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Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth EXPOSES SABOTAGE of America! · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: If our military becomes partisan, then our military is a
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Speaker 1: tool for all the wrong reasons in the hands of
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Speaker 1: all the wrong people.
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Speaker 2: You put your life on the line to fight extremists,
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Speaker 2: and now there are people within it that are calling
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Speaker 2: you an extremist.
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Speaker 1: We've got transitioning soldiers in our units. I've got a quota.
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Speaker 3: I need to meet a.
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Speaker 1: A certain number of women and men or a certain
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Speaker 1: number of minorities.
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Speaker 3: What are we doing here this? We're in the job
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Speaker 3: of kill or be killed.
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Speaker 2: I'm so excited about your new book, The War on Warriors.
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Speaker 2: You offer a perspective that so many infantry men, so
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Speaker 2: many service men and women, are wanting for people to understand,
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Speaker 2: but they don't have somebody be in a mouthpiece for them.
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Speaker 3: Because when you're in uniform, you can't talk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're defending everybody else's constitutional rights, but yours
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Speaker 1: are limited to say speak with the media or complain
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Speaker 1: publicly about what you're facing. Your friends and family might know,
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Speaker 1: but the media doesn't know, the public ri at large
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Speaker 1: don't know, and if politicians don't care or are not
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Speaker 1: willing to address it, and nothing changes. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: when I joined the army over twenty years ago. I
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Speaker 1: did it like so everybody else, because you love the
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Speaker 1: country and you want to do anything you can to
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Speaker 1: defend it. And the army I see today looks nothing
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Speaker 1: like the one I joined, and the one I joined
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Speaker 1: was perfect either. So I wrote The War on Warriors.
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Speaker 1: It's not a book about how the military went woke.
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Speaker 1: It's a book about how the military allowed itself.
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Speaker 3: To go woke.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's in this military is an institution with
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Speaker 1: a code. You swear allegiance to the constitution to defend it.
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Speaker 1: You believe your senior leaders will defend and make sure
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Speaker 1: you have everything you need, the training, the accountability, the excellence,
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Speaker 1: the lethality.
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Speaker 3: That's what It's an ultimate meritocracy.
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Speaker 1: And what we've seen under Obama and then fast forward
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Speaker 1: under Biden is an erosion of that meritocracy in pursuit
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Speaker 1: of social justice or social experiments that has created a
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Speaker 1: fragile military that is not as capable as people think.
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Speaker 3: We're an uncharted territory as a society.
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Speaker 1: This idea that we're trying to keep a republic while
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Speaker 1: simultaneously telling the young people of that republic that it's
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Speaker 1: a terrible country or irredeemably racist or misogynists. All of
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Speaker 1: those themes seep into the view that American young Americans have.
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Speaker 1: But the military for a long time had been this
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Speaker 1: incubator of excellence, this sort of resistant to all of
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Speaker 1: those cultural trends. Yes there were there have been changes
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Speaker 1: over time, but more or less, if you want to
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Speaker 1: not deal with all that garbage and just go defend
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Speaker 1: the nation, join the Marines, join the army.
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Speaker 3: And what you've seen, I mean, you see it now
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Speaker 3: in the recruiting shortfalls. Wow, you're right, this is uncharted territory.
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Speaker 2: Because every time, every every Memorial Day, every time that
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Speaker 2: I'm sitting there with American flags and we're singing God
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Speaker 2: Bless America and I'm remembering my grandfather, there's such a
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Speaker 2: sense of patriotism, such a sense of gratitude, and and
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Speaker 2: you know, the flybys and all of this stuff, and
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Speaker 2: I'm feeling just something different in the air now where
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Speaker 2: people are thinking like that's bad, and that's not really
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Speaker 2: something we should be getting excited about, and.
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Speaker 3: It is scary. It's evil jingoism or nationalism. The flag
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Speaker 3: is political.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I wore a flag on my shoulder when
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Speaker 1: I served under George Bush and Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan under Barack Obama,
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Speaker 1: a president who I disagreed with on everything, because it
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Speaker 1: wasn't political. It was about defending the nation. And we're
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Speaker 1: getting because of the purge that's come into our military.
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Speaker 1: And I use that word intentionally. There has been a
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Speaker 1: purge post COVID George Floyd during the Biden administration, a
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Speaker 1: purge of patriots. You've got a real reluctance of everyday
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Speaker 1: Americans to serve an institution if they don't feel like
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Speaker 1: it's going to serve them.
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Speaker 2: When I think of patriotism, I think of the military.
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Speaker 2: I don't just think of like patriotism, so I think
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Speaker 2: of schools and education, or I think of the church.
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Speaker 2: Although these are important institutions, the military is like inextricably
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Speaker 2: tied and connected with a sense of a vibrant patriotism
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Speaker 2: in a nation. But with these attacks on patriotism, calling
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Speaker 2: it Christian nationalism, what does a disdain for the US
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Speaker 2: military mean for the future of our culture?
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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, you were raised right, and that's
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Speaker 1: why you look at it that way. A disdain for
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Speaker 1: our military in the future of our culture means more
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Speaker 1: soldiers die.
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Speaker 3: And I mean that.
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Speaker 1: I mean when you when you uh impose DEI and
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Speaker 1: CRT and gender fluid standards into the military, you are
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Speaker 1: breeding a less capable military. You are you are giving
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Speaker 1: commanders less opportunity to train. You're giving them, uh there's
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Speaker 1: less accountability inside this.
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Speaker 3: I heard time and time again from leaders.
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Speaker 1: I'm walking on eggshells because I don't know what pronoun
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Speaker 1: you know I got. We've got transitioning soldiers in our units.
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Speaker 3: I've got a quota. I need to meet.
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Speaker 1: A certain number of women and men or a certain
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Speaker 1: number of minorities.
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Speaker 3: What do we do in here?
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Speaker 2: This?
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Speaker 1: We're in the job of kill or be killed. This
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Speaker 1: is this I'm giving you my son. You're gonna train
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Speaker 1: that my son, and then you're gonna play games with
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Speaker 1: social engineering inside the units, and you're gonna say, well,
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Speaker 1: we need more women in this unit, or we need
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Speaker 1: more of this in that unit, and you're gonna get
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Speaker 1: promoted because of this. And I'm telling you, if you
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Speaker 1: don't believe it, talk talk to someone who's.
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Speaker 3: Serving right now.
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Speaker 1: That's an abdication of the responsibility we have to those
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Speaker 1: who are willing to put their life on the line.
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Speaker 3: Your grandfather at the very least believed his leaders had
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Speaker 3: his best interests in mine.
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Speaker 1: And right now, from the White House down to this
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Speaker 1: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to Secretary of Defense, they're
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Speaker 1: peddling gender nonsense, race nonsense that divides troops against each other,
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Speaker 1: environmental stuff, electric tanks, and things that are not useful
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Speaker 1: to warfighters. And then we're trying to recruit non conventional
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Speaker 1: people into the unit.
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Speaker 3: Because we're scared of all these patriot.
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Speaker 1: Extremists or Christian nationalists or plain old white guys that
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Speaker 1: wear cowboy hats. That's a dangerous spot to be in.
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Speaker 1: Fixing it's not difficult. Actually, if you have the right
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Speaker 1: commander in chief, we could talk about that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it will be difficult, but the capture is more recent.
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Speaker 1: But it means that we are when we face that
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Speaker 1: next conflict, how ready will we be, How focused on
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Speaker 1: the right things will we be? And that's an open
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Speaker 1: question right now. And that's what And then you add
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Speaker 1: that to when that next come, let's say, the next
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven happens, who's protesting?
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Speaker 3: Are they protesting for us? Are they protesting that we
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Speaker 3: deserve it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at what's happening and outside college campuses,
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Speaker 1: like we have an upside down critical theory infection inside
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Speaker 1: the minds of young people, and that means the institutions
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Speaker 1: that we used to not question are now being threatened.
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Speaker 2: To your point, man, man, this is also sobering when
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Speaker 2: when a conflict happens, I want Navy seals out there,
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Speaker 2: I want Army rangers out there.
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Speaker 3: I want I want the real deal.
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Speaker 2: I don't want the purple Hair platoon fighting for us.
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Speaker 2: And yet what you're saying is that that is a
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Speaker 2: big part of the agenda is to get as much
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Speaker 2: of that into the military, and that is playing right
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Speaker 2: into the hands of those who hate us and would
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Speaker 2: like to annihilate us.
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Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and it's across the spectrum, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: China wants TikTok for our kids, but not for theirs.
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Speaker 1: They want to infect our ability to defend ourselves. Now, thankfully,
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Speaker 1: there are great Navy seals, there are great Army rangers.
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Speaker 1: And there's still bad dudes willing to do bad. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there are there. I've met them, I've seen them. They're
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Speaker 1: still in there, right, our job is to make sure they.
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Speaker 3: Have a military they deserve and that we get the
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Speaker 3: other stuff out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because they want to do their job and they
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Speaker 1: will do it for us. And that's the good side
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Speaker 1: of this is there are plenty of great Americans out
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Speaker 1: there who want to join for the right set.
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Speaker 3: It's provocative.
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Speaker 2: On the very back of your book, you talk about
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Speaker 2: how twenty years ago you put your life on the
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Speaker 2: line to fight extremists, and now twenty years later, the
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Speaker 2: same army is infected with a virus and there are
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Speaker 2: people within it that are calling you an extremist because
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Speaker 2: you love the country and what it stands for.
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Speaker 1: I was labeled one. Literally, I deployed. I was in
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Speaker 1: the Washington, d c.
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Speaker 3: National Guard.
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Speaker 1: I was there during the George Floyd riots outside the
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Speaker 1: White House when the insurrection that tried to take out
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Speaker 1: Frump happened. I was there for the not the first night,
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Speaker 1: the next four held in a riot shield. It's surreal
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Speaker 1: to hold a riot shield with the White House lit
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Speaker 1: up behind you, with your fellow citizens in front of you.
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Speaker 1: We were there, and then the election happened, Joe Biden's,
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Speaker 1: then January sixth happened. Then Biden's inauguration is coming, and
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Speaker 1: so you know, remember all every National Guard unit in
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Speaker 1: America or the region was there, certainly the DC Guard.
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Speaker 1: So I had orders to go, and I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: One day before I was supposed to go, I get
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Speaker 1: a call from a commander in the unit, Saint Pete,
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Speaker 1: you're good, your orders are revoked.
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Speaker 3: You can stand down. What do you mean I could
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Speaker 3: stand down?
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Speaker 1: Everybody's going. He's like, no, we're good, we don't need you.
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Speaker 1: And he wouldn't tell me why couldn't. But it was
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Speaker 1: pretty clear to me. I'm like, okay, why, why in
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Speaker 1: the world is everybody going but me? When I wrote
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Speaker 1: the book, I was able to talk to him again
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Speaker 1: and confirm one hundred percent that it was because they
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Speaker 1: had identified me as an extremist because of a Christian
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Speaker 1: tattoo I have on my chest, the Jerusalem Cross. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you're familiar with it, only a Christian symbol. They
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Speaker 1: searched my Instagram and some uh, some folks identified it
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Speaker 1: and said no, he's an extremist, and the leadership of
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Speaker 1: the unit supported it, and they revoked my orders. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And so I got out. I didn't it if that
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Speaker 1: was happening. To me and was it? Was it because
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Speaker 1: of the tattoo?
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Speaker 3: Probably not?
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Speaker 1: Was it because I'm a Trump supporter? Maybe was it
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Speaker 1: because I work at Fox News? Maybe I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Any combination is the wrong answer. I've done three tours,
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Speaker 1: two tours, one tour in Irack and off guess another
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Speaker 1: tour one tam Obay for my nation, serving under Republicans
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Speaker 1: and Democrats, never about politics, and now you DM, I'm
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Speaker 1: an extremist.
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Speaker 3: Take that at the COVID.
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Speaker 1: Add similar purges that we saw, and it is a
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Speaker 1: I would call an assault on people of conscience inside
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Speaker 1: our military. Well, a lot of that comes down to
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Speaker 1: Christians or Conservatives, patriots, you know, you take that don't
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Speaker 1: tread on me flag. Can't have that bumper sticker on
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Speaker 1: your car on post anymore, can't have that flag.
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Speaker 3: Might be an extremist.
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Speaker 1: So there are so many silly ways renaming of basis
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Speaker 1: all of this. It is if our military becomes partisan,
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Speaker 1: then our military is a tool for all the wrong reasons,
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Speaker 1: in the hands of all.
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Speaker 3: The wrong people.
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Speaker 1: It has always been a nonpartisan, patriotic institution, and I fear.
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Speaker 3: We're on the verge of losing that.
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Speaker 1: Across the board you see in the book, you will
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Speaker 1: meet person after person and moment after moment where instead
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Speaker 1: of choosing standards accountability, meritocracy, and lethality, so called leaders
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Speaker 1: followed political ideologues in searts of social justice outcomes in
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Speaker 1: ways that made units less capable.
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Speaker 3: And that's the sin.
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Speaker 2: Explain this symbol on the cover of your book here,
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Speaker 2: it's an upside down American flag. What does that mean.
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Speaker 1: It's a universal symbol of duress, distress. You know, you've
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Speaker 1: seen it with people flying their flag. I flew my
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Speaker 1: flag upside down outside my house after the fall of Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's a reflect I did that
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Speaker 1: on purpose. Obviously, that's a combat patch. That's exactly the
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Speaker 1: type of combat patch I wore on my shoulder. I've
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Speaker 1: been proud to wear that patch my entire life. But
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Speaker 1: this institution is in duress.
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Speaker 2: You know. Sometimes you hear the phrase, you know, follow
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Speaker 2: the money, and that's a great way to track things
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Speaker 2: back to the you know, what is the source upstream
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Speaker 2: that's causing these things downstream? And if someone can get
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Speaker 2: get in control of the money, and they can get
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Speaker 2: in control of the power, the military power, there's so
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Speaker 2: much you can control what kind of evil people are
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Speaker 2: at the top, controlling generals to trickle down an ideology
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Speaker 2: that's just destroying morale, destroying the effectiveness of a military.
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Speaker 2: Is it, I mean, is it what we.
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Speaker 3: Think it is? Is it?
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Speaker 2: Is it really as awful and insidious as as we think?
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Speaker 1: It's leftists who want control, and the military was the
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Speaker 1: last vestige that they did not control. In ultimate meritocracy,
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Speaker 1: based on patriotism and love of country, you can control
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Speaker 1: other quarters of government fairly easily.
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Speaker 3: Obama's.
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Speaker 1: The Obamas were famously obsessed with the DoD visited the
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Speaker 1: Pentagon a lot, very particular about exactly who they appointed
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Speaker 1: into certain positions, inherently distrustful of the generals, and so
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Speaker 1: over time slowly filtered out your war fighters, break glass
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Speaker 1: in case of war types, and moved in Secretary of
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Speaker 1: the Navy, Secretary Army, who are political appointees, who then
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Speaker 1: pushed prerogatives down to generals. So once you're you're picking
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Speaker 1: your secretary Defense and your secretaries, they're setting the terms
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Speaker 1: of what's acceptable. Now if you're a uniform member underneath
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Speaker 1: that you either comply or you get out. And so
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Speaker 1: the ones willing to comply the sheep who're willing to
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Speaker 1: go along with, Oh yeah, yeah, women in combat, great idea,
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, trans great idea.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, electric tanks, let's do that. Great. They get
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Speaker 3: promoted the PC lapdogs. So it takes a while.
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Speaker 1: But if you look at Obama, he would have done
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Speaker 1: a lot of these things right away if he could
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, but he couldn't. So a
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Speaker 1: lot of the most radical things he did in the
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Speaker 1: military happened in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, and twenty sixty,
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Speaker 1: after he'd made the necessary personnel changes in order to
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Speaker 1: create an environment where he knew the military, which it's
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Speaker 1: DNA and its bones over two hundred and fifty years,
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Speaker 1: said no, was willing to be complicit in the erosion
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Speaker 1: of that institution.
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Speaker 3: Trump did what he could. I think there were a
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Speaker 3: lot of.
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Speaker 1: Generals who that just kind of went down into their
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Speaker 1: bunker and tried not to But the minute Biden came in,
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Speaker 1: it was just fast forward on everything Obama had been doing.
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Speaker 3: Pete, how do you think we can turn this around?
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Speaker 3: We can.
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Speaker 1: I wrote a book about education, one hundred year takeover Amazing,
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Speaker 1: And the problem with that one is is, yes, the
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Speaker 1: Department of Education controls a lot, but it's not centralized.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to make a change, you got
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Speaker 1: to do it in your community. You got to get
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Speaker 1: with your family. You've got to make a change. Go local,
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Speaker 1: like what you're doing at Libran. You've got to do it.
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Speaker 1: This is a top down institution, which gives me even
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Speaker 1: a little bit more hope that we can fix it.
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Speaker 1: A new commander in chief that comes in and says,
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Speaker 1: we're not doing this garbage anymore. Fires the Secretary Offense,
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Speaker 1: fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, brings in new chairmen,
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Speaker 1: new secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, the
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Speaker 1: Marine Corps. Now that person will be accused here it's Trump.
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Speaker 1: Oh you're doing a maga take There's no maga takeovers
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Speaker 1: going on here. We're just going back to how we
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Speaker 1: used to focus on the right things. See, it has
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Speaker 1: to be top down and bottom up, because the bottom
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Speaker 1: up's a problem too right now, Kirk, Because our military
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Speaker 1: academies are teaching the same woke ceur TV.
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Speaker 3: So you've got a.
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Speaker 1: Clean house there with your superintendents and professors, because there's
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Speaker 1: a good core in the middle, a good, honest God
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Speaker 1: fearing corp inside our military that wants to do the
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Speaker 1: right things, and you could get back pretty quick.
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Speaker 3: You could get the ethos that hey, this is ours
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Speaker 3: pretty quick.
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Speaker 1: There's things to change and procurement and everything, but that's
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Speaker 1: the baseline.
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Speaker 2: And I'm so glad that you have decided to talk
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Speaker 2: about education in your previous book and then you're talking
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Speaker 2: about military here in this book, because at the end
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Speaker 2: of the day, I think you have two competing ideologies.
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Speaker 2: You have you have secular humanist, atheist Marxist ideas that's
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Speaker 2: you're showing up in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got a biblical worldview, which is the
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Speaker 2: root for the fruit of liberty, opportunity, equal rights, the
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Speaker 2: fruit of the spirit, and courage and all of these
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Speaker 2: kinds of things. And ultimately it's a battle between these
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Speaker 2: two ideologies. And that's where our faith comes in. How
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Speaker 2: did your time in the military impact you and your faith?
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Speaker 1: I mean, they the old adage is overused, but there
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Speaker 1: are no you know, atheists in foxholes is a is
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Speaker 1: a real thing. I mean, when you are when you
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Speaker 1: are stepping out on a mission, for example, in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night and the air assault in bad
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Speaker 1: leading a platoon of forty men into Indian country, into
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Speaker 1: enemy country, and you're going to hit an al Qaeda
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Speaker 1: safe house for a mortar team that's been targeting your
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Speaker 1: unit and others across Bagdad, and you don't know what
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Speaker 1: to expect. You face mortality really fast, and you know
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Speaker 1: you're on bendinne pretty quick to say, hey, God, I
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Speaker 1: give this to you. I wouldn't say I would say
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Speaker 1: I was a head Christian more than a heart Christian in.
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Speaker 3: Service over there. But it was all there.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you one story during one unit when
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Speaker 1: we got we dropped in the long spot. We you know,
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Speaker 1: we're going to an enemy house. I'm in charge for
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Speaker 1: the first time, and I just remember we had dropped
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Speaker 1: in a mudfield. It was all going sideways, and I
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Speaker 1: remember having a sense of calm that I had no
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Speaker 1: business have. I mean, this is I went from a
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Speaker 1: Wall Street job in the National Guard to an infantry
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Speaker 1: unit in combat within six months. Like it was a
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Speaker 1: long story, but the call my felt. Yes, my men
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Speaker 1: were trained and we but it was it was it
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Speaker 1: was something else. And I'll never forget about two and
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Speaker 1: a half weeks later, calling home to my parents, and
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Speaker 1: my mom said to me, because you can't talk about
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Speaker 1: timing and locations when you're when you're in combat. She said, Pete,
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Speaker 1: I just want you to know, on such and such
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Speaker 1: a night, at this time, I felt just an overwhelming
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Speaker 1: urge to fall on my knees and pray for you.
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Speaker 1: And I get chills just sharing it. And I triangulated.
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Speaker 1: I asked her what time was that? And that was
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Speaker 1: the very moment we were in Wow, the rural areas
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Speaker 1: of bag Dad going toward an o KaiA safehouse in
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Speaker 1: the wrong.
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Speaker 3: Direction at first. Like, it's just the power of prayers
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Speaker 3: are a very real thing.
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Speaker 1: And I think I think of my company commander, who
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Speaker 1: was a great Christian who was an amazing leader for us.
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Speaker 1: I mean it it isn't It's also something that's under
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Speaker 1: assault too. I mean, chaplains and all that are are
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Speaker 1: something that they're eroding. But it's it's a It's always
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Speaker 1: been a bedrock of the American military, is that we
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Speaker 1: believe in something bigger than ourselves.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, I know my grandfather, you know, he was he
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Speaker 2: was issued a Bible that they gave to him in
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Speaker 2: the military.
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Speaker 3: We got bibles, ye, Yeah, so many things like that.
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Speaker 2: Uh and and so much of that has changed, and
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Speaker 2: you've document so much of that in your book, and
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Speaker 2: you've you've been telling the stories of veterans for a
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Speaker 2: long time.
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Speaker 3: Why is that important to you?
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Speaker 1: The best education I ever got was from the salt
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Speaker 1: of the earth. Men, mostly men, some women, but mostly
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Speaker 1: men that I serve with, who reminded me what real.
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Speaker 3: Courage looks like, like, what real guts looks like.
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Speaker 1: And they never They're never going to sit on a
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Speaker 1: stage like this with a famous guy like you, with
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Speaker 1: cameras on all.
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Speaker 3: Over the place talking about it. And so I take.
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Speaker 1: Really seriously my responsibility to try to be their voice.
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Speaker 1: I get to wear makeup and talk on TV every
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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday morning on Foxing Friends, then I better
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Speaker 1: be really good at channeling you know, why, why what
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Speaker 1: direction our foreign policy is going in, or how we
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Speaker 1: use our military, or when that cop makes a tough
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Speaker 1: call in a moment's notice and everyone wants to second
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Speaker 1: guess it. Well, I've been in some moments where I've
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Speaker 1: had to make a tough call. Here's what you're going through,
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Speaker 1: And so I think of all those guys I sart
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Speaker 1: a lot. Anytime I give a speech, i do an event,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Okay, how are they what lens are they
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Speaker 1: seeing this through that I can help people understand what
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Speaker 1: they're going through and respect the service that they gave,
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Speaker 1: because ultimately they pour into the next chapter of their life,
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Speaker 1: their next profession, and they might get a pat on
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Speaker 1: the back here or there, but they just hope that
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Speaker 1: their the legacy.
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Speaker 3: Of their service is respected. And that's what I try
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Speaker 3: to do.