WEBVTT 00:01.340 --> 00:02.450 mm mm 00:10.440 --> 00:12.440 mhm Yeah , 00:18.040 --> 00:19.450 yeah . Mhm 00:24.140 --> 00:27.430 2008 was loaded with action with 00:27.430 --> 00:31.010 drama , a touch of fun . 00:31.840 --> 00:34.570 It was loaded with the interesting 00:34.580 --> 00:38.140 people . Recon is about real people , 00:38.150 --> 00:40.150 it's about real missions and events 00:40.150 --> 00:42.094 around the world . We work hard to 00:42.094 --> 00:44.261 bring our viewers subject matters that 00:44.261 --> 00:48.140 matter to them . Welcome to this very 00:48.140 --> 00:50.570 special edition of recon . Over the 00:50.570 --> 00:52.403 next half hour we're going to be 00:52.403 --> 00:54.240 bringing you the people places , 00:54.250 --> 00:56.361 missions and events we introduced you 00:56.361 --> 00:59.090 to in 2008 only with a little bit of a 00:59.090 --> 01:01.146 twist . We're going to do it through 01:01.146 --> 01:03.368 the recollections and insights of those 01:03.368 --> 01:05.034 intimately involved with each 01:05.034 --> 01:07.146 production as you're about to learn . 01:07.240 --> 01:09.184 Getting to the heart of each story 01:09.184 --> 01:11.296 involves some emotionally charged and 01:11.340 --> 01:14.940 physically demanding moments . The 01:14.950 --> 01:18.390 toughest day is a program that presents 01:18.390 --> 01:21.690 the kind of training that is as 01:21.690 --> 01:24.610 realistic as possible for units about 01:24.620 --> 01:27.540 to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan 01:27.550 --> 01:31.500 a build relationships and 01:31.500 --> 01:33.722 this is part of counter insurance , who 01:33.722 --> 01:36.660 warfare the enemy is a thinking enemy . 01:37.140 --> 01:39.362 They are unpredictable . No matter what 01:39.362 --> 01:41.473 happens , we're prepared for whatever 01:41.473 --> 01:44.720 hits us . Right ? It was impressive . 01:44.730 --> 01:46.563 You're talking about 1000 people 01:46.563 --> 01:48.897 involved with this training simulations , 01:48.897 --> 01:51.080 fireworks , all kinds of gunfire from 01:51.080 --> 01:53.024 different weapons and they make it 01:53.024 --> 01:56.190 realistic . Mhm The 01:56.200 --> 01:58.256 difficulty is , and not knowing what 01:58.256 --> 02:00.400 really is going to happen the first 02:00.400 --> 02:02.622 time you're seeing any of the locations 02:02.622 --> 02:04.344 is when you get there and it's 02:04.344 --> 02:07.260 happening and you have to respond and 02:07.260 --> 02:10.050 that ultimately becomes More difficult 02:10.050 --> 02:12.217 for the photographer than the producer 02:12.770 --> 02:16.290 that 50 perfect boy puppet boy basket 02:16.300 --> 02:18.360 back money . let's get go right up , 02:19.940 --> 02:21.996 you have the trainers , the trainees 02:21.996 --> 02:24.218 and the people acting as insurgents and 02:24.218 --> 02:26.329 to capture those three vantage points 02:26.329 --> 02:27.940 with one camera is extremely 02:27.940 --> 02:30.162 challenging . You have to hustle around 02:30.162 --> 02:32.051 and you get one chance to capture 02:32.051 --> 02:34.218 something if you're pointing over here 02:34.218 --> 02:33.750 and the action happens right here . You 02:33.750 --> 02:36.700 missed it . That our editor of bon 02:36.700 --> 02:39.670 McGee does such a great job editing one 02:39.670 --> 02:42.230 cameras vantage point and really 02:42.230 --> 02:44.680 bringing the viewer as close as you can 02:44.680 --> 02:46.630 get to realism from three vantage 02:46.630 --> 02:49.610 points of insurgent trainer trainee . 02:49.820 --> 02:51.820 And I was really happy with the way 02:51.820 --> 02:54.420 that came out . The producers and 02:54.420 --> 02:56.642 photographers work their behinds off to 02:56.642 --> 02:58.698 give me the best possible options to 02:58.698 --> 03:01.000 help tell that story , photographers 03:01.010 --> 03:03.300 could put their tripod up and just say , 03:03.300 --> 03:05.522 you know , I got it , this is what they 03:05.522 --> 03:07.689 do , but they don't , they get down in 03:07.689 --> 03:09.911 the dirt with people , they climb up on 03:09.911 --> 03:12.133 things , they look at it from different 03:12.133 --> 03:14.189 perspectives and different angles to 03:14.189 --> 03:16.411 make sure they have covered that within 03:16.411 --> 03:18.522 the time given as well as possible to 03:18.522 --> 03:18.050 make sure they're coming back with the 03:18.050 --> 03:20.090 best story possible to convey the 03:20.090 --> 03:22.330 people that may not otherwise ever have 03:22.330 --> 03:24.608 a chance to be exposed to that subject . 03:26.040 --> 03:29.230 The jeronimos , which is the term they 03:29.240 --> 03:31.310 used for the opposing forces at Fort 03:31.310 --> 03:34.260 Polk were sort of a fascinating lot . 03:34.320 --> 03:37.500 It's their regular army job , grow 03:37.500 --> 03:39.444 their hair out and hang out in the 03:39.444 --> 03:42.030 woods and take potshots . Other army 03:42.040 --> 03:44.190 guys who are in regular units who are 03:44.190 --> 03:46.246 coming through the training , you're 03:46.246 --> 03:48.079 standing there shooting this and 03:48.079 --> 03:50.410 although it's a simulation , it feels 03:50.410 --> 03:52.632 real and they just did such a great job 03:52.632 --> 03:55.280 with explosions and smoke trump 03:55.280 --> 03:58.460 standing videotaping Maybe 20ft away 03:58.460 --> 04:00.682 from a grenade explosion and that's a c 04:00.682 --> 04:03.350 munition and it goes off . You know , 04:04.640 --> 04:06.751 I kind of shake a little bit , I mean 04:06.751 --> 04:08.973 it's kind of jarring to hear that sound 04:08.973 --> 04:11.196 and it's only a ammunition with smoke . 04:11.196 --> 04:13.430 I mean I can't imagine the real thing 04:13.440 --> 04:15.840 when you know your life is on the line 04:15.910 --> 04:17.966 and all these fireworks are going on 04:17.966 --> 04:20.940 and is for real . Yeah . 04:21.640 --> 04:24.960 Sappers is the story of a 04:26.040 --> 04:29.980 incredibly demanding course taught at 04:29.990 --> 04:33.210 Fort Leonard Wood Missouri for 04:33.220 --> 04:36.490 advanced combat engineer and 04:36.490 --> 04:39.340 Ceos and junior officers were there to 04:39.350 --> 04:42.330 dismantle or destroy this or breach 04:42.330 --> 04:44.330 that door so you can get inside the 04:44.330 --> 04:46.386 building or collapse this portion so 04:46.386 --> 04:48.108 that you can attack there is a 04:48.108 --> 04:50.330 battlefield multiplier in the offense . 04:53.140 --> 04:55.690 Combat engineers are supposed to be the 04:55.690 --> 04:58.140 guys who get to the obstacle first and 04:58.140 --> 05:01.430 blow it up . So they have to do what 05:01.440 --> 05:04.100 normal regular infantry units do in 05:04.100 --> 05:06.730 terms of manoeuvre and and tactics . So 05:06.730 --> 05:08.841 they were learning those things under 05:08.841 --> 05:12.780 very arduous situation . I 05:12.780 --> 05:16.250 shot probably I would guess them at 20 05:16.250 --> 05:19.730 Ricans at least physically . This was 05:19.730 --> 05:22.760 the most demanding re conscious Yeah , 05:24.240 --> 05:26.710 if I want to shoot the video , I have 05:26.710 --> 05:29.220 to be with them on a regular basis and 05:29.230 --> 05:31.690 the only way to be there with them was 05:31.690 --> 05:35.450 to run with them . Mhm . 05:36.540 --> 05:39.150 But I was determined just become very , 05:39.840 --> 05:42.007 the reality of it . You know , they're 05:42.007 --> 05:43.896 not there for their good health , 05:44.440 --> 05:46.551 They're there because they want to be 05:46.551 --> 05:50.500 useful to their unit . It was a mother , 05:50.510 --> 05:52.732 get your hand out of that rescue . Wait 05:52.732 --> 05:54.954 and just propel . It was physically the 05:54.954 --> 05:57.177 most difficult thing I have ever done . 05:57.177 --> 06:00.260 And we weren't remotely working as hard 06:00.270 --> 06:02.437 as the guys who were going through the 06:02.437 --> 06:05.220 court . Hey boy , you're dead . girl . 06:05.240 --> 06:07.180 You don't want to get down after 06:07.180 --> 06:09.124 consuming you're dead . One of the 06:09.124 --> 06:11.400 sergeant's was just really quick say , 06:11.400 --> 06:13.610 pop right , okay , that's your hair 06:13.610 --> 06:15.950 popping out your right now . Very 06:15.950 --> 06:19.170 critical . You need that way right now 06:19.180 --> 06:21.402 and they were very natural and open and 06:21.402 --> 06:23.513 we're not putting on a public affairs 06:23.513 --> 06:25.458 face . Just because there was a Tv 06:25.458 --> 06:27.950 camera in the clearing the way just 06:27.950 --> 06:29.783 this attention aggressive talk . 06:31.730 --> 06:34.060 So I want to great 06:35.840 --> 06:38.660 the Crucible is a test of 06:39.740 --> 06:41.820 whether or not individual marine 06:41.820 --> 06:43.820 recruits measure up to what they've 06:43.820 --> 06:46.140 learned . It is the most physically and 06:46.140 --> 06:49.430 mentally demanding period of boot camp . 06:49.440 --> 06:52.350 And if the recruits measure up during 06:52.350 --> 06:55.210 this test , they become marines , 06:57.740 --> 07:00.050 go go Mhm . Mhm . 07:02.540 --> 07:06.450 Mhm . I think it is analogous to 07:06.460 --> 07:08.793 recruit training in any of the services , 07:08.793 --> 07:11.010 in that part of it is your sort of 07:11.010 --> 07:14.110 depersonalized and they break it down 07:14.110 --> 07:16.388 to build you up . But with the marines , 07:16.388 --> 07:18.970 I think it's more so fast . 07:20.460 --> 07:22.460 These young guys were going through 07:22.460 --> 07:24.460 these exercises and the grimaces on 07:24.460 --> 07:26.460 their faces and I can just see that 07:26.460 --> 07:29.410 they were really pushing it physically 07:29.420 --> 07:32.110 emotionally , psychologically pushed to 07:32.110 --> 07:35.090 the brink . And you can just feel that 07:35.100 --> 07:38.980 on camera , it was awesome . And 07:38.980 --> 07:41.147 the thing that moved me most about the 07:41.147 --> 07:44.590 Crucible Bar none was at the very end 07:44.590 --> 07:46.812 when they were given their Marine Corps 07:46.812 --> 07:48.757 emblem , when you wouldn't think a 07:48.757 --> 07:50.868 little emblem about that big that you 07:50.868 --> 07:54.470 put in your hat would cause or be the 07:54.470 --> 07:56.820 source of such emotion and , you know , 07:56.820 --> 07:58.987 the tears are flowing and they're just 07:58.987 --> 08:01.209 really choked up and emotional . It was 08:01.209 --> 08:03.320 so important to them to be where they 08:03.320 --> 08:05.487 are and they will accomplish what they 08:05.487 --> 08:07.910 did . And it was really Very touching 08:07.920 --> 08:11.490 to be there and see all these 08:11.500 --> 08:14.890 18 , year old tough guys 08:16.240 --> 08:19.550 uh lose it . You know , they were 08:20.740 --> 08:23.780 overcome by the emotion of having 08:23.780 --> 08:27.240 succeeded . And it makes it all the 08:27.240 --> 08:30.470 more poignant that they have strived 08:30.470 --> 08:33.320 for something that they 08:33.330 --> 08:37.330 want and they want to be one of those 08:37.330 --> 08:41.020 people who puts themselves out there in 08:41.020 --> 08:43.750 genuine harm's way and , you know , 08:44.840 --> 08:47.150 may be among those who don't come back . 08:47.540 --> 08:48.929 That's part of the gig . 08:51.220 --> 08:54.190 Yeah , this show is about the brown 08:54.190 --> 08:56.420 water sailors , their history dating 08:56.420 --> 08:58.800 back to Vietnam and where they're going 08:58.800 --> 09:00.967 in this ongoing global war on terror . 09:04.940 --> 09:07.080 Yeah , no , we're a worldwide 09:07.080 --> 09:10.790 deployable force fast boats with guns 09:10.790 --> 09:14.000 that can go into literal areas . We can 09:14.010 --> 09:16.250 impact the bad guys areas where he 09:16.250 --> 09:18.590 thought he was safe before , where a 09:18.590 --> 09:20.090 lot of bang for the buck . 09:24.370 --> 09:26.481 I just thought it was really neat how 09:26.540 --> 09:29.340 today's Rive Arendse relied so much 09:29.340 --> 09:31.720 upon the game wardens or the old brown 09:31.720 --> 09:33.990 water sailors to be able to stand up 09:33.990 --> 09:36.212 like they did . They've got things down 09:36.212 --> 09:38.323 to , it's great to hear their stories 09:38.323 --> 09:40.546 and what I've done . We feel like there 09:40.546 --> 09:42.712 are kids , you know , and we just want 09:42.712 --> 09:45.020 to do everything we possibly can for 09:45.020 --> 09:46.840 them . Yeah , 09:50.640 --> 09:52.751 I think the sheer physicality of what 09:52.751 --> 09:55.260 they do surprise me . You can't hold on . 09:55.440 --> 09:57.662 I mean you cannot shoot from that river 09:57.662 --> 10:01.620 boat and hold a camera . These 10:01.620 --> 10:03.787 things are flying across the water and 10:03.787 --> 10:05.953 you're hanging out with all you've got 10:05.953 --> 10:07.898 and all of a sudden they do what's 10:07.898 --> 10:10.064 called a J turn and the boat basically 10:10.064 --> 10:12.120 changes direction and it's a violent 10:12.120 --> 10:14.176 turn . I came back beat up black and 10:14.176 --> 10:17.410 blue . But man , it was fun . That was 10:17.410 --> 10:19.188 a really challenging part about 10:19.188 --> 10:21.188 videotaping that we actually had to 10:21.188 --> 10:23.410 take those boats down to half speed . I 10:23.410 --> 10:25.132 had to be on a slower boat and 10:25.132 --> 10:27.188 videotape the maneuverability of the 10:27.188 --> 10:29.330 fast boat being on fast boat , trying 10:29.330 --> 10:31.663 to videotape the maneuvers and stopping . 10:31.663 --> 10:32.663 Forget about it . 10:36.240 --> 10:40.180 Yeah , result the attitude of each and 10:40.180 --> 10:42.347 every one of those guys on that unit . 10:42.347 --> 10:44.402 They know that what they're doing is 10:44.402 --> 10:46.569 really cool . They fight and heat down 10:46.569 --> 10:48.458 the doors to get into that unit . 10:55.540 --> 10:57.850 Yeah . Mhm 11:04.340 --> 11:05.340 Yeah , 11:12.700 --> 11:14.922 the following segment contains video of 11:14.922 --> 11:17.400 burn victims which may be disturbing to 11:17.400 --> 11:21.280 some viewers Reflections of 11:21.280 --> 11:23.700 Vietnam is the story of the Vietnam 11:23.700 --> 11:26.420 conflict and it's told through the 11:26.420 --> 11:28.380 stories of a group of Marine Corps 11:28.380 --> 11:30.300 officers who lived through the 11:30.300 --> 11:32.078 experience when they joined the 11:32.078 --> 11:34.660 military in 1960s . U . S . Told you 11:34.660 --> 11:38.120 South Vietnam in the mountains . I'm 11:38.120 --> 11:40.064 looking at that period of time and 11:40.064 --> 11:42.009 trying to tell the Vietnam story , 11:42.009 --> 11:44.064 particularly when these marines went 11:44.064 --> 11:46.120 into the service . You really had to 11:46.120 --> 11:48.342 talk about what was going on in America 11:48.342 --> 11:50.509 because it was such a turbulent time . 11:50.509 --> 11:52.676 Looking back , I think that was before 11:52.676 --> 11:55.600 the real media frenzy started and where 11:55.600 --> 11:57.711 there , so you don't know the overall 11:57.711 --> 11:59.822 picture , You just know the ground in 11:59.822 --> 12:01.822 front of you . You know , we didn't 12:01.822 --> 12:03.544 have the type of outside world 12:03.544 --> 12:05.767 communications they have Now I was in a 12:05.767 --> 12:07.767 bomb crater with my platoon and the 12:07.767 --> 12:09.822 enemy landed the mortar round when I 12:09.822 --> 12:12.156 heard that Ron Davidson had been killed . 12:12.156 --> 12:14.044 Bill jones had been killed , john 12:14.044 --> 12:16.211 Abbott had been killed . It was a wake 12:16.211 --> 12:18.322 up call for me because I knew that if 12:18.322 --> 12:20.433 they could kill those guys that could 12:20.433 --> 12:22.720 kill me too . We're standing in front 12:22.720 --> 12:25.250 of the names of eight members of TBS 12:25.250 --> 12:28.170 Class 5 68 and in front of the names of 12:28.170 --> 12:30.260 thousands of others from that same 12:30.260 --> 12:34.000 conflict . You can't help regardless of 12:34.000 --> 12:36.056 your experience , regardless of your 12:36.056 --> 12:38.167 age being affected . When you go down 12:38.167 --> 12:40.389 to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial , when 12:40.389 --> 12:42.611 you look at the names on the wall , you 12:42.611 --> 12:44.667 can't help but be affected and every 12:44.667 --> 12:48.210 names a father or a husband or a son or 12:48.210 --> 12:50.270 a daughter or brother or a cousin to 12:50.270 --> 12:54.190 someone . When you have the opportunity 12:54.260 --> 12:58.060 to experience it alongside veterans of 12:58.060 --> 13:01.210 that conflict , to hear their stories 13:01.210 --> 13:03.600 and hear how they're affected by the 13:03.600 --> 13:05.520 memorial , it's a whole different 13:05.520 --> 13:07.250 experience . Mhm . 13:09.540 --> 13:12.170 They through the rubbings of their 13:12.170 --> 13:15.140 fellow comrades off the wall and you 13:15.140 --> 13:17.251 know , some of them came up to me and 13:17.251 --> 13:19.418 said , I promised this guy's wife that 13:19.418 --> 13:21.830 I would give this to her and you know , 13:21.840 --> 13:24.940 I just , you know , I just get choked 13:24.940 --> 13:26.860 up seeing them do that 13:29.840 --> 13:31.618 in . The biggest challenge with 13:31.618 --> 13:33.840 capturing an event when you're covering 13:34.640 --> 13:37.600 Vietnam veterans at the Vietnam wall is 13:37.600 --> 13:39.767 you want to capture it , but you don't 13:39.767 --> 13:41.933 want to stick the camera in their face 13:41.933 --> 13:43.878 and you know , they're reliving an 13:43.878 --> 13:46.100 emotional experience and you don't want 13:46.100 --> 13:49.050 to come between them and and the event , 13:49.050 --> 13:51.106 the ceremony and the memory of their 13:51.106 --> 13:54.210 friends , one of the biggest reasons 13:54.220 --> 13:56.109 that we feel it's important to do 13:56.109 --> 13:57.998 historical pieces with recon like 13:57.998 --> 14:00.460 reflections of Vietnam is because the 14:00.460 --> 14:02.571 military services as they are today , 14:02.571 --> 14:04.627 their customs and courtesies the way 14:04.627 --> 14:06.738 they operate . All of that's based on 14:06.738 --> 14:10.060 what came before . It's important for 14:10.060 --> 14:12.660 everyone to know about sacrifices made 14:12.660 --> 14:14.716 in the past and about the people who 14:14.716 --> 14:16.827 made them putting a human face on the 14:16.827 --> 14:19.470 experience and hearing it straight from 14:19.470 --> 14:23.280 people who lived it . I think that 14:23.280 --> 14:26.160 is probably the best way people can 14:26.160 --> 14:28.049 really learn and appreciate their 14:28.049 --> 14:31.130 history . Yeah battling the 14:31.130 --> 14:34.600 odds was conceived as the 14:34.600 --> 14:38.460 story of service members recovering 14:38.840 --> 14:41.710 from absolutely unimaginable injuries 14:41.710 --> 14:43.599 from which people do not normally 14:43.599 --> 14:47.560 recover . Course when Darko said 14:47.940 --> 14:50.380 get out that's when I knew or something 14:50.380 --> 14:54.340 was wrong . I regret to inform you that 14:54.340 --> 14:57.080 your son has been injured . He 14:57.080 --> 15:00.160 continued to improve despite 15:00.540 --> 15:04.310 overwhelming odds . We end up with a 15:04.320 --> 15:06.431 case that had been covered by network 15:06.431 --> 15:08.550 tv and a soldier who had had a RPG 15:08.550 --> 15:10.883 lodged inside his abdomen . There we go . 15:10.883 --> 15:13.106 We're clear we're clear we had a marine 15:13.106 --> 15:15.580 who had been shot in the brain and was 15:15.590 --> 15:18.650 turned around and recovered a perfectly 15:18.660 --> 15:20.990 healthy person And we had another 15:20.990 --> 15:24.690 marine who had been burned over 90% of 15:24.690 --> 15:27.260 his body by an I . E . D . Explosion . 15:27.840 --> 15:31.770 He had had more operations skin 15:31.770 --> 15:33.760 graft operations than anybody in 15:33.760 --> 15:36.920 medical history . And two years later 15:36.920 --> 15:40.460 he was alive and well and positive . 15:41.640 --> 15:44.750 He was a determined kid 15:45.140 --> 15:49.020 that there was nothing that 15:49.020 --> 15:52.640 will stand in his way . Um He had a 15:52.640 --> 15:56.050 support of loving loving mother 15:56.940 --> 16:00.540 that spoke very little english but had 16:00.550 --> 16:03.830 hard , bigger than most of us will ever 16:03.830 --> 16:06.500 know . He was discharged from the 16:06.500 --> 16:08.800 hospital , he was living at home with 16:08.800 --> 16:10.856 his mother and he was having another 16:10.856 --> 16:12.740 skin operation but it was in the 16:12.740 --> 16:14.851 context of what he had been through . 16:14.851 --> 16:16.907 Everybody thought relatively routine 16:16.907 --> 16:19.129 and minor was just totally unexpected . 16:19.129 --> 16:22.560 But he died totally unexpectedly 16:23.640 --> 16:26.580 and ultimately we decided to dedicate 16:26.590 --> 16:29.360 the show to Merlin German to let 16:30.140 --> 16:34.080 his fight to recover 16:34.090 --> 16:36.750 in the spirit with which he conducted 16:36.750 --> 16:39.860 that fight be the sort of 16:40.740 --> 16:43.820 In its own way , as uplifting and as 16:43.820 --> 16:46.970 positive as the stories of the two 16:47.740 --> 16:49.962 who had horrible injuries and are still 16:49.962 --> 16:52.390 with us . All these men and women who 16:52.390 --> 16:54.223 have these serious injuries have 16:54.223 --> 16:56.390 compelling stories . And Merlin german 16:56.390 --> 16:59.010 was just exceptionally compelling and 16:59.020 --> 17:02.160 if we don't do those stories then you 17:02.160 --> 17:04.160 know , only the hospital staff will 17:04.160 --> 17:07.570 know it's presenting individual 17:07.570 --> 17:10.700 stories in a way that is both this 17:10.700 --> 17:13.230 person's story and it's the story of 17:13.240 --> 17:15.840 others like them that that makes it 17:15.840 --> 17:18.210 meaningful for large groups of people I 17:18.210 --> 17:19.210 think . 17:24.840 --> 17:26.730 Yeah , yeah , 17:33.240 --> 17:36.960 yeah . Somebody's gotta do , it was 17:37.740 --> 17:40.570 to simply look at jobs in the military , 17:40.710 --> 17:44.280 whatever aware of and and there are 17:44.280 --> 17:46.900 many of them as we've learned where we 17:46.900 --> 17:50.610 only gave us sampling . Yeah , got his 17:50.610 --> 17:52.990 own decaying smell . There's only a 17:53.000 --> 17:55.167 handful of females that do the job . I 17:55.167 --> 17:57.222 guess it's just too for him . That's 17:57.222 --> 17:59.940 messed , that's some nasty stuff . My 17:59.950 --> 18:03.940 friend , there are jobs I guess I can't 18:03.950 --> 18:06.061 think of any off the top of my head . 18:06.061 --> 18:08.117 Yeah , it's definitely a dairy job . 18:08.840 --> 18:11.370 The idea was without dead serious , 18:11.380 --> 18:13.450 dead earnestness . Look at some 18:13.460 --> 18:15.950 underappreciated jobs in the military 18:16.330 --> 18:20.100 that are grimy and and slimy and are 18:20.110 --> 18:23.980 relatively uncelebrated and that 18:23.990 --> 18:25.879 are part of the mission that need 18:26.140 --> 18:28.520 whoever does , somebody has to do them 18:28.520 --> 18:30.298 and that's where go the title , 18:30.298 --> 18:33.360 Somebody's got to do it . Okay . 18:38.540 --> 18:41.700 We started on a Coast Guard buoy tender . 18:42.740 --> 18:45.310 They clean boots . Okay , but what does 18:45.310 --> 18:47.477 it take to clean a pool ? You know how 18:47.477 --> 18:49.477 many people ever saw ? What does it 18:49.477 --> 18:52.060 take for guys to clean a buoy ? For 18:52.060 --> 18:54.282 safety reasons ? You cannot be as close 18:54.282 --> 18:56.504 as possible because the buoys are big , 18:56.640 --> 18:59.760 it's a job . They bring up dirt and 18:59.760 --> 19:01.982 they have to wash it , they have to fix 19:01.982 --> 19:05.150 it . Yeah , smelly , it's 19:05.260 --> 19:08.830 gooey , it smells awful . Too bad . We 19:08.830 --> 19:10.886 don't have smell . O vision stagnant 19:11.240 --> 19:13.780 bit of mustang barnacles that they 19:13.780 --> 19:16.260 scrape off . Those buoys are kind of 19:16.270 --> 19:18.480 have this pungency . That's , 19:20.740 --> 19:23.640 you know , it's a little bit fishy , 19:23.640 --> 19:26.690 it's a little bit chemical 19:26.690 --> 19:28.820 industrially . It has this very 19:28.830 --> 19:32.250 distinct smell that you probably 19:32.250 --> 19:34.250 wouldn't want to take home with you 19:34.250 --> 19:36.472 every day . But these guys do the first 19:36.472 --> 19:38.694 thing she said when I get home , take a 19:38.694 --> 19:40.861 shower . So I'm assuming it doesn't go 19:40.861 --> 19:44.400 away too well regular people , they 19:44.400 --> 19:46.710 love what they do , that's why do you 19:46.710 --> 19:48.932 love it . exactly ? You explain to me , 19:48.932 --> 19:50.932 what exactly do you love about it ? 19:50.932 --> 19:52.960 There's no bs to it . They love . 19:54.840 --> 19:56.980 The other element of the show was the 19:56.980 --> 19:59.147 old guard and the stables that the old 19:59.147 --> 20:01.258 guard runs . And the old guard is the 20:01.258 --> 20:03.580 ceremonial army unit here in Washington 20:03.580 --> 20:05.880 that does many things including 20:05.880 --> 20:08.370 funerals at Arlington and the horses 20:08.370 --> 20:12.030 are used for the funerals and horses 20:12.040 --> 20:14.262 being horses make a lot of horse poop . 20:14.262 --> 20:16.300 So there is actually a lot of work 20:16.300 --> 20:18.356 involved in the care and feeding and 20:18.356 --> 20:20.470 nurturing of horses . And they have a 20:20.470 --> 20:22.581 whole routine where it's part of your 20:23.140 --> 20:26.300 job every couple of days to go in there 20:26.300 --> 20:29.270 and clean out the horse poop . You know , 20:29.270 --> 20:31.437 putting a camera on the ground after a 20:31.437 --> 20:34.700 horse walked by and left a steaming 20:34.700 --> 20:36.960 pile of that . 20:39.340 --> 20:41.229 Again , smell o vision would have 20:41.229 --> 20:44.560 worked just fine . They do 20:45.240 --> 20:48.730 from picking up fourth manure to the 20:48.730 --> 20:50.850 most um 20:52.740 --> 20:56.460 honourable duty , which is 20:56.470 --> 20:59.910 um booking somebody to his resting 20:59.910 --> 21:00.910 place . 21:05.040 --> 21:07.210 There's a lot of parts , a lot of the 21:07.210 --> 21:09.700 parts to the machine , every part has 21:09.700 --> 21:11.422 to work . And some of them are 21:11.422 --> 21:13.589 obviously not glamorous . That's not a 21:13.589 --> 21:15.756 job that you would want to necessarily 21:15.756 --> 21:17.922 brag about to the parents , but it's a 21:17.922 --> 21:20.144 job that absolutely has to be done . If 21:20.144 --> 21:22.311 not the whole machine grinds to a halt 21:22.311 --> 21:24.478 and these guys go out and do it , they 21:24.478 --> 21:26.700 get it done . It was nice to be able to 21:26.700 --> 21:28.867 highlight these type of people that do 21:28.867 --> 21:28.790 those jobs and don't get a lot of 21:28.800 --> 21:30.350 thanks for it . Mhm 21:34.240 --> 21:36.500 Yeah . Yeah , 21:40.340 --> 21:42.960 yeah . Yeah . Mission of music was a 21:42.960 --> 21:46.250 show dedicated to military musicians a 21:46.250 --> 21:48.028 day in the life , whether it be 21:48.028 --> 21:51.190 ceremonial duties touring concert , a 21:51.190 --> 21:53.820 military band members job is to provide 21:53.820 --> 21:54.820 music . 21:57.740 --> 21:59.980 Music has a way of moving people . It's 21:59.980 --> 22:01.813 part of our lives . It's part of 22:01.813 --> 22:04.390 everything that we do . It's a common 22:04.390 --> 22:06.960 language and everybody understands that . 22:07.440 --> 22:11.150 I really do love to play and serving my 22:11.150 --> 22:14.460 country . I'm witnessing history and 22:14.470 --> 22:18.030 meeting some wonderful people kind of 22:18.030 --> 22:20.252 consider ourselves cheerleaders for all 22:20.252 --> 22:22.030 those folks that taking care of 22:22.030 --> 22:24.950 business for the nation . Okay . 22:27.740 --> 22:30.670 What music and the military goes 22:30.670 --> 22:34.040 back to the beginning . There was a 22:34.040 --> 22:35.710 purpose and a reason that 22:35.740 --> 22:37.962 percussionists and drummers were on the 22:37.962 --> 22:39.796 battlefield . We didn't have the 22:39.796 --> 22:41.907 communications that we do today . And 22:41.907 --> 22:44.018 so every sound they were making every 22:44.018 --> 22:46.073 signal served a purpose and told the 22:46.073 --> 22:48.129 troops what they needed to do on the 22:48.129 --> 22:50.351 battlefield . A common misconception is 22:50.351 --> 22:52.684 that they enlist and then join the band , 22:52.684 --> 22:54.907 so to speak . But these are people that 22:54.907 --> 22:56.629 are all trained classically as 22:56.629 --> 22:58.573 musicians . They go to prestigious 22:58.573 --> 23:00.740 conservatory's and they auditioned for 23:00.740 --> 23:02.740 each and every chair in each of the 23:02.740 --> 23:04.907 service bands , take off the uniform , 23:04.907 --> 23:07.240 put tuxedos on them , go for . You know , 23:07.240 --> 23:08.962 they can play in any symphonic 23:08.962 --> 23:12.880 orchestra . Mhm . And what blew 23:12.880 --> 23:14.936 me away is that most of the military 23:14.936 --> 23:16.880 musicians that we interviewed hold 23:16.880 --> 23:18.713 either masters or even doctorate 23:18.713 --> 23:20.880 degrees and performance . That's you . 23:21.340 --> 23:24.390 The first time in the marine band 23:24.390 --> 23:26.612 history or any of the service bans that 23:26.612 --> 23:28.501 there's been a three generational 23:28.501 --> 23:30.279 family span and it started with 23:30.740 --> 23:32.960 grandfather and then it was father 23:32.960 --> 23:35.270 daughter , daughter meets husband in 23:35.270 --> 23:37.160 the band . They have baby band 23:37.160 --> 23:40.460 member 23:42.040 --> 23:44.590 that was a fun assignment . Just to see 23:44.590 --> 23:46.534 the , you know , the passion , the 23:46.534 --> 23:48.590 dedication . These guys get up every 23:48.590 --> 23:50.590 day and they do something that they 23:50.590 --> 23:52.757 love and their faces just glow as they 23:52.757 --> 23:56.170 play . 23:56.940 --> 23:59.460 Don't fight . Yeah . 24:03.640 --> 24:06.760 Mhm No . Mhm Yeah . 24:07.940 --> 24:11.420 No , the real military is a 24:11.420 --> 24:15.270 look at how Hollywood 24:15.740 --> 24:18.130 can and does work with the pentagon to 24:18.130 --> 24:20.450 produce films with military themes . 24:21.640 --> 24:23.751 Hey , we can support this . If you do 24:23.751 --> 24:25.918 this . They come back . We really want 24:25.918 --> 24:28.029 to do that And it's just kind of give 24:28.029 --> 24:30.140 or take . It's the best back lot that 24:30.140 --> 24:32.860 I've ever been on . As far as I'm 24:32.860 --> 24:34.693 concerned , it's a movie magic . 24:37.340 --> 24:39.507 These soldiers are members of the 69th 24:39.507 --> 24:41.930 Infantry Division , the fighting 69th 24:41.930 --> 24:44.208 as it's been known since the civil war . 24:44.208 --> 24:46.430 Many of them are veterans of Iraq , but 24:46.430 --> 24:48.820 tonight they'll all volunteer to appear 24:48.820 --> 24:50.990 as extras in the blockbuster movie . I 24:50.990 --> 24:53.430 am legend starring will Smith . It's 24:53.430 --> 24:55.541 set in New York and they'll be acting 24:55.541 --> 24:57.763 as crowd control during a fictionalized 24:57.763 --> 25:00.760 evacuation of the city . It was 20° 25:00.760 --> 25:04.270 when sunset . It was one of the coldest , 25:04.270 --> 25:07.350 most miserable days I've ever spent in 25:07.350 --> 25:09.950 this profession , which I dearly loved . 25:10.640 --> 25:13.960 The action is very corrupt . 25:14.340 --> 25:17.360 Mommy good . It's okay baby . There in 25:17.360 --> 25:20.660 the army like daddy action scene is 25:20.670 --> 25:23.590 when the director called action to the 25:23.590 --> 25:26.060 point where they stopped rolling film 25:26.940 --> 25:30.430 is maybe 15 minutes but there was two 25:30.430 --> 25:32.870 hours of pre setting stuff and three 25:32.870 --> 25:35.900 hours dismantling stuff after . But in 25:35.900 --> 25:38.960 order for for me to convey I need , you 25:38.960 --> 25:41.120 can convey come , you have to convey 25:41.120 --> 25:43.342 the action so you need to sit there all 25:43.342 --> 25:46.620 day to wait for that action . There is 25:46.630 --> 25:50.070 a scene in the cut program , there's a 25:50.080 --> 25:53.680 helicopter and you see spray coming 25:53.690 --> 25:57.060 towards you And imagine it was 25:57.060 --> 26:00.070 15°, you're standing just on the other 26:00.070 --> 26:02.670 side of that camera and this 26:03.440 --> 26:06.050 15° mist settles on 26:08.040 --> 26:10.820 it was horrible . It was horrible . I 26:10.820 --> 26:13.130 get a visceral feeling seeing that shot 26:13.130 --> 26:15.650 and I don't usually viscerally respond 26:15.650 --> 26:18.040 to shots but I I still respond to that 26:18.040 --> 26:20.540 shot . But it , you know , it was an 26:20.540 --> 26:22.651 interesting program to do and I think 26:22.651 --> 26:24.484 it contains a lot of interesting 26:24.484 --> 26:26.429 information about how some of that 26:26.429 --> 26:28.429 stuff gets up there on the screen . 26:32.040 --> 26:33.040 Okay . 26:37.140 --> 26:39.540 To make our nation stronger . It's a 26:39.540 --> 26:41.310 matter of pride for those who 26:41.310 --> 26:43.366 participate in the production of the 26:45.640 --> 26:49.050 mm people want yeah . 26:49.640 --> 26:51.473 Whether taking you behind scenes 26:51.473 --> 26:53.584 involving the military on a Hollywood 26:53.584 --> 26:55.807 movie set or introducing you to a young 26:55.807 --> 26:57.807 marine fighting to survive a combat 26:57.807 --> 27:00.280 wound , everyone on the recon team 27:00.280 --> 27:02.336 works hard to bring you stories that 27:02.336 --> 27:04.610 matter , stories that inspire a deeper 27:04.610 --> 27:06.832 understanding of what it means to serve 27:06.960 --> 27:09.110 in the U . S . Military , from the 27:09.110 --> 27:11.166 courtyard at the pentagon , I'm Tech 27:11.166 --> 27:13.221 Sergeant Ryan Hook and this has been 27:13.221 --> 27:16.670 reckoned . Yeah . 27:19.940 --> 27:23.360 Mhm . Yeah . Yeah . 27:31.040 --> 27:31.270 Yeah .