Speaker 1: Oh, beat force. If it doesn't work, you're just not
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Speaker 1: military news and straight talk with the guys and the community. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome back the Software Radio. It's Brandon Webb. This week
Speaker 1: I'm going to cover something that has been probably on
Speaker 1: everyone's minds is Trump's intervention with Eddie Gallagher, the Navy
Speaker 1: seal who was brought up on war crimes and had
Speaker 1: a tumultuous trial and eventually was found not guilty. And
Speaker 1: apparently the Navy Seal Command, which is a war come
Speaker 1: under Admiral Green, decided to essentially do a tried and
Speaker 1: review board. And what that is is when somebody has
Speaker 1: issues and the teams and they're essentially it's a mechanism
Speaker 1: to review them as an operator and decide whether to
Speaker 1: pull their seal and so strip them of their identity
Speaker 1: as a seal or not. And so, you know, no
Speaker 1: surprise to me that Trump intervening, I mean, Eddie Gallagher's lawyers,
Speaker 1: one of whom was a former Trump attorney, has really
Speaker 1: done a maskful job of working the press and the
Speaker 1: public relations angle the whole case, which matters quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and and Trump being a vocal supporter of Eddie, I
Speaker 1: mean should have come from. Was no surprise to admal
Speaker 1: Green that Trump would get involved and essentially shut down
Speaker 1: the attempt to what appears to be an attempt to
Speaker 1: strip Eddie Gallagher not only his rank but his official
Speaker 1: title as a Seal right before he retires. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of friends just asked me over
Speaker 1: and over in the business community because this was you know,
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks there, it was was on
Speaker 1: everyone's mind. Um, so I ended up writing an article
Speaker 1: about it. I really didn't want to write the article
Speaker 1: and all honestly, I just I'm so tired of throughout
Speaker 1: the years that all the internal seal drama that me
Speaker 1: and my fellow author friends have how to deal with that,
Speaker 1: I just I didn't want to write it. And at
Speaker 1: the point then I started thinking about it, and a
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, James Alter, says he doesn't write
Speaker 1: anything these days unless he's afraid of what people think.
Speaker 1: And it's just really Daunamy that you know what, I
Speaker 1: feel the same way, and so let's write about this.
Speaker 1: And I really respect my my friend James positions because
Speaker 1: too often in the in the world today that we
Speaker 1: live in America, people are afraid to speak their mind,
Speaker 1: you know, they're worried about what people think, whether it's
Speaker 1: politically correct, and somebody and hate hate on me for this.
Speaker 1: So that's when I decided to write this piece. So
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna read you the piece that I wrote
Speaker 1: in its entirety, and hopefully the goal is will answer
Speaker 1: any of your questions regarding this whole Eddie Gallagher, the
Speaker 1: Trump situation, and I'll kind of read as I read
Speaker 1: through it, I will try and elaborate as well, just
Speaker 1: to give you guys some more color on the situation.
Speaker 1: And it's important to start from or give you guys
Speaker 1: a little bit of background behind the situation. So the
Speaker 1: seal Teams an incredible magacy and heritage back to the
Speaker 1: naval construction demolition units and the underwater demolition teams of
Speaker 1: World War Two that that cleared the beaches of Normandy
Speaker 1: would swim ashore in the middle of the night blow
Speaker 1: up the beach landing obstacles that the Germans had placed
Speaker 1: on the beach for d Day, you know, in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night, blowing those up so the landing
Speaker 1: forces could get ashore and then we could take back
Speaker 1: France from from the Germans. And so the Navy Seals
Speaker 1: are established by John F. Kennedy in the sixties to
Speaker 1: really give the U. S Military maritime on littoral fighting force,
Speaker 1: the special operations fighting force, and so they looked to
Speaker 1: the Navy for that. The Navy had its toes in
Speaker 1: the water already, So the Seals were commissioned Seal Team one,
Speaker 1: Seal Team two or the two founding Seal teams sil
Speaker 1: TAM two being on the East Coat and one being
Speaker 1: on the West coast in Coronado too. And Little Creek
Speaker 1: Virginia and Vietnam happened, and at the time you had
Speaker 1: the ut T and Slash Seal Teams. We all we
Speaker 1: all know famously jesseven Tura was actually was a ut
Speaker 1: T guy and fully earned the right to call himself
Speaker 1: a Seal. So then we had Vietnam and the Seals
Speaker 1: had an incredible record in Vietnam of excellence in mission
Speaker 1: success and really like built a strong legacy. Then, you know,
Speaker 1: we went through a large period of time and the
Speaker 1: Seal Teams where there wasn't much conflict in the world,
Speaker 1: we had some involvement in the First Gulf War. You know,
Speaker 1: little skirmishes here and there, but largely you want one
Speaker 1: iron the Seal teams, and then in the late nineties,
Speaker 1: the two operational teams that were actually doing stuff even
Speaker 1: outside of of dev group as the Team six. We're
Speaker 1: still Team three because still Team three had responsibility for
Speaker 1: Southeast Asia largely the Middle East, and still Team four
Speaker 1: having responsibility for South America, so a lot of drug
Speaker 1: interdiction stuff. And on the flip side, at Team three,
Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of operations around the Middle East,
Speaker 1: mainly enforcing the UN sanctions against Iraq. So I'm saying,
Speaker 1: with smuggling oil out of the country, we would board
Speaker 1: their ships at night, take them over and steer them
Speaker 1: down to Dubai. And another interesting fact, those of you
Speaker 1: that are in business will appreciate this, or in the
Speaker 1: corporate world, there wasn't much upward mobility for the officer
Speaker 1: ranks and the Seal teams. It's and the Seal teams
Speaker 1: largely is the way they're structured. Is great to be
Speaker 1: an enlisted seal because you get to go to all
Speaker 1: the schools you want. If you have a good reputation
Speaker 1: and do a good job, you can go to all
Speaker 1: these amazing schools kind of pick and choose what you
Speaker 1: want to do and maintain a largely operational role until
Speaker 1: you until you don't want to or your body just
Speaker 1: can't take it anymore. We're officers pre nine eleven that
Speaker 1: pre terrorist attacks on nine eleven didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of upper mobility. They would do that typically do a
Speaker 1: third officer platoon where they're just kind of in a
Speaker 1: platoon to observe. Then they would come back and do
Speaker 1: an assistant officer and charge assistant like we call it
Speaker 1: a O I C. Then they get a platoon commander
Speaker 1: bill it and and typically they're a full lieutenant at
Speaker 1: this point or oh three, they would do that platoon
Speaker 1: commander ability and largely there was no not much place
Speaker 1: for them to go. They could go to deb group,
Speaker 1: but really that we had at the time I believe
Speaker 1: only one or two see admirals, So there just wasn't
Speaker 1: enough to kind of upper mobility for these guys to
Speaker 1: promote it. And a lot of smart officers, I would
Speaker 1: say the majority of smart officer recognized that and decided
Speaker 1: to get out and they went on to other things
Speaker 1: outside of the Navy. And so the reason I mentioned
Speaker 1: this is because then LEVNT happened, the re orger of
Speaker 1: the entire Special Operations community happened, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden we have this massive upward mobility and the Seal teams,
Speaker 1: but we essentially had somewhat of a brain drain of
Speaker 1: officers that left and so who who were left and stayed.
Speaker 1: We're not the best and brightest officers and that's just
Speaker 1: a cold heart fact, and that's you know, people will
Speaker 1: be upset about that, but it is what it is,
Speaker 1: um and I'm just giving you all this background information
Speaker 1: to get us where we are today, and it's not
Speaker 1: a good place. The Seals community, the ethos, the training,
Speaker 1: selection is still training and selections still one of the
Speaker 1: best in the world. But I see this as a
Speaker 1: massive leadership failure from the top down where we currently
Speaker 1: stand on the Seal teams. And I wrote a at it. So,
Speaker 1: so here it goes with all that background, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with a quote from an anonymous seal. This
Speaker 1: is where I'm one of those interviews where it was
Speaker 1: an anonymous interview with was CBS. You can google it
Speaker 1: on YouTube. But the quote says, I wouldn't want my
Speaker 1: son to be in the seal teams that exist today.
Speaker 1: It's a mafia so environment where everyone has dirt on
Speaker 1: each other. The culture was more Hell's Angels than professional
Speaker 1: special ops unit, and that kind of I lead out
Speaker 1: with that, and so here we go. I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: this and give you guys some commentary as well. I
Speaker 1: was initially worried about addressing this topic because of the
Speaker 1: toxic peer pressure that exists among the seal community. However,
Speaker 1: my business network kept asking me about Gallagher and Trump's
Speaker 1: intervention in this case, and in the end I decided
Speaker 1: that if the thought of speaking about this may be uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: I should write about it. The Gallery case was anything
Speaker 1: but uncomplicated. It pitted Navy Seal against Navy Seal. The
Speaker 1: n c i AS was found to be bullying and
Speaker 1: intimidating to get their way. Not only that they broke
Speaker 1: the law for anyone that's familiar with ncs does not
Speaker 1: come as a surprise. According to Maybe Times, Maybe, Captain
Speaker 1: Aaron Rue determined that the n c AS intrusion placed
Speaker 1: an intolerable strain on the public perception of the military
Speaker 1: justice system because an objective disinentrance stood observer fully informed
Speaker 1: of all the facts and circumstances, would harbor a significant
Speaker 1: doubt about the fairness of the proceeding. Another quote from Reuters,
Speaker 1: the military judge presiding over the court martial of US
Speaker 1: maybe Seal Eddie Gallagher, charged with war crimes set on Friday.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors who electronically tracked email communications of defense lawyers without
Speaker 1: a warrant violated the accused right to a fair trial.
Speaker 1: So this was like an incredibly botched trial from the start.
Speaker 1: Everybody is entitled to do process in America. That's what
Speaker 1: makes US country great. And the fact that Eddy did
Speaker 1: not essentially get it really from the start of fair
Speaker 1: or shake is really at the root cause of this.
Speaker 1: So what do I think of Trump's intervention? Personally, I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised at the theatrics, and in this case, I
Speaker 1: support Trump for stepping in given the unusual nature of
Speaker 1: the case and cis mishandling of the investigation and the
Speaker 1: current dysfunctional environment of the Seal teams. Most on active
Speaker 1: duty and the Seal teams will not realize how crazy
Speaker 1: it looks from the lens of the outsider or former
Speaker 1: Seal Team member. Who is now outside looking in, and
Speaker 1: that's obviously myself. N C I S botched their case.
Speaker 1: No argument there. It's sure to go down as a
Speaker 1: legal case study for the ages to the uninitiated. Trump
Speaker 1: as well within his right to inject himself as the
Speaker 1: commander in chief of the U. S military. It may
Speaker 1: be inconvenient for some of the top brass, but it
Speaker 1: is what it is. Trump's intervention should come as no
Speaker 1: surprise to Apple Green in the Seal community given the
Speaker 1: ongoing strategy of Eddie's legal team of constantly outflanking their
Speaker 1: adversary is in the press, and also one of Gallagher's attorneys,
Speaker 1: Mark Casey, has worked for Trump in the past. However,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised to see the myopia of senior Seal
Speaker 1: leadership get the best of them again when it comes
Speaker 1: to dealing with the press. We've seen this time and
Speaker 1: time again. My opinion is given here in the open
Speaker 1: as a former SEO combat veteran who served honorably for
Speaker 1: thirteen years, has had both secret and top secret clearances,
Speaker 1: went back to Iraq as a contractor and support of
Speaker 1: US intelligence interests, and then went on to build a business.
Speaker 1: So that's me and who I am, And I just
Speaker 1: wanted to to set the stage there. The Pump's line
Speaker 1: of the story is this, the leadership of the seal
Speaker 1: community needs to get its collective ship together. Many will
Speaker 1: read this on active duty and be outraged, But this
Speaker 1: anger is part of the hubrists that is now plague
Speaker 1: the seal community and will continue to be cancerous until
Speaker 1: true reflection and change happens. Now, I'll talk at leadership
Speaker 1: one on one. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska,
Speaker 1: it's spilled millions of gallons of crude oil into the
Speaker 1: Prince William Sound of Alaska, including habitat important to birds, whales, fish, dolphin, salmon,
Speaker 1: many other sea life. However, it was the captain of
Speaker 1: the ship, not his crew, that was to blame. A
Speaker 1: captain has to take responsibility and not point fingers or
Speaker 1: blame his crew. It's his job, and his job only
Speaker 1: to steer the ship safely to its destination, regardless of
Speaker 1: the conditions. And as hard as it has been to
Speaker 1: see my own community steadily drift off course, it hasn't
Speaker 1: happened overnight or without morning. In fact, it's been years
Speaker 1: in the making. And let's do a little thought experiment.
Speaker 1: Now we pretend Admiral Seal Green is running a publicly
Speaker 1: traded company. What would the stakeholders or shareholders of this
Speaker 1: company think of the following press headlines below as relate
Speaker 1: to the performance of the Seal community. After I read these,
Speaker 1: would you honestly say it's a good culture, the results
Speaker 1: of good leadership. With the share price of this company
Speaker 1: go up, would it go down? And should the CEO
Speaker 1: of stay or should the CEO go so. Here's a
Speaker 1: quick glance of some headlines since two thousand two. CBS
Speaker 1: reports gun trafficking case gets X Navy Seal eighteen years.
Speaker 1: New York Times reports Seal Team six secret history of
Speaker 1: Quiet killings and bird lines. Software Seal training homicide has
Speaker 1: the Roll of Buds two thousand sixteen, The Intercept the
Speaker 1: crimes of Field Team six January two seven, two thousand seventeen.
Speaker 1: Software reports military leadership to blame for Seal Team six
Speaker 1: war crimes. January two seventeen. Washington Post Maybe promote Seal
Speaker 1: commander and defiance of Congress to thousand seven Team l
Speaker 1: A Times no charges and drowning of Navy Seal candidates
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen CBS Evening News, Navy Seal drug use
Speaker 1: staggering investigation Fine San Diego Unit Tribune. Maybe Seal Commando
Speaker 1: please guilty to sex crimes against child. September two, Soft
Speaker 1: Red Seals charged with Green Beret murder and molly six
Speaker 1: years after another case in Ally soldiers deaths and Malayan prostitutes.
Speaker 1: Maybe Times War crimes case expands against Seal teams Mark
Speaker 1: two thousand nine. Also Navy Times reports missing three thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and hostage money from Captain Philips. Here, everybody just
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Speaker 1: Mac Welding and good checking out. So in two thousand thirteen,
Speaker 1: I was getting calls from teammates when we first started
Speaker 1: softwign dot com. They would call to ask for help
Speaker 1: in dealing with anything from internal embezzlement of US government
Speaker 1: funds to drug abuse war crimes. In this conduct, none
Speaker 1: of them wanted to blow the whistle themselves because they
Speaker 1: knew it would be a career ender. And I would
Speaker 1: encourage you guys to go watch that CBS video on
Speaker 1: where the three Navy seals, one active duty to former
Speaker 1: talk about the drug issues and the teams and how
Speaker 1: nobody wants to speak out because it literally will be
Speaker 1: you'll be blackball, They'll end your career. So I was
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed and then stated disbelief. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do. Some of the reports were clearly motivated by revenge,
Speaker 1: but others had real merit and this was disturbing to me.
Speaker 1: I ended up going to a good friend who was
Speaker 1: the editor in a big city newspaper, and he actually
Speaker 1: putting his own personal news interest aside, advised me to
Speaker 1: reach out to the Special Operations Command directly. The hope
Speaker 1: was they could correct the issues internally and avoid any
Speaker 1: bad publicity in the future, so I decided to contact Dotcom.
Speaker 1: I contacted them in two thousand and thirteen. I spoke
Speaker 1: several times with Command serv and Major Chris Ferris. Relayed
Speaker 1: mostly the serious allegations where I actually had evidence as well,
Speaker 1: and basically he asked us to give up our sources.
Speaker 1: Who's talking to you guys who want the names. That's
Speaker 1: how it went. That exchange went poorly and ultimately was
Speaker 1: leaked to my own community some of the email back
Speaker 1: and forth. Shortly after that, I started getting threatening phone
Speaker 1: calls and texts. Active duty Seals were threatening myself and
Speaker 1: my family. I wrote it off. My main concern was
Speaker 1: trying to do right by the community. I figured I'd
Speaker 1: send my piece, got it off my chests, and just
Speaker 1: dropped it from there with the hope the Seal leadership
Speaker 1: would eventually right the ship were full thinking in hindsight,
Speaker 1: and the one thing that's not in the story is
Speaker 1: I got attacked in the media and and and was
Speaker 1: not threatened like, hey, we're going to come after your credibility,
Speaker 1: and essentially they're trying to shop a bullshit story. And
Speaker 1: I had friends at all the big newspapers because we
Speaker 1: worked with a lot of a lot of different news outlets,
Speaker 1: and they warned me and it's like, hey, there's there's
Speaker 1: a group of unsavory type shopping this like hit piece
Speaker 1: on you just see you're aware, like we're not touching it.
Speaker 1: But that's where it came from, really, the fact that
Speaker 1: the community was scared. Not only the fact that me
Speaker 1: and several editors that soft rap knew about what was
Speaker 1: going on. We had a platform, we had a very
Speaker 1: big platform, and so there was like this attempt to
Speaker 1: destroy our credibility, which really didn't go over to well
Speaker 1: for them. But that was like at the heart of
Speaker 1: the matter, and what I do it all over again?
Speaker 1: Absolutely had percent um. I could just sleep with a
Speaker 1: good conscious. So they have it. Like my first platoon,
Speaker 1: she said, if you have a problem, better suggested a solution.
Speaker 1: So what's the solution here? I'm a Green and his
Speaker 1: staff need to address a very clear cultural rock internally.
Speaker 1: And I remember reading something about I'm a Green saying
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a cultural problem, but
Speaker 1: we have a ordered discipline problem. Well, I've got something
Speaker 1: news for you. It is a clear cultural problem, and
Speaker 1: it's time to start dealing with the cancer because it
Speaker 1: runs deep. And the fortunate thing is the good operators
Speaker 1: of the Seal community, which I would say the majority are,
Speaker 1: are drubbed down by the acts on the small percentage
Speaker 1: and then by nature having to be quiet. I'm ma
Speaker 1: sure to cause problems. So I would definitely start addressing
Speaker 1: the cultural issues if I was Amal Green and his staff.
Speaker 1: After that, it would be wise to do outreach and
Speaker 1: create an environment of camaraderie among the Seal of veteran
Speaker 1: community to replace the hostility, public trashing of teammates and
Speaker 1: hatred that exists today. And the unfortunate thing is that
Speaker 1: is widely available on the internet. I literally had to
Speaker 1: look into in a restraining order because of the past
Speaker 1: teammate threatening myself and my family that just wouldn't let
Speaker 1: it go. And most of you that are familiar with
Speaker 1: the show can probably guess that is the Other thing
Speaker 1: I talked about in the article is hubris. I had
Speaker 1: a friend tell me that War Calm, which is the
Speaker 1: big Seal Command, had a slide presentation that had all
Speaker 1: the Seal authors up on it, Chris Coyle, Marcus Trell, myself,
Speaker 1: up on power points that an attempt to blame outsiders
Speaker 1: for outside of seals for a slew of public relations
Speaker 1: issues currently facing the Seal Command. This is not only unprofessional,
Speaker 1: it's counterproductive to maintaining the legacy, heritage, and calmaraderie of
Speaker 1: the seal community and increases much more division and distrust
Speaker 1: among all active and former seals. Creating an exemplary environment
Speaker 1: in which all seals can communicate and support each other
Speaker 1: is what's desperately needed in the community. So here I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about, like the community at large, active duty
Speaker 1: and veterans reservists should really do much more to foster
Speaker 1: a positive environment of communication two way communication, because what
Speaker 1: this does would solve a lot of issues for work on.
Speaker 1: If WARKRO came out to look, guys, you guys want
Speaker 1: to go on Fox News and talk about some seal
Speaker 1: mission overseas, go for it, but please just don't mention
Speaker 1: this actually I Z or when you're talking on an interview,
Speaker 1: don't speak bad about your other teammates. That's what that
Speaker 1: two way communication would accomplish. It would basically give the
Speaker 1: Active duty Command War Calm a podium to kind of
Speaker 1: speak to the veteran community where right now the only
Speaker 1: thing that exists is a very tumultuous environment with no communication.
Speaker 1: In fact, you can't even bring up software dot com
Speaker 1: on any of the war coom servers. They blocked the
Speaker 1: site completely just year now. So I go on to finish,
Speaker 1: I said, A leadership within the community owes this to
Speaker 1: all seals who have fought and given so much. Civilian
Speaker 1: life can be a lonely and cold place after coming
Speaker 1: from one of the top military jobs. There is far
Speaker 1: colder than the freezing Pacific Ocean surf torture of Navy
Speaker 1: seal training and Hell week. Fostering positive communication and cooperation
Speaker 1: among the active inventertion seals would create alignment and the
Speaker 1: community and alleviate a lot of future press headaches that
Speaker 1: are sure to come as soon as everything may be
Speaker 1: seal related continues to be newsworthy. In summary, Ady Gallagher
Speaker 1: isn't someone I'd invite to dinner with my close friends,
Speaker 1: but he has a decorated combat veteran multiple deployments. He
Speaker 1: put his ass on a line like many others, and
Speaker 1: he did it multiple times. How can we send people
Speaker 1: to war? Asked them, would brutally kill the enemy and
Speaker 1: at the same time expect them to behave like boy scouts.
Speaker 1: The nature of warfare is everything but this and the
Speaker 1: Seal Community has been at war for almost twenty years
Speaker 1: with no break no break. This pace of war and
Speaker 1: deployment is unsustainable and will surely have deep psychological impact
Speaker 1: on many. And he had his day in court, was
Speaker 1: proven innocent by a jury of his peers. His family
Speaker 1: has been through enough with the trial alone, let alone
Speaker 1: the toll of multiple combat deployments. And we've all seen
Speaker 1: the toll that takes on loved ones as showcased by
Speaker 1: American Sniper, a movie by Clinice Wood where Chris Cloud
Speaker 1: was played by Bradley Cooper. Let Eddie retire with his
Speaker 1: full rank and Seal Pin intact. Time for the community
Speaker 1: to start the healing and cancer removal and move on.
Speaker 1: If anybody deserves a Budwiser review board, Budweiser being the
Speaker 1: nickname for what we call the Seal Pin, or try
Speaker 1: to it should be in the very Seal leadership that
Speaker 1: is pointing the finger at Eddie and has been asleep
Speaker 1: at the helm of the Seal community for so many years.
Speaker 1: They are the ones who need to take a hard
Speaker 1: look in the mirror and start making their own beds
Speaker 1: every morning. That's the article I wrote. The bed reference
Speaker 1: is in reference to Amaal mccraven give a big speech
Speaker 1: about making your bed every day and about accountability. So
Speaker 1: that's why I mentioned that My problem isn't with Eddie
Speaker 1: the Eddie Gallagher situation. It's with the leadership not taking
Speaker 1: care of some of the best of braddest work for
Speaker 1: that world fighters that this planet has ever seen. They've
Speaker 1: let the community drift into disorderly place. They've over deployed
Speaker 1: the seal the community without giving these guys a break
Speaker 1: rather than say we're going to force you to take
Speaker 1: a break if you want to promote and rank. This
Speaker 1: just favored the operators that would deploy over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. And so there's just like multiple issues
Speaker 1: at hand here. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: those headlines I read you were like a five minute
Speaker 1: Google search. You could pull up probably a hundred more.
Speaker 1: Really look at the situation objectively and see that the
Speaker 1: community is in a really bad place and it didn't
Speaker 1: get here overnight, and it's due to leadership. When a
Speaker 1: ship runs around, it's the captain that needs to be
Speaker 1: held responsible, not the crew under his command. So my
Speaker 1: issue is with the Seal Team and the leadership. Time
Speaker 1: to get your fucking ship together, take accountability, and stop
Speaker 1: pointing your fucking fingers at everyone else. That's my position,
Speaker 1: and hopefully that's shed some light under this Eddie Gallagher
Speaker 1: situation for you guys. I mean, it wasn't easy for
Speaker 1: me to write that article. I hope you know that.
Speaker 1: So for those who are listening here, you can go
Speaker 1: on software dot com search for the article of the
Speaker 1: headline Trump's intervention, Gallagher or crimes talks of culture, the
Speaker 1: issues of the Seal Team. Kind of with a heavy heart.
Speaker 1: I write that note and guys have tried to trash
Speaker 1: me in the past, and the fact is I did
Speaker 1: thirteen years, six months, six days of honorable service, was
Speaker 1: meritoriously promoted the six took over one of the top
Speaker 1: sniper programs in the world as a twenty eight year
Speaker 1: old kid or young man, and was extremely proud of
Speaker 1: my service. No one's taken that away from me, and
Speaker 1: I deserved the right to have my own opinion. So
Speaker 1: if people don't like it, tough ship. So that's it.
Speaker 1: The couple of things I didn't want to touch on
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Speaker 1: it's been a personal issue that I've been tracking. Is
Speaker 1: this recession right? Because we all know markets go up,
Speaker 1: they go down, crashes happen. We've been in a bowl
Speaker 1: market now for over a decade and it's going to correct.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows when or what it's going to look like,
Speaker 1: but all the signs that a correction is about to
Speaker 1: take place is there, And so I would just encourage
Speaker 1: you to think about that. And there's a great opportunity
Speaker 1: that comes in any financial crisis if you plan accordingly. So,
Speaker 1: especially if if you're money in the stock market, you
Speaker 1: should really think about what's happening in the world. All
Speaker 1: my friends that in one of them is the CEO
Speaker 1: of one of the biggest banks in the world. I
Speaker 1: think that a correction is going to occur in the
Speaker 1: next twenty months tumultuous year with the election, what's happening
Speaker 1: with Trump most likely will get re elected in my opinion,
Speaker 1: but just be prepared and realized. Like one of that
Speaker 1: friends I mentioned was the CEO of the bank has
Speaker 1: pulled all his money out of stock market and put
Speaker 1: it in cash, waiting for it to motte them out
Speaker 1: and then move back into the stock market. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big stock market guy. I like to invest in
Speaker 1: real estate and a lot of tech startups really, so
Speaker 1: for me is just something I know and it's it's
Speaker 1: super stable. But anyway, something think about. They're interesting to
Speaker 1: read today about Trump and the trade war. Now he
Speaker 1: puts sanctions on basically will teariffs in that sections. He
Speaker 1: put teariffs on Brazil and Argentina around steel. For those
Speaker 1: who don't know, we used to sell last means to
Speaker 1: try to and left with no other resources. We started
Speaker 1: we started selling so beans to Brazil, but they're really
Speaker 1: undercutting the market value. So you know, Trump is just
Speaker 1: pulling the levels that we have available for us. The
Speaker 1: US economy is still very important in this world, and
Speaker 1: he's doing pulling the levers he can and look he's
Speaker 1: also running an election in clear that that's happening, and
Speaker 1: continues to kind of maned to let the press as
Speaker 1: he assist. It's really interesting to see he is. No,
Speaker 1: they've dummy, that's for sure. Anyway, I hope you guys
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