Will, I am at Upstate Warrior Solutions, 770 Pelham Road, The Rupert Hughes Building. And I'm actually supposed to be sitting here with sir Serge McAvoy, but as is the case in sometimes live radio, which is a fluid situation, he has not sat down with me. I know that here at Upstate Warrior Solutions that they are, celebrating. Oh, there's Serge. Just remember this Serge.
Okay. Let me hear you. Test one two. There we go. We're we're we're live now.
Too late too late to be testing anything, sir. Too late for that. So joining me now, live radio is very dramatic, Serge. It's Serge McAvoy. He is the warrior advocate at Upstate Warrior Solutions.
And, it is the 200 birthday of the US army. Who? Who? So just just to get a head count, how many army do I have in here? I I I got two right there.
One Alright. Three, four Five. Five, six, and Charlotte walked out. That's good. They were gonna substitute a marine for you.
I heard. For how old is the marine corps? They're about to be two fifty as well. Later? Later.
We were first. I wasn't a member when they started, but I feel like it sometimes. So what's going what's what's what's happening at Upstate Warrior Solutions? What what tell me about the 200 birthday. What have we been doing?
Yeah. So, last last Friday on the thirteenth, we hosted the two hundred and fiftieth, army birthday here at the Rupert Hughes Veterans Center. We had a little over a 100, people in attendance, and we were able to recognize, because we had the, formal official army cake cutting ceremony. And so we had a captain Jones who turned a 102 on that Friday. So he was our oldest veteran there.
And then we had a younger, army vet as well. And so it was super cool. It was great turnout. And and other than that, I mean, we're just we're getting out there and we're trying to get a parachute, hung up inside the building, as a, a piece of heritage kinda like at Fort Benning, the home be out there in the entryway? Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. I saw the place to stick one up where it would actually mean anything, isn't it? Yeah. Exactly. So they want me to be up there.
They said I'm a paratroopers. The They want you to hang from the ceiling? Yeah. They do. They said everybody'd be able to see me now.
How will you answer the phone if you're hanging from the ceiling? I'll have the a cool headset on. Okay. Yeah. Wait.
You know? That that just covers one aspect of the day, though, Serge. I mean, there's other things that come along. Right? Right.
Right. Anyway, whoever had the idea to, hang you from the ceiling, just let them hang the Parachute? Parachute. Without me. And imagine.
Yeah. Use your imagination. I like that. Don't wanna put no humans underneath the parachute. No.
We don't wanna talk about what I think about airborne either, so that's another another thing altogether. So, it's been a while since I've been here because we did it so early on last month. So what else is going on as far as up Upstate Warrior Solutions with the birthday and everything? Like, now you don't have to change the clock. Yeah.
So, if you pay attention to the news, our, our commander in chief has, renamed some of those bases that were changed, but they did it strategically to where it's not it's the same name, but it's actually a different person. Right. So they can't get out there and say it was a confederate. Exactly. Yeah.
See, over here on the wall, they have Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and that's been this way since I started coming here. It's been there since we And even what what did they change Fort Bragg to? Fort Liberty. Yep. What a bunch of squishes.
So now it's Fort Bragg again. When you think about Fort Bragg, you think special forces and snake eaters and all those kind of guys, all that crazy stuff that goes on at Fort Bragg. Yeah. So so what so what are we doing? So, we've been doing a lot of outdoor, recreation opportunities, over the last month.
We went out to Western North Carolina, with a group called OWG. He's a ...