So what Maine is saying is, okay, if if you're thinking about changing your gender and you don't want to tell your parents and you want to get it done, come to Maine, we'll take care of you. Am I missing anything? No, Maine is going to open the doors to this and open the door to kids who meet someone on TikTok. They get the idea that they need the surgery or hormone replacement therapy and they're going to grab a bus or someone's going to come and pick them up and they're going to bring them to Maine and a parent is not going to do a thing about it. Maine just proposed a bill that would make it the 15th state in the country to become a trans-refugee state, which is a direct response, mind you, to laws criminalizing trans existence in states controlled by Republicans. Now, the clip that you just watched was Fox News' reaction to what they think the bill will do if it becomes law. But as you've probably already suspected, they are lying or, at a minimum, purposefully misrepresenting the law in order to push an anti-trans agenda, but they're not the only ones because conservative influencers on the internet have already sounded the alarm about this bill before Fox News. For example, stochastic terrorist Chaya Rychik of Libs of TikTok claims, New proposed bill in Maine says the state can take custody of a kid if the parents oppose sex change surgery and the chemical castration of their kids. Now, in response, transphobic conservatives boosted that post and encouraged their followers to take action, including Megyn Kelly, Trump Jr., and Riley Gaines to name a few. So Chaya Rychik has constructed this narrative to not only get conservatives to incorrectly believe that minors are having sex change surgeries in the first place, but that parents are losing the right to say no to said surgeries when neither of these things are happening. But let's take a look at the bill. As Libs of TikTok pointed out, the bill does authorize a court to take temporary jurisdiction of a child, quote, because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. But you need to read the rest of the bill in order to get the specifics as to why a court might be able to do this, quote, a court of the state has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child or sibling or parent of the child is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse or because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. Now it's a bit confusing, but the keyword here is jurisdiction. They are not saying that a court can remove a child from a non-affirming household simply because parents don't consent to gender-affirming health care. That's not what they're saying here. The child would still need parental consent for gender-affirming care. However, in instances where there is physical or mental abuse or abandonment, Maine can then remove the child or they can intervene on behalf of another state rather than simply to saying, look, this child who's being abused, it's not our problem. They're the problem of the state they came from. So they're the ones who should handle it. They're saying, we'll take responsibility here. Furthermore, if a child has not been able to receive gender-affirming care because it is banned in the state that they're from, this bill allows Maine's courts to give them jurisdiction over that particular case and basically ignore the laws in their home state where they came from. So, for example, if parents from Texas take their kids to Maine for gender-affirming health care, Texas cannot then intervene and block them from receiving said care because it's banned in Texas. This doesn't mean that Maine is overriding the will of non-affirming parents. That's not what this says. It is a line intended to address cross-state disputes so Republican controlled states can't prosecute the residents of their state who travel across state lines for services that they've banned. And it's not just an issue when it comes to trans rights. Republicans are increasingly trying to prosecute residents who defy abortion bans by traveling out of state. So this is Maine basically proactively addressing that and they're pretty explicit about it in this bill. For example, section 2 reads, quote, it is the public policy of this state that an out-of-state arrest warrant for an individual based on violating another state's law against providing receiving or allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care is the lowest law enforcement priority. Now, Erin Reid explains why this matters, quote, importantly, this provision does not imply as some conservative accounts have proclaimed that the state will, quote, take away trans kids from non-affirming parents, as I've already said. Rather, this provision merely gives judges temporary jurisdiction over a kid present in the state. The state would still have to prove to a judge that a transgender teen is at risk of abuse or neglect if returned to their family in the exact same way the state would have to prove similar things about a cisgender kid. This provision is particularly relevant given the effort of some Republican-led states to extend their jurisdiction over minors no longer residing within their borders. For instance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a subpoena for medical records from Seattle Children's Hospital. In the subpoena, the state demands data on all trans youth that have either temporarily left Texas to get care or permanently moved from the state. Such attempts to employ long-arm statutes could potentially usurp the jurisdiction of other states over those who have established residency or sought asylum within these states. Additionally, the bill would grant main jurisdiction in custody disputes where one parent resides in a state that prohibits gender-affirming care and the other lives in Maine where such care is not banned. Considering that many custody cases involve cross-state provision of care and the transfer of transgender youth between states with and without bans, this clause enables parents in Maine to present their case to a judge and argue that gender-affirming care is in the child's best interest. The bill does not require the judge to rule in favor of the parent. It merely allows the court to consider the argument. So I get it. It's complex. There's a lot of legal jargon in this bill. But if you're not qualified to interpret this correctly, then you certainly shouldn't fear monger about the specifics here within this bill. Chai Rychik is not qualified to interpret this, nor would she interpret this in a good faith way if she was qualified. But she made it seem as if this bill is going to allow kids to take weekend trips to Maine with their friends to get sex change operations in defiance of their parents. That's not what it does. But this is how Republicans are now unironically portraying this bill because of people like Chai Rychik who lie about these laws. Now, if you don't believe me that everyone else is interpreting it this way too, well, see for yourself because even Fox News is going with what she said about this bill. Okay, so let's say that then they have the gender change. Are they going to go home to mom and dad? Because that would be quite a surprise. Yeah, I went to Maine and this is how I spent my vacation and then what happens? They may go home to mom and dad because they realize the mistake they've made and they need the person who loves them to take care of them. But I think otherwise they're going to stay in the fantasy world that they get involved in when they go through this gender transition, when they go through counseling that only looks at one option for their dysphoria or their fears or whatever they're searching for. The state of Maine has said, come to us, we'll take care of you. I don't know how long that's going to last or how they'll go to school or anything. Well, sorry, mom and dad. I know that you said no to the sex change, but it's done now. So what are you going to do? Thanks, Maine.  I have to imagine that they know that they're dishonest.  I'm sorry. You just, you can't, right? And did you notice the chyrons there? New Maine bill would allow out of state kids to get sex change surgeries. No, it wouldn't. Gender for men care for minors does not include sex change operations. You liars. Here's another one. Quote, Maine's tripping parental rights. No, Maine is actually expanding parental rights to parents and states where Republicans took away their right to pursue gender-affirming care for their trans children. Here's another one. Maine Trans Bill slammed as quote, state sanctioned kidnapping. It's just so dishonest. See, when states like Texas label trans-affirming parents as child abusers and then try to remove trans children from these affirming homes, that right there is not state sanctioned kidnapping. State sanctioned kidnapping is when Maine says, hey, we'll accept trans refugees who've been targeted by their state. Listen, at this point, they are so far detached from reality, they might as well just say that Maine is trying to turn kids trans so they can force them to work in HRT factories to produce hormones for big trans. I mean, that's the level of absurdity that we're reaching here. And honestly, their rhetoric is close to that, even though I'm trying to be hyperbolic.  If they actually made their argument based on facts and science and statistics and data, they would never win over anyone. The viability of their hateful agenda hinges on people being misinformed about this topic. But so long as Republicans continue to criminalize trans existence, these types of laws are going to be much more needed and hopefully more common.  But side note, since we're talking about Chayaraychik, one of the people leading the charge against the law, she's been appointed to Oklahoma's library review committee, even though she lacks expertise on this issue and she doesn't live in Oklahoma, nor does she have children. And look, maybe I'm crazy, but it seems like a bad idea to let hate mongering transphobes like Chayaraychik, who literally inspired bomb threats against children's hospitals, dictate what should be school policy. Her kids don't even go to that school. Her kids don't go in that district. She doesn't have kids, as far as I know. But I mean, keep in mind, as they impose their will on everyone else with book bands and bands on gender, firm and care, they are doing this under the guise of parental choice, which is just truly Orwellian. And Joy Reid of MSNBC confronted the Moms for Liberty co-founder about this contradiction on her show and asked why conservatives want to ban books for everyone when parents don't actually have to do that to still prevent their kids from reading material that they deem as inappropriate. Watch how this mom responds. This mom for liberty responds. Let me show you a form. This is a form that can be obtained in Broward County, Florida. I'm going to show it to the audience and then I'm going to show it to you. This is called the opt out form. And opt out form would allow any parent, because you said you are in favor of parental rights. It would allow any parent to opt out of their child being able to take books out of the library without their parent's permission. So that Moms for Liberty, why not advocate that every school in America have an opt out form so that a parent who doesn't want their child to access a book like All Boys Aren't Blue, that they can make that choice?  Why not just opt out for yourself rather than tell other parents what they cannot. First of all, I think what you're talking about here is a wonderful step in the right direction. We should be having conversations about this. This is about local control. A lot of these decisions are made at the local school board level. And that's where these decisions should be made. And there should be vibrant conversations about what's happening in our public schools and what kids have access to. Joy, however, maybe we could just put all the books with all the graphic sexual content, the dildos, the rapes. Let's do a back room. Let's put a curtain up in the library like they used to do in the video stories. Remember, we were little and you'll go to the video store. The books that Moms for Liberty. The books that Moms for Liberty. The books that behind the curtain. I have seen tapes of what Moms for Liberty does. And you all go into school board meetings and you read graphic stuff. No, it's not. There's eight. There's America used to understand that there's something called age appropriate content. Right. And here's my question again. Again, again, again, Ruby Bridges Goes to School is on the list of books that Moms for Liberty has attempted to have removed. Absolutely not. It absolutely is. Let me ask about the people who are making the decision for their parents because you have not answered yet why a liberal parent or an African-American parent. We have parents who are Democrats who are members of their organization, but you're still trying to make decisions for all the kids. Wow. I've never seen this before.  I think this is a step in the right direction. I've never seen this. It's never existed before. These were available when I was in elementary school. Anyways, despite seeing this and saying it's a good idea, she still says, actually, I still want to make decisions for other parents. I want to impose my will on them regardless if I don't have to do that to shield my kid from seeing things that I think are inappropriate. It's amazing, isn't it? They don't actually believe in parental rights. This is all about the imposition of their will on all of us, regardless if we like it or not. And their will is to criminalize trans people out of existence as evidenced by the fact that laws pertaining to trans existence are getting increasingly draconian. For example, a bill out of Utah could penalize trans people with six months in jail for simply using the wrong bathroom. And this bill, by the way, is advancing quickly and could pass soon, according to journalist Aaron Reid. I mean, this is where we're at. They might claim that their crusade against trans people is guided by some philosophy like parental rights or protecting women. But at the end of the day, those are nothing more than thinly veiled pretenses to eliminate people that they've deemed unworthy of existing. That's what this is all about. But if these bigots got what they wanted, unfortunately for them, they would be prosecuted with all the LGBTQ plus people they're judging as well. Right, if they got the Christian theocracy that they are longing for, they wouldn't hold a scrutiny as well. And this was another thing that the Moms for Liberty co-founder was confronted about by Joy Reid. Here are some of the parents that are filing or some of your advocates. Bridget Ziegler, the Moms for Liberty co-founder, the wife of the recently ousted Florida Republican Party chairman, Christian Ziegler, who allegedly was involved in threesome, same-sex threesome. Mrs. Ziegler was removed from the school board at which she was a leader. You have Lauren DePaola. She was making book ban requests in Alachua County. But then records show that she and her husband didn't live there. They'd sold their home in that county. Carrie Blair in Tennessee, who was arrested for property theft charges after allegedly stealing from Target, skip scanning and Target. Why should those three people get to make decisions about what other children should be able to read? Other parents' children should be able to read. Do you know that I served as a school board member from 2016 to 2016? Are you going to answer my question? Yeah, I'm going to. Because we don't have an endless time. Joy, I'm going to answer your question, but I need you to understand that when I was an elected representative, I would sit on that dais. And how dare I, sitting there as an elected representative, judge a parent when they would come to the podium to speak and advocate for their child? Well, Joy, we're not going to judge these folks. Do we seem like the judgmental type to you? Yeah, you kind of do. I mean, it's astonishing to me that they can be so blatantly dishonest and deceitful. But I mean, in conclusion, we can defeat these people. And our greatest weapon against these demons is information and education. Because once the general population realizes that they're concerned trolling about parental rights and protecting women from trans people, it's all just a facade, they lose support for their genocidal transphobic agendas. So keep educating people and informing people. And that's how we beat these ghouls.


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Visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station for full information. And now, your Army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production, Underwater Soldiers. A boy and a girl swimming at Old Point Comfort Beach, Virginia. The girl, Jane Gunther. The boy, Carl Jordan, taking a final shore weekend before carrying through on an important decision. Give you a hand back up on the raft, Jane. Thanks. I'm up. Hey, did you see those big blues that cheered off when we went down that time? Bluefish in this close? We'd have had spears we could have shot. With those rubber flippers on your feet, you moved so fast, Don. I couldn't keep up with you. Sorry, I forgot. But the goggles work out for you that time, didn't they? Oh, perfectly. Everything was as clear as up here. Underwater than they ever get up here. What do you mean, Carl? Well, I head back home to Richmond tomorrow. In a week, I'll be in the Army. Isn't that what you want to do? And list, honey? Well, sure, but... You don't sound at all, is it? Well, the trouble is, Jeannie, I... I told my father I'd make it Army and I guess that's what it'll have to stick to. He was Army and I guess he'd almost disown me if I went for anything else. So would I. Carl, I just realized it. It was just this morning. We met for the first time. You've never seen me in anything but this bathing suit. You think I'm complaining? You're about the best-looking... The best-looking corporal on the beach. Corporal? I'm a whack, Carl, from Fort Monroe. I've been in the Army for nearly a year and I love it. Oh, well, wait a minute, Jane. Let me get straight on this. Now, I didn't say that... Whatever you said, for a man going into the Army, you don't sound hilarious about it. Well, it's probably foolish, but... See, ever since I was a kid, I've been crazy about the water. Ponds, rivers, ocean here, any kind of water. Getting under it mostly with goggles away. We're doing now and fishing or collecting stuff or just looking around at all there is to see down below. You think no one in the Army ever gets a chance to swim? Well, I'll admit you're stationed near a beach, but might just be my luck to get a sign a thousand miles away from Saltwater. Carl, you're from Virginia here. Haven't you ever been over to Fort Eustis? Well, yeah. Now, wait a minute. Why all the questions? My brother's a master sergeant over at Fort Eustis. I happen to be meeting him in Newport News tonight for dinner. Oh, would you like to drive over with me? Well, sure, but how do I rate? I think you might like to hear about Bill's job over at Fort Eustis. He's a diver, Carl, and he does his deep sea work for the United States Army. Yes, there's a diving section in the Army in the 7th Transportation Regiment. Both an operating diving section and underwater school are maintained at Fort Eustis, Virginia, and teams of deep sea military divers are on duty around the world with Port Maintenance Battalions of the Transportation Corps and with amphibious engineer units. That night, when he met Jane's brother, Master Sergeant Bill Gunther, Carl Jordan knew he'd found what he wanted to do in the Army. You say anyone can put in for training in military diving, Sergeant? If he qualifies, Jordan, you've got to pass Army Regulation 4100 for one thing, and that's one of the stiffest physicals in the Army. He's nearly as tough as you are, Bill. I've seen him swim. Well, now, say I'm lucky enough to get by the physical. You say you've worked in a shipyard and done some welding? Well, probably not up to your standard, but I've handled the tools. Well, that'll help. When a diver gets under, he's got to be ready to be about everything for a paper man. Bill, you're breaking his heart. Janey, if he's willing and able to learn, and if he can apply what he learns 100 feet down, a couple of tons of water shoving down on you, maybe in mud, nine times out of ten without being able to see... Bill, are you deliberately trying to scare Carl out of trying for the diving school? Mike Moran says if you can scare a man off by talk, Janey, he's not cut out for a diver. But what about it, Jordan? Sound like too tough a deal for you? You'll have to tell me that, Sergeant, after I get to Fort Eustis. Or at least if they let me get there after I finish basic. Carl Jordan qualified after his enlistment in the Army and eventually made it to the diving school at Fort Eustis. Welcome there by Colonel Deagle, commanding officer of the school, Operations Chief Eugene F. Mike Moran, Sergeant Bill Gunther and other underwater veterans. Carl and the men of his training class began learning the essentials of one of the most challenging jobs in or out of the service. The Army gives rated divers extra hazard pay because any job you go on can be dangerous. Dangerous and pretty important. Whether you clear mines and underwater obstructions under fire, as Army divers did going into Inchon Harbor, or go down for cakes of government silver dollars like they once did back in Manila Bay. But if you new men learn enough from your instructors here, and if you keep cool and collected when you're under, you'll do your job and you'll keep your life. Good luck to all of us. If the new men learned enough, Carl Jordan and his classmates had facts thrown at them day after day before they ever got near the water, the physical properties of the elements they'd be dealing with. Pure water is a clear liquid made up of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. It's compressible, but only slightly. At 39 degrees Fahrenheit, it's the standard for our specific gravity, one CC weighing a gram. Most of you men run to muscle and bone. They're slightly heavier than water. Fat tissue and the residual air in your lungs are lighter. Now what it adds up to is that most of you, unweighted, could float indefinitely as long as you could keep at least a couple of fingers. Air is an invisible odorless tasteless mixture of gases formed cheaply of nitrogen and oxygen, nearly in the ratio of 4 to 1. It's compressible and elastic. At sea level, depending on the temperature and barometric pressure, it might take 773 quarts of air to equal the weight of one quart of water. That means for one thing, it doesn't take much air to get you headed back up for the surface. And the deeper you are, the quicker to land. What they'd be working in, what they'd be working with. This is your deep gear. Look it over and handle the items, all of you. These are your lead weighted boots, 22 pounds of base. This is your suit, rubber diving dress, 18 and a quarter pounds. Your belt. Well, the lead blocks is your heaviest item, 85 pounds. Could we get that belt off in a hurry, Mr. Moran? That is, if we had to. Fast enough, Bracken, but you won't ever have cause to. You handle your lines and the air nozzle as you should. And it's the way your instructors have told you. A man who starts worrying too much on a dip doesn't have time to look out for himself, let alone get his job done. I'm sorry, sir, I didn't mean to give the idea that... Ask any questions that hit you. Top sides where it's easy to answer them, if we've got the answers. Now this is your knife, two and a half pounds. Your breastplate and helmet, 54 pounds taken together, make up the basic gear. Just over 200 pounds of it. A lot lighter underwater than it feels here. But there'll be times when you'll think you're lugging a piano in your shoulders. Inside the helmet, you'll generally have a two-way telephone rig, and of course your air intake and exhaust. You'll regulate your air supply. But the most important equipment any novice diver takes underwater is himself. His own brains, coolness, physical handiness, and some qualities of courage and adaptability that can't be known until a man makes his first dive. It can be rough down there with a deep rig on, Jordan, even for someone who likes the water. Half the men who try this get washed out for claustrophobia. They tighten up and panic when they get down there? With the helmet and a couple of tons of water piled on, anybody can get a touch of it. It can clear up fast if you'll remember what we've taught you. And if...  Up and out of the school. No disgrace for a man's makeup. This won't let him loosen up down under. In your case, though, maybe I ought to tell you that Mike Moran thinks you've got the makings of a good, deep waterman. He's on operations now, not at the school, and that's an off-the-record guess. He's pulling for all of you in the class anyhow, and he knows no bets hold till a man's actually been down. You all set? Yeah. Lucky you, soldier. Thanks. All set, Bill, when you and Keore are... Let's go. The tenders above can follow a man's progress by the used air that keeps bubbling up. In the darkening strange world, Carl Jordan has entered. Except for his phone, a man hears only the hiss of the compressed fresh air entering the helmet. No, not yet, Sergeant. About claustrophobia? I got it all right. I feel about as jammed in as a lobster in a milk bottle. What up? No. It took too many months to get down here, Sergeant. I think I'm starting to feel better already. Sure. Sorry, I'm on bottom now. Good going, soldier. Remember which way for the buoy? I think it's a half turn and straight on. Well, get going. We'll check your bubbles. Moving right along, Bill. Of course there to start with. Then corrections, one back, not a yard out. Halfway to the buoy. I better get them turned. Jordan, you getting your sea legs down there? All okay so far. You want me to keep on going? No. Pull up. Take a half turn right. Go ahead about four paces. Half turn right. Up. At four, half turn right again. Head back to the barge. I'll take it easy and round over any obstructions you hit. Back below the ladder, Sergeant. You want me to start up? You want a hurry to haul out? No. No, I'm getting to like it down here. If you'll drop me a spear, maybe I can get us a mess of crabs. Okay, okay. Get started up. But remember, easy doesn't. Here, I've got him, Bill. Hey, uh, Jordan. Elm it off and you can start drying away some of that sweat. Did I qualify? I didn't come up too fast or anything. Get it all right, Jordan. I'm ready to ride with Mike Moran and say maybe you will be a diver before you throw it. Hold it, Mac. Sure you did all right, Jordan. First dip, you did fine. Well, thanks, Sergeant. I knew I almost got a... But the Army doesn't send men underwater just to keep cool or catch up with the makings of a fish fry. Now we head back to the shops and you'll really start learning what it takes to make an Army diver. You mean welding and underwater repair and all that? Welding, jetting, handling the airsoil. Hey, wait a minute, Bill. Want to save time if we just say what we're not going to teach you? Mac, you've got a point.  You are listening to the proudly-we-hailed production Underwater Soldiers. We'll return in just a moment for the second act. The man who measures up will succeed anywhere. For a life of excitement and adventure, join the United States Army. The Army is the proving ground, the place where the men and the boys part company, where you'll learn more about how to take care of yourself and others in a few short months than you could in a lifetime of civilian activity. In the Army, your opportunities for advancement and leadership are unlimited, but you've got to have what it takes. The man who measures up here will succeed anywhere. Can you measure up? If you think you can, then here's an opportunity for you to serve your country and build a man-sized career for yourself that will take you as far as you want to go. Visit your local U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Recruiting Station now. You are listening to Proudly We Hail. Now we present the second act of Underwater Soldiers. Sergeant Bill Gunther was laying it all a little when he told Carl Jordan the Fort Eustace Diving School candidates might have to learn nearly everything, but brain surgery and base fiddle playing, but not by much. Working often in blackness with only his groping hands on what he's dealing with, an Army diver has to know the techniques of timber, steel and concrete construction, the handling of pumps and suction devices, understand the interaction of currents and tides, be as ready to rebuild a dock as to blow up an underwater barrier on an in-going combat landing. But the Army gives these cracked troubleshooters an array of special tools matching the varied calls on their ingenuity. This is your water jet. Use a heated high-pressure water hose and use it to clear out mud from a working area or from under anything where you want to get a cable or chain into a rig of lift. Back in June, you saw it used to help free a submerged tank.  They gravel or grain or sand. You set your weighted intake down into the material you want to clear. Cutting piling or any kind of timber underwater, you have this air saw. It's motor driven and operates by compressed air. It'll cut through cable. On cable, where you need even faster action, we've got this power velocity cutter. It amounts to firing an expendable blade right through your cable. Tools for salvage and repair. Tools for destruction. In Korea, between the first and second occupations of the Port of Incheon by United Nations forces, United States Army divers, serving with the 50th Engineer's Port Construction Company, had the job of making the docks unusable by the enemy. Then the more satisfying job of helping restore the port to top operating efficiency when the forces of freedom came back to stay as they had done on scores of jobs from Luzon to Antwerp during and after World War II. At Fort Eustis, as the training schedule reached its final weeks, Carl Jordan and his classmates were moving deeper and deeper under the waters of the James River and the Bay, handling themselves and their varied tools with the rising confidence that comes with practical experience. All okay down there, Jordan? All okay, Sergeant. You're at 80 feet. Bring your guideline on the anchor chain and start a sweep search. When you find the pipe section we dropped, burn off a one foot length and bring it up. You got it? Sweep search till I hit the pipe.  Starting swing to left now, Sergeant. Carl Jordan did have the makings. 22 weeks after he started training at Fort Eustis, he was graduated from the school and awarded a second-class divers badge qualified to work at depths down to 150 feet. The following day he heard even better news. Hey, Carl. Huh? Carl, wait up a second. Oh, what's up, Bill? You're in luck, soldier. The Chief's asked for you and operations here. Mike thinks I'm good enough to work... Don't get too cocky. Tut's been flagged down to the canal zone for a couple of months, and Mike thinks he can make out with you on temporary assignment. Getting the feel of that rivet drill, Jordan? I think so, Chief. At least I'm making a little better time than I was this morning. I've just been posting the new assignment schedule. You'll be an eight-hour standby call tomorrow and Friday. Uh, Mr. Moran. I've been on dry salvage and repair here for nearly a month. Don't I ever get to go down on a real job with you or Mike? Yeah, look, Mike and I both think you're coming along fine. The day a diver first class asks you to go down more than 150 feet with him on an actual job, just remember he's making a pretty big bet on you. His life along with mine. Look, I'd work you below 200 or more if I had to. And we've got a pretty good safety record in this section, Carl. If it takes you four months more to make first, you'll still be beating par. By one of the unpredictable emergencies that keep operations Chief Mike Moran's divers on around-the-clock call, Carl Jordan, not six weeks later, got more than the action he'd been asking for. Taken along as alternate second diver on what should have been a run-of-the-mill, shallow salvage operation in Florida, Carl learned on arrival of their plane at the Army base that this mission wasn't to be routine. Not on the unloading. There was a call from Mike waiting here and we've got to get the gear back on the plane. Mike won't just back it users, we just got here. There's an emergency call from over below Jacksonville. A civilian diver trapped down at 240. Jordan, Keoh, gear back on the plane. Let's go, guys. Mike, pilot checking now on an emergency script down below Jacksonville. It should let us set the plane down within a mile of an inlet. There we can pick up a boat. But come on, I'll tell you on the way. Army team, they said was coming out. Right, I'm Sergeant Gunther. This is Sergeant McMase and Corporal Jordan. Your parish, the one who radioed in? Yes, right. I thought maybe I could get through the Navy at Charleston, but they told me from Jacksonville you guys were already in the area. Oh, thank the Lord for that. Scowsey? Yeah, I'm scared he's... Well, he's almost had it. I'm not sure what you can do. See, there's a big charter boat down there. We were trying to seal off the engine room and get some air into it for a drum lift. But the hull shifted with Scowsey working inside, slipped off down 50 feet deeper, and clamped him in tight. Doesn't he have any tools, Caddy? No, no, his leg's broken and jammed under a casing that shifted when the hull rolled. The way his lines are now, you'll have to burn or cut in to get him loose. I've got a trick heart. Doctors caught up with it a month ago, said if I ever tried to work below 50 feet again, I could go out like a light. This was just supposed to be a survey Scowsey was running today. I told him an hour ago I'd go down anyhow, but he said that'd be losing two for sure, instead of one for maybe, and he'd rather take his chances waiting for a rescue team. Okay, however he got there, it'll take two men to get him up. Mac, maybe you better take the oxy-arc torch and... Bill! Bill, you can't go down this first trip. I can't go. What do you mean, Carp? You're the master diver, the only one who can direct two men below.  It's a two-man job, Carp. Mac can't swing it alone. Let me go down with him. A 240-feet kid? Well, the deepest you've worked is... I've been below 200, and I could have worked there. Now, wait a minute, Mac. Jordan's got a point. If there's trouble with both of us down, that leads him trying to get three men up from 240. I can have a trial-on, Bill. You won't have to... No, no. No, I want you topside, Mac. You're going down alone, Bill? You just said yourself... I'm going down with Jordan. Get him locked up, Kehoe, and Parish. If you've got a phone hook up down to Scalzi... Bill. Getting cold feet, Carp? No, I... I just wanted to say thanks. You're the one who's taking the chances. Get locking, soldier. We got a job on. Is this your phone, Parish? That's it, Sergeant. Scalzi. Scalzi. Yeah. Who's that? Sergeant Gunther. Army diving section. You're still OK down there, except for the legs? Not to call it medium, Sergeant. But if ever I was glad to hear... The two of us are coming down for you. Can you give us a setup? I don't know how you get at me. The way the boat's keeled over, you'll have to cut through three-inch holes. You're down over 230, Bill. All OK? OK, Mac. We've been guiding on Scalzi's line. Wait a minute. I'm on bottom. Thick growth, but hard under. Cut over to Jordan and see if he's down. Jordan? Jordan, you on bottom yet? Just touched, Mac. OK. OK. Mac up against the hole. I can't see Bill. A hole there, and he'll work in by you. You're still left to Scalzi's line? Yes. Bill, Jordan's in at the hole, still guiding on Scalzi's line from left. All right. Tell him I'm going in on the right, and I'll make hand contact. Jordan, as you are, till Bill makes hand contact. And keep watching your line. Jordan. Jordan. We cut through to Scalzi, Mac, and he's still OK. Bill told me. Now I want to know if you can lever up that casing that's holding Scalzi's leg. I got a jack under it now. A jack? You didn't take down a jack? No, I found one here. Plain old car hand jack. And it works. At 2.40 you've been scrounging around for a jack? OK, kid, OK. Get lifting. Bill, pull him out if you can work the casing up. Here's the inland ahead, Bill. 10 minutes more in. How's the leg, Scalzi? How to worry about the leg, Sergeant? Just being topside and alive is more than I ever thought I'd have. Well, you can thank Diver for his class Jordan here for that, Scalzi. We'd had to take time to try burning that casing away. Diver, first class? Bill, you can't qualify me just for getting lucky on this one job. In the book it says I got... Mike Moran can qualify you whenever you're ready. When he hears how you promoted that car jack down inside there at 2.40, well, I've got five to one. It says you're in. 10 to one, Bill.  And I'll wait a minute. Wait a minute, you army guys. After what you did today. Hey, Scalzi, take it easy now. Will you twist that leg around? Look, the soldiers asked me how to twist it off and give it to them for salvage. If anybody's buying shore dinners for the army, Sergeant, I'm putting in to pick up the chick. We all share freedom. Help share its defense. Join the army team. Yes, now, as always, the United States Army is dedicated to the defense of freedom, your freedom. You can do something about it. The time for decision for action is now. The need for trained technicians in every field is urgent. And you can be trained in the most advanced techniques using the world's finest equipment. Visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station for full details. Remember, we all share freedom. Help share its defense. Join the army team. This has been another program on Proudly We Hail, presented transcribed in cooperation with this station. 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