Dave Philipps
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26 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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I was really surprised to learn that there could be a serious injury just from riding through the waves.
But when someone explained the physics to me, it made total sense.
When a body standing on a boat slams down into a wave, the body actually acts like a whip crack.
And so a force that might be only six times the force of gravity on the deck, pretty manageable, by the time it whips up to the head is 60 times the force of gravity, which really is the equivalent of a car crash.
When I started talking to rescue crews that are on these boats, many of them talked to me about having headaches or feeling hungover for days after.
And over years of being exposed to this, people developed really serious problems.
It started with sleeplessness and headaches and progressed into anxiety and really serious mood swings.
And some people, as this injury continued to progress, actually died by suicide.
When I reached out to the Coast Guard, all of a sudden they started discussing this and very quickly realized it was a thing, that there's a good chance that their small boat crews are getting brain injured, that they're not tracking it, that they don't have a program in place to help these guys.
And so really in the last couple weeks, they've started looking at people to make sure they're not getting too much exposure and watching for the symptoms that might be signs of a brain injury.
A little over a year ago, the Trump administration announced that they were going to force all transgender service members out of the military.
It was a move that they said was needed to keep the military efficient and to save money.
But what I found in my reporting is that a year later, it seems like the opposite has happened.
The military went into this new policy with no plan of how to carry it out.
And so my reporting showed that all sorts of highly skilled people in the military, people like doctors, lawyers, pilots, people that the government invested heavily in paying for their very expensive education, have been quickly dismissed without an obvious replacement.
And even though they're not in their jobs anymore, they're still on the books.
Many of them, actually most of them, spent months and months
on paid administrative leave, collecting a paycheck but unable to do their jobs.
I spoke to one Navy chief named Parker Moore, who the Navy had spent years training to be a nuclear fission technician on an aircraft carrier.
Essentially, their job was to oversee a whole team of people that made the heart of an aircraft carrier run.
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