1 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: Have you ever done one of those mental experiments, or 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: or read a book, or maybe watching a documentary of 3 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: a war from the other person's side, from the other 4 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: person's perspective. 5 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 2: It's fascinating. 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: I love this stuff, not that I try to have 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: sympathy for the enemies of my country, but I've read 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: these accounts before. I've read Vietnamese accounts of what it 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: was like with American bombers overhead. There are several still surviving, 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: as you can imagine, Japanese. 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: Accounts of what it was like there. 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: So obviously we're about to talk about the United States military, 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: but I want to talk about this really quickly because 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: it explains why I'm so passionate about having a strong 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: military and why I am so terrified at the rot 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: that has taken place inside of ours. If you read 17 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: a Japanese account of being bombed, you know, everyone knows 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but those are honestly a tiny 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: fraction of how much bombing we did in Japan. Virtually 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: every major city, not every major city, but pretty much every. 21 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: Major city in Japan. We reduced it to rubble. 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: And to hear the accounting of what it's like when 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: you could hear the planes coming. Am I going to 24 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: make it to the bomb shelter in time? My kids 25 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: there at school. I hope they got out, Okay, I 26 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: won't know till well, who knows when. Maybe that bomb 27 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: got them, Maybe it'll get me. The terror that it 28 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: sounds horrifying to have a foreign army come into your 29 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: country and bomb you to powder. And then the training, 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: the fear they felt when they thought we were going 31 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: to invade, because we were going to invade, and if 32 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: they hadn't surrendered, the absolute abject terror. You're a woman 33 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: doing bamboo spear training with your children, that level of terror, 34 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: But that can happen here. You realize that we here 35 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: in the United States of America, we have been blessed, 36 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: no matter how old you are watching me right now, 37 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: if you're ninety five or five, the entirety of your life, 38 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: we've been untouchable in that regard. Number One biggest, baddest 39 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 1: military in the world, two gigantic oceans on each side. 40 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 2: Oh, we may lose. 41 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: Something here or there, or a regional conflict, we may 42 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: get attacked, but no one's ever coming to the homeland. 43 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: We're never going to lose a major war. 44 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: We always win those. We're two for two, after all. 45 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: But that's not true. Every society in history they've gotten really, 46 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: really strong, the big ones, they've gotten really strong on 47 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: the backs of their military, and the citizens in the 48 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: those societies convinced themselves for the longest time that they 49 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: could never be beaten, that they were untouchable. Our military 50 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: always wins, but that is not how history goes. Eventually, 51 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: you send that invincible army off to war and it 52 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: doesn't come back again. And you wake up one morning 53 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: looking around saying, wait, what that can't happen. How could 54 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: that have happened? Well, let's talk about how could that 55 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: have happened. It's happening right now in front of your eyes. 56 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: How can a military so big, so powerful, so invincible, 57 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: how could it ever be beaten? Well, things like Afghanistan 58 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: an image an international videos seen so many times around 59 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: the globe, so representative of the international embarrassment brought to 60 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: us by the Biden administration. The American military waking up 61 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: one day and just decide, and we're leaving, and the 62 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: Sea one thirty goes scurrying off the runway in international 63 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: disgrace and embarrassment. 64 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: What a spit in the face. It is of the. 65 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: Men and women who gave their blood and their lives 66 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: and that country for twenty years. And then it's not 67 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: just the embarrassment part of it. How can a military 68 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: rot so quickly? Well, In the military, accountability is everything. 69 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: And we always knew that. I knew that as a young, dumb, 70 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: enlisted grunt. Accountability is everything. Succeed or fail. If you fail, 71 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: there will be accountability here in our military now it 72 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: has been so rotted out within by the officer corps. 73 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: The freaking chairman of the Joint Chiefs will bomb ten 74 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,799 Speaker 1: innocent people in response to a terrorist attack, ten innocent people, 75 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: six of them children in Afghanistan, and he'll stare right 76 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: in the camera and call it righteous. 77 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: We know from a variety of other means that at 78 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 3: least one of those people that were killed was a 79 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 3: ISIS facilitator. So were there are others killed? Yes, there 80 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 3: are others killed. Who they are we don't know. 81 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 2: We'll try to. 82 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 3: Sort through all that, but we believe that the procedures 83 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 3: at this point, I don't want to influence the outcome 84 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 3: of an investigation, but at this point we think that 85 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 3: the procedures were correctly followed, and it was a righteous strike. 86 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: A righteous strike, But it wasn't. They made it all up. 87 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: We vaporized ten innocent people on our way out of 88 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: the country, and nobody was held accountable for it at all. 89 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 2: No accountability, accountability is gone. 90 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: How could a military get so weak? Well, it's also 91 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: the people you bring into the military. You see the 92 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: people you bring in, they're the ones who run. It 93 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: kind of goes without saying, who are you bringing in? Well, 94 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: you see that military, those army rangers scaling the cliffs 95 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: on d Day of Normandy. 96 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,679 Speaker 2: Do you think they would have signed up to join. 97 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: In a military whose advertisements were this. 98 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 4: This is the story of a soldier who operates your 99 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 4: nation's patriot missile defense systems. It begins in California with 100 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 4: a little girl raised by two moms. I also marched 101 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 4: for equality. I like to think I've been defending freedom 102 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 4: from an early age. Sure, I'd spent my life around 103 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 4: inspiring women, But what had I really achieved on my own? 104 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 4: One of my sorority sisters was studying abroad in Italy, 105 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 4: another was climbing Mount Everest. I needed my own adventures, 106 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 4: my own challenge, and after meeting with an armor recruiter. 107 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 4: I found it a way to prove my inner strength 108 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 4: and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way. 109 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: The people who win your wars for you don't join 110 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: militaries like that. 111 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: They go do something else. 112 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: They go become cops, firemen, part of their community. They 113 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: don't join the military. But you will get a bunch 114 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: of vile little communists joining your military with ads like that, 115 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: and they will rot it out from within. Now, what 116 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: are we going to do about it? Well, Pete hag Seth, 117 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: sure sounds like the right man for the job. 118 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 2: You're precisely right. 119 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 5: The military was a forerunner in courageous racial integration in 120 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 5: ways no other institutions were willing to do. 121 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 2: I served with. 122 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 5: Men and women of all backgrounds because of. 123 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: The courage of people day. It's most incredibly important. 124 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 5: However, the DEI policies of today are not the same 125 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 5: as what happened back then. They're dividing troops inside formations, 126 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 5: causing commanders to walk on eggshells, not putting meritocracy first. 127 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 5: That's the indictment that's made by those serving right now, 128 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 5: and why we're having this conversation. 129 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: Sounds like the right man for the job. We need 130 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: him and we need a lot of reform. He has 131 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: a monumental task ahead of him because the largest, most 132 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: well funded military in the world is not ready for 133 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: prime time. That's the truth, Pete. Better get us there. 134 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: All that may have made you uncomfortable, but. 135 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: I am right. We have an incredible show for you. 136 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 6: We'll be back. 137 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 3: Don't lecture me about women in combat. Women have been 138 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,719 Speaker 3: in combat, and it doesn't matter if that's seven to 139 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: six to two hits you in the chest. No one 140 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 3: gives if it's a woman or a guy who pulled 141 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: that trit you're still dead. So if you meet the standards, 142 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 3: our military must be and always should be, a standards based, 143 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 3: merit based military, period full stop. It doesn't matter if 144 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 3: you're white, if you're black, if you're a man, if 145 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 3: you're a woman, if you're a Catholic, you're a Protestant. 146 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 3: None of those identification things matter. What matters are standards, 147 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 3: readiness standards. Do you meet the standard or not? If yes, 148 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 3: pasco collecting hundred join the infantry. 149 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 2: But that's not at all how it works. 150 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: You see what drives me crazy is that's the argument 151 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: of an ignorant civilian. Well, all they have to do 152 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: is shoot the bullet hits just the same. The life 153 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: in the infantry is a physical life, very very physical. 154 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 2: It's grueling and it grinds you down to the nubs. It's 155 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: not shooting. Joining me now, Jason. 156 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,199 Speaker 1: Nelson, US Army Marine Corps veteran Jason, Praise God, that 157 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: freaking guy's gone. They even took his portrait out of 158 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: the Pentagon. 159 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 7: I you know, there are very few things that I 160 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 7: cannot wait to see, and one of those things to 161 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 7: watch those partons get thrown off the door. The Private 162 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 7: Millie can spend some time at Levenworth and I don't 163 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 7: know he could talk about equity or whatever he wants. 164 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 7: Is he's working the cowl line and dealing with all 165 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 7: the convicts over there. It's then, it's monstrosity the what 166 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 7: the military has become. 167 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 8: Jesse. It's absolutely ridiculous. 168 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 7: The fact is is that readiness is down across the board. 169 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 7: They had to change the PT test even lower to 170 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 7: get lower lower standards to be able to continue to 171 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 7: fill the force. 172 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 8: That we have right now. 173 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 7: Theysion a long time to go to cater the force 174 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 7: to the one percent that constantly needs attention as opposed 175 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 7: to distilling the force down to the one percent that 176 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 7: can actually do the job. And Millie's just lying, as 177 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 7: most civilians do when they talk about forward to operate 178 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 7: bases as combat. Just because we entered at kinetic operations 179 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 7: in a different theater that's different than let's say World 180 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 7: War two, and you happen to have females who were 181 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 7: on the front lines, it does not mean that they 182 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 7: were engaged in door kicking. It doesn't mean that they 183 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 7: were engaged in combat, and it also doesn't mean they 184 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 7: were capable of dragging you're sorry butt out of a 185 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 7: killbox if you happen to get fragged and drag you 186 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 7: out to safety and to be able to do the 187 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 7: things that they needed to be able to do, because, 188 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 7: as we saw at in LA, if you have a 189 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 7: firefighter who says it's your problem, if you've gotten that 190 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 7: and I can't carry you if you got yourself in 191 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 7: that situation, and you know, quite frankly, I don't think 192 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 7: we're ready for a war, Jesse. 193 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 8: I think that we're ready to lose a war. 194 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: Talk about that. Why aren't we ready? 195 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: Because you know what's startling to me as I have 196 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: not talked to a single person incurrently or someone who 197 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: got out fairly recently who has said we're ready. Every 198 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: one of them, to a man says we're not ready. 199 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: We're not ready. But what does that mean. 200 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 7: Well, you know most of what defines readiness in the 201 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 7: military in that larger hierarchy. And he did touch on 202 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 7: the fact that our Secretary of Defense talked about how 203 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 7: it's a top heavy organization and so it comes an 204 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 7: administrative score. There are metrics that define what is readiness, right, 205 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 7: so you can budge those statistics. You can move them 206 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 7: into what we call green, or at least into an 207 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 7: amber state, so they're not going to sit here and 208 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 7: kick you or receiving amber or yellow or whatever the 209 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 7: heck it is. 210 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 8: I'm colorblind. 211 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 7: The point is is that if you don't want to 212 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 7: be in the red, you could sit here and say, hey, 213 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 7: I get all my soldiers trained on a rifle, or 214 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 7: I can turn around and get some of them trained 215 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 7: on a rifle, and I can get everybody to go 216 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 7: watch this video on sexual harassment, or on how to 217 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 7: keep your cat car and not lose it in the hallway, 218 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 7: or other stupid things that they fill your time with 219 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 7: the fact this is in the reserves. You spent more 220 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 7: time in computer classes that just check the box on 221 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 7: the most benign things than you did on your primary 222 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 7: weapons system. You spent more time getting ready for medical 223 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 7: doing these shots and checking your teeth and all these things. 224 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 7: This is what our reservists are doing right now. They're 225 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 7: not training to fight a war. And anybody who thinks 226 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 7: that our active duty is the one that goes out 227 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 7: and fights that war doesn't understand how wars are fought. 228 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 7: Maybe that initial strike, but it's the reserves that bear 229 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 7: the brunt of this, and quite frankly, the reserves are 230 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 7: less than fifty percent readiness and have been for a 231 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 7: very very long time. 232 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: Pete Heg Saith, how does he tackle a problem this big, 233 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: this vast, the military that is not ready, it's large, 234 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: These problems are large. The communist infection in it is large. 235 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: Is it even possible for one man to go in 236 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: and start cleaning it out? 237 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 8: You know, I think it's about a mindset, Jesse. 238 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 7: I think that you and I are the type of 239 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 7: people that we rose to the challenge, and the challenge 240 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 7: was a challenge that we set for ourselves. It wasn't 241 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 7: as though a gonelet was thrown down by Japan. It's 242 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 7: not as if somebody When I joined, I joined in 243 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 7: Peace Time nineteen ninety seven, my first tour. I joined 244 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 7: because I wanted to challenge something in myself. I wanted 245 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 7: to be United States Marine, I wanted to be the 246 00:13:57,559 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 7: elite of the elite. 247 00:13:58,880 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 8: I wanted to push myself. 248 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 7: And quite frankly, we've given out participation trophies for so 249 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 7: long in just civilian society, it's actually bled over to 250 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 7: the military. I'm embarrassed about half of the ribbons that 251 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 7: I've been awarded, Like I look like a Guatemalan a 252 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 7: dictator at this point, because you know, oh, you attended 253 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 7: this program, you went and did this stupid thing. That 254 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 7: isn't what we're supposed to be doing. What we're supposed 255 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 7: to be doing is distilling these troops down. We're supposed 256 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 7: to be finding the best of the best and setting 257 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 7: for them challenges. Now, I think there's a lot we 258 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 7: could do to improve the draw for a lot of people. 259 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 7: I think that understanding they might get better medical care 260 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 7: while they're serving. You know, we treat our pro athletes 261 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 7: with better attention than we do our warriors, and if 262 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 7: they were given the same attention, we'd probably keep our 263 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 7: warriors a lot longer and have a much stronger force. 264 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 7: But outside of that, I think continuing to lay the 265 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 7: gauntlet down for people, not muddying the waters, not lowering 266 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 7: the standards, but but setting the standards even higher, I 267 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 7: believe is. 268 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 8: What's going to make our military stronger. 269 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 7: And I believe he has that same thought and same 270 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 7: process that he's going to go ahead and. 271 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 6: Push forward with that. 272 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: Jason, how does some military tackle it's recruiting issues. Setting 273 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: aside the fact we know Pete hagg Sets is going 274 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: to dump all the DEI, we're not going to gay 275 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: the whole. 276 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: Place up anymore. 277 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: With all due respect to the Navy, we're not going 278 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: to do that stuff anymore. We still have the problem 279 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: of a recruiting pool that is not physically ready. All 280 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: these freaking kids, they're fat, they're on anti anxiety medication, 281 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: they're they're they're not qualified to go run and jump 282 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: and carry things. 283 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 2: How do we handle that? 284 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 6: Well? 285 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 7: I think there's a very simple solution to that, and 286 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 7: I think it's this. You go out and find those 287 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 7: those that can still hear you, and you tell them 288 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 7: that when we're not, when we don't have a great enemy, 289 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 7: essin when we don't, we're not. You know, the Nazi 290 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 7: Germany and Japan didn't just attack us. We're not headed 291 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 7: into some nasty war because somebody blew down buildings on 292 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 7: nine to eleven. 293 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 8: How do you draw people in? 294 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 7: And I think what it is you inspire in them 295 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 7: the idea that they can become grown men, they can 296 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 7: become in some cases grown women, by going in and 297 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 7: experiencing what it's like to have to depend on yourself, 298 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 7: what it is to be challenged, what it is to 299 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 7: be rubbed into the dirt and have to pick yourself 300 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 7: back up and be pushed to a limit that is 301 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 7: beyond endurance. I think that those are things that we 302 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 7: should advertise to people. I think that there is a 303 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 7: large group of people out there at youth right now 304 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 7: who have seen what has happened to. 305 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 8: The generation just before them. 306 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 7: The kids sat around on the couch, who played video games, 307 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 7: who wanted to be social media stars. They're looking at 308 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 7: all of this and it's not real. They want to 309 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 7: be people in society who produce. And I think that 310 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 7: you go after those people by telling them that Look, 311 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 7: it's not going to be easy, it's not going to 312 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 7: be given to you, but it's something that you can 313 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 7: go out and earn. 314 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 8: It's what drew me in. And I was not your 315 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 8: cliche marine going in. 316 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 7: And again, I don't know what drew you in, Jesse, 317 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 7: but I think that the if you challenge people, people 318 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 7: really do. This is what sets humans aside. Is we 319 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 7: are problem solvers and we want to aspire to have things. 320 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 7: And Elon Musk spoke on this at the inauguration, to 321 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 7: have something to strive for. And by the way, this 322 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 7: doesn't mean putting all of our soldiers and marines and 323 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 7: sailors and airmen up on a pedestal. It means sitting 324 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 7: here and having them understand that there's a culmination to 325 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 7: that training, to that lifestyle that leads to them being 326 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 7: better members of society, better prepared to deal with life, 327 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 7: and that they will be more successful in the long term. 328 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Marines that I went Marines. 329 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: I didn't even walk into any other office because of 330 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: the challenge. 331 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 2: I wanted to see what I was made of. 332 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to see if I had what it took 333 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: to become a marine, see if it was tough, you know, 334 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: all right? 335 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 2: Had it in you, jesse Day, Yeah, I had it 336 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 2: in me. I guess. I don't know if I found 337 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 2: out that I was tough, but I had it in me. 338 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: I guess to get it done, h Pete egg Saith. 339 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: There are concerns from people who don't really understand how 340 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 1: wars are fought that well, he's never been in general, 341 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: We're just going to send some captain in there to 342 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: take over everything. 343 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 2: Why is that thinking completely misplaced? Because it is. 344 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 7: Well, first of all, generals were never generals until they 345 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 7: were generals, correct, So most most people would understand if 346 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 7: they look at battlefield history, we'd understand it isn't often 347 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 7: colonels that get promoted to generals, but it's majors and 348 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 7: captains who are out there in the field and conducting maneuvers, 349 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 7: and generals who see in them the ability to actually fight. 350 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 7: For generals are basically administrative. I think a lot of 351 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 7: people forget that their job is administrative. So when you 352 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 7: think about who actually goes out and conducts the war fighting, 353 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 7: when you think about the echelonta which it takes place, 354 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 7: I think people right into the category of the people 355 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 7: you would want right at the company commander level, somebody 356 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 7: who has experienced and leading while also understanding the machinations 357 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 7: of the administrative class. 358 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: Jason, come back soon, my brother summer five. All right, 359 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: Clay Martin me was Green Beret, a Marine Scout, sniper, 360 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: Marine recon. He's been around a while. You know, Clay Martin, 361 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: he has some military thoughts. 362 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: Do you think? He joins us next? 363 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 9: My military is more diverse than it has ever been, 364 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 9: but more importantly, it is more lethal than has ever been. 365 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 8: This is not a coincidence. 366 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: Wow, that is a load off. More diverse and more lethal. 367 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Joining me now, Clay Martin, retired Green Beret, 368 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: Marine Corps Scout Sniper, Marine Corps ricon. Now he writes 369 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: books for a living when he's not teaching other people how. 370 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: To kill people. Joining me now, Clay Martin. 371 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: Clay, he wrote the book Barbarian Spirit. 372 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 2: I should know. 373 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: I think his fiction stuff is better than his nonfiction. Okay, Clay, 374 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: are we more lethal than we have been? 375 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 3: Bro? 376 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 10: I had actually seen that at that more lethal clip. 377 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 10: It's a good thing you talked for a bit because 378 00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 10: I was rolling around on the floor down. 379 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 6: Wow. 380 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 10: Wow, we've seen live from politicians all the time. But 381 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 10: I don't know how you can say that one with 382 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 10: a straight face. That's uh, that's rich. 383 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 2: Clay. 384 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: Why has put it in words that people will understand. 385 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: Why has this focus on, well, well, yeah, we need 386 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: more women, we need more of this, we need more. 387 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: Any of that. 388 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: Why does that focus Why does it hurt lethality because 389 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: people who haven't been in and don't understand that, they 390 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: really can't grasp lots of the time. 391 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 2: Why that hurts everything. 392 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 10: It's actually, you know, it's almost like they think for 393 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 10: a second that you know, I got a leg up 394 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 10: because out of the white guy. The benefit of the 395 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 10: military has always been that it's a pure meritocracy for everyone. 396 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 6: For me, it doesn't matter if I come whatever background. 397 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 10: I could be the I don't know, what's what's the 398 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 10: whitest guy in the meet George Washington's great grandson. 399 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 6: It wouldn't matter because they didn't care. You can either 400 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 6: hack it or you can't. 401 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 10: And that has led to you know what it's led to, 402 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 10: But it's to the best people doing the just wach 403 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 10: like complex jobs, you know, fighter pilots, things like that. 404 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 10: Nobody has ever cared about the adversity of that. Now 405 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 10: when you change things, and I actually saw this start 406 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 10: to happen in the Obama years myself, and to be honest, 407 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 10: also a little bit under the Bush years. 408 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 6: Even when you start. 409 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 10: To have these quotas like oh, well we have to 410 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 10: have X amount of whatever special people in, you're going 411 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 10: to have to change the standards. 412 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 6: That's that's how it works. You can, don't. 413 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 10: You can pry a couple of you can try recruiting to, 414 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 10: you know, a certain segment of popular work. 415 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 6: But for the most part, you're going to have to 416 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 6: change standards. 417 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 10: And that's just how it is. And get out of 418 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 10: the way. Alice, Oh, there's my big dog in in 419 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 10: a way. Once you do that, yeah, things starts falling apart. 420 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 10: Why did no women pass Ranger School? 421 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 6: Oh Alice, you you idiots? 422 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 10: Why did no women pass Ranger school until a two 423 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 10: star general walked their lanes for them? I don't know, 424 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 10: that's weird, huh. 425 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 1: Clay for you, did you see this stuff leak into 426 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 1: our top tier guys like your gear, like your guys, 427 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: Because I saw I see a lot of people say, well, 428 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: at least this stuff will never get to the seals. 429 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 2: It'll never get to Green Berets. 430 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 6: Yes, go ahead. 431 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 10: The first female Green Beret indeed her own pistol at 432 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 10: her apartment complex about six months after she graduated from 433 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 10: the course, and that's what happened. I didn't go to 434 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 10: her course, so I don't know if they changed the 435 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 10: standards for her, But I do know this from talking 436 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 10: to friends as still, because we're also at the age 437 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 10: where it's my guys that are running the selections and the. 438 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 6: Courses for these younger dudes. 439 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 10: I think all the old betterans always say it, but 440 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 10: for once, I do actually believe it's true. They have 441 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 10: really lowered the standard and things weaker. So yet it 442 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 10: has infected us also. And you know, at the end 443 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 10: of the day two, it doesn't matter because Seal Team 444 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 10: eleven and s F we can't fight the war by ourselves. 445 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 10: We need a navy and some you know airplanes and 446 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 10: some you know guys with bombs, artillery guys. So yes, 447 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 10: misconception Petion two. Even if it didn't affect us, it's 448 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 10: still cut in or legality in a huge way. 449 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: Okay, talk about those support guys, because I tried to 450 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: explain this to people on my show as often as 451 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: possible that. Yet, Look, even if the rangers are still 452 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: where they need to be, right, even if the marine 453 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: grunts are where they need to be, you need a 454 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: mountain of support of various kinds behind you. Some of 455 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: it's firing rockets and dropping bombs, some. 456 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 2: Of it's just bringing you food. 457 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: And if those are a bunch of morons, then I 458 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: don't care how tough the rangers are. 459 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 10: They can't do it. We're on an empty stomach, exactly right. 460 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 10: It ultimately makes all of our jobs more dangerous too. 461 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 10: If you give some special boys and they got to 462 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 10: do special so they can go grab HBTs or whatever, well, 463 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 10: if they're the only ones in the country, I guess 464 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 10: who the only target is is those guys. You know, 465 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 10: we actually got away with a lot in the War 466 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 10: on Terror because we had so many other biting forces 467 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 10: of legit, a second Airbourne and Marine gra all these 468 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 10: guys run over the place doing all this other stuff 469 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 10: that also occupy the targeting and allows us to get 470 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 10: the lynch pits. So this all ties together the A 471 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 10: lot of people talk about the teamwork thing like it's 472 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 10: a you know, a cliche thing, but really is true. 473 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 10: It is all one big team, and you're only as 474 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 10: strong as your weakest link. If you have links in 475 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 10: there that can't get EMO to the rangers out there 476 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 10: on the hilltop, well guess what now they're going to die? 477 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 6: Is that works all right? 478 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 2: Rubio had some interesting things to say about China. Here. 479 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 9: He was if we stay on the road we're on 480 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 9: right now, in less than ten years, virtually everything that 481 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 9: matters to us in life will depend on whether China 482 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 9: will allow us to have it or not. Everything from 483 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 9: the blood pressure medicine we take, to what movies we 484 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 9: get to watch, and everything in between, we will depend 485 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 9: on China. Ford they have come to dominate the critical 486 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 9: mental industry supplies throughout the world. 487 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 6: Everywhere in the world. 488 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,479 Speaker 9: They've now established critical me uneral rights. Even those who 489 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 9: want to see more electric cars, no matter where you 490 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 9: make them, those batteries are almost entirely dependent on the 491 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 9: ability of the Chinese and the willingness of the Chinese 492 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 9: Communist Party to produce it and export it to you. 493 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 9: So if we don't change course, we are going to 494 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 9: live in a world where much of what matters to 495 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 9: us on a daily basis, from our security to our health, 496 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 9: will be dependent on whether the Chinese allow us to 497 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 9: have it or not, that's an unacceptable outcome. 498 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: Clay, where does our military stack up against China's. 499 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 10: Five years ago would have been a bad joke in 500 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 10: our paper now, I really don't know, especially because when 501 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 10: you talk about dealing with China, you're talking about major systems. 502 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 10: You're not talking about a couple of idiots with suppressed 503 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 10: rifle in the dark, and you know, get been like 504 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 10: you're talking about like naval battles and aircraft, like bites 505 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 10: and missiles and you crazy stuff. 506 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 6: I have lost a lot of. 507 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 10: Faith in our navy, and our navy is actually this 508 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 10: is a hard thing for us and for Marines to 509 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 10: admit when you get right down to it. As far 510 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 10: as world power projection goes, the Navy is the most 511 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 10: important branch, and the Navy seems like it has really 512 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 10: fallen apart in the last five years. 513 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 6: Rusty ships too. 514 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 10: You know, they're getting housed by Houthi's with djidrones and 515 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 10: the Red Sea. The fact that they shot one of 516 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 10: their own fighter aircraft down the other day in their 517 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 10: own strike force. 518 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 6: For that, I mean, we've kind of lost overappen, but 519 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 6: it happened. 520 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 10: These are mistakes that it wouldn't have happened eighty or 521 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 10: they wouldn't happened forty years ago with way worse technology. 522 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 10: The fact that these things are happening now should be 523 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 10: terrifying to us. And that tells us that the rot 524 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 10: in that service is incredibly deep. It's the competence level 525 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 10: all the way up and down the chain. And now 526 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 10: I'm not so sure. 527 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 6: Now. 528 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 10: On the other hand, I've seen China's stuff, and you know, 529 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 10: for the most part is garbage. But they are getting better, 530 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 10: all right, they are getting better. And if we were 531 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 10: to have to fight them too, it's like Chinese is 532 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 10: gonna come here. China wants to fight or territorial concessions 533 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 10: in his own backyard. So we've always had to be 534 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 10: willing to play the logistics game against them. 535 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 6: If we have to do that. Now, I'm not that 536 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 6: confident we can win. I'm just not confident that we 537 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 6: can get. 538 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 10: Our stuff over There are our sea lift, of our 539 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 10: major items that we needed to dominate, and that's that's scary. 540 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 2: That is absolutely frightening. 541 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, Clay, why the Navy in particular, I understand you've 542 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: talked about this, that the degradation of really every service. 543 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 1: The Marine Corps gone this way too, maybe less so, 544 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: but same same thing. But the Navy it has been startling, 545 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: and you're one hundred percent correct. I talk about it 546 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: all the time, as much as it pains me, that's 547 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: the one we need. If you're going to take out 548 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: every branch and leave when it would be the freaking Navy, like, 549 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: you really have to have that. With the world being 550 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: two thirds water, you have to have it. Why have 551 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: they fallen so hard and so fast? 552 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,719 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a very good question. I don't know they. 553 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 10: I will say that seeing this from being around the 554 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 10: serve for twenty five years, it does feel like they 555 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 10: went to the not only like the DEI stuff, but 556 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 10: the Navy, more than any other branch, became reliant on 557 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 10: the We had the superior technology and the superior stuff. 558 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 10: Therefore we can get sloppy with discipline and incompetence because 559 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 10: if you go back to like two thousand, they could 560 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 10: Our stuff was so much further advanced than anybody else's. 561 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 10: The Navy also didn't except for you like EOD guys 562 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 10: or CBS that they're very small land based components. The 563 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 10: Navy you never had to worry about anything in the 564 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 10: g Watt. I think we all saw that that meme 565 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 10: the fake neighbor recruit again, you know, like you can't 566 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 10: get killed at the Navy and lest you party too hard. 567 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 6: That was kind of true, man, it really was. 568 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 10: So they also haven't faced the same attrition and the 569 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,239 Speaker 10: same danger that even the Air Force has over your 570 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 10: last twenty years. Air Force had plane station where the 571 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 10: little commando guys could show up and kill you or 572 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 10: shoot a rocket at you, and they faced danger maybe 573 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 10: systemically has not. 574 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 6: I don't even actually know when. 575 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 10: The last time the Navy faced real danger was probably 576 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 10: actually Operation Now pretty managed, like nineteen eighty one in 577 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 10: the Persian golf. So I just think it's allowed their 578 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 10: service to be the most affected, and now all of 579 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 10: a sudden, it's like they're the It's like they're the 580 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 10: aging rock star that's been you know, he's been the 581 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 10: awesome guy, but he's been doing coke and drinking. 582 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 6: Jack Daniels in the green room for the last four 583 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 6: hours and. 584 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 10: I signed for the main set like you're on, and 585 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 10: he's like, I forgot the words of my song. 586 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 6: That's what appeels like. 587 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 2: We are in trouble. 588 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: Clay my brother, best to you and your dog. Go 589 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: buy Clay's books. 590 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 2: I love them. All Right, Well I've done yet, we'll 591 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 2: get back. 592 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 11: Did any of you throw your rank on the table 593 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 11: and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bogram Airfield, 594 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 11: the Strategic Airberys before we evacuate everyone. 595 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 2: Did anyone do that? 596 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 11: And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone 597 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 11: raise their hand and say we completely mess this up? 598 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 11: Potentially all those people did die in vain if we 599 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 11: don't have senior leaders that own up and raise their 600 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 11: hand and say we did not do this well in 601 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 11: the end, I want to say this very strongly. 602 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 2: I have been fighting for seventeen years. 603 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 11: I am willing to throw it all away to say 604 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 11: to my senior leaders, I demand accountability. 605 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: And he did he do it all way. That was 606 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 2: Stuart Scheller, brave marine officer. There weren't many of them 607 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 2: who did that. In fact, you can count him on 608 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 2: one hand. 609 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 6: But he did it. 610 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 2: He gave it all up. 611 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: But he's coming back joining me now to talk about 612 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: the military comeback. Wade Miller, executive director at the Center 613 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: for Renewing America, sent for five and of course Chase spears. 614 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: Former Army paratrooper Afghanistan veteran Chase Stewart is coming back 615 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: as a senior advisor to the Department of Defense. 616 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 6: I like a lot of what I see. 617 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: In fact, I like about everything I see right now 618 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: as it pertains to the new military we're going to have. 619 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 12: Thanks for having me back on Jesse, I share that 620 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 12: encouragement with you. It's this is a wonderful reverse. When 621 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,239 Speaker 12: you look at guys like Stu Scheller, when you look 622 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 12: at guys like Matt Lomeyer, when you look at guys 623 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 12: like Pete Heseth, our new Secretary of Defense, who is 624 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 12: also persecuted for having just basic traditional Christian worldview belief, 625 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 12: it's wonderful to see these guys who were treated ill 626 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 12: when they were in uniform, basically for speaking the truth, 627 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 12: for speaking the things that people in uniforms should have 628 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 12: been saying, for saying what general should have been saying, 629 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 12: and they were cast aside. And it's a new day, 630 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 12: and it's a it's wonderful news for the Department of 631 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 12: Defense to bring these leaders back not just at the 632 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 12: tactical operational level where they were before, but now working 633 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 12: up at this strategic level steering policy, giving directs. These 634 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 12: are men who had the scar tissue. They know what 635 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 12: it feels like, and they know what needs to be done. 636 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 12: And so I'm very excited about these announcements, and I 637 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 12: hope to see a lot more just like them. 638 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 2: Me too. 639 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: Wait, Pete haig Seth has been out there saying a 640 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: lot of wonderful things. 641 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,479 Speaker 2: Music to my years, I know, music to yours. Here 642 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 2: was some of it. 643 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 5: Someone who'd served in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo Bay 644 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 5: holding a riot shield outside the White House. I'd been 645 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 5: identified as an extremist, someone unworthy of guarding the inauguration 646 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 5: of an incoming American president. And if that's happening to me, Senator, 647 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 5: how many other men and women, how many other patriots, 648 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 5: how many other people of conscience? We haven't even talked 649 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 5: about COVID and the tens of thousands of service members 650 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 5: who were kicked out because of an experimental vac I've 651 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 5: seen in President Trump's Defense Department. They will be apologized to, 652 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 5: They will be reinstituted with pay and rank. Things like 653 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 5: focusing on extremism, Senator, have created a climate inside our 654 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 5: ranks that feel political when it has hasn't ever been political. 655 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 6: Wade. 656 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: Can we put Humpty Dumpty back together again? 657 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 6: I think so. 658 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 13: I don't think it's too late. I think that there 659 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 13: is a lot of damage to overcome. Some of it 660 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 13: has been years in the making. But you know, I've 661 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 13: been investigating and researching woken weaponized topics for a number 662 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 13: of years now, and I am very encouraged by the 663 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 13: incoming team and the conversations I've had with them at 664 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 13: how serious they are about getting the military back to 665 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 13: focusing on lethality and not these leftist agenda items that 666 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 13: are masquerading as you know, serious ideas, you know, like 667 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 13: DEI and anti racism, which is an actually about you know, 668 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 13: opposing racism, and all of these other equity focused agenda 669 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 13: items and white supremacy and domestic extremism. They're now going 670 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,279 Speaker 13: to focus on defending the United States of America, and 671 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 13: that's not going to happen overnight, and I you know, 672 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 13: they're going to be methodical about it, but I'm encouraged 673 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,359 Speaker 13: by what I've already seen. I think in the coming 674 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 13: weeks you're going to see Secretary Higgsith make a lot 675 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 13: of moves that I think are going to be welcomed 676 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 13: by those of us who are serious about national security 677 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 13: and getting our military back in fighting shape. And I 678 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 13: think it's an exciting team if you're in a time, 679 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 13: if you're a veteran, to see the military going back 680 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 13: in the direction that needs to be going in and 681 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 13: that we've all known, especially if you talk to sergeants 682 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 13: across the military, they've all been saying this for years, 683 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 13: and of course colonels and generals have mostly been quiet 684 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,280 Speaker 13: about it because they want to get their next promotion. 685 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 13: But we finally have a secretary who is a secretary 686 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 13: for you know, the enlisted man and woman who's going 687 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 13: to be fighting for the reason that they chose to serve, 688 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 13: which is because they love this country and they want 689 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 13: to defend it. 690 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 1: Chase, let's talk about the officer corps. Let's talk about well, 691 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: specifically the military academies. These revered institutions. They have been 692 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: poisoned all the way down to the roots as well. 693 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 6: How in the world do. 694 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: You start to clean that gunk out when people are 695 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: learning about diversity and queer theory at freaking West Point, 696 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: Where do you begin? 697 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,279 Speaker 12: The military academy's jesse unfortunately reflects the reality of what 698 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 12: we've seen across the officer corps. My last job was 699 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 12: in the US Army's Combined Arms Center. I also do 700 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 12: a final stint at Recruiting Command, very Officer Heavy Headquarters, 701 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 12: and you see these theories promulgated throughout, and so it's 702 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,279 Speaker 12: going to take a concerted effort. I'm pleased to hear 703 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 12: that we can expect to see several generals who soon 704 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 12: become civilians, but that will not be enough. As I 705 00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 12: was telling Matthew Lohmeyer when I was on a tea 706 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,239 Speaker 12: on Hall the Stars the other day, the reality is 707 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 12: this cancer is deep. The Biden administration drilled this in 708 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 12: deep throughout the officer corps, all the way down to 709 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 12: the company grade level, and it's going to take the 710 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 12: same initiative to rid that cancer that it did to 711 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 12: take it in. We're going to need to see commanders 712 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 12: who are willing to train this, repeat it, and hold 713 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 12: people accountable. We're going to need some people made examples of. 714 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,720 Speaker 12: Just like we have annual trainings that push this DEI 715 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 12: crap into the military, we need to have much more 716 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 12: frequent trainings pulling it out. And commanders are going to 717 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 12: have to prove to their troops through actions. Hey, it's 718 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 12: safe now you don't have to call people like refram 719 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,280 Speaker 12: amm and where that you're going to get in trouble 720 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 12: for it anymore. You can now be a regular American 721 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 12: serving your nation, acting patriotically, defending the Constitution, and not 722 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 12: have to live in fear because of that anymore. 723 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,760 Speaker 1: Speaking of making an example of people, this lady common 724 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,240 Speaker 1: to former Commandant of the Coast Guard, Linda Fagen or Fagan, 725 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:04,359 Speaker 1: I don't know how to say her name here. 726 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 6: She was. 727 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 14: We currently have nearly forty percent women enrolled at the 728 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 14: Coastguard Academy. I'm really excited about the talent and the 729 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,960 Speaker 14: diversity that I see coming through the academy. My daughter 730 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 14: is in the Coastguard as a lieutenant, and there is 731 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 14: just nothing but opportunity for her and all of the 732 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 14: men and women that have joined the service. I'm really 733 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 14: excited about the future as we look ahead. 734 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:31,520 Speaker 2: So that's one commandant down. 735 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 1: Ms Fagin can go back to the civilian world, wage 736 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,240 Speaker 1: how many others. 737 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 6: Have to go? 738 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,800 Speaker 13: Well, you know, we'll defer to the leadership team of 739 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,439 Speaker 13: Secretary Haig Sith, But you know, one comes to mind, 740 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 13: General C. Q. Brown he's the head of the Joint 741 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,800 Speaker 13: Chiefs of Staff. He wrote a memo literally saying that 742 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 13: one of his objectives was to have less white officers, 743 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 13: essentially setting forth a racial quota system that he wanted 744 00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 13: to do implement. I think that that type of, you know, leadership, 745 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 13: is toxic and it's frankly, should be a violation of 746 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 13: the law, and anyone who's been espousing that type of 747 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 13: overt racism should be let go. I think that that's 748 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,359 Speaker 13: a bad command environment to have someone like that leading 749 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 13: the military, and so I'm hoping that we'll see soon 750 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 13: that names like that are included. 751 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,320 Speaker 1: Chase, you wrote an article, good article for Red Steak 752 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 1: called it's time for conservatives in the military to fight. 753 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,840 Speaker 1: What are you talking about and what's your plea to 754 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,399 Speaker 1: the enlisted guys there? 755 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,440 Speaker 12: My plea, Jesse, is for people that are still serving 756 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,800 Speaker 12: right now in the ranks, to understand this fight for 757 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,360 Speaker 12: the military, for the nation is not just one that 758 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,479 Speaker 12: is the responsibility of our civilian policymakers. Now to be clear, 759 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 12: it is the responsibility of our civilian policy makers. Is 760 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,160 Speaker 12: the responsibility of voters, It's the responsibility of veterans, it's 761 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 12: the responsibility of you and me, but it's also the 762 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,319 Speaker 12: responsibility of those who are currently in the ranks. I've 763 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 12: talked to so many people in the ranks over the 764 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 12: last few years, when I was still on active duty 765 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,799 Speaker 12: and now that I'm a retiree who said things like, look, 766 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,239 Speaker 12: we were conservatives. We believe the things that we see 767 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 12: you saying. We believe in constitutionality, but we dare not 768 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,839 Speaker 12: say this out loud because we might get in trouble. Well, 769 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 12: that's what people who are willing to stand guard for 770 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 12: the nation are willing to do. They're willing to take 771 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 12: those chances. How are we going to call ourselves warriors 772 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 12: and say that we're willing to go stand between the 773 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 12: enemies of the nation and a bullet if we won't 774 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 12: stand between a slide and our troops when it comes 775 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,360 Speaker 12: to indoctrination. So my plea is not for people to 776 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 12: rise up in the ranks. 777 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 6: My plea is not for. 778 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 12: Any discontent or any breakdown of discipline. My plea is this, 779 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 12: obey lawful orders, report unlawful orders. Report those who give 780 00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 12: you unlawful orders. Be willing to stand against the lie 781 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 12: ASSUALTSA needs and said, let the lie come but not 782 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 12: through us. And for too long conservatives in the ranks 783 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 12: have set on their hands and said it's someone else's problem. 784 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 12: I'm afraid the tide has turned. It is now time 785 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,520 Speaker 12: to say the light would no longer come through me. 786 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,439 Speaker 12: I'm not going to participate in this through inaction or action. 787 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 2: Wait, wepping things up here. 788 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: How do we handle the defense contractor cabal. I mean, 789 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,800 Speaker 1: we do need defense contractors, we need people designing and 790 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: producing wonderful new weapons to give us an edge. But 791 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: what we have now is gross, it's corrupt. I mean, 792 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,880 Speaker 1: it's not going to work long term. How do we 793 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:34,360 Speaker 1: fix that? 794 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,520 Speaker 13: Well, I think we need to audit and review that 795 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 13: entire process, including by the way. I think that we 796 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 13: need to have affirmations that subcontractors aren't participating in things 797 00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:50,120 Speaker 13: like DEI and other systems. It would be deemed a 798 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 13: violation of Title seven of the Civil Rights Acts, for instance. 799 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 13: Start with that process, and then I think, through a 800 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,120 Speaker 13: streamlining of reorenting our mission, I think you start cutting 801 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,040 Speaker 13: down certain contracts and figuring out what's actually in the 802 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 13: best interest of the United States of America. And you know, 803 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,719 Speaker 13: fortunately we have a good team, a good defense team 804 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 13: going in there. We will have a good OMB team 805 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,320 Speaker 13: with russ Vote and others at OMB and so I 806 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 13: think that but the combination of those two OHMB and 807 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,600 Speaker 13: DoD that are really serious about getting this country back 808 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,840 Speaker 13: on track and getting rid of all the grift and 809 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 13: the corruption and the wokeness and the weaponization, I think 810 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,920 Speaker 13: that you're going to see a transformation. And I think 811 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,800 Speaker 13: that this last point is really important, and this is 812 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 13: the crux of it all. Pete Haigstth isn't going there 813 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,960 Speaker 13: to get a board seat at you know, McDonald douglas 814 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,719 Speaker 13: after this, like so many Secretaries of Defense before him, 815 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 13: He's going there to change the entire institution. And the 816 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 13: fact that he's not there for post DoD career money making, 817 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,360 Speaker 13: I think is the biggest difference that you'll see between 818 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,200 Speaker 13: this Secretary of Defense and almost every other Secretary of 819 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,680 Speaker 13: Defense we've had in recent times. And I'm really looking 820 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,480 Speaker 13: forward to that difference. And I think it's going to 821 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,640 Speaker 13: be a night and day change. 822 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,799 Speaker 1: I think so gentlemen, as always appreciate you. All Right, 823 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: we'll get it fixed and we'll be back hang on. 824 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,439 Speaker 1: A major war is coming. I know that sounds dark, 825 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,160 Speaker 1: and it is dark, but it is coming because history 826 00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:36,919 Speaker 1: says it's coming. 827 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 2: I don't know who it's going to be with. We 828 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,840 Speaker 2: all think, oh, that's going to be China or Russia. 829 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 1: But I don't know, and I don't know when. I 830 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,880 Speaker 1: don't know if it'll be next month. I don't know 831 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,000 Speaker 1: if it'll be ten years, fifty. 832 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 2: Years from now. But it is coming. 833 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,240 Speaker 1: We know that, and we hear in the United States 834 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 1: of America have been so blessed that we just kind 835 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,800 Speaker 1: of we don't look at those as ominously as we 836 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:00,720 Speaker 1: probably should. 837 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,239 Speaker 2: We look at those as. 838 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,480 Speaker 1: If we've always won those major engagements, well we'll come 839 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:06,800 Speaker 1: out on top were America. 840 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,160 Speaker 2: But that is not a given. 841 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,360 Speaker 1: And the entire history of the world is full of 842 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:18,239 Speaker 1: empires as they start to fade thinking they're invincible, military 843 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:22,600 Speaker 1: couldn't be beaten, find it beaten, and find themselves in 844 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,320 Speaker 1: a shocking position. And that is coming for us unless 845 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,719 Speaker 1: we get things reformed and changed in the military and 846 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,640 Speaker 1: in a hurry. The rot has been deep, and it's 847 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,600 Speaker 1: been getting deeper by the day. 848 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 2: We have got to fix that. Let's hope we're going 849 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:40,680 Speaker 2: to dig in. 850 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 1: It looks like Pete Hagsay's going to dig in, fingers crossed. 851 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,399 Speaker 6: All right, we'll do it again.