John Frankman: Green Beret | Ep 223

Take a look behind the curtain with the real whistleblower, an American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth, because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Serif. Well, hello my friends, and welcome to the Kyle Seraphin Show. Today is Thursday. It's January the 18th, and it is National Winnie the Poo Day. Yeah, that's real. I typed in January 18th and that's what came up.

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I think we're going to have a fun chat. We're going to talk about COVID. We'll talk about the Army, talk about trannies, probably. We're going to get into it. Let's get real started right now. John, welcome to the program. Thanks. So much for having me. Appreciate it, Kyle. All right. So eventually we're going to tell people about this, this new military declaration for accountability, which you are one of the signatories to.

I just want to tease that out there up front, But let's get started with who you are as a person. We can already see from the photos behind you, and maybe you might tease it out to the audience. Tell me where you grew up, where you're from. Tell me a little bit about yourself. Sure. So I was born in Los Angeles, CA and moved around a good bit and parents unfortunately split up when I was 6. Like many people divorced at 9:00 and I ended up just moving around a ton.

So a different school every year since about, I don't know, maybe third grade or something like that, and was raised generally Protestant. My mom was raised Catholic, left the church when she was a teen and dad was pretty faithful, took me to church on a weekly basis. So at the age of 12 I lived with him in California. He took me to a Presbyterian Church weekly and ended up just wanting to make that more part of my life.

So when I went back to live with my mom, Catholic Church nearby, so was able to start going to Mass. I was also transferred to a Catholic High School 'cause my mom did not like the public school I was going into, maybe not doing the best in school, things like that.

So starting going to Catholic school, loved everything the religion teacher was teaching, going to Mass, and even though I had, I was just Episcopal right before, or going to an Episcopalian church, there was some spiritual element to the Catholic faith that I had not experienced anywhere else. And it was especially powerful looking back because that church had plenty of liturgical abuse. So for those who aren't Catholic, that means that the priest isn't doing what he

should be doing in the liturgy. And there's a certain reverence that you're supposed to give to God. So when Catholics come to Mass, the purpose of it is to to. There's like 4 ends, but it's to adore God, to give him Thanksgiving, to ask for atonement for your sins and then

ask for petitions. But the glorifying God part can be diminished with some of this liturgical abuse when when priests aren't doing what we believe was the Mass liturgy handed on from Jesus Christ and passed on to the apostles. So even though went through that with the priest leaving the priesthood, eventually there's just that spiritual element. So I became Catholic and I soon started thinking about the priesthood after when a priest at high school came and said I

was a student here. So maybe one day one of you all will be a priest like me. And then it was just classic Ignatian kind of discernment. St. Ignatius Loyola fantastic Saints just did eight day ignition retreat, which is fantastic. But he said that God leads you through peace, through joy, consolation. The devil leads you through just fear, anxiety.

So just me being 15, hearing about that, the peace about bringing God to people, people to God and just making that part of your life and identity, but then as a 15 year old boy thinking man I'll never get married, other thing 15 year old, other things 15 year olds are thinking about. So, you know, not going to do that either. Yeah, it's a burden to throw on though too as a 15 year old.

Yeah, yeah. And just never being Catholic and just thinking that was the automatic thing and I want to get married so bad. But hey, I'm still single 35 so I don't know what what's going on anyway.

So I didn't becoming Catholic and not really understanding the Catholic faith super well because the RCIA program, which is right of Christian Initiation for Adults, that's the program that Catholics do in order to become Catholic, wasn't the most solid like many of them unfortunately in the church today. So ended up going to. I knew I wanted to go in the military as early as high school. I wanted to use the gifts God gave me in order to serve the greater good.

And I thought with just kind of physical capabilities, leadership capabilities, love of country willingness to do dangerous things leadership that that was kind of the route I wanted to explore. And 911 happened. I was living in Alexandria, VA my stepdad. He was stationed at Fort Belvoir. So it was very personal to me and it was extremely scary to see that smoke coming from the from the Pentagon and just to get on to Fort Belvoir right after. I mean, it was extremely real, very intense.

So at any rate, ended up going through Wheaton College, did ROTC, studied chemical physics? And it's a Protestant evangelical school. So it was really good for me to defend my faith to have to read Scott Hahn books, Patrick Madrid books to kind of defend and through that love the church more and that kind of desire or thought of the priesthood continue to develop. So commissioned in the army in 2011 and put in for the chaplain candidate program.

So went to seminary for four years, a fantastic experience that was with the archdiocese Washington DC with the understanding that I would join the military to serve as a chaplain. So priesthood is first. That's your big vocation. What God calls you to where he puts you within his mystical body to serve him. And just through that whole experience is fantastic.

You're growing in prayer. You're studying philosophy for two years, studied theology for two years, recently finished up my theological studies, got my master's in December in systematic theology. But it was just a fantastic experience. But at the end of the day, through just kind of prayer, discernment, doing a great. So a lot of people have heard of the Exodus 90 program.

Maybe some people who are not necessarily Catholic wouldn't have heard of it, but it's a 90 day period of prayer and fasting. It was started by Father Brian Dorr, who is a vice rector of the seminary at the time.

So I was very blessed to do that program with him before it just exploded and it was an app for everybody because he was in the seminary and when I told him, hey, I'm not sure what I'm doing, brought me in, had me do that and it was just a very peaceful, joyful kind of experience discerning out. And I found out Easter Monday that I was branched active duty infantry and I thought it was going to get stuck in reserves or something like that. I hadn't even thought, oh man,

I'm 27, I'm so old. How am I going to, you know get through Ranger School, things like that. But obviously did that And then the Q course. But thought thought as God loves me, he's blessing me but he wants to challenge me. So we ended up going through yeah, got branched infantry, so I Bullock, Ranger School, Ranger School definitely took a bit longer. So usually it's two months and I guess we'll get into training a little bit, so 'cause. I got, I got a question here.

You, you're in seminary, you've decided, and then you've done this, this retreat, and then you've got orders to go infantry as not a priest. So, so I did the, I did the retreat actually summer this last summer. So I got out of July 1st and I did an 8 day silent Ignatian retreat, just kind of furthering my love for Ignatius. But it was just kind of doing this, this prayer throughout the seminary. And so Catholic seminary, it's not just you going to class, you're living there, you're

praying. I think we added it up. It's like 3 hours a day because you're praying the Psalms, you're praying the liturgy, the hours. It might be an hour of your day. You're going to Mass, half hour, 45 minutes, you're praying the rosary. You're doing a mental, a holy hour, which is mental prayer, which is you talking to God, God talking to you, reading spiritual books. So it is just an atmosphere to just soak up and understand and know God personally.

And that is so key right now to the problems that we're facing. I mean, our politicians aren't going to fix this. We might not even be supposed to fix it, you know, It might just be God allowing this in order to purify us because the spiritual

order is more important. So we're supposed to fight, we're supposed to be faithful and it's kind of in discernment, in prayer, understanding what is God's will for you specifically, How does he want you to integrate yourself into society, starting at the lowest level, individually, family and beyond. But what does he want you to do? So, So yeah, kind of getting back, back to your point. So I discerned out.

And when I knew I was going to leave the seminary, I had to let the Army know that hey, I need to pay back my ROTC scholarship. I'm not going to be a priest. So you have to put me into a different branch. And those were the Obama years, so I thought I was going to get reserved or something stupid. I had actually put infantry armor and ordinance as my top three choices thinking, OK, if I get ordinance, let's just try UAD or something like that. So just thinking kind of arms.

And even though I tried to switch it to armor because I was a little nervous about Ranger School, still got infantry so sought as God still wanting you to challenge me. So did got out of the seminary in the September of, or sorry, spring of 2015 and then start my army career in the fall. Got it. All right, let me let me have you kind of give my audience a real reflection on this concept. Combat arms, Seminary and Priesthood. Where's the overlap in there? Because I I think there is one.

I think there's a lot, but I'm curious what you saw and how you saw those two as being maybe you know, a different size of the same coin or how you saw it. Yeah, ultimately, you're trying to glorify God, and that's kind of the ultimate end in this role is the glorification of God and the salvation of souls. And you're you're moving towards a certain purpose. And it's a different fraternity, but they're both very strong

fraternities. The fraternity of seminarians were you're with a bunch of dudes who are planning on being celibate too and you're hanging out and you know when you're willing to give that up if you're just a normal red blooded American or or or man that's a lot to give up to decide you're not going to have a family or to discern that so you're you bond extremely tight and having that world view, that Catholic world view so tight really helps you focus and go to a certain

purpose and you are enduring hardship and suffering. So I think that there's challenges and there's there's definitely an accepting of the cross. I think I told some guys in Ranger School about some of these sacrifices I made in seminary or during Excess 90 and they said, oh, you know, Ranger School would be nothing or, you know, a little joke joke about that. That's totally not the case. I think I was actually in Ranger School and I was thinking, man, there's way worse things than

celibacy. Holy cow. But yeah, I think the fraternity that you're working for a certain purpose that you are sacrificing of yourself and you're using a lot of different gifts, you have to have a lot of kind of those soft skills. So there's definitely technical skills that you have to have. I think for infantry, even though they're there, a lot of them are boiled down more towards a common sense kind of active communication, getting

along with people similar. I think with the priesthood you have to have that. Certainly it's different technical skills, but the soft skills that you have carry over extremely well. I like that. I like that a lot. OK, So you you end up getting infantry and did you have a path, did you have a a special forces contract that was part of that or they just said you're going to the infantry and then we'll see what happens. I was told regular Army infantry and then I worked it out with

them, what duty station I had. So I was able to get Fort Carson, but I went to Fort Benning, GA forever. Fort Benning? Forget what you know, Changing games for racist generals. Sorry. You're making me want to be more. Just kidding. I don't know that it. I know that it changed only because you told me again. But I forget. And it'll always be Fort Benning. Yeah, for sure. But at any rate, went to Fort Benning, did 16 week infantry,

basic officer leadership course. And for those who aren't familiar with the concept of the infantry, that's where you're planning to. That's what you think of when you think of the military. That's just the ground force within 300 meters. That's what you have to employ in order to occupy land to destroy close with and destroy the enemy. So you're you're beginning jobs as an infantry officer is being a platoon leader and you can be M towed or given up to 40 soldiers underneath you.

So you're thinking a lot of these young 22 dudes get through college boom. You know there's your infantry platoon. So you you kind of work up to maneuver. So you do kind of like your basic skills, rifle marksmanship, your individual schools moving up to like team live fire exercises, squad, platoon and then you're doing more kind of complex exercises maybe in getting in as well armor assets or things, something like that. So kind of combined arms kind of

thing. So that was a that was a good school, very interesting. And then Ranger School is just school of Hard Knocks where it's just repetitions and you don't sleep much, you don't eat much. There's three different phases. And you know, I'll eat some humble pie and say there's some things that I was not good at that I needed to improve on and learn from. So it's two months if you don't recycle. A lot of people recycle, but most people don't take five months.

But it took me 5 months. I got through bending phase, fine mountain phase. I was injured halfway through. It was just like four or five days in my legs. Maybe if they're like this big, you know, were swollen, maybe like an inch or two larger, and I was diagnosed with stress fractures in both. My shins told I could try to finish up. So I wanted to try to finish up to see if I could at least recycle into the next phase.

Didn't get a go. Most of the platoon didn't get a go. You you pass or fill together as platoon, you know, you guys have to, the guys have to gel well together. And if it's your first phase three, you might just get 2 looks to get a go. If you're a recycled, they'll try to front load you, give you the easier options to kind of get get ahead. I mean, I had an easy option when I got done with. When I went into the mountain phase, they gave me platoon

leader planning, which is great. Everybody's a little more fresh, awesome, but at any rate, it was a great experience. And let's say you had 26 days of patrolling. If you made it right through, well, I had 46 days of patrolling. And that's you, you learn it, you you just absorb it. It's fantastic. So as much as it sucks, it is a good school where you really learn a lot about yourself, what you can do.

I mean, you're it's maybe two hours of sleep a night and you're having like 2 meals a day, two MRE's a day, and in some phases it's the MRE sleep and an MRE. You got to imagine if your stomachs are shrinking that much, it's hard to fill yourself up. But then you're just so hungry after. And we joked that was a pleasure sandwich.

And as far as, like the difficulty of military training, if you don't understand what it's like to like sweat ammonia because you're burning muscle because you just don't have anything left or to fall asleep while walking, I mean, you haven't physically pushed yourself. And that's just something that I think every single person experienced in Ranger School at some point in time. So, yeah, Ranger School, Airborne School, yeah. I've done a little bit of that. I've done the rabdo.

I've I have no love for it. But yeah you're right you find out where your limits are and and those are important because if you don't know where your limits are it can be really lethal in a in a downrange environment obviously. So, OK, so you Rap Ranger School that that sounds gruelling by the way to do 5 instead of two, sounds like you got the full both barrels of the Ranger School experience and and then what next? Where does it?

Where does that lead you to? So then Airborne School then went to Fort Carson. And when I was at Fort Carson, I was about to promote 2 captains just because it was kind of weird coming from seminary as a chaplain candidate into active duty. So I was the first Lieutenant through my training that gave me a very shortened period of time at my first duty station, so quickly made the decision to try

out for special forces. Part of it was knowing other green brace through Ranger School, thinking, man, these guys are really cool, man, these bat boys are really uptight or that refers to Ranger Battalion. Yeah, I was going to say break breakdown, the difference for people. So Word Ranger there. Some people know it's like tab or scroll, but if you don't know what that means, maybe tell people what that means. So Ranger can refer to two

things. It can refer to the school or can refer to Ranger Regiment. Now Ranger Regiment is an elite infantry unit. You have 3 Ranger battalions and they are just, they are an elite infantry unit. Now, Special forces are special. We do special initiations. We work by with them through partner forces. The way we're structured and organized, there's five different special forces groups that focus on the different continental commands they do so they can focus in different

regions. So my region was Central and South America. That's why I had to learn Spanish. So unlike every other special operations unit, we have to learn the language of the people. And I mean CASIAP, yes, they learn the language, but so with Rangers specifically, you have the unit and to go to the unit as an officer you have to be Ranger qualified. Now Ranger School is the 2 month or longer school that you have to go to.

In order to be in Ranger Regiment, if you are a Sergeant and above or if you're an officer now you can go straight in as a Ranger Enlisted to Ranger Regiment and you go through Rasper Ranger Assessment Selection Program, which they just beat the crap out of you. And then when you get to Ranger Regiment, you still suck because you don't have a Ranger tab. So you have to then go to Ranger School and they're just in elite

Infantry unit. I mean they go, they do a lot of stuff with Delta, extremely talented, just meat eating people and it's just a very aggressive kind of, I think atmosphere, environment, very solid. I think. I think I saw some funny meme about them getting up at 6:00 working out other things like that working out again and then SF sleeping until noon, you know drinking, hanging out, whatever. But we we very much in special forces we work by within through partner forces.

So they're much more unilateral kind of action and us is working with the partner force in order to be a force multiplier. So our main, since we're just kind of getting into it, Special Forces focuses on unconventional warfare, which are activities taken to coerce, disrupt or overthrow and occupying power or government. And that's for using a resistance force, It's through using an underground government.

So we would essentially infiltrate into another country, work with the resistance forces to whatever the occupying power or government are to overthrow them. We do it in seven phases and we focus on it specifically in that country and that takes a lot of kind of specialized skills in training. That's our culminating exercise. Actually at the end of Special Forces Qualification course, we have what's called Robin Sage, which is a maybe 3-4 weeks kind

of total. But maybe you're in the state of New Carolina and you're pretending you're overthrowing or getting rid of Virginia or something like that. So working with resistance forces, it might just be like college students that come out, get paid for a little bit, get some training, running operations and it's just, you know, every three days they jump to another month and another month. So you can get all the phases.

But it's just it's such great, great training and they base everything that happens off of real life experiences, things that have happened to other Green Berets in different countries. So just amazing training let. Me let me throw up an experience I had. A buddy of mine was a was a seer instructor for the Air Force and they did a joint exercise with these guys. Some of them were SF and some of them were were Rangers. And so they set them out and they laid out the course.

They gave them the ground rules, whatever it was. You got to go from point A, you got to get to point B. You have a time limit, you know, not a lot of rules. Otherwise, sort of just solve the problem in the best way that makes sense to you based on your training and your experience and so on. And so my buddy, he said he looked at the map, he looked at who he's going after, and he was, you know, assessed to to go after the Ranger group.

And there was a dozen of these guys, whatever they're doing this thing. And it was, I think it was like a Air Force versus Army game. They were playing back and forth. So they go to this thing, he looks at the map, he goes, OK, well, the the absolute hardest way to get here would be through all of that garbage brambles and Briers and all this kind of stuff.

So I'm just going to post up on the other end of it and we're going to just catch them when they come sneaking out of the thing because they're going to go well, that's the hardest way to get there. Nobody's going to go block it. Nobody will think it. But if you understand how Rangers think, then that's where you're going to be. So sure enough, those guys come out and they're cutting and they're bleeding and they're all jacked up and, you know, they're

all destroyed. And and then the guys who were looking for the SF guys basically started watching buses, because the possibility of catching a civilian bus on the street was kind of the move that they came up with. I like it. That's great. Just thinking outside differently. You know one of them is like you said go through a brick wall for you If you told them which wall they'd ask you if there's another one behind it so they know how if they have to run

faster kind of thing. And then the other guys are looking like hey do we should we be you know finding the guy who lays brick and maybe put some soft wall for us or should we have somebody dismantle this wall before we get there or some

other kind of options. Just really thinking outside the box so and I've got a number of buddies my last partner was a was a green Beret in the FBI of all things and and the only reason I think because like so many people that work in unconventional warfare you probably would have been like you know piss off I'm not going to get the shot he just knew the army wouldn't let him deploy and he just that's all you want to do with his life so interesting voluntarily and I think there

was some people that did that I don't have any hard feelings against those types but curious as you were going through so you you you got this sort of like background you got this one side training and then you pass through what you would go off to the cue course. Yeah. So I get to 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, go to selection 3 weeks and not to spend too much time in training. So that's just kind of three weeks. You get about 35% out. At the end of it, you get gate

week. So Rock marches runs physical activities, IQ tests, personality tests and then you have land NAV and then you have team week carrying more weight than you thought possible. And I think we had, we were eating like four or five Mr. ES, you know a day and still dropped like 20 lbs, something stupid like that. And it's just it's pretty awful. But they're really just trying to assess. You're not trying to necessarily

play stupid games. So get through that, go to the qualification course that's a couple years already kind of went through. I guess the more interesting training, which is Rob and Sage also have to go through Seer and obviously that's pretty intense stuff. That's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and escape for anyone who is not familiar, which they make pilot, special operations

folks. And anyone who has a higher likelihood of being caught behind enemy lines or having to survive, they make them go through that school and get done with that and go to military free fall at the end of the qualification course at the end of language. So six months of language training and military freefall happened in March of 2020. Now what else was happening then? You know, Kovid. So I wasn't that worried about this disease when I'm jumping

out of planes at 14,000 feet. That was definitely kind of the more scary thing for me, but I get done with that. I go back to Fort Bragg. We're kind of being held a bit longer because we can't PCs or move to our duty stations immediately because of the different restrictions that the military is placing on service members because we're not sure how deadly this disease is. So eventually, get down to some Special Forces group June of 2020. And that's when all the fun begins.

Now as you're going through some of this stuff, you just mentioned that that really critical time frame in early 2020, you're pretty sharp guy. You're looking at the world, you're you're focused on training, but some of the stuff that you're seeing externally, what were you thinking about what we were hearing? What were you assessing in real time as the information came in? Just kind of curious what your thoughts were, if you can put yourself back there.

I thought, what is it that we can actually help, whether it's dangerous or not? What can we necessarily do that there's certain things that are worse than death? And sure, maybe it's like a cold like thing. China's obviously covering a lot of stuff up. I thought it was pretty wild when people are were saying that it came from a bat or some kind of a weird thing in the forest. And we know that there's this lab, the Wuhan coronavirus lab,

you know, named after it, right. So that's pretty, pretty interesting to me. And it really hit home when I got back to Fort Bragg and people, the church was closed down. The the Bishop of Raleigh said no mass, no confession unless you're near death. And that was just insane. And to see everything else that was opened up, Home Depot, other stores, grocery stores, liquor stores, it it's just it's absolute insanity.

And then to see other people being extremely nervous or worried about it. And I had some buddies who were kind of nervous because they said they were told that in their training, if they get COVID, if they drop 2 cycles, then they're out. So I can, I can understand, OK, you're worried about getting sick, but they were still nervous if I went to mass or was around them. So it was just kind of this, this sort of insanity.

And when I saw that religion was being slighted, that's when I thought there's there's something seriously wrong going on and just trying to think through how effective could this mask be? How stupid is that kind of a mask thing? What's the who's actually getting sick right now? So pretty. I think the 2020 range, we kind of knew that Older people, fat people, you know, it's just like, sorry, you're not taking yourself, man. You know, you're you're more

susceptible. But if you're a young, healthy dude, you're probably going to be pretty, pretty OK And to just shut down stuff and to shut down the churches. And that really pissed me off. I mean, I think one of the stories I was most frustrated with, as far as the Catholic side of the house, I usually prefer going to Latin Mass, but I go to both, both forms. I don't go to, you know, not to

get, I don't go to the SSPX. That's just, you know, my personal choice but love the traditional Latin Mass people who are not Catholic or like, what the heck are you talking about? So I'll. I'll try to break. They know who they're following right now, so by listening to me, they've got a little taste of this stuff. OK. Yeah, sounds good. So it was pretty wild that so I I was getting this chick we were going to a we usually go a lot

in masks. But because I'm flying out on a Sunday, we got to go Saturday night, go Saturday night, don't wear a mask going in get chased down by ushers. And I like, have to ask the priest, hey father what's the rule for for masking. OK, I noticed that you had this many candles on the altar and you didn't have a crucifix and

this dude wasn't wearing a soul. So this kind of human made-up BS rule, you're fine and forcing and chasing people down, but here's these religious rules that God, not directly but through the church, is essentially telling you and you're you're kind of not following that. So what does that say? And actions speak louder than words. So it was just incredibly sad to see so many bishops fail us. So many priests kind of fail us. And great, great term, Father Nolan. WTF? Where's the faith?

You just have to ask where's the faith? And it just wasn't there. I I had this this moment very similarly highly frustrated. At that time I was living outside of DC, so same part of the country, at least on the East Coast, and and my wife was considering converting to Catholicism, having been raised with no religion at all. And I was born as a Catholic and so it was nothing new to me.

But we were coming back to the Church in many ways and I and I'm going to this church and I found the most austere one that I could find. And it was a traditional cruciform build and it was absolutely gorgeous And they had a great cry room, which was really good. That was big because we had little kids and we're going to this, we're going to this mass and we're regularly showing up and then suddenly the COVID strikes and then they go every

other Pew has to be blocked off. Only one family can be in the cry room at a time and like you can't self assess your own risk. And they were essentially driving people away and turning people away at the doors that you couldn't come in. And the thing that hit me, and maybe this is because I was a Latin scholar when I was a kid, but I was very frustrated to think that the early Christians in Rome would have died rather than give up their their mass. That was an option for them.

It was like, would you like to show up going? They would rather celebrate mass down with the petulant or the pestilent corpses and the rotting sort of debris of of dead people in the catacombs rather than give up what they were doing. And these people were scared of like a cold and they were wearing essentially a chain link

fence to stop mosquitoes. Because anybody who's ever been through the sea Bernie and the the chemical warfare understanding of like what is out there, like what these basic things mean. You've ever done any biological warfare training or if you've ever been around medics, you know what does and doesn't work and what people do and do not get sick from those masks were absurd.

I mean people were wearing like bandanas and you're like, oh, that doesn't work like like us. Everything goes through that. Literally Everything goes like if you can smell a fart through a pair of jeans, I know that you're going to be able to get a virus through the same thing. But what a strange time, right? I mean, we just saw people roll over and give up their faith and give up their practice of their faith if nothing else.

It was absolutely sad and Catholic Church shouldn't be surprised when folks aren't coming back, if that's the example that the priests are given, bishops are given. I mean, one of the nice things is that the more Orthodox priests who do believe their churches did grow, expand, we've seen more people going to Latin Mass. But not that that's the be all, end all. Ultimately it's, you know, glorifying God, praise Reverend, serve him by this means, save your soul.

I think that that's the better form to get it there. But you still can't be weird. You have to like, you know. That's it. Let me go looking at you. Think about this. Think about the recruiting tool that Special Forces is in the Army or that buds is for the Navy or whatever to to drag people who want to aspire to something higher, most of whom will fail percentage wise.

And then you think about what happened during the sort of COVID lockdowns that more people chose to go to a more austere and traditional mass than the ones that were lackadaisical and had mass restrictions. And we're scared of each other and you know, we're willing to shut things down and all that.

And and I think that is such an interesting little just having the military background and having the faith background that people are not looking like what's the easiest thing in the world, who's got the best coffee and the the nicest narthex to go hang out and have Donuts in. People are like, what's going to demand something of me and how do I serve in that way and how can I challenge myself as a human being?

Because being a person is probably not enough for most of us. It's the challenge piece, but it's also I think the relational piece, relationship with God. And when you're told that you can watch mass online and that there's just kind of this blanket, I, I don't know, but it was with the term of it, but just blanket permission for people to not go during this time. People. Yeah, people just, they miss God. They want to be with God.

They want to worship him. And we're just drawn to two challenging things, but drawn to a personal relationship with him, which you experience more in a more reverence liturgy. That's how you experience the the good, true and beautiful, the transcendentals, you know, God himself who became Incarnate. So it it's, it's totally interesting. And yeah, it shows that making things easier for everybody is not necessarily good for

society. And that can take us into so many things with, with technology, with comforts, with. I think liberals are liberals. A lot of it because they are just stuck in their universities and schools and have never had to do something difficult. And I think Anthony Esslin wrote some you know great article or or book kind of on it or idea where even in the 1930s whatever. If you're trying to travel good chance your car is breaking

down. You have to go through some kind of adversity and the more you're in touch with nature the more you see kind of God's plan in nature.

We believe through Romans one that God expresses himself through the created world, created order where we can understand him and it's it's dealing with those those hardships but just seeing how common sense things work and we're in a society right now where with with basically let's say you have a car you can't put sand in the gas tank and think it's going to work yet that's what we're doing with our bodies, with our basic functions with our sexualities and it's

just not good for us. So we need to get outside we need to do a lot of those practices that the church told us to do fasting regularly. Now we hear about intermittent fasting, how great it is and and you know, it's like, well, maybe God knew something that you didn't, so. That's a really interesting point. Yeah, it's, it's, it's not exactly a new concept and it was always a way to kind of experience the divine or to

purify yourself. And then people do it for the same reason in a secular way, it seems like so. Yeah. Maybe there was something to this all along. Yeah, you you have a very different presentation than a lot of guy. If anybody knows a lot of Green Berets, they're a mixed bag. They're an interesting group. Some are very reverent.

I've, I've got friends who are Mormon, I've got friends who are Catholic. I've got some that are totally just scumbags and are out there like running around and, you know, trying to slay chicks wherever they go with every on every continent kind of thing. How did you fit into that kind of community of men and and warriors? I mean, you're not allowed to see my team chat. No, I mean, I love a spicy meme. I love good jokes that are just, you know, off color. Because it's funny, man.

If it's funny, you have to say it. So I I think, and I'll just be straight up about who I am, Catholic, wise, whatever. Even as an infantry officer too, I think some guys are saying something. I was saying something else. I'm like, hey, don't get offended at what I say. I won't get offended at what you say, right? So if I'm talking about religion, we're talking about other things. So it was good. I mean, I love my team. It was just fantastic and it was great.

And I mean this will get back into the story of sort of what was happening. But I got to 7th Group and I get to my battalion and my battalion is deployed. We were actually the last battalion to experience casualties during the Afghan war before the withdrawal. So battalions deployed. The acting rear battalion commander is a transgender major and this is an individual who West Point gymnast like as a as a Green Beret.

As a captain. You know, dude, children, I mean, you know, pray for him, pray for family. It's it's a difficult thing. But I was confronted with what do I do about this experience. I'm still. Transition, I guess he he socially transitioned, he just started dressing differently. Is that essentially what was going on? So I never knew him before, but just kind of with, you know the hair and just change of name and yeah, I don't know all the Physiology, but but at any rate

you. Didn't do the Crocodile Dundee check to make sure. Swoop. No, nothing of that nature, but I'm just kind of confronted with what do I do. So I actually called legal assistance to ask what am I legally required to call this individual? And then she got back with me this, this lawyer who if you're listening to this, don't go to your Jag about problems, your Jags work for your commanders, go to legal assistance. Let them help you.

So went to legal assistance and she got back with me like a week later and said, hey, I reached out, got to the level of the Pentagon. I'm like, whoa, so this is obviously some kind of touchy thing. And asked, do you know this person's going to be commander? I'm not sure. Was told you can call that person by rank and last name. That goes in accordance with

this Army regulation. However, the individual probably know what you're doing and just be careful to not say anything negative, you know, behind this person's back or whatever if that comes up. And so I just did yes, major such and such, No major such and such. How are you major such and such? It was very awkward in conversations with other people about him because it's like yes, I was talking to major such and such and major such and such said to move major such and such things.

But that's the game I tried to do, and that actually put me for sure in the company I went into, because he ended up taking Alpha. I went to Bravo. I mean, it's it's kind of a mess. Like the Sergeant majors were supposed to go to different companies too, because they were having trouble finding which Sergeant major would work with him. And the one I got who ended up not really getting along with super well was not really willing to work with this

individual either. But that got me to my team, which was great. Very mixed bag personalities, like SF dudes are a lot more libertarian. Got some Christian there, but they'd probably politically be libertarian. But just let them leave me alone. Do whatever you want to do, morally whatever. And just got kind of an FU attitude from the team Sergeant about shots. My Warrant Officer. Super conservative dude. Pretty fun. Yeah. So it was it was just good. So I mean, we just get to that

point. And I just, I knew that they didn't get along with their last captain. So I made it a point to really work on that kind of building rapport with them. So just kind of wrote out, just sent whatever memes out there, had fun. And yeah, that kind of brought us to where the whole COVID thing was happening, where we knew a shot was coming out. One of the first things I knew is that it used aborted fetal

cells. And as a Catholic, I was under the the understanding that that is remote material cooperation. So I cannot participate in that. That moral act, unless there's a grave reason for it. Now my understanding continued to kind of developed as I went on to looking at what is what is abortion, how involved is it? And I thought because it's a baby that was killed in the 70s, which is the human embryo kidney 273, that is kind of what these shots were to Biophone.

So we're now in like early 2021 shot is out. I see that I'm the only officer who did not sign up to get it immediately because they were asking and for people to sign up and I'm like, oh crap, this is going to be interesting. I tell my team that as your senior rater, which is the person who can approve or or kind of rank the guys that I'm not going to punish, reward them.

I personally don't want to, at least until it's mandatory, we just kind of go on. So I just continue to learn more about it and kind of came to the realization that it's not just the sin of murder, but it's also just murder and also the theft and continued theft of the unborn child's body and we have no right to that baby's body parts.

Whenever a service member dies overseas, we should do everything we can to bring their body back to inter it and to properly dispose of the body because the body is something sacred. So similarly with these products from human embryo kidney 273 and what does that imply? That implies? There were 200 / 200 attempts to get children to harvest children at the point when a kidney was

developed. It's just barbaric, the practices that they take and we've seen Planned Parenthood videos where they're selling body parts and it's absolutely demonic. And we need to understand that politics isn't just being nice, it's also a good versus evil. And I'm not saying that Republicans are all good, but there is at least kind of like a breach head into it where you know if if rhinos just stuck to the the Dang principles we might be on that point but just kind of continuing to cave.

So just just got to that point. Team was getting harassed. Team Sergeant he got it pretty bad from the starting major. The whole time for me it was just kind of career. A lot of people don't understand the pressure before the mandate came out. That was the worst time for me. That was the most stressed I think I've been in most of my life and maybe it may have had an easy life. I don't know. But it's what?

What did that look like though? I mean what what was the implement that you were feeling that stress? How did you discern it? It was trying to make decisions for the team too, in understanding that the team isn't going to get the same missions or were being slighted. So it's feeling bad for the guys, feeling bad for the team Sergeant. He's getting brought in 2-3 times a week, feeling yelled at by this arm major for like an

hour. I was, you know, getting got yelled at him by him once, whatever. I just like wrote everything down like a good officer memorandum for record form, Boom. You know I'll bring that out if needed, but it's like you're screwing up your career. You should look for work outside the army. You're not going to recover this from this. Reputation wise, I'm going to kick guys out of the company. I'm going to put them in unwanted assignments. I'm going to send them back to

the schoolhouse to teach. That's not a threat, that's a promise. If you lose a mission for this, and it was put in that you're. You're not going to fit in if you're not going to if you're not going to conform. Right. And that's one of the issues with the military, that it is kind of a ladder climbing process. And right now, when there's not wars or things that are extremely necessary to get done, it's what do you need to do to conform to continue to climb the

ladder. And there's a whole lot of saying the right things or doing the right things, and you need the right timeline. And it's a hierarchy that's necessary. It's competence hierarchy. But there's things that we need to change about it to kind of get rid of some of this Yes Min attitude. And we've seen how the Yes Min attitudes been ingrained, how morality hasn't been, especially with regards to how this shot was implemented. Because, I mean, before the mandate came out, I couldn't even.

I was looking into how do I apply for religious exemption, how do I apply for medical exemption, I couldn't do it. That's the thing. There's just no protection. They're just making whatever policies they want to try to force people to do it to the extent that they can. And it wasn't as bad for me as others.

I heard at Fort Bragg for instance, there was a battalion Sergeant major who in front of a formation told the soldiers you can, for those of you who've gotten the vaccine, you can go over there, you guys have the day off. If not put your rucksack on. We're going through for a grueling rock March and that is absolute coercion, punishment.

You can't do that. So for officers, it's much more kind of career bound where I would have to quarantine for longer for not having the shot versus someone who is vaccinated for a week or different masking requirements. But mostly just that you're identified as different and it ultimately came down to our team had AJ set, which is a joint combined exercise training, a six week trip to a foreign country to do training. And this is extremely important to get these trips as an officer.

You have maybe 18 months, 24 months as a team leader to really make your mark and move on forward. And as an officer that's it. Unless you go Delta, which sorry, that's not me, I mean some crazy dudes, hats off to you. That's it. As far as like deployments, that kind of experience, then you're going to be a company commander next, maybe where you expected

to manage six teams. And if you haven't had a trip overseas, how are you going to oversee the management of those teams if you don't fully understand the capabilities of a detachment? And the first Special Forces command made it a policy decision where you needed to have the shot in order to deploy.

And I mean before that even other team leaders started briefing when they went to brief the Sock S special operation command South. This is our baseball card here's here's all the guys we have and we're we have this many people vaccinated. They're like oh that's cool. Yeah, please keep saying that. So it's other SF other team leaders doing that to get ahead. That's kind of the cutthroat nature of we're still very competitive, but we're doing it in order to excel in our careers.

So that's kind of what it looked like. And with this this requirement, we're out doing military free fall training Arizona. And this policy comes down and talked to the company commander and he said, hey John, I know your team doesn't want to get the shot, but what's it going to be? Is your team going to get the shot or are we going to take this mission from you? And I talked to the guys that had already and I said, hey Sir, I only have one guy who's willing to get it.

So I guess you have to take the mission from us And he's like, oh, OK, I think he was surprised about that. But, and then I asked, unless you're willing to accept natural immunity, which he said no, we're not willing to accept that risk. Which threw me off, really pissed me off because we're jumping out of planes at 14,000 feet with oxygen equipment. So what risk are you accepting?

Well, think about this, though. Were you surprised by how few people were willing to stand up and say, no, this isn't for me because it's kind of a contrarian type of group. You talked about libertarians leaving the hell alone. That is my experience with with most operators.

They just, it's like I'm going to do what I'm going to do because it's hard and because I can and because you can't make me. That was extremely frustrating with special Forces because if our main mission is unconventional warfare, which does employ psychological operations and understands how messaging works within foreign countries, within trying to overthrow governments that I thought they would be able to see through this bullshit. And my team Sergeant, I mean, I love Rob Green.

So you were saying Catholic of the year. He excels way, way ahead of me. You know, seven kids wrote the book still on active duty. Just amazing, man. And you know, here I am, you know, perpetual single dude, whatever. But. You got time. Working on it. Any ladies watching your show? No, I'll be right. So at any rate, where was I going with that? No, sorry, really. Yeah, just the fact that people didn't want to, yeah. Yeah, my team.

This is the group of people that looks through things and goes, yeah, we're the ones who do psyop or we have psyops come with us and we put stuff down. We don't fall for that crap. It threw me off. It really pissed me off because yeah, my team Sergeant, he said this is the only thing they've really made me try to do. Like said, no, there's no other way around it. Usually you get an order. You see if it makes sense. If not, you ask why should I? Why are we doing this? Should we do this?

You're you're trying to look into all those things. We're selected for it and. There's there's almost always a waiver. I've never heard it like this was the weirdest thing. The federal government did the

same thing. So I I was in the same boat and what I knew was and maybe you can kind of reflect on this for the audience, I always expected the the civil service would stand up first for those of us that were out there that we're going to do it because we weren't facing you know, necessarily legal action, in which case we were not going to get a a negative discharge that would possibly ruin the rest of

our life. We weren't going to do any jail time on a base, which is a real possibility for disobeying an order. Maybe you can kind of talk about some of the consequences that people, you know, maybe military wide, but also in your particular area we're facing. So before that it was before the mandate went out. It was just having missions taken from you, not being able to go TDY or travel, maybe having to mask when other people aren't able to. There's many who had it much

worse than I did. So Brianna sesped As for instance she was Air Force, kicked out, got a general discharge, but she was quarantined for like 140 days in the course of like 2 years. It's absolute insanity. And this is, you know, a young 2425 year old girl. So for me, what when you get to let's say the mandate coming out, I put my religious exemption in, there's the possibility I get kicked out. With the general discharge, which happened to the majority of people were kicked out, they

got general discharges. This means that they don't have their GI Bill, that their their labeling is having conducted a serious, serious offense. So misconduct for serious offense. And this goes out whenever they make a job application that they don't get even certain discounts like for Cruise, joining the VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, different clubs. It affects your employment. It affects your life. You can't go to school.

I mean and it's it also is just kind of an affront to your character, hey, your service, it wasn't honorable. You you did something wrong. So that's something that I faced. I also just, I got out because I couldn't recover my career. I was ironically accepted to teach philosophy and ethics at West Point, but I couldn't move or PCs to go to grad school because once the mandate went out, I couldn't travel, I couldn't move to a different

duty station, I couldn't deploy. And if you're a Green Beret who can't deploy, that's you're not very useful. So these are kind of the consequences that that were faced. And then I I'm very grateful for my leadership. I know I complained about, you know, one guy a little bit but my battalion commanders, I mean they they really hooked me up. They were very it was good

chatting with them. I mean not trying to get Stockholm syndrome you know, I wish everyone stood up to a greater extent but still tried to set me up career wise to where I could still survive if I wanted to just stay within

group. So for most people if there's any kind of things for any kind of want to get people to conform and seeing these anti vaxxers or people who are refusing to get the shot as as a problem, It would be very easy to write your officer value evaluation report in such a way to kind of stop your career. And my career was just put on ice the entire time that the that the mandate was in effect before it was rescinded. So that's kind of kind of the consequences that I generally faced.

Others obviously had it worse, were actually kicked out and with the Army, they just, I think their plan was just to ISIS out and to avoid lawsuits. There's so many aspects of this whole whole thing and you know we're not going to get into all

of them. But I I think that the leaders knew what they were doing was wrong and they put out certain statements that make us understand that because they try to explain how the Pfizer shot, which is EOA approved is medically interchangeable with community, which says nothing about the legality of that because that's that's another thing. So we're getting back to summer of 2021, August. My team on that one shot is FDA approved, the other is not and the FDA approved shot is not

available. SEC DEF said he's ordering us to take an FDA approved shot. If there's none available, you can fulfill it with an EOA. Well, if there's no FDA approved shot that makes the order illegal. I already made my mind up to get a religious exemption, so not as big a deal. But when we got counseled and we actually got counseled in the middle of the woods, it's

absolute insanity. We're doing a two week training exercise in Louisiana. It's the Joint Readiness Training Center and as Green Berets were behind enemy lines, you know, out in the woods, you have like a 12 hour break. During that 12 hour break, they sent a major out to counsel us. Yeah. How did that go over? The guys were not very happy. They definitely gave. That made for peace of their mind.

I called my company commander and I said, hey Sir, why are my guys getting counsel in the middle of the woods? How do you expect them to make a lifelong career decision without the proper medical, religious or legal resources? How am I supposed to show guys that training to fight and win wars is more important than administrative bullshit when this is happening and that we're just not going to get training value if this is holding over our heads?

So I had that conversation and a little bit later heard that we could wait until we got back to 7th group in order to get the counselling's in. Which frustrated me more because it means that someone else could have made that call instead of the captain in the woods. But yeah, it was very, very frustrating. I don't think I've been much angry in my life. So yeah, we get back and then we just have a conversation with the doctors about medical exemption. That's another thing.

The military broke their own medical policy. So why did we send this letter? I mean, let's tie back into the Declaration of Military Accountability. Because military leaders broke the law, they didn't follow their own policy. They tried. They coerced us into taking an experimental drug that was not FDA approved without giving us full knowledge of what was going on. You have to disclose what you're giving to the person. You have to disclose that you have an option to receive it or not.

It's a Nuremberg violation. When it during one of my counseling's out, I asked the Fullberg Colonel, have you ever heard of Nuremberg Code? It's a Nuremberg violation to force someone to take something that they don't know the side effects for, to force them in any way, shape or form informed. Consent is required. I think you cited that. I cited the same thing to the deputy assistant Director of Human Resources over at the FBI and and it went over about as

well as you'd imagine too. I also may have implied that he did what the Nazis did and that he might as well call himself a good American, which is also, you know, when you're a civilian, you can get away with saying a little bit more stuff, which I chose to do. Well, I sent it anyway. I sent it anyway. I asked, do you think this is legal order? Do you realize it? This was to the full bird, Colonel. You have to be required to do it when you're getting out if

you're an officer. So it's like, do you think it was legal order? Realize it requires an FDA approved drug be legal. Are you doing anything to track COVID injuries? Have you heard of Nuremberg code? So that kind of spiced it up. He asked me. He said too much ideology is bad and asked if it hurt the Crusades and said I was going to a dark place and asked if I believed in selfless service and implied that what I did wasn't selfless. So I don't know. It's but no, no, sorry.

You're going to what? What happened with your human resource thing? They they pulled me, put me on a wall, which I didn't know was a thing. There's actually an A wall ability to be when you're a federal employee, which I did not know. I I knew about it from the military, but I'd never heard of that happening. So I literally was on approved leave and I showed up to AI, showed up to a qualification because I carried A firearm still.

And I show up at a firearm squaw, actually at White Sands Missile Range, of all places. If you ever been there, it's a huge dirt patch in the middle of nowhere. I was on small arms range #4, which is like 400 yards long, about 100 yards wide of just dirt in the middle with a mountain in the background. And there's nobody for any, you know, for miles. And I went out there and shot with like 12 other people from my squad. And then they called me up that night and they said, hey, did

you have a a COVID-19 test? And I said no, I was on leave. And also, I was in the desert in the middle of it, and I was on leave and I drove my personal vehicle and I shot my personal weapons. And I was just qualifying because I still carry a gun. And they go, oh, well, now you're on AWOL. Your leave has been revoked unless you call. Yeah. And my my fight was this. I obviously wasn't going to get the shot either. And I did that upfront.

But the fun thing for me was is they said they gave me an alternative. The alternative was compliance by taking the emergency youth authorization test every 72 hours. Now my my answer to them was pretty straightforward. You might find this very amusing. I said, look, I've been a paramedic for over a decade. I have a top secret clearance with an SEI qualification. And you know, I've done the

polygraphs. So if you can't trust me to stay at home with the 240 hours of sick leave when I have the sniffles, I don't know what to do. But I'm not going to take a test when I have no symptoms because I know medically and professionally that that's like, that's never been done before. We don't take prophylactic nasal swabs, particularly with something because there's things

like ethylene oxide. There's a whole bunch of other reasons why you don't do it. I know guys that have nose bleeds now every day because they did it all the time for travel. It's like, no, I'm not doing that. You're crazy. And and we'll be leaving the job over. That's the other funny thing, like someone's got to draw a line. Yeah, I I didn't. I was not as aware of all the scientific things For me it's like these shots, baby dead baby is not trying to you know be

involved. Murder and and theft the baby so that. So I didn't necessarily put up the fight for the the nasal swab. So I got the brain scrape every now and then. Every. Two hours. No, no, I mean, so here's the nice thing is that being in SF, like, yeah, things were stupid, but it was more of a career kind of risk. Guys weren't, like, treating me differently weren't necessary. I mean, did they have masking rules? Sure. Did I. Did anyone follow them?

No, absolutely not. And similar with testing too. I I think I talked to one doctor and he's like, yeah, man, if they, if it comes to that, I'm just going to ask you if symptoms and you say, no, you're good. All right, Solid. You know, so you can still get around a lot of this kind of stupid stuff. But still, we have a sign that says diversity is our readiness, equal opportunity is our comment multiplier, something like that. So, you know, wokeness, it's infiltrating 7th group logo at

the bottom. The whole thing was so dumb, yeah. And and what does that do to military readiness from what you saw? Well, it results in a lot of not so happy command climate surveys when your boss is a transgender major or someone with psychological issues. You know, there's not a whole lot of faith and confidence that if the person doesn't know, you know what's between their legs that they're going to make the right combat decisions. So it it definitely hurts hurts

morale. And I know we were nervous about women coming into special forces as well. I got through I bullet before women were in the infantry went to some women were in Ranger School too. But it we need to focus on competence. Like seriously that it just needs to be a competence focused thing. And I don't think that most Americans are that racist. I think we just kind of got over it that we got through the 90s. We have you know great jokes

like Dave Chappelle's hilarious. Other folks are hilarious. We make fun of each other, whatever. We move forward and you just get along like I got along with everybody. Like it doesn't who? Who freaking cares? Just get your shit done, get your job done. Stop, stop focusing on it. Stop talking about it. It doesn't help. And I hate too. We had Sergeant Major of of SOCOM comes the 7th group and it says, yeah, this is a great unit, They are totally diverse and they don't sacrifice

anything. It's like, yeah, we have a lot of Hispanics, 'cause we speak Spanish. Like, that's it. Like, come on, like Comate. Yeah, you know, it's like, I don't know. So it's just really stupid. We need to focus on things that actually matter instead of all this kind of nonsense bullshit. I mean, that reminds me too. Yeah, Sack def.

He was AWOL sick. Whatever it is in the hospital didn't show up. My fear for this right now is that congressmen are going to focus like pinpoint and focus in on him not being around for four days. Just like they can pinpoint and focus in on the few transgenders in the military or on some basis having drag shows, which these are terrible, terrible things. But the larger readiness issue is kicking out all these guys for for the shot.

So yes, I'd say bring it up, but don't lose sight of all the wrong things that SAC Dev has done. Don't. Go try to impeach him. For this, let's go ahead and focus on the Afghan war. Let's focus on the worst recruiting we've had since Vietnam. It's just absolutely atrocious. And at some point, if you're looking at the patterns, you have to really think that the Biden administration isn't just

doing it incompetently. That they are actually out there to destroy America, to cause certain emergencies and problems, and to fix them with other problems that are going to continue to consolidate power for themselves and for, I don't know, global leads. So you said you're 35, is that right? Yes. And you're fit, you're still capable. You got kicked out, you know, mid career or you chose to leave. But they gave you a decision for all your chips and you made the one you made.

Young guys still probably got to look to you and see what's on your wall and know your background and say, hey man, should I join the military? I'm 17, I'm 18, I'm 19 years old. You know, I'm full of piss and vinegar. I want to go, you know, kill people and not get, not go to jail for it. What what do you think? Is this the career for me? Can you recommend it to people? Yeah. So this is what I've actually told some folks and I, I have people reach out. They're welcome to the

confinement website. Whatever. So yeah, I what I tell people is that we're made to, and it's very Ignatian just off of the the summer retreat is that we're made to praise reverence and serve God, our Lord. And by this means to save our soul and everything is a means that end. And if you think that military service is something that you want to do, something you'll enjoy and will help further you as a person, then it's something

you should consider. However, you need to understand and know that you're going to go through some challenges that you shouldn't have to in the military. But life isn't about avoiding those challenges, it's about doing the right thing no matter what in whatever situation. So know yourself and understand what those challenges are going

to be and have those limits. We can't just avoid certain areas and we can't give up the military as an institution to be another three letter institution to be Co opted by the left. We already got enough feds trying to fit. I think we just had a holiday for it. You know they're trying to Co opt epiphany sorry, epiphany wins. It's there forever. But turns out yeah so I I would still encourage a person to consider it. Now if there's something that is morally objectionable to you period.

That's requirement. So if the COVID shot were around I'd say don't join at all until this is gone. If you can also wait until Biden is not president, that would even be even better because, yeah, there's some concern about how these leaders are going to take care of service members, 'cause they aren't, they don't care.

It it just shows that they don't care that there's been whistleblower reports that the injuries that people, I mean the vaccine injuries, I'm not a doctor, so don't focus on it too much. But there are people who've been seriously messed up by this and we hear in Special Forces about somebody who dives in the combat dive qualification course where you have to be extremely fit to go there or maritime assessment course which is a pre rec for dive school.

It's just it makes you question, makes you guess and there needs to be full accountability investigations into that. So since getting out in the military in July as far as I've, I've kind of felt that God's really providentially put me in this position because I get out in July one I do a 8th day Ignition Retreat July 12th through 20th. So for people don't know what that means. That is 1/8 day of silence. You pray 5 holy hours a day.

So you're sitting in a Chapel or somewhere meditating on some aspect of scripture, spending half hour to an hour talking to a priest, and he's helping you to review your prayer for the day. You're offering up decisions to God. And I went there wondering, you know what, God, I spent time in seminary. I still love you. I still want to serve you. What do you want from me? Do you want me to go back to seminary? What do you want me to be involved in? So trying to offer that up to

him. And then on the feast day of Saint Ignatius, which is July 31st, is when my first op-ed was published. And that led to getting a lot of interviews. So now nearly 40 interviews and then going up to DC and trying to work with different congressmen, that's that's kind of been just kind of this mission that I've seen God put me in. Now, I don't want to be a perpetual unemployed dude that just does this, you know, like trying to find my place in life.

But I do think that fighting for my country is certainly something God's called me to do. But working with Congress, it's been such a pain because the two things that we're trying, I've been trying to get done, and This is why we have this letter go out trying to get amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is the annual budget that allows the

military to continue funding. And that's where you would be able to put in things such as bringing service members back in, elevating their discharge statuses to honorable, giving them back pay, giving them time allotted for time they've been out of the service. These things weren't done. They just weren't done. This last NDAA was absolute trash. Republicans are not. If they negotiate, like Democrats would get a whole lot more done. And it's extremely frustrating.

And it seems like they just, they're more concerned about staying in power than they are about getting shit done. Santos, you might think like, OK, you know, weird stuff, whatever. I don't know, man wasn't wasn't convicted yet and that's an extra vote we have. So let's hang on to him. And hey, McCarthy, if we're going to vote to get out of him, maybe you don't quit. You know like we're shrinking the majority here.

So it it's just absolute. I think a lot of these folks don't realize it's a good versus evil or that civilizations don't last forever. So that's I'm going on so many tangents but so amendments is one piece and then hearings is another. So then trying to push for congressional hearings House Armed Service Committee, COVID select weaponization of the federal government and this these stories need to be heard. Mine very mild. A lot of people had it way worse.

But read Rob Green's book. Amazing. Defending the Constitution Behind enemy Lines. Check out the website too, which is military accountability.com that has links for the book that has our declaration as well. It has a petition people can sign. But educating yourself on what happened in the military just shows how much accountability is needed. That people broke the law, they committed wrongs. There's not going to be trust until people are held

accountable. And we wrote the Declaration of Military Accountability. Because I've gone up to DCA couple times. I've been talking to so many different staffers. We haven't even gotten a regional hearing. I think there was maybe last spring some hearing with the Milpers or something. I don't know what happened to that. I don't want to hear Secta getting yelled at about trainees in the military again. I wanted to hear him yelled at about the freaking Afghan withdrawal.

I want to hear him yelled at about kicking out 8000 dudes. Did he know? He didn't know. But let's talk about it. The FDAUA distinction What kind of, what kind of information did he have about people being injured from this shot? What did he know about the religious exemption process being blatant, blatantly denied? And what kind of coercive measures was he telling his generals to employ in order to the, I mean, the FDA approved

shots called community. It might as well be called conformity because that's all they were worried about, is just getting people to conform. So anyone? I'm I'm behind all of those ideas. I'd like to see that done for the civilian service as well. I think the military probably had a much rougher go of it, which is why we haven't heard so much about it until now. Let's talk about the the Declaration, we'll wrap it up

with this. The Declaration for Military Accountability. What was it modeled on? What was the purpose of it? What are you guys demanding out of this particular document and and what where can people support it? So Rob Green is the one who wrote it. So he is an active duty 05, father of seven, Catholic, solid dude.

So he's the one who drafted it. And there were a lot of people who got, who put input into it. I didn't put as much input but was you know, involved in the kind of earlier process or known about it. So had 231 of us sign it and it basically says that this government it doesn't work without immoral people and that these military leaders broke the law and they need to be held accountable for it. And here, service members are still suffering from it.

The homeless vet population, people dying from the shot, people with debilitating vaccine injuries, people with financial burdens that are screwing up their life. And they've had two years to correct themselves. And it doesn't really get into Congress, but that's part of it is we've tried to work through our elected officials and they failed us. So we're going to get accountability ourselves. So it comes with some pretty

strong promises. People might think, really, it's not that bad if you look at all the wrongs that these leaders committed. Taking the retirement pay away is not bad. Bringing them back off of retirement in order to put them through a court martial, hey, if you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about. And we are all about accountability. If we are wrong for some reason, which we're not, but if we're wrong for some reason, and you're innocent, that's great.

And this isn't about let's just fire everybody who did it wrong, because unfortunately, if this were a test, the whole military failed. As much as I'm upset with the top leaders, I'm upset with these middle level managers too who needed to just do the right thing. And if we were in a Nazi Germany situation, we'd have a bunch of Nazis. Unfortunately, it's very sad. So we have these folks who signed, We have about 7 folks who are running for office, others who are interested in

that. We have people who are still on active duty, who signed it, who are doing that at great, great risk to themselves to sign it while on active duty. And it's just saying that we're going to do what we can responsibly within moral means and legal means, so not calling for violence whatsoever. And it's not even a partisan document. I'm talking partisanly because liberals are retarded. And Republicans are pretty bad too, but not quite as bad, at least in principle.

But you know, a lot of weak spines and shit like that. But this document is not it is in accordance with the Constitution and Rob Green being Catholic, in accordance with the natural law, so drawing off of those principles in order to kind of push forward and motivate ourselves. So if you want to support us, go to militaryaccountability.com,

you can sign the petition. We've had a lot of problems with the website because we've had people hacking it, trying to disrupt it, and it's just absolute insanity. We if you post it on Facebook or Instagram, it gets taken off. It's hilarious. You can't like DM people with that website name. So those are things you can do specifically with that. But I'll bring it back to why does our country suck? Who's at fault for it? You and I are. We're at fault for it.

This is a country of we the people, for the people, by the people. And if that's the case, if your ignorance about the laws and how the the government is governed, you need to be spun up on it. If if you were just kind of, I'm not saying everybody needs to be a news junkie, but there's a certain level of ownership and awareness of a thing that you participate in in order to keep it going. So, so yes, sign the document, but do more in the way you

figure out what you do more. I think it's through prayer and discernment and you know, if you want to help yourself to be Catholic because that's ultimately what you need to do to get to that. But I'll just throw that one out there. If you can get pissed off, whatever, I'll have those religious. Today, yeah, we'll hear about that in the comments. That's good it. It's true, though, that what we what we tolerate, right, the things that we tolerate is what we're complicit in, it turns out.

And a lot of people gave up an awful lot of ground in the last couple years. I've been telling people, you got to fight your way back up to that line of the sand. Most of us are behind it for whatever reason, you know, good, bad or indifferent. Do an honest assessment of where your ground is. You're probably not where you wanted to be. You need to get up in front of it and then plant your feet. Get ready to start taking rounds because it's still coming at us. It's not stopping.

We're about to see, I think, just another really, really interesting year of of some awful behavior, probably on both sides, if I had to guess, yeah. Yeah, I think that everybody's New Year's resolution has to be respond to the current crisis that happens. Well, you might not plan for it, but go ahead and throw that in your resolutions because it's going to be a wild year. And know what your limits are. Know what you're willing to stand for beforehand, or your

fault for anything. I love it. All right. So other than Single Ladies who are looking to lock you down, what are the best ways people can follow you and support what you're up? To my website isjohnfranklin.com and well so before you follow me on social media too, I would urge you follow Jesus Christ the way the truth in life that is the means of salvation. But if after you follow him you still want to follow me, you'll find me on Twitter and Instagram at Johnny under score.

Franks So yeah, those are ways to support and really appreciate it, but definitely military accountability.com. And I'm an individual and we're made-up of a lot of individuals who are doing this fight and it's, you know, I can't do anything on my own. My motto through this whole thing has been Luke 17, seven to 10. And that's where Jesus talks about the owner sends his

servants out into the field. And when they come back and Jesus says that the master isn't like, hey, come on, let me serve you food. No master's like, come serve me. And when you're done serving me, you can serve yourself something. And at the end of it, the servants say we are unworthy servants who've only done our duty. So we're just trying to do our duty, but that's just what we need to do to get this crap done. I can take it. I appreciate you spend the time with us.

We'll have some more people on with some different stories. I think all these will tell a broader picture of kind of a mosaic of of experiences through this whole COVID sort of tyranny that went on in the military. But Johnny and it's it's Johnny with 1 N, correct? Yeah, yeah. It's kind of, yeah, it was bold, but I don't know. Yep. Johnny with One North. All right, brother. Thanks so much for giving me the time. I appreciate it.

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