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Speaker 1: Buck Brief. On this episode, our friend Amber Smith joins us.
Speaker 2: She is a.
Speaker 1: Former senior Pentagon official, a former combat helicopter pilot and author.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about a whole range of things. Amber,
Speaker 1: going to see you, my friend, how.
Speaker 3: You been great? To see you good. It's good to
Speaker 3: be on with you.
Speaker 2: So let's start with this one.
Speaker 1: I saw you pop up on Fox and Friends. You're
Speaker 1: talking about something called the Declaration of Military Accountability.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: So it is the brainchild of Navy Commander Rob Green.
Speaker 3: He wrote this letter and sort of rallied the two
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty one of us who signed it. And
Speaker 3: it is a declaration of wanting accountability from senior military
Speaker 3: leaders who unjustly kicked out over eight thousand, you know,
Speaker 3: able bodied, willing to serve, wanting to serve service members.
Speaker 3: The only thing they didn't want to do was taken unproven,
Speaker 3: un approved COVID vaccine. And so the Pentagon doubled down
Speaker 3: and forced them all out in doing so destroyed a
Speaker 3: lot of their lives. They had a lot of them
Speaker 3: lost their pensions, they lost their livelihoods, they lost bonuses,
Speaker 3: and they really lost trust in the institution of the
Speaker 3: military as a whole. And so everybody stood up and said,
Speaker 3: enough is enough. We're going to tell the truth about
Speaker 3: a government institution, which in this case happens to be
Speaker 3: the Pentagon abusing their power. And so we band together
Speaker 3: to say that, you know, we take an oath to
Speaker 3: follow lawful orders of the commanders above us, not unlawful orders.
Speaker 3: And I think that that was sort of a wake
Speaker 3: up call for a lot of officers in the military
Speaker 3: when that COVID order came down, was that they sort
Speaker 3: of just mini commanders just blindly decided to follow that
Speaker 3: order without knowing the facts and why it was an
Speaker 3: unlawful order.
Speaker 1: It's amazing, I think, and really shocking to people to
Speaker 1: think that a lot of career military folks lost their
Speaker 1: jobs in their careers for refusal to take a shot
Speaker 1: that we now know there was no reasonable basis to
Speaker 1: make them take. I mean, this goes beyond No one
Speaker 1: believes now. No one believes now that the vaccine stops
Speaker 1: infection and very few people honestly believe that the vaccine
Speaker 1: or the mRNA shot does very much at all to
Speaker 1: combat COVID in the first place, actually for healthy people,
Speaker 1: and that the risks, especially of mylecarditists, were more substantial
Speaker 1: than we were led to believe.
Speaker 2: This is now all a matter of record.
Speaker 1: Why isn't the military writing this wrong on its own
Speaker 1: amber It seems like it's so straightforward. Why why aren't
Speaker 1: people being restored to their former rank, including all back pay,
Speaker 1: and put on schedule for promotion as though this had
Speaker 1: never happened.
Speaker 3: Because what we see in today's military is pretty much
Speaker 3: anybody O six and above is a politician, and they
Speaker 3: are you know, like look at Secretary Austin, he is
Speaker 3: just pushing a political agenda, President Biden. He's not doing
Speaker 3: what's best for the troops, doing wespress for the military,
Speaker 3: or doing what's best for the American people and the country.
Speaker 3: And it all comes down to our letter, the Declaration
Speaker 3: of Military Accountability, is the military today has become a
Speaker 3: culture of no accountability. If you look back history, if
Speaker 3: you look back at World War two, generals got fired,
Speaker 3: they were given a few months if they couldn't hack
Speaker 3: it if they had poor decision making, poor leadership, poor performance,
Speaker 3: they got fired and somebody else came in who could
Speaker 3: do the job. Fast forward Vietnam, you started to see
Speaker 3: generals not really getting fired much anymore, and that's because
Speaker 3: there was a drastic shift in leadership at the Pentagon
Speaker 3: where they saw an individual general getting fired as a
Speaker 3: black eye on the military institution as a whole, and
Speaker 3: it was a pr nightmare to them. So what did
Speaker 3: they do. They circled the wagons and you rarely rarely
Speaker 3: see a military general get fired today for performance, maybe
Speaker 3: for conduct, but not for performance. And that's exactly the
Speaker 3: military that we see today. No one has been held
Speaker 3: accountable for Afghanistan or the withdrawal, No one has been
Speaker 3: held accountable for the unlawful implementation of the COVID nineteen vaccine.
Speaker 3: They're not even held accountable for, you know, the hundred
Speaker 3: of billions into trillions of dollars that's unaccountable in these
Speaker 3: audits that they can't pass. So you cannot have an
Speaker 3: effective military without accountability. And that's exactly why we are
Speaker 3: seeing the military the Pentagon in a downworld spiral right now.
Speaker 3: The double standards, the two tier justice system, and in
Speaker 3: this case lawlessness. What happens when you get away with lawlessness,
Speaker 3: you're likely allowed to are you? You're likely to push
Speaker 3: the boundaries again? So what's next? What's next? There's no
Speaker 3: accountability for their actions they now think they can get
Speaker 3: away with.
Speaker 1: When we come back amber in a second, I just
Speaker 1: want to I want you to answer this question, but
Speaker 1: hold off on it.
Speaker 2: For a moment.
Speaker 1: But the question I want to post to you is
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Speaker 1: what can be done to put it this way? Actually
Speaker 1: kind of a redo of the question, similar question. If
Speaker 1: you get a Republican probably Trump probably, If you got
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Speaker 1: that Republican do to fix the military?
Speaker 3: They need to recall some generals who have retired and
Speaker 3: show the military, like the generals who are currently serving,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get away with lawlessness. We are
Speaker 3: a nation of laws, and if you break those laws
Speaker 3: and you're going to get brought back on the service
Speaker 3: and you're going to face a court martial and all
Speaker 3: the consequences that come with that, that will send a
Speaker 3: very strong message to the military. And what's sort of
Speaker 3: ironic is that during the Trump administration you saw people
Speaker 3: including General Millie get up on a soapbox non stop
Speaker 3: and talk about how the oath that a service member
Speaker 3: takes is not to the president of the United States,
Speaker 3: it's to the Constitution. Where were all of those generals
Speaker 3: who were talking about that when this COVID vaccine mandate
Speaker 3: came down. Their point was they didn't like the president
Speaker 3: of the United States at the time, and what they were,
Speaker 3: you know, the agenda that of a certain president. So
Speaker 3: I and I'm specifically pointing to General Milli here and
Speaker 3: some of his comments and going back to that two
Speaker 3: tiered justice system and double standards. General Milly got away
Speaker 3: with conspiring with Nancy Pelosi about how to take nuclear
Speaker 3: strike authority away from an elected president of the United States.
Speaker 3: He called his counterparts in China twice saying he would
Speaker 3: give him notice of a military strike ahead of time.
Speaker 3: Once again, where's that accountability? Where's the accountability for General
Speaker 3: mill Milly. The next president, like you said, likely President
Speaker 3: Trump coming into office, he wants to make the military
Speaker 3: great again. He is fine with he likes to fire
Speaker 3: people who aren't performing. He needs to make fix seeing
Speaker 3: the Department of Defense and these rogue generals a priority
Speaker 3: because the way it is right now. The military is
Speaker 3: just it is at a loss right now when it
Speaker 3: comes to leadership, and it is drastically needed. And like
Speaker 3: I said, you can't have an effective military without strong
Speaker 3: generals that are not politicians. And that's not what we
Speaker 3: have right now. We have political generals every single day.
Speaker 3: You know, we in closer to World War three, and
Speaker 3: now is the time when we need the strongest, most best,
Speaker 3: elite military leaders in the world, and instead we have
Speaker 3: Washington DC politicians in the uniform.
Speaker 1: It's very troubling, that's for sure. How how much is
Speaker 1: the issue of wokeness in the military and the social
Speaker 1: engineering from the left? Is it exaggerated in your mind
Speaker 1: a little bit in conservative media? Is it as much
Speaker 1: of a problem as everyone's telling us all the time on.
Speaker 2: The right that it is. How do you see it?
Speaker 2: How does it manifest?
Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's not exaggerated. I have done extensive
Speaker 3: research on this. I've got a book coming out on
Speaker 3: this called Unfit to Fight. It is that goes over
Speaker 3: DEI CRT critical race theory h and how it has
Speaker 3: infiltrated the military West points, all the military academies, these
Speaker 3: new young lieutenants coming in to service who are leading
Speaker 3: troops on the battlefield. Instead of studying military history and strategy,
Speaker 3: they're focusing on how they can be more inclusive of
Speaker 3: their service members. And the I tell you what, the
Speaker 3: military has got to get back to being a meritocracy
Speaker 3: and focusing on pushing forward the best people for the
Speaker 3: job instead of you know, match, instead of looking to
Speaker 3: meet dei quotas and what's making people feel good. The
Speaker 3: military is not college. The military is not a place
Speaker 3: where people go to find themselves. The military is a
Speaker 3: very specific job. You were there to serve your country
Speaker 3: and go to war if necessary. You want the best
Speaker 3: people to your left and your right, regardless of your gender,
Speaker 3: regardless of your color, regardless of what your political beliefs are.
Speaker 3: You got to know that that person's gonna you know,
Speaker 3: has those American values that they care about America, and
Speaker 3: instead they're being taught in not only public schools in America,
Speaker 3: but these military academies as well that Hey, maybe America
Speaker 3: is the problem, Maybe America is an oppressor. Maybe you're
Speaker 3: not getting a fair shot because you live in America.
Speaker 3: Which anybody that's older than you know or should know
Speaker 3: above twenty five years old, twenty That is the exact opposite.
Speaker 3: You have every opportunity in the world, which is why
Speaker 3: you see everybody trying to come to our country, so
Speaker 3: it is not inflated in terms of the woke problems
Speaker 3: in the mility, Harry, there are the problems. It's a
Speaker 3: very very long list, you know. Focusing on transgender inclusiveness
Speaker 3: and building new bathrooms and non binary studies. That is
Speaker 3: not what the military needs to be focusing on. That's
Speaker 3: not what they need to be spending their budget on.
Speaker 3: But also we need to look at Congress and how
Speaker 3: about some budget accountability when it comes to what they're
Speaker 3: allowing the Department of Defense to get away with with
Speaker 3: their massive, massive budgets.
Speaker 1: Hamber, I have a very different kind of question, a
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Speaker 1: All right, last one for you, Amber, And you know
Speaker 1: she's a mom also, she's a wife.
Speaker 2: She's a mom.
Speaker 1: And she's got an English bulldog, which always gets me
Speaker 1: so excited. I have an adorable Australian labordodle. She's a
Speaker 1: little puppy. It's amazing. She's why I have scratches for people.
Speaker 1: You can see I have score. It's all from the
Speaker 1: labradoodle playing and you know all the.
Speaker 2: Rest of it. She's very cute though.
Speaker 1: But I've told my wife I want to get an
Speaker 1: English bulldog to keep the labradoodle company. What do you
Speaker 1: think of this idea as an English bulldog owner?
Speaker 3: So I was gonna say, because I know you like Frenchies,
Speaker 3: So what was the Why did you go with the
Speaker 3: labradoodle over the frenchie? Was it the snoring? Because that
Speaker 3: I get it. If that was it?
Speaker 2: Because I'm married and that's what my wife wanted.
Speaker 1: Okay, but are you familiar with this thing in marriage
Speaker 1: where the wife gets what she wants amber because I
Speaker 1: think I.
Speaker 3: Wanted an English bulldog.
Speaker 2: Yes, look at that.
Speaker 3: So I would say, of course, your labradoodle needs a
Speaker 3: best friend, and no better best friend than an English
Speaker 3: bulldog as long as, uh, like, if the labradoodle sleeps
Speaker 3: in the same room as you, I would just say,
Speaker 3: I don't think that's gonna fly with the English bulldog,
Speaker 3: Like if you like sleep they sing?
Speaker 2: Is a snoring that bad?
Speaker 3: The snoring is that bad? It is? It's like house shaking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's rare the labradoodle.
Speaker 3: She slept, She slept, the snub nosed, she slept up.
Speaker 1: Against my shoulder last night, like a little bunny rabbit
Speaker 1: or something. And she quiet as a mouse. So you're saying,
Speaker 1: I can't have that with an English bulldog.
Speaker 3: I mean, cuddle all day long. But like the sleeping thing.
Speaker 2: Wow, snoring thing.
Speaker 3: I mean unless like the snoring super bothers me. So
Speaker 3: if it doesn't bother you, then you'll be fine. But
Speaker 3: they it's like sleep apnea for bulldogs.
Speaker 2: Yes, we can't have that.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Amber, when's your book coming out?
Speaker 3: My book will be out in April, so we still
Speaker 3: have a little bit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come. We're gonna have a whole thing here.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about your book. Last book was great, Danger Close.
Speaker 1: This one's gonna be fantastic. Amber Smith, everybody, Amber, thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 3: Great to see you back.
Speaker 2: Thanks, take care,