
ability to plan to make things happen. Those is what
he was talking about. But of course, as a nineteen
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year old I didn't see the connection until many years later.
I thought, Okay, we'll figure this one out. But his
words were true. The military, the experiences and the training.
You've got to understand that when we go into the service,
When any young person goes into the service, their training
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starts from day one. It never stops. It just continues
until the day they get out of the service. And
there's a lot of those things that we learn a
lot of cases by actually doing are transferable. They really are.
And employers once they realized that the organization I went
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to as a civilian, realized that the military was a
great source for hiring for us. So we had a
lot of ex military. Of all the branches, we always
gave each other a hard time about that, of course,
but we all work together. And that's the other thing
is is that you understand what a team is all about.
Whether you're on that team or doing something related, you
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understand how you pull together. So yeah, it's just mind boggling,
and that's why we still care about all of the
veterans that are still here and that we still want
them the best for.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Them most definitely. And folks, you are the most important
component to this equation.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I will guarantee if you take a moment, you know
of a few vets or a veteran family, or your
dad's family. The vet and those stories that you probably
heard as a child were fascinating, and I will task
you with this opportunity call our show, contact us, Paul, myself, Amanda,
Justin Rick and for those who don't, who remember back
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in the days of year one, it's a matter of
we need to preserve these stories. Dane Boyle the coach,
he is a phenomenal inspirational speaker. We need stories like
his and yours and the ones that can bring to
our program to help assist in the mission of preserving
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those stories. And hopefully I was actually thinking here, Paul,
like you know what, and I had a question to
ask that go on a tangent. When you get those pictures,
did he actually tell you a story per picture?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It depends some of them. What's not uncommon is for
us to get together and this happened many years ago
one of the guys in our unit. He said, I
keep having this reoccurring dream about one of our artillery
pieces having around go right into the wheel, another like
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a mortar round go into the wheel, and I had
to laugh. I said, well, that's not a reoccurring dream.
That actually happened. So so yeah, there are stories with
all the pictures. I love when the kids come over
and say what happened here? You know, because I don't
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have captions under every picture. It's just it was too
difficult to do. But yeah, there a lot of it
is to be questioned, you know, ask me what happened.
I'm very open about it. The kids always have. They
have the most intelligent questions that that sometimes are mind
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boggling that they look at a picture and ask what
was going on here? Why did you do that? Some
of the adults ask, well, how did you bathe? I said,
I have my Vietnam helmet. Don't ask me how I
got that home. That's a story for another time. But
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I say, well, there's my bathtub. It was we shaved
out of it, we washed out of it. We did
all of that in our helmet when we had enough water,
and that's how the conversations go what did you do
with this? What did you do with that? Why is
this here? And so that's really what we need to
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do as veterans, to continue to tell the stories of
the events and why we did the things we did,
how we learned to do the things we did, and
how we dealt with the pressures. The pressures never go away.
They're still here and they never will go away. It's
just something in your life that if you remember as
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a kid, that just you never forget. Well, we were
young men, and guys like the sergeant were the old men.
They were probably wow, you know, and then some of
our officers are colonels and so forth, they probably were
in their forties approaching fifties. Talk about ancient.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh good lord.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So yeah, I mean there's stories like that that that
we we need to continue to make sure that that
the veterans tell America so they know what we're about,
and also to inspire a new generation of military people
to come on board, because they will learn a lot
and they will give a lot to this country. But
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we can't forget them when they're done.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Most definitely, most definitely, and I'll say this, some of
the best people have had the honor to be acquainted with.
They have had aspiring lives after the military. I personally
believe that it wasn't for the military. And I won't
speak for them, they'll speak on their own accord that
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the military gave them core competencies to make them who
they became later in life. And folks, I will say this,
I have seen all the John Wayne movies, and I'll
say this as a advent army person, I knew I
was going to the army where I watched the Green Berets,
and we're talking about early nineteen sixties, late nineteen fifties,
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and for that one movie, I sady, yep, I want
to wear a green and that this made an impression
upon me, And folks, I got a bachelor's degree, I
got an MBA, and go know what the best, I
learned more about myself in the military during my time
than anytime thereafter or before. So one of the things
we will do here at the rally point, we will
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give value back to our veterans. Because I'll say this,
and going back to the conversation I was having earlier,
Paul Pleshi's memory Wall of sorts unifies time and branch
And what I mean by that is you'll have a
brother or a sister from Afghanistan walk up to that
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display and the engagement conversation and you'll be surprised. Fifty
years have passed from Vietnam to now, but some of
the same lingos still. Oh, it's still There's.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That amazes me too. It looks like when I have
I've talked to a few gentlemen that have been in
the different conflicts and they will use the same terms.
Yet the technology has changed dramatically, but what they do
and what we did is still the same. You know,
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there's still the same core mission, the same thought process,
but the technology has changed and it is changing rapidly.
So I mean, who would have thought that the military
would be using robots and drones? Yes, I mean not
even in the Star Wars that I think that was
going to happen, you know, I thought that was way
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out there, and now it's becoming true. So but yeah,
the military is just it's a type fraternity.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It really is. It is the world's biggest fraternity and
sorority is the United States Military. And I will tell
you this, this world is not big enough for you
to walk into a building and I'll say I call
it swag. Whether you wearing have tattoos or in a
business suit, you can pick out a veteran in about
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three seconds in a restaurant. That's my thing. I can
without worrying anything that's military.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I had. I had a guy that I was working
with well these twenty years ago, and he said to me,
because I never talked about it, and he said to me,
when were you in Vietnam? And I said, how did
you know that? He said, I was there. I can
pick it out in a heartbeat. So yeah, we recognize
each other. Just just something about like you said, a
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swagger or the phrases or just something that we can
pick each other out.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
And and folks, and that's one of the things this
shows about. We're going to bring value to our veterans.
Well the value already there, but rigg to remind our
veterans and you the value that we still have for
our country. Yes we're not serving, but we can serve
our country in different ways. And if you're hearing us
right now, folks, and you know somebody, send them on
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down to the Rally Point Radio show because your stories
is what makes which make our show what it is,
and above all, above all, if you know a veteran
that's not maximizing their benefits, send them to us. This
is a big, big lighthouse saying, rally here to get
your benefits. Because I know people say I'm successful, I
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don't need the benefit. I'm gonna let the next guy
have it. That's not how this works. You need you've
already been accounted for for your benefits. If you're a veteran.
The minute you raise your hand and you take that oath,
you're you are a number in the eyes of our government,
and you're expected to have a particular life lifespan and
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to utilize the VA services. You are a number they've
already calculated a decade, two decades, five decades ago. Word
War two doesn't matter. The point of matter is this,
If you fail to use it and they feel that
we are underutilizing our benefits, they will reappropriate that money
to something else. Now I'll get political this one time,
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which is not really political. I believe that there's enough
funding in our government to take care of every single
veteran in the United States, including housing and medical. But
the key phrase is you have to utilize it or
have access to it. And this is what we're here
for to let you know you want help to get it.
We have a plethora of Veteran service officers who will
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assist you, yours truly the Sarage. I will assist you
if need be, to get you through that process, to
get it started. That's how important this is. And folks,
if you want to talk about improving the pride in
the in the pride of the veteran, let's talk about legacy. Now.
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I thought that we're around a lot to our folks.
We need to maintain the legacy of the veteran and
pass it on to our next generation and family.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And with that, Paul, I think we pretty much covered it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think we did okay with that, folks, We'll move
on to our next portion. Okay, folks, it's another installment
of policily. Caffet in it with our own Dane the
coach boy. How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
How are y'all living the dream? We're doing great here today.
We want to sit there and reflect on you know,
as you know, we're about to hit the new new quarter,
the final quarter of the year, and we thought we
have a little show on the reflection of the last
three quarters and what that means on the impact into
our future. Again, coach, you introduce yourself to those who
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are new to our show and new to you.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Hello, everybody, Hey I am I like the idea of
gain the coach. By the way, Boyle, that's me and
my mission and vision of purpose is to help you
ultimately remember and live the life you have while you
create the life you love. And that's what we are.
And I was a fourth generation veteran. I coach both
veterans and civilians and combine that. And it's interesting because
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I often get asked just randomly having a conversation at
the checkout and sharing my It's who I am, right,
and they're like, were you active duty? I'm like yes,
and then it just goes were you a high school,
middle school coach?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
So it's actually who I am. And everything comes back
to health and purpose. Health and purpose because without your health,
nothing's possible, and with your health, everything is possible. So
today I want to challenge all the listeners to take
a step back, take a few moments and reflect on
the first three quarters of the year. What went well,
What have you done well? What did you step into
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literally figuratively. Why you ruck with Paul, or you've bucked
with anybody, or you've walked? What did you do well?
It's so easy to only say I have not done
X or my job sucks, because what about the fact
that you've done something right? You've done something well. Every
literally every coaching call that I have, the first thing
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after we say hello, good morning, how are you? Is
what's gone well? And it flips the script and at
first it's it's a challenge because it's not the norm. Right,
It's like, we can bust it. It's too hot, it's
too cold, the political climate, the kids have been butt heads,
whatever that looks like. But what did you do well?
Because you're only as good as your latest comeback. So
(30:43):
if you decided to move your body a couple of
times a week and you did it, kudoshi five. But
what if you didn't do it well, let's talk about
might I have not talked about this on the show before,
and then feel free to chime in w's and else.
So everything's either a w. Now if these are a
win or a lesson, not a loss, it's a lesson.
(31:06):
So if you were successful in your health, your fitness,
your purpose, Why did that happen? And how can you
double down on that? If you weren't as successful as
you wanted to, what's the lesson you learned so that
you can move forward? If you guys ever heard of it?
Kind of framed as w's and l's wins and lessons?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
First time I've heard of your coach?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, first time for me too.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I personally I like that.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
So one of the things that I coach and teach
is that everything we do we should have a fifty
percent chance of failure. And what I mean by failure
and really we should reflame. That is a lesson. So
is it challenging, Yes, if you didn't get to walk
a mile, what's the lesson behind it? But that's the
potential failure, But it's not a failure, it's a lesson.
Why did you do it? Why didn't it happen? What
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can you learn from it? And every time we get
to kind of double down on that, what's the next level.
We also talk about design or default. Are you living
by design? Maybe you're creating that vision and purpose or
default And it's just very rote the same thing. So
if we have a winning lesson, don't be afraid to
challenge yourself because you will learn and when you step
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into that lesson, you can be better next time. All right, man,
So this is a two way street. I could talk
all day this. I've been doing this for thirty some years.
I've been on earth for over fifty years. But all
you need something, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You know when you said look back over the last
three quarters, and I was trying, and I say, trying
to walk and to do a mile. And now after
three quarters with the with Justin and the crew, we're walking, right,
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three or four miles four times a week. I mean,
that's a big accomplishment at trying to get for a while,
and now I'm doing three or four miles and it's
not you would think that it would be drudgery that,
oh my I have to do four miles. I'm never
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going to do it. Now we're going. That was only
four miles, you know, And so when you do look
back on it that way, you're right, it's an accomplishment.
And now I look back and say, why wasn't I
doing four miles a year ago? But being part of
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a group and having somebody like Justin saying okay, we're
going to do this and working up to that. I'm
sure that no, I don't remember back, but the first
couple of times I walk with them, I'm sure I
didn't call him some nice names because I know there
was a big effort to do a mile, and now
I'm doing four saying gee, maybe maybe we could do
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it on Saturday and Sunday too. But so you're right,
you have to look back at your accomplishments and look
back at a year ago. Doing a mile is now
a failure or a lesson that I could do more
than a mile. It wasn't a failure, it's an accomplishment.
So you're absolutely right. You have to look at both
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sides of that to understand where you were to where
you are.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
One and Coach, I'll say I've had the actually before
I get started, thank you for your sacrifice and thinking
for being part of our Rally Point USA family. When
I first uh, when we first spoke many moons ago,
I always impressed. And folks, you have to understand I'm
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one of the most stoic individuals on the planet, and
when during my time here on the show, is that
when I say the coach is the real deal, I'm
saying Tony Robertson has nothing on the coach. Right now,
let me tell you something. I will tell you that
so inspired on him on looking back of getting out
(35:03):
of my comfort zone and moving forward and doing things
to you know, learn from the lesson and double up
on the successes is straight up from the coach. And
that is a flawless strategy to the point where and
I'm and coach are going to beat me up for
this one. There is a show that we talked about
the Pursuit of Happiness, It's the Inside Job. And am
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I going, Oh, that'd make a great title of a book.
And one of the things the coach had said, like, so,
why don't you just write it? Am I going, I
can't write a book? And no, and behold and manuscript
was put out four months later. And one of the
things I wanted to do with that is keeping with
the theme of our programming, is that that's a resource that
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reads easy, and it's the influence of the coach is
so prominent in that I feel that my goal for
our next quarter coming up into the new year is
that I bring him to South with Florida and have
him have him share five minutes with a few veterans
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and see how he impacts their lives. And again, folks,
I'm a hard egg to crack and it took him
up what fifteen minutes, and I'm sitting here right now
ideas for a book and it became a book. But
I'll say this, folks, he it's it's his philosophy and
I'm just putting it a little week rally point us
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saying this, man is you know, I'm thankful to have you, coach,
and our goal to make you the resource for the
United States veteran and their families period.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
I appreciate. I appreciate that, and I'm humbled by that.
And I love, first of all my pleasure to serve
and just following the footsteps of my dad, granddad, a
great granddad. And I love that you took action to me.
Everything that I teach, coach and believe is about taking action.
So when you tell me, when wherever we have a conversation,
whether it's with Sarge or Paul or Justin or Amanda
(36:57):
or whomever, I'm going to listen to your dream and
I'm not going to say how. I'm going to say wow,
And then I'm going to challenge you to take your
first step and thought, writer's right, Writer's right, so right,
and even if it's not as good as you want
it to be, you'll get better tomorrow. I want to
share a personal story about taking action. This isn't specifically
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veterand based, but about two years ago, girl wazer Jessica,
who lives in Oklahoma and I live in Texas. We
were taking a trip and I called fit to explore
experience and we were taking the group to Italy and
she reached out and she wanted to come. She didn't
have the finances to come at that time, and then
I had to ask. He said, do you have a passport?
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He didn't have one. I said, well, there's your first action.
Step is to go get your passport. And with the
next five to seven days she went to the passport
office that got her passport, and eighteen months later she
joined us to go to Mexico because she took action.
Sorr As you took action by writing the book you
put out today that you want to bring net to
Southwest Florida. I'm all in, brother, whatever it takes to
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get me there, to have a conversation, to educate, motivating
and empower veterans, to wake up and be amazing every day.
You just tell me when and I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well, let me tell you something again. Early in our
segment today, were talked about the numbers of suicidal ideation
in our veteran community has gone up from twenty two
to over forty. And I'm going, well, whatever we're doing
is not working. And I feel that I feel more
comfortable than ever to say that. I feel that sometimes
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we need to be caffeinated, and you're the caffeination that
I think our veteran community needs to have that self
belief that they can accomplish and do. Like Paul said,
he's now wondering why he wasn't doing four miles before
he started wrecking with Justin and Amanda, that simple spark
(38:58):
of possibility, hope. And I'll say, I say value has
tremendous impact on us veterans, and we don't think we
can do it anymore. And I think that's the mindset
that kind of starts that dark journey down the wrong path.
I can't do this. I can't do that. One negative
thought after another. And brother, let me tell you something
(39:20):
for me to write up to have the idea to
think I can write anything from hearing you tell we
came up with a title just in a conversation shows
me the magnitude of impact you can potentially have on
a whole dynamic of veteran and veteran families without a question.
And I'm I'm your you are I believe a hidden
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gem in the rough. And when you come down the
South with Florida in twenty twenty six, people better watch out. Impact.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
We're going to ultimately turn positivity in the possibility that's
we're gonna do yes, sir, you know that's about that.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
That's the key to most of this stuff is that
you have to stop saying can't. Yeah, there's certain things
that I can't do, but I can do a lot
of thing other things that just move me in the
right direction. And that's with everybody. I get a kick
out of when we get somebody new, and when we
(40:21):
walk and it's not there's always somebody that will drop
back and stay with them and bring them on because
you know, yeah, we walk at a different pace because
we've been doing it for so long. But I think
it's kind of neat to look back and say, Wow,
there's nobody behind us anymore. We're all together again, everybody's
(40:43):
come up to a certain level. And I guess that's
what what you're talking about, coaches. We got to bring
everybody up to that certain level, not necessarily to the
same performance, but to the same level.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I like that, right, Sorry, to bring everybody up. We
are better together, we are stronger together, we are more
united together. And it's purpose over paced. So it doesn't
matter how fast you go work, somebody's going to drop back.
And here's the thing. When you were at the back
and now you're with the group, one day, somebody's going
to show up that was where you were, and you
(41:17):
know what you're going to do. You're going to drop
back and you're going to invite them to continue, come
back the next day, the next day, then they'll be
with the pack. And then the next time somebody new come,
they'll drop back and help them come up. And that's
how we stay stronger, and that's how we're connected, and
that's how hopefully we really help the veterans realize that
they have meaning and they have purpose and they have connection.
(41:37):
We just have to get them to join us.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
One hundred and again, coach, one of the things that
comes very naturally for you is like you see that
that that potential. And I think that's one of the
things that holds a lot of us back, is that
we feel that our prime days have passed us and
we're trying to sit there and coast through life. And
I don't know about the whole coasting thing, because sometimes
(42:02):
you take that passive perception in the life of coasting,
you tend to lose out an opportunity or potential of opportunity.
And I think one of the most powerful teachings for
myself and hopefully our listeners is that possibility is the
gas of probability, and it's it's if you don't have
that desire, it's not going to happen for you. And
(42:24):
when you have that fire hiring inside, there's it possible
that will happen.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Right. We want to stoke that fire. We want to
remind you that vision of that little boy or little
girl you had on time and somebody told you you can't,
you can't, you can't, and that's not true. Now. We
may not be as fast as we were twenty years ago,
we may not be as strong, but we just pivot
on what we can do, want to do, and how
we do it and what I know about most veterans
is we're resilient and we may not be the fastest,
(42:50):
but we're going to finish as a group. As a group,
and like Paul said, we're going to take your hand
and we're going to drag you up the hill in
a good way. We're going to pause if we need to,
We're going to catch our breath we need to. We're
going to tell you I believe in you. We're going
to inspire you. And when we get to the top
of the hill, we're going to high five and have
the biggest freaking smiles we've ever had. Why because we
did it, we didn't do it alone, and we empowered
(43:12):
somebody else to join us.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
And that's how it's got to be. That's the for me,
that's the veteran way, because in any mission and any branch,
nothing is done on a singular level. And nothing and
I'm hearing in the back of my head by days
of boot camp and goes, I don't care who finishes,
who gets to the top first. I care about when
(43:33):
the last person gets there to join us. All that's
when the mission's over, When the last person makes it
home or accomplishes the same mission, and that's the good
thing that we have with you at coaching. I think
I evermiss to forget to do this for America. Can
you tell remind America what you do, how you inspire
people in Texas, and what you do as a life coach?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
One of the easiest ways to connect with us is
to join one of our two legacy rock clubs leg
Legacy of Rock CLUBB Southwest Florida or Legacy Rock club Sagine, Texas.
That's an easy way to do it and connect and
just jumpstart and we with the rucking. We do it
apart together, if that makes sense. So if you live
in one of the cities that we do it, you
can join us live. If not, we can still support
(44:19):
you by sharing a high five, is selfie, et cetera.
As a life coach, my true mission is to help
you age with awesome, be fit to explore again, whether
it's to climb that hill with your unit or your friends,
or whether we just literally got back from ten days
in Ireland and we hyped and we connected and we dreamed.
Am I how we do that or why we do that?
(44:42):
As we create a visit vision for your life? What
do you want and we get fed up with friends,
fitness finances and say I'll say that again, and I
say get fed up because it's cute and it's funny
and you will remember it. But what do you want
your life to look like in the next three years?
Not ten years? And ten years is going to pass.
I've got and gray hair to show that. Ten years
is that. But three years you can take. You can
(45:04):
take immediate action, and all of a sudden as you
start to manifest that, which means taking and making decisions
for things to come true, three years is going to
fly by. Family, What do you want to look like? Friends?
I believe as adults, if we don't purposely create friendships,
we won't have them. We're not I was a high
school athlete, so I sat with my buddies after athletics
in Texas that we talked right. But now if I'm
(45:26):
not purposely creating friendships, I won't have any. And then
your fitness right, so mental, physical, and spiritual health, what
does that look like. I don't want to be hooked
on a machine. I don't want to be in a
nursing home. I don't want my kids up to take
care of me. You know those kind of things. So family, friends, fitness, finances,
you're don't have to tell me. If you retire from
the service, and you have retire then you have a
four oh one k or or you're broke. But what
do you want your money to do for you? And
(45:48):
then your faith? And that's your purpose in life. And
Mark Twain reminds us or reminds us or tells us
that the two most important days of our lives. And
this is why I think vetsins will really fly when
they dial into this is the day you're born, the
day you find out why it was a purpose, whether
it's four years, whether it was twenty five years. Your
purpose was to serve in the military, hopefully make America greater?
(46:09):
And now what's your next purpose? What does that look like?
And it takes some introspection, it takes thought, it takes commitments.
But here's the deal. Like Stard said about writing his book,
you know how you start. You write one page, we
take one action of those five things, family, friends, fitness, finances,
and faith. You move the needle forward. That might have
been longer than you wanted.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
But no, that's spot on right there. And I'm like
going like wow again, coach. Every time you're on the show,
there's something new I'm picking up and I'm michaeling, like, wow,
that's like some that's like the five things you just listed. Family, friends, fitness, finances,
and faith, I think are the core things. I believe
some of our and myself included veterans are deficient in
(46:51):
and one or the other. And I believe that at
certain particular times in our life we get focused on
one forget the other full or two or three or
you know, in peril, and we lose focus. And I
truly believe, and I true believe that as a veteran,
I believe that we should always have a mentor in
(47:12):
our lives and you never stop being a mentor. Mentors
and the mentors, and I think that your program here
is like it's beyond phenomenal. It's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's really uh a peach, so to speak.
I'm at a point where I'm like, how can you
articulate an epiphany or the the core an epiphany that
(47:37):
is so universal that it's simplistic and you like go like, huh,
that's that's doable, family, Okay, And like it's not like
a high tech secret like I think people make a
mountain out of a little mohill if you just approach
it systematically like you've You've said, coach, and uh, I'm
just all struck every time you're on the show.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Thank you when you say that, because I try to
literally and figuratively trim the fat. Because everything that's easy
to do is also easy.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Not to do, Yes, sir, Yes, So what are your
thoughts on that point?
Speaker 2 (48:14):
I can make more excuses up, there's always a reason
why not. That's easy. But you know, it's kind of
it's kind of changed, and in my attitude that you know,
I've done a lot of things over over my lifetime,
(48:34):
and I've gone in a lot of different directions. I
mean from high school, my goal was to get out
and then I ended up being a trainer and teaching again.
So something that I hated school became my passion was
(48:56):
teaching and instructing and doing things like that. So yeah,
that's all part of life is how you go and
the direction you take, and it's definitely going to change.
I mean, what I'm doing now for sure is never
would have been in my thought process twenty years ago.
(49:17):
But keep moving forward, and that's the way we accomplish it.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
So when you say that is moving forward or change,
one of the reasons that I created the three year
Vivid Vision is because it's malleable, it's ever moving, it's
a living document. And when you create your vivid vision,
every life changing event, you should re examine that vision,
whether it's death, divorce, birth, marriage, and I believe every
(49:48):
year you should reexamine it because the person you are
on December thirty first is not and will not and
should not be the same person you're on January first.
And my hopes and dreams were a lot different at
twenty two, twenty three. Now they're in my fifties. So
that's growth, that's progress. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, your priorities changed constantly as you get older.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
For sure, and it doesn't make them good or bad.
But I think if it becomes stagnant, like stinky water,
then we lose that hope, like Starge talks about. And
that's part of what's happened with the veterans is we
had a vision to make our world better and then
that connectivity, that connection has now gone. How do we
rekindle that? And so again I was a high school coach.
(50:33):
Go back even further, I was an athlete. There was
always I worked for my dad for a decade, so
for me, there was always a purpose that was way
bigger than me, right, whether it was winning a game,
whether it was coaching a game, whether it was making
my family's business prosperous so that it could help support
my lifestyle, my dad's and my three sisters, you know,
and then going into in the service too, it's like
(50:54):
there was always something bigger, And I think that's something
that once we leave and separate from the service, whether
it was four years like I serve or retirement, we
lose that and we have to rEFInd that because it's
really deep. If we examine who we are, it's who
we are and that connection and a bigger picture of
growth is what fuels us to get up every.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Day outstanding and as always, coach, it's always a pleasure
having on our show and thankful we have you here
once a month, and in twenty twenty six we got
to bring you out here and have you do that
live time.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Hey, coach, you gave us another expression. Today you say purpose, purpose, overpace, overpace,
and today you gave us sure stagnant over like stinky water.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
Well, people remember stories and so the more analogies you use,
I think the more that you'll be able to bring
them back and so put them into action.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
That's funny, all right, Thank you very much, post coach.
And is there anyway our your listeners can find you online?
Speaker 4 (52:00):
Absolutely so, I mean Dane Boiled, d A N E.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
B O.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
Wiley. If you google it, you'll find me on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube,
and my personal Facebook page. So reach out, tell me
you heard about the rally Point. Let's start the conversation today.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
Thank you very much, sir, you have a good time.
God bless I got you. And once again, folks, that's
our show. And right now I want to thank our
guests for being on there, and I want to thank
you our listeners out there for keeping us here helping you.
If you have any concerns, comments or ideas for our show,
please contact me at Hemingway at one Rallypoint dot org.
(52:35):
That's H. E. M I N G W A Y
at one Rallypoint dot org. And at this time I
want to thank my producer for being the man behind
the mics. I think that's pretty much for our show
for today, this miss
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