--- id: VIDEO_360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian-r-r title: "360MEN MUGSHOTS and COFFEE - Dean Rush - Hawaiian R&R" content_kind: video category: Videos corpus_topic: asxer-owners source_kind: youtube youtube_id: "WWS2Cd4qd58" youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS2Cd4qd58 youtube_channel: https://www.youtube.com/@scotomaville youtube_description: "In this MUGSHOTS and COFFEE episode Dean Rush talks about his R&R experience in Hawaii with his new bride Vicki Rush. Dean flew combat missions in Vietnam. They would regularly have shell and rocket attacks while he tried to sleep. It's hard to shake that kind of stuff off. Join the conversation with Dean at [http://360MEN.net](http://360MEN.net)" watch_stem: 360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian-r-r watch_path: /v/360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian-r-r.html related_article: Video/GARWIS_360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian.md summary: "Dean Rush tells the story of his Hawaiian R&R from Vietnam, rolling under the bed when blasting next door sounded like the nightly shelling, while his wife \"literally thought I had lost my wits.\" It is funny and haunting at once. It keeps a combat veteran's testimony in the library. The asxer keeps the same thread for owners in 2026." keypoints: - "In Dean Rush's words, \"she literally thought I had lost my wits.\"" - "[Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian.html)" - "[Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian-r-r.html)" - "[Mission: Staying the Course](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-1-the-long-witness.html)" tags: [asxer, video, m1] consent: owner agent: Asxer Gärwis created: 2026-10-23 updated: 2026-10-23 date: 2018-05-04 vault_stage: 07_CODEX enrich_status: ok enrich_method: bot pipeline_filename: VIDEO_360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian-r-r.md content_status: approved approved_by_daniel: 'APPROVED 2026-10-23 (Daniel, in Asxer''s chat, 4:15 PM PT)' routing_source: carbon prefix: VIDEO headwaters: asxer.com asker_site: asxer.com mission: "M1 Staying the Course" transcript_kind: vault --- # 360MEN MUGSHOTS and COFFEE - Dean Rush - Hawaiian R&R ## Key lessons - In Dean Rush's words, "she literally thought I had lost my wits." - [Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian.html) - [Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/360men-mugshots-and-coffee-dean-rush-hawaiian-r-r.html) - [Mission: Staying the Course](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-1-the-long-witness.html) ## Transcript **Daniel:** Welcome to Cinco Ranch, Texas. It’s a really warm day and come on inside — we get to have coffee with Dean Rush. **Dean Rush:** Thank you, Daniel. Like a lot of other veterans, I could say that there are no glamorous war stories, but this was one that turned out to be rather humorous in the end. But at the time it was kind of wild. I had not seen my wife since departing for the war, and they used to give us a thing called R&R — rest and recuperation — and it kind of got you out of the theater. So Vicki and I decided to meet in Hawaii. I had a friend who had just been on R&R to meet his wife and suggested that we stay at this one certain hotel in Honolulu. We set up reservations at that hotel. She was waiting for me when we arrived there. We were talking — we had about a day to kind of get to know one another a little bit — and we went to bed. You must know that the week before I went on my R&R we had been shelled every night. I worked with a group of Special Forces and the enemy didn’t like us very much, and they sent these shells in every night and rockets. So I had tired of being awake every night and I had built sandbags around my bed. I thought if somebody’s going to hit me they have to hit me directly through the roof. And so every night when the shelling would begin I’d roll off the bed, get under the bed, and just go back to sleep. I had some blankets there and it was not comfortable but I was tired so I would go to sleep. I had to fly the next day. So we arrived in Honolulu and we have time to kind of get to know one another and we’re asleep. Little did I know but next door they were building another hotel and they were blasting. And my wife, who had not seen me in six months, heard me scream when I heard the shells — or I heard what I thought were shells but it was actually dynamiting to build this other hotel. She observed as I rolled off the bed and tried to get under the bed which was probably three inches above the ground and literally was fighting to get under the bed. She thought I had absolutely gone crazy and I guess I was because I looked up and she was fine, the hotel was still there, the room wasn’t shaking — which is normally a result of the rockets. And then I began to explain to her and she literally thought I had lost my wits. We laughed about it later but that night it was pretty horrendous. That’s my story of R&R in Hawaii.