November 25, 2025 • 5 mins
Charles from Smithtown, NY, called Mark to discuss the importance of obeying all orders in the military. Mitchell from Monroe Township, NJ, raised the question of why no one is mentioning that the synagogue attacked in the city is located near the 19th precinct in NYC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to the Mark Simon show on w o R. Well,
let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten is the number. Let's go to Charles in Smithtown. Charles,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Ah? Yes, I just wanted to say. When I was
in the military, you had to obey all orders. One
night it was raining and we had to do some
preventive maintenance on the tank. And the guy that was
in charge of the tank says, oh, we could do
it the next day, but the platoon sergeant wanted it done.
Then the platoon sergeant brought the E five up on
(00:35):
a court and I had to go to a court martial.
They can they can be really screwy.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Wait, wait, are we cleaning a tank?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We it was. It was just a maintenance. It was
a recovery tank and we were doing maintenance on it.
It was in the combat zone. Oh, and so we
were doing maintenance on it one night. That could have
been done the next day during the day, but the
sergeant wanted us to do it that night during the ring.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
All right, it sounds all silly. What combat zone was this?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Vietnam?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh you were in Vietnam? Oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Uh I had another. I had another incident. We used
to have a police call in the morning with cigarette
butts and I had this one guy, he was one
rank above me, and he's pointing out cigarette butts and
call son, there's one there, son, there's another one. I said,
you're not my father, So you know what, I had
to go see the company commander.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You're gonna be honest with you. Out of all the
war stories I've heard about the bombing missions and air raids,
this is not the most exciting war story. A cigarette.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Cleaning a tank a cigarette. But this is not the
biggest war stories.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But it's this is well, I'm just saying, no, you
got a good point.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
They court martial people over silly things.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Charles, good, good, good call. Let's go to Mitchell, Monroe Township. Mitchell.
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh well, thank you?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Inside the sofa? Are you in the trunk of a car?
Are you being kidnapped? Why are you all muffled?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes, yes, I'm all right. I'll talk like you too.
I muffle my voice.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, a mark, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do you have are you wearing like six masks? Why
do you sound all muffled.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
No, I'm having trouble in my speech. I'm not a youngster.
Oh okay, I'm wondering with all the talk on this
dreadful attack on the synagogue. Yes, no one has brought
up the fact that the synagogue is two buildings down
from the nineteenth precinct.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's true. It's he's sixty seventh Street, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, and it's also near the train station. Now these
are protesters. The so called protesters did not arrive by
taxi cab. They must have come up from the subway
or down from the New seventy second Street.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Somebody, well, these are all good points. You know who's
going to be here next. I bet he'll know all
about this, Curtis Sliwa. We'll ask him about this protest,
and I will well ask him next. You have the
nineteenth precinct. But you gotta remember, you think, well, that's
a precinct right there. What safety not necessarily? You know,
sometimes cars get broken into right in front of the precinct.
You gotta remember it's a precinct. But the cops aren't
(03:15):
in there. They're all out patrolling that. That doesn't mean
they're all sitting in the building and looking out the windows.
Let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Good morning? More first things first, I want to wish
you and your family are very happy, healthy and a
safe thanksgiving. The same to Vincent and his family, Mara.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And let's not do the whole audience, but let's get
to the question.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well only part of it. And yes, indeed, if you're
in the military, then they had done that. If you're
in the military and you're giving an order of any kind,
you must obey your order. If not, you watch subject
directly to the UCMJ at the court martial. Any order
you were in the military, it is yes, sir, it
was where were you stationed. I was in the United
(03:58):
States Navy during Vietnam, that is correct. Yes, Any any
any order that cont any superior officer, where the commission
or not commission, you must obey that order for you
are subject to u c m J.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay, Well, thanks for calling you's veterans in this audience.
Let's go to uh Wagner in Philadelphia. Wagner, how you doing, Hey.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Good morning to Mark. Yes, what's going on in this
country right now with these democrats? Leave it or they
it's gotta be uh intersected by the by the the
Supreme Court because these people they're doing illegal stuff and
it's really danger. Through assession to our president, from where
(04:45):
you're from, I'm from Dominican Republic. I live in Philadelphia, if.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You but okay, Uh, the Dominican Republic is beautiful, Sonny, right,
nice place.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And here you have a lot
of baseball players.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, they had to
give them a franchise. They got the best baseball players
down there. Anyway, thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back,
Curtis will be with us next. Now, this will be interesting,
lots to talk to him about coming up next. Curtis
ly with a moment on seven to ten wor
Now back to the Mark Simon show on w o R. Well,
let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten is the number. Let's go to Charles in Smithtown. Charles,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Ah? Yes, I just wanted to say. When I was
in the military, you had to obey all orders. One
night it was raining and we had to do some
preventive maintenance on the tank. And the guy that was
in charge of the tank says, oh, we could do
it the next day, but the platoon sergeant wanted it done.
Then the platoon sergeant brought the E five up on
(00:35):
a court and I had to go to a court martial.
They can they can be really screwy.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Wait, wait, are we cleaning a tank?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We it was. It was just a maintenance. It was
a recovery tank and we were doing maintenance on it.
It was in the combat zone. Oh, and so we
were doing maintenance on it one night. That could have
been done the next day during the day, but the
sergeant wanted us to do it that night during the ring.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
All right, it sounds all silly. What combat zone was this?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Vietnam?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh you were in Vietnam? Oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Uh I had another. I had another incident. We used
to have a police call in the morning with cigarette
butts and I had this one guy, he was one
rank above me, and he's pointing out cigarette butts and
call son, there's one there, son, there's another one. I said,
you're not my father, So you know what, I had
to go see the company commander.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You're gonna be honest with you. Out of all the
war stories I've heard about the bombing missions and air raids,
this is not the most exciting war story. A cigarette.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Cleaning a tank a cigarette. But this is not the
biggest war stories.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But it's this is well, I'm just saying, no, you
got a good point.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
They court martial people over silly things.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Charles, good, good, good call. Let's go to Mitchell, Monroe Township. Mitchell.
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh well, thank you?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Inside the sofa? Are you in the trunk of a car?
Are you being kidnapped? Why are you all muffled?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes, yes, I'm all right. I'll talk like you too.
I muffle my voice.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, a mark, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do you have are you wearing like six masks? Why
do you sound all muffled.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
No, I'm having trouble in my speech. I'm not a youngster.
Oh okay, I'm wondering with all the talk on this
dreadful attack on the synagogue. Yes, no one has brought
up the fact that the synagogue is two buildings down
from the nineteenth precinct.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's true. It's he's sixty seventh Street, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, and it's also near the train station. Now these
are protesters. The so called protesters did not arrive by
taxi cab. They must have come up from the subway
or down from the New seventy second Street.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Somebody, well, these are all good points. You know who's
going to be here next. I bet he'll know all
about this, Curtis Sliwa. We'll ask him about this protest,
and I will well ask him next. You have the
nineteenth precinct. But you gotta remember, you think, well, that's
a precinct right there. What safety not necessarily? You know,
sometimes cars get broken into right in front of the precinct.
You gotta remember it's a precinct. But the cops aren't
(03:15):
in there. They're all out patrolling that. That doesn't mean
they're all sitting in the building and looking out the windows.
Let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Good morning? More first things first, I want to wish
you and your family are very happy, healthy and a
safe thanksgiving. The same to Vincent and his family, Mara.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And let's not do the whole audience, but let's get
to the question.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well only part of it. And yes, indeed, if you're
in the military, then they had done that. If you're
in the military and you're giving an order of any kind,
you must obey your order. If not, you watch subject
directly to the UCMJ at the court martial. Any order
you were in the military, it is yes, sir, it
was where were you stationed. I was in the United
(03:58):
States Navy during Vietnam, that is correct. Yes, Any any
any order that cont any superior officer, where the commission
or not commission, you must obey that order for you
are subject to u c m J.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay, Well, thanks for calling you's veterans in this audience.
Let's go to uh Wagner in Philadelphia. Wagner, how you doing, Hey.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Good morning to Mark. Yes, what's going on in this
country right now with these democrats? Leave it or they
it's gotta be uh intersected by the by the the
Supreme Court because these people they're doing illegal stuff and
it's really danger. Through assession to our president, from where
(04:45):
you're from, I'm from Dominican Republic. I live in Philadelphia, if.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You but okay, Uh, the Dominican Republic is beautiful, Sonny, right,
nice place.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And here you have a lot
of baseball players.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, they had to
give them a franchise. They got the best baseball players
down there. Anyway, thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back,
Curtis will be with us next. Now, this will be interesting,
lots to talk to him about coming up next. Curtis
ly with a moment on seven to ten wor
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