AUTO-GENERATED TRANSCRIPT: Hey greetings everyone, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West here and welcome to the Steadfast and Loyal program.[MUSIC][ALLEN WEST] Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the Steadfast and Loyal program. You know, living in Texas, this place just has a wealth of history. Just recently driving down to Port Aransas, we went through Gonzales and we went through Goliad and pulled my wife over and we stopped there La Bahia and we saw the site where Colonel James Fannin and his men were executed by the Mexicans, some 400. Now this month is the 200th anniversary of the Texas Rangers, one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in North America. And so I couldn't think of a better person to talk to about this 200th anniversary than former Texas Ranger Joe Davis who is a fifth-generation Texan and a descendant of George Lamb who fought and was killed at the Battle of San Jacinto for the independence of Texas. He was accepted into the DPS Academy in February of 1963 and in 1968 was promoted to agent in the DPS Intelligence Service station in Houston. He was appointed as a Texas Ranger on the 1st of October 1969. He is now the past president of the former Texas Rangers Association and current president of the former Texas Rangers Foundation and we're joined by Joe Davis right now. It's good to see you Joe. How are you doing? [RANGER DAVIS] Everything's going well, Allen. Just trying to fight this heat that's in Texas but we're doing that well and having a great summer in Fredericksburg. [ALLEN WEST] Yes sir. Well stay inside, drink a lot of tea or lemonade and water and just stay in the air conditioning. Let's talk about this month because it was 200 years ago in August of 1823 when Stephen F. Austin called forward for the first 10 Texas Rangers. You having served as a Texas Ranger, what does this mean for you? Well, you know Stephen F. Austin of course is known as the father of Texas and he brought the first colonists into Texas about 1821 and then of course 1823 saw a need to protect them and that need was fulfilled by 10 men that he hired, became known as Rangers and their job was to protect the settlers that he brought in and little did he probably know at that time when he hired the first 10 that they'd be around for the next 200 years and as a young man growing up, young boy growing up here in Texas and I've become kind of fascinated with the history of Texas and the history of the Rangers and so growing up I made a commitment that one day I'd like to be a Texas Ranger. You know the interesting thing when you think about the state of Texas before there was the Republic of Texas, before there was the state of Texas, there were Texas Rangers so they were there guarding something that had not yet come into its full fulfillment. So you have been the past president of the former Texas Ranger Association and that's an organization that was founded in 1897 so it's about 125 or plus years of age and now you're the president of the former Texas Ranger Foundation and that's been around for over 50 years. So you're kind of a keeper of an incredible legacy. What does that mean for you to be the the guardian of that Texas Ranger folklore and that legacy? Well of course growing up and as I said and then actually becoming a Texas Ranger, it's been a part of my life actually I guess since I was about 14 when I first wrote that letter to Colonel Garrison who was then chief of the Texas Rangers inquiring about the Texas Rangers and he sent me a badge which I have still have and it's hanging in my office. So they've been a part of my life I guess since I was 14 and being a native Texan in the background of the history of my family it really means a lot to be able to be a part of this great history of this state. I thank God every day that I was born in this state and was able to serve as a ranger and be a part of that history and continue to do so today. So what are some of the events that the former Texas Ranger Foundation has plan