WEBVTT 00:10.340 --> 00:12.618 my full name is Michael Edward Foskett . 00:12.618 --> 00:14.980 My rank is Lieutenant commander , uh , 00:14.990 --> 00:17.230 where I'm from in the States . Uh , I'm 00:17.230 --> 00:19.174 a missionary kid . Not from really 00:19.174 --> 00:21.286 anywhere . I was born in Mexico , but 00:21.286 --> 00:23.286 I'll call sacramento home for now . 00:23.286 --> 00:27.210 Okay . What , what ? Yeah , 00:27.220 --> 00:31.070 that's , that's my life . All right . 00:31.080 --> 00:33.024 Um , first off you just describe a 00:33.024 --> 00:35.247 little bit about some of the iterations 00:35.247 --> 00:37.469 that went on to , you know , the intent 00:37.469 --> 00:39.636 today was to give the kids a chance to 00:39.636 --> 00:41.802 see what their fathers do get to spend 00:41.802 --> 00:43.913 time with them and we try to break it 00:43.913 --> 00:45.913 down so that they would have just a 00:45.913 --> 00:47.858 taste of that . So we started with 00:47.858 --> 00:50.024 little physical fitness in the morning 00:50.024 --> 00:52.247 that you guys saw . Um , we followed up 00:52.247 --> 00:52.060 by seven stations , all kinds of things 00:52.060 --> 00:55.640 from nick map to um , uh , to motor t 00:55.640 --> 00:59.240 lot to uh , MBG lab , all of these . 00:59.250 --> 01:01.690 So just , we broke them down the seven 01:01.700 --> 01:03.811 different stations . They were moving 01:03.811 --> 01:05.978 around from those stations and then in 01:05.978 --> 01:08.311 the middle of the station rotation , uh , 01:08.311 --> 01:10.589 we uh , we had them actually have an M . 01:10.589 --> 01:12.200 R . E . Snacks that was very 01:12.200 --> 01:14.422 entertaining for them after that . Um , 01:14.422 --> 01:16.478 they had a chance at lunchtime to go 01:16.478 --> 01:18.700 eat the chow hall and also go to , is a 01:18.700 --> 01:20.700 bit trainers . They had a chance to 01:20.700 --> 01:22.867 fire the weapon systems , but at least 01:22.867 --> 01:25.089 notionally , uh , and then you saw this 01:25.089 --> 01:27.033 afternoon , but as far as the jodi 01:27.033 --> 01:29.144 demonstration . So just to give you a 01:29.144 --> 01:31.367 taste of what uh , what their dads do . 01:31.367 --> 01:33.533 And then also get a chance for them to 01:33.533 --> 01:35.644 spend some time together at work on a 01:35.644 --> 01:37.700 beautiful day . What would you say ? 01:37.700 --> 01:40.810 The greatest thing about today ? I was 01:40.820 --> 01:42.764 seeing the kids engaged with their 01:42.764 --> 01:45.070 fathers and lights going on in their 01:45.070 --> 01:47.790 head like , wow , this is what my dad 01:47.800 --> 01:51.570 does and being engaged in that . Uh 01:51.580 --> 01:55.020 it is , what about for the younger kids 01:55.020 --> 01:58.050 or how does this was the , I would 01:58.110 --> 02:00.320 love to understand this . You know , 02:00.330 --> 02:02.497 what do they get out ? Well , that's a 02:02.497 --> 02:04.441 good question . I I knew that they 02:04.441 --> 02:06.608 weren't gonna understand a lot of what 02:06.608 --> 02:08.719 was going on , but the fact that they 02:08.719 --> 02:07.790 could spend the whole day with their 02:07.790 --> 02:10.400 dads is something that they don't often 02:10.400 --> 02:14.280 get to do . Um you just 02:14.280 --> 02:16.336 talk a little bit about how hard the 02:16.336 --> 02:18.391 marines work , that some of the good 02:18.391 --> 02:20.558 things that were done . So well , I've 02:20.558 --> 02:22.669 been in uh this is my third battalion 02:22.669 --> 02:24.891 and division . So I've seen it from the 02:24.891 --> 02:27.002 two perspective , it was my first two 02:27.002 --> 02:28.836 battalions now from a mechanized 02:28.836 --> 02:28.600 infantry perspective , and I can tell 02:28.600 --> 02:32.090 you these marines have such a pivotal 02:32.090 --> 02:34.590 role in ship to shore movement . I mean , 02:34.590 --> 02:36.646 it's , I mean if we're amphibious by 02:36.646 --> 02:38.757 nature , the only thing that makes us 02:38.757 --> 02:40.701 amphibious is the tracks and these 02:40.701 --> 02:42.923 tracks are 40 years old . So , the work 02:42.923 --> 02:44.979 on to keep them up running is very , 02:44.979 --> 02:47.201 very intense , very intensive . So that 02:47.201 --> 02:49.423 means that these marines are usually in 02:49.423 --> 02:51.590 here , about five in the morning to do 02:51.590 --> 02:51.000 PT and then they're spending the whole 02:51.000 --> 02:53.960 day working on their vehicles . Um So 02:54.140 --> 02:56.710 Um it's not it's not unusual for them 02:56.710 --> 02:59.360 to be on the ramp here . uh 12 hours 02:59.360 --> 03:03.040 each time . Oh yeah 03:06.040 --> 03:09.920 it's not that's no , I'm sure you 03:09.920 --> 03:12.142 got playing from Lieutenant Hall . He's 03:12.142 --> 03:14.740 not he's prolific . He's like , yeah , 03:14.740 --> 03:18.080 he's very good . Yeah , I know that the 03:18.080 --> 03:20.247 name was Bring your child's birthday . 03:20.247 --> 03:21.950 Uh How does that what was ? 03:25.200 --> 03:28.550 Well this was okay , so a family day 03:28.550 --> 03:30.606 would be like picnics and you know , 03:30.606 --> 03:32.661 fun things for the kids to do bouncy 03:32.661 --> 03:34.772 houses . The specific purpose of this 03:34.772 --> 03:36.550 was to give the kids that could 03:36.550 --> 03:38.661 understand a taste of what their dads 03:38.661 --> 03:40.939 do and and make that connection . Okay , 03:40.939 --> 03:40.730 this dad's going away 12 hours a day . 03:40.730 --> 03:42.952 What is he doing ? Oh this is what he's 03:42.952 --> 03:44.952 doing . I get to spend the day with 03:44.952 --> 03:46.250 schools Downsides .