The traditions and achievements of the United States Army form a proud heritage, whose roots are in the devotion of free men to an ideal. In defense of that ideal, and of the nation which embodies it, the American Fighting Man has always stood ready and able to give whatever has been necessary. Country is good to look at, is rich land, plump with cities and farms, brimming with the treasures of the earth. The wilderness is harness, tamed to man's use, every man's, sustaining and enriching a nation already great and growing greater. The country is the soldier's memorial, it is the land he won, the nation he made and saved. For this nation was born in battle, purged in blood, made secure by sacrifice. It was the soldier who fought the oppressor and invader, the hostile Red Skinner, the Marauder and the Woodpeed Tyrant. The soldier struggled in cold and mud and filth, when fighting meant to wait. The crawl and grind of years of slow campaigns, when the measure of a soldier was less his bravery in battle than his ability to endure. He endured, but not for glory or personal reward. Sometimes it was for a patriot's dream set afire by an ideal. Sometimes it was love for a flag, a leader, each other, the esprit of mutual confidence and devotion. Sometimes it was pride, the doing of a job that had to be done no matter what the price. The job has gone on for 200 years and with it the soldier. The uniform has changed with different generations, different wars, but he is the same American soldier who fought his country's battles for 200 years and who carries on today. There is one difference, one that makes him a better soldier. He has behind him the achievements and traditions of two centuries of struggle, the devotion and sacrifice, the blood and guts, the determination and pride, the gallantry and daring of many wars, scores of campaigns, hundreds of battles. The first soldier worthy of the name was the colonial militiamen. From plow and forge, work bench and desk, he rallied to the cry of danger. From these militia forces, the American army was born. It wasn't much of an army. These men were green, undisciplined, untried in the rigors of war. Their weapons were clumsy, but they had a marksman's eye. They would fight to be free from oppression. They had a leader, a great and dedicated man, a rock of courage, steadfast and firm. Following him, the army plunged into the longest war in its history. There were disastrous battles and defeats, Long Island, White Flames, Brandywine. There was hardship and suffering, Morristown, Valley Forge. There were also great victories, Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, Kingsmouth, Cowpens, Yorktown, the greatest prize of all, liberty. The continental soldier coming at last through his long ordeal to victory established an undying tradition for all the great armies to come. The tradition of the citizen soldier who takes up arms when his country's freedom is threatened, fighting doggedly against seemingly hopeless odds, losing many battles, but somehow never losing a war. By his victory over the professional soldiers of the greatest empire of the day, the American had proved to the world and to himself that he was a first-class fighting man. He had shown great gifts of stamina and courage. He had found in times of grave need, he could produce great leaders to help him. He knew that courage and stamina in the soldier were not enough, that the soldier to survive and win in battle must have training and discipline as well, just as there must be justice and respect for human rights to strengthen his will to fight. One of the earliest steps in putting this hard-won knowledge to good account was the founding of the Military Academy at West Point to train professional officers. West Point's first graduates were blooded in the War of 1812, when the descendants of the Continental Army marched to defend the infant nation which their fathers had brought to life. Defeats and victories alike, battles such as Chippewa and New Orleans, showed the mettle of this new generation of the army and proved that the American soldier of any day or age could stand up to the world's best. It was during the Battle of Chippewa that the British commander watched the advancing American line contentiously, for its men wore the rough grey coats issued those untrained citizen soldiers he had easily whipped before. As the ranks advanced steadily through murderous grape shop, he realized his mistake and cried out, those are regulars by God. It was Winfield Scott's brigade of infantry, drilled through the previous winter into a crack outfit. It drove the British from the battlefield. The Revolutionary War gave us a flag. The War of 1812 gave us a song, our national anthem. The foreign foal was banished from our shores forever. The army still had work to do as the white settler moved westward to occupy the great forests and plains. The native Indian, a deadly antagonist, fought with cunning stealth and savagery to stay the white man's relentless surge into the west. The soldier became an Indian fighter. The first job of the regular army after the Revolution was to make the wilderness safe for the great wave of settlers that began to surge westward. The soldier led the way as scout and guard, pioneering for the pioneers. The Indians struck back. From Wisconsin to Florida the frontier blazed into fire reaction. The soldier learned to fight in the forest, meeting the Indian on his own ground, fighting in the Indian manor. Under able meters the army met and outfought the finest warriors of the aroused Indian nations in a series of savage wilderness battles. Paul and Timber, Tipper Canoe, Horseshoe Bend, Bad Axe River, and Okeechobee Swamper. At each of these pitched battles the red skin was decisively defeated and the whole of the east from the Atlantic to the Mississippi was free of the threat of arrow and tomahawk. Meanwhile other soldiers had plunged into the wilderness of the far west. Captain Merriweather Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark followed the Missouri and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific. Lieutenant Zebulun Pike traced the headwaters of the Mississippi and later discovered the peak in Colorado that has made his name eternal. Shortly after Texas had been annexed by the United States a dispute arose with Mexico over the boundary between that country and Texas. War between the United States and Mexico erupted as a result. The soldiers of Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott forced a numerically superior and doggedly fighting foe into retreat on his own soil and finally routed him from his capital city war. Once again an outnumbered American army had shown astonishing boldness and fighting heart, speed of movement, and accuracy of fire, and uncommon ability to undergo hardships. The young giant of the Republic grew rapidly under the jealous protection of the army, tiny in numbers but formidable in spirit. But the American soldiers' greatest ordeal lay just ahead of him. The bloodies struggled to preserve the unit. No war ever tried him more severely and in no war did he rise to the challenge more magnificently. The grim stubbornness of Vicksburg and Chickamauga, the fanatical fury of the wilderness campaign, the incredible courage of Fredericksburg, the civil war proved for all time that great fighting qualities were the attributes not just of picked truths but of the average American soldier. War produced as large a number of dazzling leaders and great generals whose tactics and strategy were to influence the officers of still greater wars to come. War had produced as many feats of valor for which Congress devised a new and supreme award, the Medal of Honor. Other precedents were made, other traditions created. The first large scale combined operations between army and navy was carried out successfully when the federal fleet joined with the Union army to clear the Mississippi River of Confederate control.  The great armies vanished overnight in demobilization. But for the tiny army that was left, numbering only 38,000 men in 1866, depleted to 20,000 by 1878, for this army of far older civil war still went on. A bitter, dogged conflict that could truly be called a hundred years' war, the war between Indians and white men. Neglected during the war between the states, the Indians beyond the Mississippi had become bolder and stronger. 300,000 braves roamed the mountains and plains of the far west, murdering, pillaging, and terrorizing the settler at will. Cheyennes, Comanches, Sue, Hughes, Napercay, the Chauchonis, and the deadliest of all, the Apaches. To crush these well-led mounted hordes, the Shrunken army could spare less than 3,000 men. Yet this handful of soldiers and their pitifully few successors did the job. Although it took 30 years and more than 200 pitched battles, underfade, exposed to frightful hardship and privation, and neglected, often spurned by their countrymen, they carried on their great work, carving out of the wilderness settlements that were later to become cities. Made strong by their efforts, was their pride in their flag, their leaders, their unit, and their profession of arms. History has never known finer fighting men than these soldiers of the west. The crisis of the Spanish-American war rushed upon us suddenly, but with neglect of the army cost heavily as it always has. The large force of citizen soldiers that was rushed to Cuba paid a heavy price for skimpy training and equipment. But the volunteers had fighting zeal. The expeditionary force that was built up around the small but highly trained regular army quickly liberated Cuba from the grip of Spanish terror. During the Battle of San Juan Hill at Santiago, Cuba, 1 July 1898, Lieutenant John H. Parker, in command of the Gatling gun detachment, moved his men and guns abreast of the infantry and opened fire. Parker believed that his guns, which normally played a defensive role in battle, could be of decisive importance in the attack, by giving fire superiority to the infantry when most needed. This was the United States Army's first use of close support machine guns in the attack, and was a decisive factor in the capture of San Juan Hill. The United States was established as a world power. The American flag was now planted overseas in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines. As usual, it was the Army, again drastically reduced in size that was called on to keep the peace and build up these lands, to defend American lives and property as far away as China. These grueling, seemingly endless police actions scattered the Army's slender strength halfway around the world. Always the soldier was builder and healer as well as policeman. He finished one of the construction marvels of the century, the Panama Canal. He discovered the cause of the tropical scourge of yellow fever and waged a successful war to stamp it out. He came to the rescue and sucker of the distressed civilian population during such great catastrophes as the San Francisco earthquake, the Mississippi floods. But above and beyond everything else, he was his country's shield when the country was in peril. At the citizen soldiers of this nation plunged into war on such a vast scale. Never before did the fighting character of the American soldier trained to attack by a fighting commander who knew how to build on the natural will to win at the Americans have such a decisive effect on world history. Cantini, Chateau Thierry, Reem, Samuel, the boys of Pershing's expeditionary force smashed the best of the Kaiser's army repeatedly, finally routing him in the great and final offensive of the Mews-Argonne that brought the war to an end. Pershing proved, despite the skepticism of alive military leaders, that American military genius has built around a war of fire and movement, that victory lies in attack. This aggressive tradition was fostered in the post-war army, although it had been slashed to ribbons by an economy-minded nation. Despite an appalling lack of funds, the army was streamlined for more firepower and faster movement. The technique of airborne assault was developed. Perron's semi-automatic rifle became the basic infantry weapon. The self-propelled gun appeared. The vast new array of armoured monsters whose sole purpose was to carry on the great cavalry tradition of attack. It was providential for this country that its army had schooled itself rigorously in the spirit and tactics of the offensive. When the fascist nations lost for conquest, enveloped the world in flames and brought us, the army found that it had to carry the fight to a stubborn, powerful enemy in a series of amphibious landings and grand assaults around the world. The American soldier in first wars had undergone incredible suffering. But nothing like the variety of hardships he endured in World War II. He sweated through the steaming heat of the jungles of the Pacific. He was scorched by the burning sands of North Africa and the torrid lowlands of Iran, foes in the icy winds of the Italian mountains, and in the winter storms of France and Germany. He endured and fought and inspired by great fighting leaders attacked and attacked again until victory was attained. In this great war in which our whole nation sprang to arms, the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and daring that made the American unique among the world's peoples came to full flower when he assumed the role of citizen soldier. The army fought on a scale and with inefficiency hitherto undreamed of, devising new weapons, new techniques of assault and supply, new procedures and drugs for the care of the soldiers sick and wounded. The army had become a colossus, borrowing from every field of human endeavor and helping to create new ones. Yet as ever, the army's bone marrow, its blood, its nerves, remained the citizen soldier. Now more than ever, the army needed the individual skill and know-how, brains, and imagination to carry on in an age where warfare had become increasingly complex and technical. It needed his patience and cheerfulness to discharge its massive burdens of occupation and rehabilitation. But above all else, it needed his fighting heart. When a new menace to peace erupted, when Communist imperialism stabbed into South Korea in 1950, it was the American soldier who, despite great suffering, held the enemy at bay. It was the American soldier who fought the Russians through the aggressor back across the border. Korea confirmed the eternal qualities of the American soldier. He told him what every combat veteran knows, but what every fighting man must find out for himself. But no matter how complex the machines of war are, how deadly its arms, it is the soldier in the machine, the soldier behind the gun and on the ground who wins battles. And the American soldier wins because he fights to win. Because he has the will to fight. This spirit echoes in the motos and fighting cries of 200 years. I'll try, sir. Brave rifles.  When in doubt, fight. All who are brave, follow me. Keep up the fire. But for yet, we are here, his oldest traditions, to recognize this fighting heart. It has hallowed since the days when he founded the Order of the Purple Heart. It was generously carried on in Korea in citations and decorations. In the award of battlefield commissions in the constant reminder to every soldier that like so many great leaders of past and present, he too has unlimited opportunity to rise from the ranks. The American soldier is under arms on every rampart of the free world. Never was the burden on him heavier, the threat graver. Never more invincible. At his side stand the ghosts of countless regions of American citizens turned fighting men, whose answer to peril and hardship was fight. Fight to win. Spirit will never die. The accomplishments and traditions of American soldiers have made it immortal. But army, our country, our nation, our very eternal monument. To the great bridge and beyond, the strands which form the soldier's tapestry of valor and determination are unbroken. Spanning two centuries, the traditions and achievements of his army form the unique heritage of the individual American soldier and of the nation whose ideal of individual liberty he continues to serve.


Especially in this phase of the pandemic, I'm being asked a lot about resilience and how we can create more resilience in leaders and teams and organizations. It's not surprising. This disruption has gone on for some time and people have been trying to tap into their inner resilience. So I wanna look at what resilience means and what resilience actually gives you energy and what takes energy. And the picture I have in my head is that a lot of leaders that I'm working with, they're almost like somebody out in the waves, out in the sea, they're splashing around, they're staying afloat, but the waves are guiding what they're doing. They're being thrashed about. That is resilience, it's a type of resilience which is just survival.  Then there's a group of what I call the superman and superwomen.   In today's world, a disrupted world and a more and more disrupted world, those waves are winter waves, they're big and they're heavy and they hurt. Most of the leaders I'm working with with that idea around resilience are thinking about retirement. They're saying, I'll get us through this pandemic and then I'm done. They've used all their reserves of energy being superman or superwoman and going further, they just need a break. The third type, and this is a small subset, maybe 10% of the leaders that we work with, are actually making change and disruption with their friend. They're like a surfer on the wave, they're using the change, the force of change, the energy around them to actually propel themselves and the organization up forward. All three are resilience. The one that will give you long-term resilience, the one that will enable you to continue to outperform is catching that wave, making change your ally and using the energy of change rather than fighting it. Now, in order to do that, we need to recognize which one we are, which, what are our habits? If you're the one thrashing in the waves, if you're the one fighting off the waves, you need to first see that and realize the futility over time and shift. Recognize when you're doing it and shift and actually see the potential and change, see the potential in people and in yourself and capture that energy and bring it into yourself. That is long-term resilience.


Thanks for joining us. I'm Brian May at Cal OAS headquarters and behind me the state operation center, which is now being manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week to try and combat these wildfires that are all across the state of California. You see the people in here working, they're trying to not only keep a control of the fires, but this is where people are coming together to help with the recovery, to help with the assistance, getting people in shelters, getting people what they need, people who have been affected by these wildfires. I can tell you, and I'm going to focus on the Northern California wildfires for the moment. The news is good, at least in the firefighting efforts, in that the red flag warnings have expired in Northern California. The winds have died down. That is certainly helping firefighters, although this is still a very dangerous situation, but the red flag warnings have died down. As far as the wildfires are concerned, I'll let you know just the scope of what we are still talking about. 15 large wildfires still burning in Northern California. So far the fires have combined that is to burn over 217,000 acres. To put that in perspective, that is an area about the size of the city of San Diego that gives you an idea of just how much has burned so far. Within that burned area, we've had over 5,700 structures that have been destroyed. That includes both private residences and a lot of commercial buildings, unfortunately, that have gone up as well. As of today on Sunday, nearly 75,000 people are still evacuated. That number, though, is greatly down from what we saw just 24 hours ago. We had over 100,000 people evacuated on Saturday, but fire crews as quick as they can as soon as it is safe for letting people get back in their home. So this number is now down. The sad number, the truly sad number, 40 fatalities so far in these combined wildfires. That makes this the deadliest week of wildfires in California history. Now, if you have been affected, if you're looking on where to go to get registered for some kind of assistance, if you're looking for information from FEMA, here's how you start that process. You can go to disasterassistance.gov. You can also call 1-800-621-FEMA. That's 1-800-621-3362. That begins the process of you getting the information and the assistance that you need. But we also have local assistance centers. This is where you really get face-to-face one-on-one with not only FEMA officials, but if you need a new driver's license, if you're just looking on where to go where your next steps are, these local assistance centers, then we've opened up in counties like Lake County, Yuba, Orange, Sonoma County, Butte, Napa, Mendocino. We will be adding to these as we need them as we can put more up. You can find all of these open. Now, if you want individual addresses for where these are, I'm going to recommend that you go to our website, and that is caloes.ca.gov. And once you get there, you'll be able to get not only the addresses for the local assistance centers, but you also see the tab for the California or the October wildfires. And then if you scroll down on our page, you'll see the big tab here. You can click on this and get all the information. We have the latest fire maps. We've got the latest information on road closures. We've also got much more information on where you can go if you've been affected and you need assistance. For all of us at Cal OES, I'm Brian May. Thanks for watching.


Jeffree Star is definitely one of a kind and someone who loves being the center of attention whether you like him or not. Jeffree has been an icon in many ways, always unapologetically being the extra glam over the top person that he is. In my opinion, Jeffree Star's house is exactly what I thought it would be. His mansion is nothing short of a pink, fabulous Barbie dream and completely reflects his personality. I would absolutely love living in a place like this. Hey guys, it's Kara and we've been trying something a little different here on this channel. This time we're going to be taking a look at Jeffree Star's mansion and give you all the details on his house tour. Hopefully Jeffree watches this fit and maybe next time I'll get to go over and tour this amazing house in person, but for now it's just us. If you like this idea, I can make more house tour videos like this. We also did one on Bella Thorne's Crazy Pad, the Trippy Twins Fun House, and we'll have the link at the end of this video. I need you to let me know who to do next in the comments down below. We also recently hit 50k subs, we're halfway to 100k so subscribe if you're new. Okay, now let's get into this video. According to the house tour that Jeffree gave Shane Dawson recently, he claims that he has like three houses. So the one that I know of and that he's been more open to show off is the one we'll be talking about today. Jeffree's house is located on Cordova Drive in Calabasas, California and covers 7,100 square feet. According to Zillow.com the house was purchased in 2016 for around 3.6 million, not too shabby. The value has likely increased by at least a million by now and the estimated monthly mortgage payments on this spot will be almost 14,000 a month. It's a gated and private estate which would make sense considering how famous Jeffree is. The lot is approximately 28,000 square feet and includes a four car garage, full views of the mountains and valleys, and more. Inside you'll find nine bedrooms and eight bathrooms which when Jeffree would have purchased the house also included a home theater. When the house was up for sale a couple of years ago it looked a lot different than it does today. Now you'd know right off the bat that it's Jeffree's house considering all of the pink interior. Mirrors, wall upholstery, paint, you name it, it's all right there when you walk into the foyer. The pink interior continues over to the next room where Jeffree has what looks like a mini arcade. There are a ton of pinball machines in this room and Jeffree has said that these are only part of him and his boyfriends collection. Apparently they have a warehouse with over a hundred of them and in the house they only keep the newest ones that they're into playing at the moment. In the same room there's also a fish tank which you guessed it is pink. Jeffree calls it the Barbie fish tank because of this and says that they got one because his boyfriend Nate used to work at a pet store once upon a time. Moving into the big kitchen although the ceiling is brick there's still some pink thanks to the chandelier. Jeffree has said that he doesn't cook though and that Nate is the one who does all of it. Being a YouTuber of course Jeffree has a room where he films his videos. He's full of makeup a lot of which is from his own cosmetic line. Makes sense considering he does a ton of makeup tutorials on his channel. One of the bedrooms upstairs Jeffree calls the red room which is obviously all red. The closet in this room is where Jeffree stuffs all his old clothes that he wears once for like a video or something and doesn't touch again or as he likes to say where the Gucci goes to die. In Jeffree's actual bedroom it's back to the all pink thing which Jeffree calls the Barbie wing. Yes his bedroom is technically its own wing of the mansion. Love it. He even has his own pink room for a toilet and a bidet.  At the time when Jeffree showed Sheen his home his giant luxury closet was still under construction. His closet at the time was still extremely impressive and honestly like its own store. Jeffree guessed that if he was to combine all the jewelry purses, clothes and stuff in this room it would probably be worth about 6 to 7 million. More recently though on his own channel Jeffree gave a personal tour of his finished closet which also doubles as a panic room. Him and Nate still use the old closet which he calls the bedroom closet but now Jeffree has his dream closet as well. To get into the pink ball closet you need to have your retina scanned and Jeffree's fingerprint so I don't think it would ever be possible to rob it. Not to mention it's covered in thick steel and there's an armed gargess chilling inside at all times. Once you're inside it's nothing short of epic and fabulous. The whole closet is decked out in complete Jeffree fashion including his Jeffree star logo on the custom floor.  Jeffree says his faith part of the vault is his Birkenbags. You can tell how impressive his collection is by just looking at it and in case you didn't know the prices of these Birkenbags range from like 11 or 12 grand up to 300,000 bucks so yeah. Anyways there is way too much in his new closet to go over in detail so if you want to see it all you'll just have to watch his video. Outside Jeffree has a giant backyard and property that's super private. I didn't see Jeffree's pool on the house tour video the listing from before he bought the house showed a pretty fancy one in the photos. It actually looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale so I wonder if that's how Jeffree has kept it. Let's not forget the four-car garage. Jeffree's clearly getting used to it considering the car that he has and he's also said that he's a car junkie. Last year Jeffree shared his custom pink Rolls Royce Wraith and even in this video you can see some of his other rides on the driveway. In another vid from last year we can see more of Jeffree's cars. This is also when Jeffree showed off the new Lamborghini Eurus SUV he got to customize another new addition to his car collection. Jeffree's car collection also includes a hot pink Tesla X, a Barbie pink BMW i8 and I'm sure there's more. Oh and he has a private jet too but I don't think he keeps that at the house. After looking at Jeffree's house I definitely feel like it's a place he created to be everything he's ever wanted from the pink interior to the amount of space dedicated to fashion and all of his fancy cars. It's super fancy just like Jeffree and it's enough to make anyone watching feel like a peasant. But my favorite part is definitely his closet. I don't think I've seen anything quite like that it's basically like a designer museum. If you're thinking about visiting or stalking the star I also don't think that would be the best idea. Jeffree has said that he has three armed guards at his place all the time as well as a hundred security cameras so good luck getting past all of that. Jeffree said in his pink vault closet tour video that this particular house is the first house he bought and his favorite. He also thinks he'll stay there forever so I doubt his Barbie dream house will go back on the market anytime soon. All right guys that's everything I could find on Jeffree's mansion. I look forward to reading what you guys think about his over-the-top Barbie dream house. What was your favorite part? Let me know some other celebrity house tour ideas and I'll see you next week with some brand new videos. Bye!