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Veterans Deserve Better: The Major Richard Star Act, Hurricane Preparedness & Military Justice · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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So we have a packed show today. It is a little bit crazy of
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what's going on. So I'm going to break it down a
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I enjoy doing what I do here at military broadcast radio and I
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enjoy veterans talk. I think it's something that I
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need to really focus on and put time and effort and everything
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in. So before we get started, I want
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to make some comments real quick.
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I talked about the Major Richard Star act over and over and over
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in my radio show. I also talked about the Taking
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Care of Veterans Act, which to me is a little bit
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discombobulated. I had a veteran reached out to
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me. I gave him my personal cell
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phone. He reached out to me.
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We talked for a very long 2 1/2 hours and we had a great
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conversation and I said, OK, change my mind.
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And he did, he did change my mind.
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He didn't change my mind to where I stand at as far as
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taking care of veterans or the Major Richard Star Act.
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But he made me see something that's totally different that
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it's how I looked at the VA. And again, the Taking Care of
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Veterans Act, if you don't know what that is, it was a huge,
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like big beautiful bill where they clumped in the Major
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Richard Star Act, the Love Lives On Act for Gold Star spouses and
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family members and, and a bunch of other things that were in
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there. And then in little fine print,
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they said, we're going to take away tinnitus.
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We not take it away, but they're going to make it harder for
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veterans to claim tinnitus and sleep apnea.
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So you know, if you had a 50% for sleep apnea through the VA
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with their crazy math, it would now be like 5% or 10% or
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whatever, and tinnitus would be harder and so on and so forth.
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And me personally, I was like, well, I, I don't, I, I agree
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with it because tinnitus and stuff is so whatever, whatever.
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And I think that that is, I don't know, I, I think I was
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wrong for saying that. And this is, this is where I'm
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at. I'm going to break it down
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Barney's style for, for you. So if you were a combat wounded
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veteran, you get an offset right now, right?
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You're offset is A1 for one. So if you were injured in
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combat, regardless what your injury was, you are entitled to
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VA compensation, right? Just like anybody else who's a
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veteran is entitled to VA compensation.
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And the one for one offset is if you did not have 20 years in the
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military, dollar for dollar, your VA offsets your retirement.
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So let's say, let's just say you were injured in Iraq and you
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lost a limb, right? Both your legs.
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We'll just say both your legs. And Iraq did a roadside bomb and
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they forced retired you from the military.
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So now you're retired from the military, you get your ID card,
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you get your benefits, you get your medical, but you don't get
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your retirement pay because the VA offsets that dollar for
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dollar. So you get the and everybody
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takes the VA because it's, it's more money, right?
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So 100% is like $4000. It it's not exactly 4000, but
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I'm just using that As for numbers sake.
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So your $4000 is 1 for one offset your retirement.
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So if your retirement as AE3E4 in the United States Army with,
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you know, five years is $2100, that money goes away because
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offset by the VA compensation. Now let's paint another
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scenario. Let's say you do 20 years in the
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United States military, 20 good long years.
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And after your service in the United States Army, you go to
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the VA and you go, you know, all those rough marches, My back is
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starting to hurt me. You have degenerate arthritis,
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whatever be it, you now get compensation through the VA and
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you're allowed to keep your VA. I mean your military retirement.
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So if you retired at 20 years as let's just say E8, master
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Sergeant in the Army, right, or first Sergeant, whatever be it,
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and you retired, you get to keep that money, that 3004 thousand
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dollars or whatever it is, and you get to keep the other money
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you get from the VA. How is that fair to somebody who
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wanted to serve 20 years but couldn't do the 20 years because
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of their forced retirement, Right.
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So that's what the Major Richard Star Act is it, it, it, it does
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away with that offset. It's, it's called a combat
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wounded tax and it's just unfair.
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Now the big beautiful bill that I call it the Take Care of
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Veterans Act would have brought that in.
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We would have figured it out. It would have had bipartisan
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support, etcetera, etcetera. And they got the two sides of
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the aisle. They got the DAV and the VFW
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fighting the American Legion fighting this one and fighting
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that one and everything like that.
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So they said, look, there's too much craziness going on here,
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let's go ahead and do away with it.
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So they put it on a back shelf and it'll probably never come
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back up in Congress. Now Major Richard Starr Act, on
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the other hand, has all the votes to be forced into a vote
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and we'll see they they they re adjourn in November and we'll
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see. One of my great, great friends
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and and my little brother told me, he said, I guarantee you
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what they're going to do is they're going to make this a
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veteran's day thing where they push the major richer star act
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on veteran's day and make everybody look good for
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veteran's day in November. Good possibility.
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I mean, if I was a politician, right, and I was running for
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office, that would be a, that would be kind of a coin I would
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play absolutely. But again, we have to wait and
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see. Politics are crazy.
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So we'll have to wait and see. Where my mind changed was is
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that I was like, listen, if you, you know, they're talking about
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future veterans, right? So people are still in the
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military right now with people are still active duty right now.
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They have, they have their disability right, approved
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before they get out of the military now.
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So even before they leave the military with their DD214 form,
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their discharge paperwork, they are rated at 100%, whereas most
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of us had to take 10/15/20 years.
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I know people have taken even longer than that, 40 years, 50
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years, Vietnam Veterans to get their disability claim approved.
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So I was against that. I was like, that's, that's a no
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go. Like why are you, why are you,
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you know, and again, what they set out to do worked to put
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veterans against each other. And that's crazy.
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So I had somebody sit down and explain it to me this way.
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And I'm going to, I'm going to tell you how they explain how
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they changed my mind. If you borrow a toy from me,
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right? You, you borrow a toy from me
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and I let you play with that toy and then you hand me that toy
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broken back. You give it back to me.
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It's broken and it's no longer the way it was when I gave it to
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you. Do you just look at me and go
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tough luck? Or do you think I should be
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compensated with a new toy or, or maybe even money, maybe give
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me a little bit of money, right, so that I can go maybe get this
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toy fixed somehow or maybe I don't know.
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Do you think I should be compensated?
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Let me know what you think in the comments, please.
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So that's how I got that thinking about it, right?
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So a lot of people say VA disability and we need to get we
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need to get rid of that word, that word disability.
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We need, we need to say what it is.
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It's compensation, right? It's a VA compensation.
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It there you're being compensated for being broken,
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right? The military, you signed a
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contract with the military, right?
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Nobody put a gun to your head. Nobody said forced you into the
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military, right? We're not in a third world
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country where you had to join the military, right?
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You join the military on your own free will and signed a
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contract. I remember when I joined, I
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signed this contract. I mean, I signed a booklet of
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paperwork, right? A whole thing of paperwork that
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I had to sign, and it was a contract.
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And then I raised my right hand, swore on the Holy Bible and
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everything that was great and loving and everything like that,
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that I would that I would honor that contract.
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That contract never expired. Even when I left the military
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still didn't expire, right? So all the things that were
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broken, all the things that were damaged in the military, you
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don't think that a veteran should be compensated for that,
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compensated for protecting your freedom, for protecting your
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right to vote, for protecting your right to live in a free
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society, right? Listen, we're not talking about
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whether the war in Afghanistan or war in Iraq or the war in
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Djibouti or anything like that was justified.
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We're not, we're not talking about that at all.
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We're just talking about them. And half of us didn't agree with
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any of that, right? But we do what we had to do
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because we honored a contract. We need, we need the government
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to honor their contract. Their contract was, we'll take
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care of you when you come back and you're broken.
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And that's all. So I'm not going to beat it
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anymore. Where is the major Richard star
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act today? It's, it's kind of, you know,
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like I said, the the current policy is Megley retired or
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combat veterans who served fewer than 20 years currently face a
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dollar for dollar offset deduction when they receive VA
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disability compensation, their Department of Defense retirement
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pay is reduced, sometimes completely, most of the time
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completely. The fix the act of the Major
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Richard Star eliminates this offset, allowing effective
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service members to receive both full payments without one can
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send out the other. Which 20 year veterans get that
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already DIC or Gold Star spouses, they get that as well.
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So they get ADIC from the VA and they get their loved ones
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retirement impact legislation estimated at a cost that that
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estimately, the legislation is estimated to help around 54 to
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60,000 combat veterans. That's a lot.
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That is a lot. Future NBA player Randy, all you
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guys on TikTok. Thank you for joining me.
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The namesake is is in honor of major Richer star who is Army
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reservist combat engineer who served in combat and died of
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combat related cancer from toxins.
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The ACT permits veterans to choose between the combat
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related compensation, which is CRSC, which most of us get or
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DoD retirement. So CRSC is a portion, it's a
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very small portion, 600 bucks. The estimated cost over 10 years
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is about $11 billion. They said about $9 billion, but
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they kind of, you know, with inflation and coal and cost of
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living and all that, he said $11 billion over a 10 year, $11
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billion. We spent more money sending arms
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and money and over to Ukraine than that.
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So I'm kind of, you know, crazy. So there was a discharge
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petition in May of 2026. The House discharge petition led
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by Ranking Member Mark Takano and Republican Raul Ruiz
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reaching the threshold of 218 signatures, meaning to be forced
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a House floor vote. That means it will be forced to
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get a House vote. That's what we're waiting on
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right now. That's where we stand with the
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Major Richard Star Act. We shall see.
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Yeah, kind of crazy, I know. But, you know, we'll have to
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wait and see. I I I mean, it's crazy that
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we're waiting all these politics to return from their little
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vacation because they're like, we're not going to vote on it.
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Let's go to vacation. Hurry up, run out the door.
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It's kind of like a it's kind of like you running after your
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teacher on a long weekend to ask them a question, right.
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Everybody just ranch out the door.
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We're we're headed out. We don't want nothing to do with
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that. We're gone.
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We're gone. So we'll wait in November is
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when it comes back and we'll see what happens.
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So anyways, if you're joining us for the first time on TikTok or
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any other platform, veterans Talk, we're here for you on
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military broadcast radio, not for us giving our veterans a
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voice. In veterans Talk, we talk about
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things that are important to veterans.
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So the storm, the storm, the pending storm, if you're on the
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Gulf Coast, if you're in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee,
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Ohio, anywhere that that storm's path is going to take it.
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The storm in our families and our military families, current
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location and strength. I'm going to share this with you
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guys. I mean, it's, it's a Cray Cray.
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It is absolutely Cray Cray. Most of you know that I am from
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Florida, I'm from Miami, I've been through Hurricane David
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Wilma. I served in Hurricane Katrina
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aftermath. I was in a direct path of
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Hurricane Ian back in 2022. I watched that devastate my
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community and be without power for quite a few weeks.
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So I am going to show you guys the latest on hurricane.
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We had this to the stage. There she is anybody if I
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pronounce his name wrong, don't hate on me.
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It's called Hurricane Isaiah. Isaias, you know, that's what
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they were saying. Isaias, as of right now, where
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is the hurricane? The hurricane is on its way to
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the Gulf Coast. So the last coordinates they
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had, if you guys can see this, I hope the last coordinates that
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they had was about 7:00 PM on a Friday.
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It'd be close to making landfall.
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So let me just give you an idea of what is going on over there
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and where that's at. Military Naval Air Station
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Pensacola is there. I just got back from there doing
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a, doing a interview. Eglin Air Force Base, I was
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there as well. Herbert Field, which is right
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next door. Keesler Air Force Base, the
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Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport and Gulf Coast
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Coast Guard installation that is all up and down there.
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That is. And there's so much, so much, so
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much more, as you guys can see right here.
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I don't know if you guys can see that.
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I don't know if you guys could see my little wand or whatever
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but as of Thursday at 1:00 PM is still out in the Gulf of
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America. It is still getting traction.
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Anybody who ever has been to the Gulf in Texas, Louisiana,
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Mississippi, Alabama or Florida knows that the Gulf of Mexico
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water is warm. It's warm almost year around.
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It never gets cold, maybe a little bit up there in New
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Orleans and stuff like that. But for the most part that water
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is warm, especially during the summertime.
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It is a cesspool for any hurricane that gets into that
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Gulf of America. It is just horrible because it
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just draws all its power and everything from that, that that
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warm water. A lot of hurricanes don't
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survive much out in the Atlantic.
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They get sheer off of the United States coming down.
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But man, when they're in the Gulf of Mexico or excuse me, the
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Gulf of America is renamed, we'll just say the Gulf that we
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have to please everybody because I, I know people are sitting
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here saying this, this and this. So we will definitely have to to
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check that out. We're going to take a quick
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break here on military broadcast radio and we come back.
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We will definitely be talking more.
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This entire military is 1. Cohesive.
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Dedicated. Force.
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And the. Threats to our nation's They
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don't sleep. They're watching our every move
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Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, ISIS, Al Qaeda.
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They may be watching this right? Hey, my name is Andrew Wiscombe
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and this is my submission for the Gems in the Rough 2021
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contest. I have no idea what's going on,
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but anyways, we had a little bit of a snafu here.
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We're trying to get some things in the studio set up, so I'll
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have a couple more minutes, like 30 minutes, less than 30 minutes
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to get through this. So anyway, so if you're joining
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me right now, I apologize. So we had a little snafu here in
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the studio. So I apologize about that, but
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we're back now. I know I we were running all
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kinds of things, running all kinds of we just had music
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playing. We were like on extended break,
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like I had like the one of the longest breaks I think I've ever
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had in my life. So if you're just joining us
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back on veterans talk, we were talking about the hurricane
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depending doom and what's going on.
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Listen, if you guys are actually in that area of of the
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hurricane, I'm telling you, for somebody who survived or who's
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been in a couple hurricanes and I've seen the impact, especially
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in the Gulf Coast area, the storm surge is what is is was is
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really, really scary is because of the 17 foot storm surge.
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And if you have no idea what that's like, imagine when I was
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in Hurricane Katrina, they had 22 foot storm surges.
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And while I was walking, I literally saw a boat in a pine
34:29
tree 22 feet up in the air, a boat.
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And we're not talking about a little little kayak.
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We're talking about it like a full size boat.
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So you know, if you're in that area, don't take it lightly.
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There is mandatory. I know that the base
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installation commander for Herbert Field gave a mandatory
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evacuation for all personnel that are living outside of the
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base for that area for Herbert Field.
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So that's, that's pretty huge. The installation command
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commander, the military chain of command, local emergency
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authorities, essential personnel who may have to stay and what
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happens to the dependents, right?
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So if you're a loved one and you're mandatory to stay there,
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make sure your dependents, your dogs, your cats and everybody
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you're taking care of, get them to higher ground, get them the
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heck out of there. Listen, this storm is, is going
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to bring in a lot of water. And that's one of the the
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craziest things. Those of you don't know, Florida
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is only about, I know in Miami we're only about 3.7 to 5 feet
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above sea level. We're not that, that, that far
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above sea level compared to other places.
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So this is something that's really important.
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You should really, really take heed to it.
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Get out of there. Seriously.
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If you don't need to be there, don't go there.
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Hurricane IIICA is ICA is, I'm hope I'm saying that right is
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due to make landfall somewhere around Friday late evening and
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the projectory of it is going to be up in that area around there.
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So please take you to that. We're going to take a real quick
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break. I promise we'll be right back.
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But this is something that we have to do just to try to fix
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this little snafu that we have. Every time I think I'm going to
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have a great show and things are going to be awesome and stuff
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like that, something goes snafu. That ever happened to you guys
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like crazy, right? Like absolutely crazy.
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Anyways, if you're rejoining us right now, we're wrapping up
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about the hurricane. If you're in those areas, please
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take heed, get the higher ground, be careful.
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Just be careful. It's a little Cray Cray over
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there right now. And you know, even Birmingham,
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AL is supposed to get dumped in torrential rain.
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I mean, this this thing's supposed to have so much rain
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and water with it from sitting out there in the ocean that you
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know, it's going to be like a never ending.
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So here's the whole the whole thing right here.
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It says Okaloosa Island, Florida.
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I know they're having bad weather already out there from,
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you know, some of the sheer and stuff like that.
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And if I could just just for one second go over some stuff with
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you guys. The way the hurricane works,
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right spins kind of like a, you know, round circle.
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It's constantly picking up water and dumping water at the same
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time on the back end. So that's why they say the back
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end is the dirtiest of a hurricane.
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So as a hurricanes going like in a swirly swirl, right like a
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sphere, the back end of it is dumping that water.
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So when it makes landfall, it's the actual back end.
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So imagine the eye of the hurricane, the back end over
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here is the one that dumps the most water.
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And that's where you have a swelling of lakes, swelling upon
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swelling of canals and stuff like that because it's just
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sucking all that water and then just dropping it on the back
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end. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's
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absolutely crazy. Imagine being in the bathtub and
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you take your hand and you swat the water.
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How it all goes to the front and then it kind of like all goes to
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the other side, right? That's kind of like the the, the
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thing that the hurricane does. I know I'm, I'm, I'm not a
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meteorologist. I took a semester of it in
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college and I sucked at it. But anyways, but yeah, please be
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careful if you're there. It's a yeah.
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This just, this isn't just about military buildings.
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It's about a, it's about a whole community, right, that you need
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to look out for. Have you ever been stationed
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somewhere during a hurricane? How did you guys handle it?
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I mean, that's crazy. I know that, you know, Hurricane
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Andrew back in 1992 in Homestead, FL, was the demise of
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that Air Force Base. That Air Force Base was
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completely closed because 92% of the buildings there were
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devastated, right. So just something to think
41:49
about. Just something to think about.
41:51
I mean, it is what it is, right? But Mother Nature always wins.
41:55
So something else switching gears a little bit here.
42:00
Talk about something that I know that a lot of veterans are, are
42:03
kind of in limbo about maybe not really in limbo but are
42:08
questioning or maybe you were around, maybe you weren't
42:10
around. But there's a gentleman that I
42:13
follow. His name is Silly Goose and he
42:16
is a really good podcaster. He's active duty military E7
42:24
stationed at Fort Hood. So I saw his podcast and, and
42:27
chatted with him a little bit today.
42:30
Those of you don't know, I was injured in Iraq and when I was
42:33
injured, I was at Walter Reed Hospital.
42:35
One of my caregivers, one of my doctors was a Doctor Who was,
42:39
for a better lack of words, not very professional.
42:42
Nobody really cared for him too much.
42:44
He said some off the wall, off the collar things.
42:48
PTSD is not real. I mean, just a lot of crazy
42:53
things. Well, that doctor is currently,
42:58
as most of you know, set for execution.
43:03
So Army set the execution date for convicted murderer Nadal
43:07
Hassan. So if you don't know who Nadal
43:09
Hassan was, he was an Army psychiatrist who went to Fort
43:13
Hood and took a pistol and a bunch of other guns and wound up
43:16
shooting and killing thirteen people at Fort Hood, TX back in
43:19
2013, I believe it was August 23rd, matter of fact, of 2013.
43:27
So in accordance with Army Regulation 190-55, the Secretary
43:32
of the Army must select an execution date that falls within
43:35
60 to 150 days from the date the President of the United States
43:40
approved the death sentence. So President Trump approved the
43:43
death sentence. It was, you know, given the
43:45
dominus ominous to, you know, Merck, him, if you will.
43:49
And I take that from you, silly goose.
43:52
And there's just so many questions.
43:58
There's so many questions. I mean, and I'm taking some of
44:00
these from people that I saw. He wasn't a good guy.
44:05
He, he wasn't, he was not a good guy.
44:07
He wasn't, he wasn't even a decent guy.
44:08
I mean, he was a, a, a murderer. And he said that he did this in
44:12
the name of jihad. There was a bunch of emails that
44:15
President Obama had received or knew about or saw where Nidal
44:19
Hassan was actually emailing a known terrorist in the Middle
44:25
East. It was telling him, hey, I'm
44:26
going to commit jihad. I'm going to do this in the name
44:28
of Allah. And he did.
44:31
He shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, TX, 13 people and
44:36
wounded and, and injured many of them.
44:38
It's, it's, it's, you know, it's bad.
44:40
But they found him guilty of 42 counts on August 2013 and then a
44:46
five days later he was set the punishment of death row we put
44:50
on death row. So if you don't know the whole
44:53
story, Nidal Hassan was injured severely when military police, I
44:57
believe was a female at matter of fact returned fire and
45:00
neutralized him. He was injured and is paralyzed
45:03
from the waist down. So one of the big questions is
45:07
the execution. So he will be executed on
45:11
December the 3rd. Why is that date?
45:14
Some say that word five times to what happened is that December
45:21
3rd is. So according to military
45:23
regulations, the quickest day is within six days of the final
45:27
order signed by the president, which would be December the 3rd.
45:31
And it can't be later than so many days.
45:33
So, you know, according to armed regulations, that's the date the
45:36
soonest that I guess they could do it.
45:39
He is to be executed by firing squad, ironically, at Fort Hood,
45:44
TX, where he took the lives of those 13 individuals, both
45:47
civilians and soldiers and it's and injured many others kind of
45:52
crazy. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's
45:54
crazy. I, I remember, and most of you
45:56
don't know the story, but in 2018 or 19 I believe it was, I
45:59
get a phone call from Fort Stewart, GA and had to go back
46:05
to on active duty for a couple days.
46:06
Then they asked me a bunch of questions about him being my
46:08
doctor and stuff like that. So it's kind of crazy.
46:11
He was indeed a crazy man, definitely a crazy man.
46:15
And listen, I'm not, I'm not here to be judge and juror, you
46:20
know, my faith and, and I don't bring that to the radio station,
46:22
but I believe God is the only one that can judge.
46:27
I can't judge. So you know, he is going to have
46:30
to be judged by God, not by me. So with that being said, the
46:37
Acting Secretary of of the Army, the Honorable Adam Telly,
46:41
directed the execution of Nidal Hassan by firing squad.
46:44
The execution will take place in Fort Hood, TX at 1:00 PM Central
46:49
Standard Time on December the 3rd, 2020 Sixth, the President
46:52
has solely authority, sole authority to approve the
46:54
sentence of death for military prisoner.
46:58
On October the 2nd, 2020 Sixth, President Donald Trump approved
47:02
the death sentence. In this case, the President
47:03
acted following completion of a full appellate process which
47:08
upheld the conviction and sentenced to death.
47:10
So those of you don't know, again, he represented himself as
47:13
his own lawyer, which you know by our laws that you're allowed
47:17
to do in accordance with the Army regulations.
47:19
The court martial found him guilty on all 42 accounts.
47:22
On March the 31st, 2025, the Supreme Court denied his request
47:25
for review of his court martial conviction.
47:28
Army Regulation 190-55 governs the procedures for military
47:33
executions in accordance with the regulation, upon final
47:36
judgment as to the legality of the court martial proceedings,
47:40
the Judge Advocate General transmits various documents
47:44
including the record of the trial, any clemency petitions by
47:47
the prisoner and or counsel, the T Jag recommendation to the
47:52
Secretary of the Army. The Army Secretary of the Army
47:54
makes the recommendation, then forward the package to Secretary
47:56
of the War, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
47:58
So what does that mean? That means he's set for
48:01
execution. I mean, you know, I, I, I had
48:04
some of this, so much of this stuff that I read and, and it's,
48:07
it's kind of crazy. I mean, he doesn't even look
48:09
like the same guy that, you know, represented.
48:15
I, I guess was my doctor. I still remember sitting across
48:18
from him, you know, I still remember talking to him.
48:21
I still remember how unprofessional he was, if you
48:25
will. But you know, that's that's my
48:30
connection with Nidal Hassan, the former former Army major who
48:33
set for execution on December the 3rd.
48:37
So somebody wrote in the chat, they said, will this be live
48:40
streamed? I highly doubt it.
48:43
I highly doubt it. See, here's where I have to draw
48:45
the line. And a lot of people don't talk
48:47
about this, but I will talk about it.
48:48
And again, everybody knows on my show, I don't talk about
48:50
politics or religion. And that's because in the
48:53
military, we really don't care what religion you are, and we
48:56
really don't you don't care what your political affiliation is.
48:59
In the military's we care about is that you have my back and I
49:02
got yours, period. And the story, we're all one
49:03
color, and that's green, unless you're ACU edition of that.
49:09
And that's about all. So, yeah.
49:12
So what is my take on that? Well, where I draw the line at
49:16
we don't need to glorify this. You know, he is a horrible
49:20
person. He is a very evil person.
49:24
He took the lives of 13 innocent individuals.
49:27
I will say this soft targets, right?
49:31
Unfairly, regardless of what he believed in, if he believed in
49:34
jihad, that he should have went over there and fought against
49:36
us. Get take off that uniform.
49:38
Go back to your roots. Go, go over there to wherever
49:40
you're from and, you know, fight for them.
49:45
But to do it cowardly like terrorists do.
49:47
And that's why they're called terrorists, because they're not
49:50
war mongers. They're not, they're not war
49:54
fighters. They are terrorists.
49:56
They take advantage of innocent people, right?
50:00
So if I go to another country and I have a gun, I am now at
50:04
war, right? And well, if we are at war, I'll
50:07
say that 'cause I know people are going to get a little mad
50:09
about that, but we're at war then I am considered a warrior,
50:13
right? I am at war.
50:14
That's the word warrior, right? Terrorist is not that terrorist
50:17
takes aim at innocent people. That's what he did.
50:21
He took 13 lives and injured many, many more innocent people,
50:25
people that were do doing a pre deployment, a pre deployment.
50:29
And his reason was he didn't want to go to Afghanistan
50:31
because he believed in jihad. OK, I'm going to tell you a
50:35
quick story. We had a Sergeant first class in
50:38
the United States Army served in we served in Kosovo together, he
50:42
and I, Webster was his name. And when we got back from
50:46
Kosovo, we were headed straight to Iraq.
50:48
And he didn't want to go because he was Muslim.
50:50
And he said, I don't want to pick up arms against my Muslim
50:52
brothers and sisters. That's fine.
50:56
That's fine. But you took an oath and signed
50:58
a contract. That's OK.
51:01
Listen, I have to take my headset off for a second because
51:03
it's bothering me. But I want you to know
51:05
something. You took an oath.
51:08
You took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United
51:10
States against armed, you know, armed conflict or in domestic,
51:15
doesn't matter. Sergeant Webster was a supply
51:20
Sergeant. It wasn't like he was going over
51:23
to pick up arms against his Muslim brothers and sisters
51:26
anyway. He was a supply Sergeant.
51:29
He worked in our supply. He wasn't infantry, wasn't a
51:33
combat injured demolition explosive.
51:35
He wasn't an armorer. He was a supply Sergeant.
51:39
They fried him to the cross. He wound up going to prison. 14
51:43
years he had on active duty services at E76.
51:46
More years he could have retired, busted down to private.
51:50
Bye bye he went, bye bye. He went to jail and kicked out
51:52
of the military because he was like no defiant.
51:56
Nope, Nope. Not doing it, not doing it, not
51:58
doing it. OK, well, we'll bust you down
51:59
and probably kick you out of the military.
52:00
Fine. Not a big deal.
52:02
Not a big deal. Listen, if you're a CEO of a
52:04
company and you do that, if you are a supervisor of a company
52:09
and you say no, I don't want to from your bosses, you will get
52:11
fired. That's what they did.
52:12
They fired him. OK, they fired him.
52:15
So back to what I was saying with Nadal Hassan, I don't think
52:20
we need to be a third world country and glorify anything.
52:23
I, I think his name has been talked about, spoken about more
52:27
than anybody that was either injured or killed during that
52:31
horrific shooting at Fort Hood. I bet you can't name one person
52:36
that was either injured or killed from Fort Hood, but
52:39
everybody remembers his name. And I think that's unfair.
52:42
And I think that before they execute him, they should read
52:45
off every single name of everybody that's been affected
52:48
by him, either killed or injured.
52:51
And I think that that should happen right before his
52:54
execution. Now, again, do I think it should
52:56
be televised? Absolutely not.
52:59
You know, Sergeant Bella Vargas said, you know, are they going
53:05
to have it open where, you know, other soldiers can go and watch
53:08
this and stuff like that? I don't need to watch that.
53:11
I don't need to see it. We're not a barbaric country.
53:13
We're not a third world country. We're not Al Jazeera where we
53:16
behead somebody on TV and glowed about it.
53:19
I think that his time has come. He's going to meet his demise.
53:22
I think that he's going to be dealt the punishment that is
53:27
fitting for his crime. And I think that he will be
53:30
sorted out by a God. And I think that's where I'd
53:33
kind of draw the line. I like, I, like I said, I don't
53:35
think we're a third world country.
53:37
I don't think we need to, you know, I don't think we need to
53:41
glorify his, his massacre. And I don't think we need to
53:47
glorify his punishment. You know, somebody just wrote in
53:52
a comment, what do you think about?
53:53
Well, that's that's a totally different subject.
53:55
What do I think about the young lady in Tennessee who was given
53:57
the injection and didn't die? Sometimes evil just doesn't die,
54:03
you know? And do I think that she should
54:06
be put through that? Again, that's my personal view,
54:09
and I'm not going to say anything about that.
54:11
So if you want to talk offline, I'm more than happy to talk
54:14
offline about that. But my political view is, is, is
54:18
not for topic here. I mean, it's just I, I just, I
54:22
feel different. You're talking about apples and
54:23
tomatoes, right? I'm sorry.
54:25
You're talking about somebody who was 17 years old at the time
54:27
they committed a, a heinous crime.
54:29
And you're talking about somebody who knew better was a
54:30
psychiatrist, a major, a field grade officer in the United
54:33
States Army pulled out a gunshot.
54:34
A bunch of innocent people, right?
54:36
She was innocent as well. I got it.
54:38
She murdered innocent, you know, student the first.
54:40
But again, I'm talking about military year.
54:43
You're talking about a young lady.
54:44
So if you want to hit me up offline, I'll talk about it, but
54:46
not here on the show. Somebody else wrote in and it
54:50
said, are you in agreement with the firing squad?
54:53
We haven't, we haven't had a firing squad since the 1960s.
54:56
And I think the last person was done by firing squad was I got
54:59
to look that up now. Now you guys got me questioning
55:01
that. Wow, that's crazy.
55:04
What? What?
55:05
Anybody know off the top of the head what was the last person to
55:12
have a firing squad? Let's look that up.
55:19
It was for the military. Sorry.
55:28
I'll tell you what, I won't be. I don't want to be one of the
55:30
people firing it. Private Edward Donald Slovic,
55:33
who was put to death in France on January the 31st, 1945 after
55:38
being convicted of desertion during World War 2.
55:43
That's crazy. Just to let you know, that was
55:45
crazy. And by the way, I stand
55:47
corrected. Hassan was convicted for the
55:49
2009 mass shooting in 2013. So somebody just wrote me that,
55:52
so I apologize. The last person, the last person
55:57
executed by U.S. military overall was a soldier who was
55:59
hung in 1961, so prior to the upcoming firing squad order of
56:05
Nidal Aliq Hassan. So there you go.
56:08
That's crazy. If you left the military back in
56:11
the day, if you went AWOL absent without leave during combat,
56:15
they, they shot you. And that's still, by the way,
56:17
that's still on the books. Still on the books.
56:19
If you don't believe me, you CMJ for desertion during wartime.
56:27
It says it right here under Article 85.
56:30
Desertion committed in time of war can be punished by death.
56:38
Wow, wow. I mean, there's during wartime
56:51
punishable by death, dishonorable discharge, total
56:53
forfeiture pay and allowances and extended confinement during
56:57
peace. Pont peacetime, they typically
56:59
just kick you out. Says here, dishonorable
57:01
discharge, see you later, get out, we don't want you anyways.
57:03
Death penalty for wartime desertion.
57:07
The last person was private Eddie Slovak was the the last
57:10
American soldier executed for desertion, which took place in
57:13
January 1945 during World War 2000s of service members were
57:17
convicted of desertion during World War 2, but almost all
57:19
death sentences were commuted to prison terms.
57:22
So what was his difference? He must, he must have left on
57:25
the battlefield. He must have left people holding
57:27
something. Now we got to research that.
57:31
Listen, I don't have a lot of time, but we have to research
57:33
that. I'd really like to know what
57:35
that was anyways. Wow that's crazy.
57:42
It just says he was American soldier who was court martial
57:45
and executed for desertion during World War 2.
57:47
Doesn't really go into details or anything.
57:51
He's the only service member to have met such a fate since the
57:54
American Civil War. Wow.
58:04
The other two, the last two before the Civil War, after the
58:06
Civil War were American Philippine War where two
58:09
soldiers left and deserted to the enemy.
58:13
So kind of like Dahl Bergdahl, whatever did, if that's what it
58:16
was, wow, that is crazy. That is crazy, man.
58:28
Read, you got to read up on that.
58:29
That is absolutely crazy. Crazy.
58:32
The last time we executed somebody by fire and scout was
58:34
in 1940, something crazy. Listen, thank you so much for
58:37
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