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Chad Robichaux: Force Recon Marine, ‘Safest Place Is In God’s Will’ (REPLAY) · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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defending biblical Christianity.
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No topic off limits.
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And now, here's your host, David Fierazzo.
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Hi, friends, family and Christ.
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Thanks so much for watching, sharing the podcast, and there are some guests that I wish
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we had an hour.
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And today's guest is one of them.
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I want to direct you to a couple of websites.
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First of all, Chad Robeshow will be joining us in a minute.
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You got a brand new book on, I'm talking hot off the presses.
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It's called A Mission Without Borders, why a father and son risked it all for people
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of Ukraine.
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And also, we want to direct you to the website, MightyOaksPrograms.org, MightyOaksPrograms,
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and Chad's website, ChadRobeshow.com.
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And we'll talk about his podcast, and we just want to bring him on right now, brother.
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Thank you so much for all you do.
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Thank you for your time today.
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Good to see you.
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Absolutely.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Oh, thank you.
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Well, first of all, the podcast, how often do you do it?
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How can people hear it?
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Yeah, it's called The Resilience Show.
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I do it weekly.
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This new episode drops every Monday.
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We have some incredible guests, Terry Krue, Sean Ryan, Kaylee McEnany, every week, we
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just have some phenomenal guests.
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And we talk about topics that make sure media that typically cover and how people can
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more resilient in this ever changing world that we find ourselves in.
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You mentioned Terry Krue's, and I see there's a benefit coming up, the fourth annual Warrior
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Gala, and that's on MightyOaksPrograms.org.
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And I just want to read the description and have you tell us a little bit more.
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It says The MightyOaks Foundation is a faith-based veteran service organization that teaches
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combat veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress, how to get beyond combat trauma and
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live their lives in the manner God intended.
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Tall order, brother, but I got your newsletter.
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I got a lot of testimonies from people that have been through it that are raving about
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it.
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Share a little bit more, please.
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Yeah, well, about 14 years ago is when we MightyOaks began.
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It began from me doing my eight deployment staff, Afghanistan, and special operations coming
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home, following my face, and just some amazing people coming around me to help me restore
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my family, overcome my battle with suicide, and not become another veteran suicide statistic.
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And through all the things that people helped me with, nothing was more profound than
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it in being led to a relationship with Jesus and aligning my life for the life I was
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created to live and finding hope and restoration and purpose there.
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And that purpose really manifested for me, and this is deep burden to God put on my heart
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to pay it forward.
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And that was, again, 14 years ago.
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And since then, we've had over 7,000 people have come to this recovery program.
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We do about $8 million a year in programming for absolutely free to active duty service
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members, veterans, first responders, spouses.
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We have a recovery program.
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I mean, that's our recovery program at these places, these amazing ranches we have around
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a country.
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We do about 50 of a year.
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And while we had 7,000 people over the last 14 years, we're doing about 1,000 per year
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now.
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And again, we even pay for their flights.
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We have a resiliency program where I go to bases around the world and speak on resiliency,
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mentally, physically, socially, spiritually.
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I've spoken about half million troops in the last decade at bases around the world.
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And really just given a message of open resiliency through a relationship with Jesus.
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And we have books that we give out, some of the books I've written, we've given out
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over about 400,000 copies of our books now to the troops.
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And we have an advocacy program, or even like next month, I'll be testing for Congress
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on faith-based programs.
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President Trump had appointed me to be a chairman of the White House faith-based coalition
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and veterans affairs to make sure our troops have access to faith-based programs.
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And the last thing we do at Mighty Oaks is an international program where we take these
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same programs we do here and we share with our ally partners around the world and just
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help them to find the same hope that we have here.
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So you have an amazing story, amazing testimony.
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I mean, as you said, you were confronted with your own suicide, you know, your thoughts
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about that and how deep that goes and you overcame.
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You know all about PTSD, you were in combat, Marine Corps veteran, what is a force recon?
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Explain that, USMC force recon veteran.
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Explain that real quick.
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Yeah, well, I mean, every branch of the military has their own special operations, you
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know, maybe he's known for their nanaxials and the army has the green braids and, you know,
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the special operations component of the Rangers, Air Force has, you know, Paris, you and
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the top back controllers and the Marine Corps has two, the Marine Corps has a recon and
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then the top tier of recon is force recon and then Marsox.
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I was a force recon Marine, certain special operations in that capacity.
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I tried out for a JSOC task force to join special operations command task force and represented
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a Marine Corps at JSOC, which is the premier special operations that combines all the branches
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together.
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It's that kind of represents all the branches and then we have, you know, at JSOC, you
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have Delta 4, SEAL Team 6, a unit called Task Force Orange, and so I got to represent
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the Marine Corps at that command and ended aid deployment, staff can't stand in that capacity.
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So President Trump said, by the way, it's right on your website, thank you for sharing
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your incredible story, Chad.
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I extend my personal gratitude for you, you're distinguished and steadfast service to our
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country.
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And I want to read one of the testimonies that I got from the Mighty Oaks programs.
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Brandon said, I expected the course to be more heavily focused on PTSD and less on
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biblical principles.
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I'm glad I was mistaken.
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This has been the best veteran experience I've had.
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I've been blessed to work with other veteran organizations, but never has the foundation
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been the word of God.
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I needed this and I'm excited to share this experience with other veterans and first responders.
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So you're doing great work, Chad.
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Kudos brother.
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Now let's go back to Afghanistan now.
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I think that's where now we're going to get to your brand new book coming up in a minute
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here, a mission without borders, but we've got to talk about saving a Z's, which is going
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to be a feature film now, hugely popular book.
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But the story is really amazing in and of itself.
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Please just, I know you can bullet point that, you're a pro at this point, how the mission
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to help one became a calling to rescue thousands from the Taliban.
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Go ahead brother, share Chad.
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Yeah, like you said, I could spend hours talking about the saving a Z story, but a, you
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know, a Z's and I had a very unique job when I went to that J sock unit.
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My job was a AFO advanced force operator, which means it's probably the closest thing
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in the military to be an undercover and you work in what's called a singleton capacity
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by yourself, but your partner is not a U.S. service member.
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It's a local national and so for me, it was a Z's, a Z's and I did all eight of my deployments
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together.
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Hundreds of missions going ahead of our unit to do all the clandestine logistics to put
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our soldiers on target to capture a kill bag guys, and that was my job, you know, and
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so while I can tell you that a Z saved my life several times in combat, he probably saved
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my life every day, you know, trying to get me around different parts of the country and,
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you know, impact stand in Afghanistan to be in Taliban villages and not stand out and,
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you know, don't eat that, don't walk there, don't talk to that person, you know, if you
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talk right now, they're going to kill us.
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So he kept, he kept me alive and we became obviously became very close friends and beyond
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him saved my life, but I didn't go back to base when operating and he went home.
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I went to his home, I lived in his home.
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I held his babies when they were born.
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So he was, he was my friend, you know, I just, my teammate is my friend.
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And so when Afghanistan withdrawal happened in President Biden announced a full and complete
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withdrawal of Afghanistan at a lot of problems with that, you know, first of all,
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I think regardless of what president it would have been to leave Afghanistan was a catastrophic
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mistake for national security and global security.
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I mean, this is, you're talking Bogom Air Force base, the most strategic place in the
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globe between Iraq, Iran, Russia, and China, you don't far from that.
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You could have declared the war on terror over, you could have, and we could have
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supported that by the Afghan National Army, like we had been doing since 2018, but you don't
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give up that base to enter international community.
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It was participating there to fight global war on terrorism.
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It was working that lie that American people were told that we need to end this war
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and we need to stop putting American troops in harm's way.
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The truth is we have 2,500 troops there.
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We still have 80,000 troops in Japan since World War II.
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We have 40,000 troops in Germany since World War II.
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We have 30,000, 35,000 troops in South Korea on that 38th parallel,
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keeping North Koreans from coming over.
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Having our troops in places like this and putting contingencies like this,
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then keep us in war, prevents war.
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And so that was a lie of the American people.
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We withdrew in a way that was horrific that turned over the country of Afghanistan.
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We left Americans behind.
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We left our allies behind.
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We left 80 billion dollars in equipment behind.
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We still giving, by the way, 85 million dollars a week to the Taliban
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while terrorism is growing in Afghanistan.
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And we're giving that money to sanction people that are sanctioned,
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and our FBI's top 10 most wanted list, which is a complete atrocity.
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So all these things I didn't agree with,
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I couldn't change and I kind of went on a tangent there.
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But the one thing I could control and could have,
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I could do even as a civilian was to go and get my friend Aziz.
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So I made a decision that while I was not happy with this draw,
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I was going to do my part to go get my friend.
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And so I called a couple of other special operations veterans that I knew well and trusted
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and said, hey, I'm going to go get Aziz's wife and his six kids.
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Will you help?
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And you know, I have some great friends with a lot of experience.
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And we put together a team by 12 guys from, you know,
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Navy CEOs to Green Berets, to Recon Marines,
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to got a few guys from CIA's, a paramilitary unit.
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And we put together a team and while we're planning this
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effort to go get Aziz's wife and six kids,
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we realized how tragic this really was.
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There was a call that came in or a text that came in
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that these group of orphans, about 3,000 orphans,
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had just been abandoned.
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And in that moment, we made a decision.
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And God, I think burdened all of our hearts to say,
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beyond Aziz's wife and six kids,
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let's go help as many people as we can,
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Americans, interpreters, allies.
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And so we leaned forward to do that.
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As Aziz's six, eight says,
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send me, we all had to send me the heart.
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And beyond that decision, God performed a miracle that allowed us,
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not only rescue Aziz's wife and the six kids,
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but 17,000 other people, which, by the way,
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ended up being the largest civilian evacuation in American history.
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And I say that not to pat myself in the back here.
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I say that to do it, say that this was completely a God
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orchestrated miracle.
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I'm not smart enough, by the way,
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or capable enough to pull anything like that off.
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God, miracle off the miracle off the miracle to pull that off.
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It was absolutely amazing.
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And so the book captures that story and highlights
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some amazing people that I was proud to be served with.
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It glorifies God, and we God did.
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And then it's been made into a very big motion picture movie.
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And I'm very proud.
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I was nervous about that at first,
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but I'm very proud to see it's going to be done well
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and done right by some amazing folks.
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It's been a few amazing folks left in Hollywood.
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So when can we be expecting that?
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Is that next year?
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Yeah, it's probably looking at early to actually hit theaters
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probably early 2026 in the 2025, 2026 as window hit theaters.
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It's been produced now.
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And I can't say who, but there's some people involved in it.
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And from acting to directing that,
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most people listening would recognize who they are.
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Right.
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Chad, it's an amazing story.
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No wonder they're going to take the book
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and make a movie out of it.
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And if you, friends, if you go to Chad robachow.com
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and click on a bow, you can scroll down where it says,
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friend, you'll see a picture of a Z's.
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And he's the man that spent.
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Did you say Chad, eight missions with you?
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And they were going to leave him behind?
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Well, we did eight deployments and over 100 missions with me.
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He served at America's top tier special operations unit.
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I believe that, you know, at JSOC,
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the number one special operations unit world,
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we served there for over 15 years.
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Wow.
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So him and all of our other allies,
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you know, we left, we left,
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we didn't only leave Americans behind,
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we left our allies, a wartime allies
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that we made a contractual promise to for their service to us
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that we would give them a path to citizenship.
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It's called the SID, a special among your visa process.
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And we, we, we, we did not keep our promise in that.
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And, you know, and they're being left behind.
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Not only that, we left out by a metric system there
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with the Taliban, who has all of our interpreters,
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identities, locations, and the Taliban's actually using that
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with taxpayer money, we're sending them this,
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to hunt them down and murder them for what they did for us.
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So it's complete, it's complete betrayal to our allies
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and every service member, our service members are,
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or, I mean, look, beyond that,
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if you have any kind of heart and care about people,
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it's 40 million people in Afghanistan,
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20 million women and little girls
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that are being sexually enslaved from the moment we left.
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You know, little girls is always nine years old,
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they're being sexually enslaved,
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they lost all their human rights.
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And, and we did that as a country.
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And it should apologize for it, it should make it right.
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But instead, we're sending $87 million a week
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to them, half of it in cash,
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that's going right to the Taliban.
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And it's a, it's a complete atrocity.
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And, you know, I did my listening to call their congressman
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and as a constituent, say, you know,
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we're not okay with that.
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Well, we should, we, we need to take a brief pause here,
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but we can say elections have consequences in friends
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who have a big election coming up in November.
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And we got to vote the communists and the socialists out.
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But more with Chad Robachow,
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when we come back on World View Matters,
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It's been growing like crazy.
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Chad Robachow, I didn't get a chance to ask you
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about your MMA career.
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My goodness, it's just so vast,
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all the things that you've been a part of.
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And then you certainly don't look like a grandfather
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and you've got kids and grandkids.
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So let's go back and just share a little bit
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about the MMA career.
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And just for our listeners that don't know
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about your background, share a little bit.
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That's just fascinating.
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Yeah, well, I mean, more shorts
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or something that I did so I was five years old.
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And so it was never any career I pursued.
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It was just something I did on the side as in the military.
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It was like three years of my life that I did
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at my peak of my fighting that I only fought.
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It was after my last club in Afghanistan
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and the part of my recovery time
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that I just solely fought and taught martial arts
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and I ended up being ranked number six in the world.
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I won a World title.
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I was 18 and two as a professional MMA fighter
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and my background is mainly grappling
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based martial arts since I was a kid wrestling
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and judo and traditional juditsu.
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And in 1995, I started Brazilian juditsu
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and I've done a fourth degree by building
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across the Gracie Junior in Brazilian juditsu.
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And love that art.
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I still trained it this day.
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But once I started Mighty Yokes,
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it was time for me to retire at the 20 professional fights
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and did pretty good at it.
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But I still trained.
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And then it's something me and my sons have done.
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I have three kids, three adult kids, 27, 26, and 24.
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I am a grandfather at four grand children and one on a way.
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And then last year we brought a new daughter and a family.
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So I have a grand daughter, a grand kid
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that her same age as my daughter and my wife and I
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adopted our niece at birth.
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And so she's 20 months old now.
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We started all over from empty nesting
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to being a grandparent and parents again at the same time.
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So she's summers out my fourth kid and our daughter
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and she's just amazing blessing to us.
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And you are busy anyway.
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Let's jump into the book now, Chad,
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a mission without borders.
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Five star reviews already on Amazon.
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It's been out what, three weeks or so,
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maybe a little bit more than that.
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But it says you offer an honest no holds barred account
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of what has really been happening in Ukraine.
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And you share powerful stories that are soaked
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in resiliency and determination, faith and sacrifice
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in the face of overwhelming opposition.
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So Chad, let's just say this right up front.
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A lot of people have different views on Ukraine
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and Americans, the US support of Ukraine and Zelensky
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and the globalists, but the people that are suffering.
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First of all, just share why you decided
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to write this book at this time.
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Yes, I'm definitely happy to address that
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because the thing has been a very confusing topic,
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especially for Christians and conservatives.
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I mean, obviously I'm a Christian person foremost.
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I'm very conservative.
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I'm probably most patriotic guys I know
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and I don't believe in using US taxpayers' dollars
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to be wasted overseas.
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So I got a lot of heat from people
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as those one of you, Ukraine.
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Well, Chad, why would you go to Ukraine?
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Why would you support this corrupt nation?
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Because President Zelensky's corrupt,
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we shouldn't be sending hundreds of billions of dollars
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to Ukraine.
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And first of all, I heard those complaints to me
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and I agree with that money being sent there
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is our US taxpayer dollars that is being sent
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to a corrupt government and is being wasted.
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It's not making that up front lines.
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No one knows that better than me
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up in the front lines over 10 trips now.
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But I also believe, and I'll say this,
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I did not go to Ukraine to help President Zelensky.
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I did not go for President Biden.
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I believe this corrupt politicians
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Zelensky and President Biden have the ability
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in this world 24 hours and they don't
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because they're becoming rich off of it
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and getting power off of it.
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So I did not go for them.
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What I went for is the innocent people
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that are victim of that corruption.
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And if us as Christians and conservatives
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ever let our politics and our jadedness
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get in the way of our compassion for people,
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then we should change our politics, right?
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I mean, these are, I've been their first hand in scene.
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There's been over many people killed at this point.
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Mostly, Zelens, I've been the pizza parlors
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and movie theaters and playgrounds and daycares
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just like we have here, this isn't a third world country
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and not that third world countries deserve that.
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But this is the first world country like America
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that have apartment buildings that are being rocketed
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by ballistic missiles, the size of telephone poles.
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You're talking first world nation, a world superpower
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attacking another first world nation
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and they're targeting civilians intentionally
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to create fear and terrorize the civilian population
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to make them bold.
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And you have corrupt politicians in the middle
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that are allowing it to happen and not ending it
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because they want this war to continue.
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You don't hear President Biden or President Zelensky
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talking about peace.
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In fact, the only person you've heard talk about peace
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is President Trump who said exactly what I say
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in opening in the book is this thing
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can be ended in 24 hours and he can't.
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And so that's why I went to Ukraine
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because there are victims that are resulted this corruption.
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And we've been one of the first reasons
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that went there is I knew when this happened,
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if you go back to Afghanistan,
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the withdrawal and the way the withdrawal happened,
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not only was I upset by that,
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but all over enemies were watching,
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were not upset and they were cheerleading.
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They're like, yes, our enemies, this is the time
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to do whatever evil we want to do in the world
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because we have a weak White House.
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And I tell you, if you have a weak White House,
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if you have a weak commander chief in the United States
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or America, the world is an unstable and dangerous place.
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And it's time, it's the game on for the Putin's of the world
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and the President sees in the world and that's what happened.
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And President Putin saw this.
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He put a hundred thousand troops on the border,
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Eastern border of Ukraine.
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He flexed to see what President Biden would do
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and President Biden's response was to remove
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our U.S. troops from Ukraine and to close our embassy
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and consulate before he removed the Americans.
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So what that did was all NATO followed
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because they always followed what America does
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and they gave a green light for Putin across.
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And when Putin came across, we knew before this happened,
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when Putin would come across, we'd still Americans there.
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So my team positioned in place to remove Americans out
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because our government didn't.
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And look, you could have whatever political opinion you want,
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but no matter where you sit,
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there is never a scenario that the United States government
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should leave Americans behind in war zones.
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And we did it in Sudan, we did it in Africa.
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And so not Africa, we did it in Afghanistan,
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we did it in some other places in the world
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and we did it in Ukraine and unfortunately,
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good people, like the people work with,
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had to stand in the gap for our White House
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to rescue Americans and that's what we dare do.
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We rescued Benjamin Hall, the Fox News reporter
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recovered bodies of his teammate.
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We rescued, we recovered bodies of U.S. service members
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who volunteered to go there and fight
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when our State Department wouldn't and couldn't
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because of our White House.
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We've jumped in on missions that our tier one
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JSOC units couldn't do because the White House would let them.
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We did operations that are central intelligence agency
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wanted to do, but they couldn't because of the White House.
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And we were coordinated with them all the time.
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By the way, my organization, it does this stuff.
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We, we de-complexed with the Pentagon,
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we worked with JSOC to make sure we're not,
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we're doing de-complexion and we support
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as a patriotic surrogate these organizations
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to do things that either can't or won't do.
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And so, you know, this was very coordinated effort
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with our government who couldn't do with the White House
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but would not allow them to do, which is the right thing.
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And so, we rescued tons of people in Ukraine.
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And one of the things that Mighty Oaks did is,
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is went in and a Mighty Oaks foundation went in
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is is train, provide humanitarian aid
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but also train pastors to be chaplains to go
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and minister their congregate members
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who are now conscripted troops on the front lines.
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And so, we've actually trained in this date,
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I think a 300, 300 plus pastors to be chaplains
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and help get them on the front line.
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It's a incredible thing to be part of.
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I think one of the biggest things I take away from the book
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and talk about in the book is the fact that I did this
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with my son.
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We have 84 years of service in our family
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from War I to Korea, Vietnam.
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Both, I was in Marine, both my sons in Marines.
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One of them was Afghanistan veteran just like me.
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And he wanted to come to do this
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and I tried to bench him in the beginning
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out of my fear of control as a mother.
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And God just had different plans and so did my son.
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And they came up point to it and realized that,
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you know, I love my son but God loves him more.
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I can protect my son to God, protect him more.
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And there's no safer place for my son to be,
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whether on a couch, back in Texas or in the front lines
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of Ukraine amongst Russian forces,
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there's no safer place for him to be
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than the middle of God's will.
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And I had to release that fear to faith in my son
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and the God to allow him to do what God was burdened.
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It's hard to do and that was a,
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so to me that the most craziest part of this book
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and story is the relationship between me and my son
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and taking him into a war zone with me,
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which is something I know father ever wants to do.
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But I had to succumb to that and submit to that
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because I felt that was God's will.
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And that's my biggest takeaway from this book, by the way.
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There's no safer place to be than in God's will.
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That's what you said.
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And your son, it's just amazing.
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So it says you did seven trips
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and you saw a change in your son as his confidence grew
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and excelled but that conversation
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or conversations before he decided to go
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or you decided to allow him to go.
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That must have been fascinating.
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Do you detail that in the book as well?
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Oh yeah, the whole book,
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one of the string through the whole book
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is that relationship between me and my son
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and him wanting to go to the different steps
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of letting him get more and more involved to the end.
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And ultimately about the end, I did 10 trips to Ukraine
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and he's done more than me now.
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He's done 13 trips to Ukraine.
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And he's been some amazing work that I'm extremely proud of.
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So yeah, he's been there more than I have now.
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And yeah, through the book, from the very beginning to the end
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is that journey that he and I went on
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as a father and son through this.
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Chad, before we let you go,
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just three minutes left.
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Talk a little bit more about the chaplains
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and the inspiring work that they're doing in Ukraine
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and reaching people that are suffering
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and hurting and in need, the real victims.
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Yeah, I mean, because when you, you know,
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one of the things that I think Americans,
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one of the great things about being in America
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and one of the terrible things about being in America
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is we're in this bubble.
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And we don't realize how great we have our life is
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because of the freedoms of one art,
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art aimed by God and the freedoms that we've been protected
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by every man and woman who's born in uniform
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since 1775 and fought blood and died for those freedoms.
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We're part of only 25% of the world
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that have religious freedoms and we're free of persecution
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and we can go and pulp it in Sunday
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and either give or hear the word of God.
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And so we just have this amazing opportunity
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that we just take for granted sometimes and you know,
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and we think that this can never happen to us.
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In Ukraine, these people would have thought
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this can never happen, right?
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Ukraine's a first world country.
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It's this malls and, you know, just regular everyday life.
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And so you imagine being in a church one Sunday
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and the congregation has filled with 50% men,
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50% women.
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The next Sunday you go, all the men are gone
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from 16 years old to 60 years old, they're all gone.
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And you imagine me in that pastor saying,
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these are, you know, I've knew little, I knew your little,
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I've since he was, since he was five years old
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and now he's 22 years old and he's off.
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And these pastors wanted to go to the front line
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where their memory had conscripted
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and be able to go and minister them on the battlefield
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because Ukraine didn't really have a chaplaincy.
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And so, but these pastors don't know how to sleep
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in the woods, poop in the woods, you know,
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not be a burden to the troops, how to be a chaplain,
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how to minister to people dealing with PTSD.
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They didn't know how to apply medical first aid
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and not be a burden.
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So, we decided, we saw that need.
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And so, my de-oaks and our team and my de-oaks,
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these are guys who came through my de-oaks as students
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and now become team leaders and want to go
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around the world and pay it forward,
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put together a program that trained,
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and again, that was been over 300 chaplains,
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trained these pastors to be chaplains and equip them
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and supply them the move forward
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and help coordinate with the importance of our lines.
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So, they can minister to their congregate members
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on the front lines of their communities.
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And it's been an amazing thing to watch our team do that
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and be part of that.
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Wow, incredible.
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Incredible things happening behind the scenes.
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We're thankful for you to share some of that insight.
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And in the books, friends,
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both a mission without borders and saving a Z's
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and encourage you to check that out.
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And then you'll be ready for the movie
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when the movie comes out in 26th.
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Brother, thank you for your time.
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I love your story and everything that you're involved with,
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most importantly, that you are submitting to God's will
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and glorifying Him in your life.
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So, praise God for you.
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I thanks again for being a blessing to our viewers today.
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Thank you, thank you for having me on.
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Wow, guys, so much more.
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But thank you for sharing the podcast.
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And as always, God bless you.
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Keep speaking the truth about things that matter.