Great interview. Glad to see that you were able to realize the path you were on by drinking too much and able to turn your life around. So many people are unable to do so. Thanks for your service and best of luck to you in your life in Kaohsiung (the city I'm hoping to retire in down the road).
@@ColeFogle thanks so much young 大鬍子叔叔🧔🤙🏽🤝🏽🫶🏽😂 Thank God for blessing the people of Taiwan and the friends of Western countries who love this island🙏🏽😼💪🏾
I’m from Hong Kong. Not quite sure why RU-vid recommended me this video. RU-vid seems to understand that I will like this video. I admitted that I like this video. What Chris said inspired me. Good job. 👍🏼
Would like to hear more about @uncle Topher's realization about being in the army, and the process of growing up, and the struggles and how to overcome, I think that's a very unique experience he has and that not many other RU-vid has!!
I really enjoyed this interview. Topher spoke very sincerely and shared his military experience in a neutral way. He also shared a lot of his thoughts on different cultures. He truly feels like a super cool Captain America!
For any stable food made from animals like Chicken, Pork, Beef, duck, goose, and so on, in our Chinese culture and ways of people living back in history, we would make every bit of these animals possible into food, because it's rare back in history, and without modern way of preserving food like using regi. It's even more difficult to make enough food. So, I think that it's a life custom passed down generations, and normally, we hate wasting food. Probably that's part of culture shock for him.
It can be a bumpy ride to take a ferry for incessantly several hours. Once I took a ferry from Kauhsiung to Penghu and I hadn't expected the wind so strong until the ferry left the harbor for almost one hour.Amost all the passengers stayed in the chamber but I felt it was so badly ventilated that I began to vomit. Finally I got out to the deck to breathe the fresh air. The waves were so violent that sometimes they sprayed up to 10 meters high and splashed over the gunwales. My clothes got wet all over.
3:58 Here is what a static line accident looks like (static lines go under the arm) and the rescue procedure: RU-vid - C-130J completed Towed Para-trooper emergency.
I was in a boarding school in the UK back when 911 happens and my roommate was an American whose father worked in the twin towers! Very lucky his father just came over to see him!
The 101st is legendary and instrumental during the Iraq War. I would disagree on that it was all about natural resources because we got nothing out of the country which eventually gave all the extraction contracts to China and France. Furthermore, Iraq has a democratically elected government for the first time and is fighting terrorists who would have tried to infiltrate us otherwise.
The background in this video initially looks AI-generated because it's so stunning, but the occasional appearance of pedestrians and a squirrel made me realize it's real! I'm a new subscriber to Uncle Topher's channel, and I'm really enjoying the content he's creating. His epiphany about wasting time in life reminded me of Metallica's 'Sad but True.' The wisdom he shared at the end of the video was both true and uplifting. I can really resonate with his insights, and that's why I enjoyed watching this video. Definitely two thumbs up!
Most if not all veterans have PTSD. People just don't talk about it. Time was very rough even only 50 60 years ago. Too many people don't read history and history repeats itself. I am definitely grateful for what we have achieved today.