--- id: 20261008_143000_randy-360men-hawaiian-rr-tape title: 'Dean Rush: Hawaiian R&R (360MEN Mugshots and Coffee with Daniel Comp)' category: Videos content_kind: video source_kind: youtube youtube_id: WWS2Cd4qd58 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS2Cd4qd58 youtube_title: '360MEN: MUGSHOTS and COFFEE - Dean Rush - Hawaiian R&R' youtube_channel: '@scotomaville' youtube_channel_url: 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) youtube_duration: '3:29' source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS2Cd4qd58 source_date: '2018-05-04' watch_stem: dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-honolulu-blasting-under-the-bed-vickie watch_path: /v/dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-honolulu-blasting-under-the-bed-vickie.html summary: Dean Rush tells Daniel Comp a Vietnam story that was only funny later. The week before his R&R, his base was shelled every night, so he built sandbags around his bed and trained himself to roll under it and go back to sleep. In Honolulu with Vickie, whom he hadn't seen in six months, construction blasting next door sent him screaming off the bed and fighting to get under it. She thought he had lost his wits. They laughed about it later. keypoints: - Dean flew in Vietnam with a group of Special Forces; the week before R&R his base was shelled every night. - 'He built sandbags around his bed and learned to roll under it at the first shell and go back to sleep: ''I had to fly the next day.''' - On R&R in Honolulu with Vickie, construction blasting next door sent him rolling off the bed, fighting to get under it. - Vickie thought he had lost his wits; the room wasn't shaking, the hotel was still there. They laughed about it later. - War trains reflexes that don't switch off in a safe place (Flying Free, Chapter 8, Know Your Cockpit; Psalm 55:6). - 'Companion article on Ask Dean (see Articles): Under the Bed in Honolulu: Dean Rush''s Hawaiian R&R, Read Back Like a Flight Log' tags: - 360men - mugshots-and-coffee - dean-rush - daniel-comp - hawaiian-r-and-r - vietnam - veterans - shelling - honolulu - vickie-rush - know-your-cockpit - preparation - psalm-55 - wings-like-a-dove - rest - flying-free - flight-log - youtube corpus_topic: 360MEN Mugshots and Coffee sentiment: Conversational sycophancy: 0 truth_score: 8 entropy: 3 sample: false consent: public agent: randy created: '2026-10-08' updated: '2026-10-08' date: '2026-10-08' vault_stage: 07_CODEX enrich_status: ok enrich_blockers: [] enrich_method: bot pipeline_filename: VIDEO_dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-honolulu-blasting-under-the-bed-vickie.md content_status: approved routing_source: carbon prefix: randy headwaters: randy asker_site: ask.deanrush.net question: What happened on Dean Rush's Hawaiian R&R from Vietnam, as he tells Daniel Comp on 360MEN Mugshots and Coffee? owner: dean drafted_by: randy requested_by: Daniel Comp (co-founder and steward) voice: dean_first_person interviewer: Daniel Comp (360MEN host; co-founder and steward of Intelligent Netware) book_url: https://deanrush.net/downloads/flyingfreebook.md related_article: /a/RANDY_dean-rush-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-under-the-bed-know-your-cockpit-psalm-55-6-wings-like-a-dove-rest.html cross_links: - 'Be Strong and Courageous: Dean Rush''s Three Life Lessons, Read Back Like a Flight Log: https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-three-life-lessons-be-strong-and-courageous-deuteronomy-31-6-even-in-the-face-of-your-enemy-flying-free-check-your-instruments.html' - 'Dean Rush: 3 Life Lessons (360MEN Mugshots and Coffee with Daniel Comp): https://ask.deanrush.net/v/dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-3-life-lessons-grandfather-porch-swing-vietnam-deuteronomy-31-6-empowerment-listening.html' - 'Under the Bed in Honolulu: Dean Rush''s Hawaiian R&R, Read Back Like a Flight Log: https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-under-the-bed-know-your-cockpit-psalm-55-6-wings-like-a-dove-rest.html' - 'Playing As If His Life Depended on It: Dean Rush on Basketball, Read Back Like a Flight Log: https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-basketball-father-hay-balers-scholarship-think-straight-romans-12-12-joyful-in-hope-team-dynamics.html' - 'Dean Rush: Basketball (360MEN Mugshots and Coffee with Daniel Comp): https://ask.deanrush.net/v/dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-basketball-farm-hay-balers-college-scholarship-team-dynamics-christ-in-the-workplace.html' - 'Dean Rush Reads Flying Free, Chapter One (video): https://ask.deanrush.net/v/dean-rush-reads-flying-free-chapter-one-steady-as-you-go-eagle-free-fall-crisis-opportunity.html' - 'When Life Pushes You Out of the Nest (article): https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-reads-flying-free-chapter-one-eagle-out-of-the-nest-crisis-to-opportunity-maintain-control.html' approved_by: dean approved_quote: Approved approval_message_id: msg_bc827082219b47488cb7e15d8350c2f7 approval_rfc822_message_id: approval_thread_id: thr_136b4ae62aca46d686e6f9f08e74c52a approval_inbox: randy@deanrush.net approved_at: '2026-10-08T14:07:38-07:00' owner_change_request: 'Modify Deuteronomy 31: by adding at the end … Even in the face of your enemy' preauthorized_by: 'Daniel Comp (co-founder and steward), in chat 2026-10-08: post on Dean''s APPROVED' transcript_kind: owner_cleaned_transcript_lightly_edited transcript_note: 'Daniel Comp''s cleaned transcript (danielcomp.com/kb/Video/Transcripts), lightly edited by Randy: names spelled as in Flying Free; speaker labels checked; Dean''s spoken words otherwise kept, including spoken retellings that differ from printed sources. Randy did not watch the video.' --- # Dean Rush: Hawaiian R&R (360MEN Mugshots and Coffee with Daniel Comp) Dean Rush talks with his longtime friend Daniel Comp for the 360MEN series "Mugshots and Coffee" (YouTube, @scotomaville, 2018-05-04, about 3½ minutes). ## Key lessons - Dean flew in Vietnam with a group of Special Forces; the week before R&R his base was shelled every night. - He built sandbags around his bed and learned to roll under it at the first shell and go back to sleep: 'I had to fly the next day.' - On R&R in Honolulu with Vickie, construction blasting next door sent him rolling off the bed, fighting to get under it. - Vickie thought he had lost his wits; the room wasn't shaking, the hotel was still there. They laughed about it later. - War trains reflexes that don't switch off in a safe place (Flying Free, Chapter 8, Know Your Cockpit; Psalm 55:6). Read Randy's flight-log article on this talk: [Under the Bed in Honolulu: Dean Rush's Hawaiian R&R, Read Back Like a Flight Log](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-under-the-bed-know-your-cockpit-psalm-55-6-wings-like-a-dove-rest.html) ## Transcript _Edited transcript. This is Daniel Comp's cleaned transcript of the interview, lightly edited by Randy: names are spelled as in Flying Free (Vickie), and speaker labels were checked. Otherwise Dean's spoken words are kept as he said them, including places where his spoken retelling differs from printed sources. Randy did not watch the video._ **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 Vickie 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. --- [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS2Cd4qd58) · [Read the article](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-hawaiian-r-and-r-vietnam-shelling-under-the-bed-know-your-cockpit-psalm-55-6-wings-like-a-dove-rest.html) · Flying Free: [Chapter 8, Know Your Cockpit](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/flying-free-08-know-your-cockpit.html) · [Chapter 1, Steady As You Go](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/flying-free-01-steady-as-you-go.html) · [the whole book](https://deanrush.net/downloads/flyingfreebook.md) ## More from Dean's coffee talks with Daniel - **3 Life Lessons:** [Be Strong and Courageous (article)](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-three-life-lessons-be-strong-and-courageous-deuteronomy-31-6-even-in-the-face-of-your-enemy-flying-free-check-your-instruments.html) · [Dean Rush: 3 Life Lessons (video)](https://ask.deanrush.net/v/dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-3-life-lessons-grandfather-porch-swing-vietnam-deuteronomy-31-6-empowerment-listening.html) - **Basketball:** [Playing As If His Life Depended on It (article)](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-basketball-father-hay-balers-scholarship-think-straight-romans-12-12-joyful-in-hope-team-dynamics.html) · [Dean Rush: Basketball (video)](https://ask.deanrush.net/v/dean-rush-mugshots-and-coffee-basketball-farm-hay-balers-college-scholarship-team-dynamics-christ-in-the-workplace.html) - **Also on Ask Dean:** [Dean Rush Reads Flying Free, Chapter One (video)](https://ask.deanrush.net/v/dean-rush-reads-flying-free-chapter-one-steady-as-you-go-eagle-free-fall-crisis-opportunity.html) · [When Life Pushes You Out of the Nest (article)](https://ask.deanrush.net/a/RANDY_dean-rush-reads-flying-free-chapter-one-eagle-out-of-the-nest-crisis-to-opportunity-maintain-control.html) · [All of Dean's videos](https://ask.deanrush.net/v/index.html)