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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Austin Von Letkemann, known as “MandatoryFunDay,” 1st Lt. is currently a platoon leader assigned to Alpha Company, 303rd Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion, 504th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade. Von Letkemann creatively uses his free time to make parody videos that apprise the humor of day-to-day military operations, while simultaneously connecting civilians to the everyday life of a service member.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, got the red smoke. |
| 0:04.2 | Okay, gun runs north and south, west of the smoke. |
| 0:10.2 | Okay, copy, west of the smoke. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm looking at danger close now. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm all winning, baby. |
| 0:15.6 | Give it to me. |
| 0:16.1 | I made it. |
| 0:17.1 | You're cleared hot. |
| 0:18.4 | Copy, cleared hot. |
| 0:20.3 | They've seen your darker moments. Well, they're actually probably with me in my darker moments. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good point, yeah. Like a friend is actually somebody who will stand in the rain with you, even if they could be dry. Oh, that's good. That's deep. It's fortune cookie. Deep thoughts with Andy. It was from the Thai Palace downstairs, which they don't use fortune cookies because I think that's Chinese food. But I believe fortune cookies were an American creation. Yeah, American concept. Something about the rain. Yeah, something like that. And then there was another one I said when life gets hard, consider quitting. But I think that was associated with Goggins. So that's a different fortune cookies. Consider quitting. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, God. You ever give people that type of advice? Like, hey man, life is going to be about struggle and pain. Just give up now. Yeah. Like, I don't know. You don't really give that advice? No. Sometimes they do. I mean, sometimes roadblocks are in the way and I think it's a good indicator like, yeah, maybe this isn't the best path. For me, for clarity, I'm looking into the mirror when I give this advice. It's unfortunate because the only thing I can think when I look in the mirror is, God damn it, you're disappointing. Yeah, just wake up in the morning, rub your eyes. |
| 1:29.9 | Hey, buddy, what are you going to fall short of today? |
| 1:35.9 | It's a real positive self-talk. |
| 1:37.7 | Now, the true friends I have, they know who I am. |
| 1:43.0 | They know who I'm not. |
| 1:46.2 | They've been there when I've made mistakes. |
| 1:49.3 | I do try to own my mistakes as soon as I recognize that I made them. |
| 1:54.2 | Everybody's going to, but they also will hold me accountable and call me on my bullshit. |
| 1:55.6 | That's a true friend. |
| 2:01.7 | Somebody who sees something and says, yeah, I'm just not going to say anything because maybe they don't want to have a little bit of conflict or whatever it is. I mean, I'm sure that's a, it's a variation of being a friend, but that's actually not the type of friend that I truly would want. Sure. I'm messing up. Because not, I don't, I don't believe that people, there are people out there who do it, but I I don't think most people intentionally have the desire to every day. |
| 2:24.2 | Just let's see how bad of a person I can be. Yeah. Life happens, |
| 2:30.2 | things happen, but I think true friends will call you on it. Yeah. Another one of the reasons why I said, like, because I don't remember, like, I don't remember even bringing up whether he lied or not or whether I thought he lied or not. |
| 2:37.6 | I remember saying nice things about him based on the interactions we've had. |
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