Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the ones ready podcast. We're happy to join us today. We actually have a pretty interesting guest and we I don't

Aaron. I don't think we've actually had somebody from the Navy on yet. I know we've had these on. We've had our

Harry who he is in the Navy. Are you right? That's right. I'm sorry. Sorry, Harry. Man.

I'm going to wait back seven tell and that you screwed that one up. This is a trend level intro. Continue.

Admittedly, I wasn't on the one with Terry, but we had retired command master chief, Jody Fletcher on with us today. Appreciate you joining us, Jody.

Yeah, happy to be here.

Hey, do us a favor. Just so that everybody doesn't have to go to Google and Wikipedia and stuff like that and find out how much of a big deal you actually are.

Why don't you give us a little bit of background about what you did while you're in the Navy?

Well, I'm afraid to find out what you actually see if you got on Wikipedia or Google or the Urban Dictionary. I might have a few entries there. Who knows?

Don't look in there. Don't look at the hellscape. Careful.

I look something up the other day and even it even had me shaking my head. Yeah. So my name is Jody Fletcher and I joined the Navy in 92

and was a special operations independent duty corpsman is what to call them now. It used to be FMF recon IDC might even still be that officially in the books. I don't know, but I did that for like the first 20 technically, I think the 23 or 24 years of my career.

And then I went to command route and retired as a command master chief.

Yeah, I was a military brat. My dad was in the Navy. He was a corpsman with the Marines his entire career as well. And for those of you that don't know, you know, the Marine Corps is technically a part of the Navy, even though they don't always like to admit it, it's the medical stuff is always provided by the Navy, and when you come in the Navy in the corpsman or medical field.

You can go to schools and then kind of get earmarked and basically spend your entire career, which I did with the Marines, and you know, I was in the reconnaissance community was it a Marsock Green Special Operations Command when we stood up. And yeah, I guess that's enough of an intro, maybe.

So, so why does the Marine Corps utilize the Navy primarily for the corpsman?

Well, because they're actually a department of the Navy. And when I mean, so they just it's not like we would.

It's not like space force, if you will, would dip into the Air Force for, I don't know, I guess they do dip in for a capability, but yeah, it's just interesting that they that they always have used Navy corpsman.

Well, and it's so funny because people are always they'll see pictures or whatever and like, oh, you're a Marine. I was like, now I'm in the Navy, I'm sailor.

So I always I always choke and call myself a dirt sailor and all of us FMF, you know, sailors, because there are RPs religious program specialist and there are a few people that do serve with the Marines.

So I was just called as dirt sailors.

But I mean, how, how unique is it for a sailor to be to then become the Marsock, you know, command master chief?

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