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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Afghanistan Withdrawal | Allen Jackson Now | June 8, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Joining me now is chad robichaud.
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He's a u.s. marine force recon veteran.
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He's founder of the mighty oak foundation
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And someone who spent years working closely with active duty
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Service members, veterans, and our military families.
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Chad, it's great to have you back with us tonight.
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I always ask to be on with you.
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Good to have you, tennessee.
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You know,
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For the last several years, the united states
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Military has been facing a serious problem.
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There were fewer young americans who were signing up to serve.
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Recruiting numbers were falling short.
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Military leaders warned
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The situation had become a national security concern.
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Parents have wondered if the military still reflected
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The values of duty, sacrifice and patriotism
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That once inspired generations of young americans to serve.
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They watched military leadership embrace diversity programs,
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Gender policies and political messaging
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That honestly had little to do
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With building strong combat units.
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The concern was simple was the military
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Losing focus on what it was created to do?
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Well, recently at west point, secretary of war pete hegseth
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Announced that the u.s.
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Army has already reached its 2026 recruiting goals
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Four months ahead of schedule.
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That announcement comes after years
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Of recruiting shortfalls that military leaders described
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As a growing national security concern.
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Hegseth used the moment not only to celebrate
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Recruiting numbers,
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But to draw a sharp contrast with what he described
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As the military culture of recent years.
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He criticized what he called the decrees, saying standards
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Had been lowered and traditions
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Pushed aside in favor of political correctness.
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And notably, faith was front and center in his message.
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He quoted isaiah six eight.
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Hegseth
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Reminded the graduating cadets of the timeless call to service.
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Here i am.
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Send me, as isaiah had said.
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I think it's important that we maintain in our imagination
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That on a global scale, good and evil exists.
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Nations represent expressions of good and evil.
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Now beneath that level, i understand it's a mixed bag.
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But the reality is, when the righteous thrive,
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The people rejoice.
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But when the wicked rule, the people groan.
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Iran has long declared its intent.
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Their leaders openly chant, death to israel!
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Death to america, folks.
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That's not political rhetoric.
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That's a declaration of war.
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And when someone tells you they want to destroy you,
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You should believe them.
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The media often frames the iran war as an endless war.
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I disagree.
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Standing up to the terror regime in iran is necessary.
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Evil must be confronted.
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Evil regimes don't stop on their own.
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Honestly, i think it's remarkable
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To see the united states use its strength
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To address these expressions of evil.
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They were able to do this
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With elite precision and without great loss of life.
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The message to the world is america is not surrendering.
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We're not stepping back,
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And we're not letting the evil of authoritarianism take over.
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Pete hegseth
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Has ushered in a change in the mindset of our military.
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The attitude and readiness to do things.
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They're demonstrating it with performance.
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And he's done this while being vilified
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By the media for sending messages
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Like this to the troops.
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No more d.i.
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No more dudes in dresses and no more distractions, he said.
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Servicemembers are responding to leadership that values
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Merit, discipline
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And mission over woke ideology
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Expressions of american strength.
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They have to continue,
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Or we will leave our young people
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In the generations that follow. vulnerable.
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And the more vulnerable we are,
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The more battles we're engaged in.
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Let's continue to pray for america and our leadership.
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Let's pray that god would bless america, that judeo-christian
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Principles will continue to flourish in our nation.
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And as president ronald reagan described it, that america
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Would be the shining city on a hill.
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We'll be back in a moment.
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We're going to talk to chad
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Robicheaux about his take on what's happening in the military
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And around the globe. i'll be right back.
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And around the globe. i'll be right back.
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We're back now with the host
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Of the resilient show, chad robichaux.
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Chad, you spent your professional life
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In the military. you did force recon marine.
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You did eight tours through afghanistan.
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Yes, sir.
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So i think it's safe to say
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You are qualified to have an opinion.
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Yeah, i have spent.
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You know, i went into recovery
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And went over to jason on a d.o.d.
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Contract and eight deployments. afghanistan.
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And and since then, i've been involved in the military,
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Through my organization.
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Served over 30 years in and around the military.
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You know, i know in that military and special forces
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Community, community, you are a very well known entity.
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But you really made it on
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My radar with the whole saving as ease story.
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So maybe we just start with that.
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After you were out of the marines
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Back home and we shamelessly abandoned afghanistan.
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Those guys had been your interpreter.
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Yeah.
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And you went back in with one of the greatest,
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I guess,
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Rescue initiatives in american history.
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Yeah.
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It says the largest civilian evacuation in american history.
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And that's, i mean, we get a lot of credit for it, but.
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But it was.
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And if you read the book, saving is easy.
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It was a nothing that i could take credit for.
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It was a it was a modern day miracle
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By god that god orchestrated this opportunity for me and,
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Several of the members to go back and get aziz's wife
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And six kids and and that miracle extended on to the,
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A coalition effort that we led with several nonprofits
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To where we were able to get 17,000 people out.
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And, i mean,
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It was just absolutely incredible
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To see the courage of so many amazing
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People who just stepped up to do the right thing.
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When the governments in the world,
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Including our own, especially our own,
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Did not do the right thing, you know, in the,
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You know, have a april of 20
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Of 2021,
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When president biden
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Made the announcement that we would do the full
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And complete withdrawal of afghanistan.
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Everyone who had any awareness of the military
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Or national security or our global presence
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In the world, knew that that was a, a horrible decision
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Being made for, where the ultimate agenda is in mind.
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I mean, we
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We were told this lie that it was 2500 troops there,
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That we had this in this in this war.
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We have 20,000 troops all over the world.
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We have 80,000 troops in japan since world war two and 40,000
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Germany's war to 35,000.
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South korea since the korean war.
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Like, why do we have to get these?
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Give up?
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Air force base, the more strategic place
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In the globe between iraq, iran, russia and china?
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The answer is because the chinese wanted
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To be able to have mineral rights
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In the hindu kush mountains.
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They wanted a
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Strategic stronghold of bagram air force base,
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And they want to be able to move sanctioned oil
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From iran across the afghanistan into into china.
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And all those things happen immediately after we were gone.
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And so those were those are the and everyone for me, people
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That really follow this new that's what's happening.
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So i was upset about the withdrawal.
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I was upset that we closed bagram air force base
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Before we removed our americans and our allies out.
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And then it so hastily that we turned over,
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Our wartime allies to our enemy of 20 years.
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But there wasn't much i could do about that.
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But what they could do
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Is go back and get my friend aziz, who i would my life to.
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He saved my life.
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Multiple times.
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We worked together in two man teams, and that's important.
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Aziz was your interpreter.
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So you really survived because of his language skills
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And his knowledge of the country?
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Yeah, he was,
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Because of the type of job i did, doing
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Advanced course operations, clandestine logistics.
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It was me and him.
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So i was a single ten american working with an interpreter
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Slash teammate.
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And so he was with me every day
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In the mountains of afghanistan,
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Across the borders into neighboring countries.
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Again, i'm not a military guy.
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You didn't spend your time in service
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On some military base in afghanistan.
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You were in-country alone with aziz.
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And and so his knowledge and language
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Skills were an important part of your survival.
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Every day, every day. and, i'm here because of him.
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And so i owed him that life
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Debt to go get his wife and his kids, and and we did.
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And like i said, through that god
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Orchestrated, absolute miracle allowed us to get
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Not only him and his family, but 17,000 other people.
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And, and it's it was amazing that the witness to be a part of
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That is awesome.
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I don't know if you've gotten the disease.
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I have.
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Remarkable. remarkable guy. yes.
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You know, that's one of the things that i grieve so much.
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It's been fashionable
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For quite a while to diminish the military
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And the people who served in the military.
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And you were heroes.
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You're too humble to. but i mean.
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And i don't mean just you, but those men and women
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That run towards trouble, that stand watch on our behalf,
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That extend freedom and liberty
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In this earth on behalf of the united states of america.
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They are heroes, and they deserve to be treated
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With the respect and dignity that they're due.
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And we have had too many leaders for too long.
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Have another message.
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And so i'm grateful for the opportunity
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To champion some of these great stories.
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Yeah.
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Well, look, when a young man or woman in america
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Turns 17, 18 years old and have the opportunity
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To do this america,
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They could do
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So many different things in your life,
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But only one half a percent of our population chooses
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To raise their hand and forfeit their freedom.
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Because when you joined the military,
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You forfeited certain freedoms.
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And give up for,
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Eight, 20 years of their life in service.
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Then those young men and women, if that, they're going to do
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That for our country.
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It's a selfless act in itself to do that.
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When they do that, they should have the
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A leadership that cares about them,
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And that's going to put them in the best position
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That when they find themselves in a war
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That they set up to win.
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And that should be a minimal expectation of the leadership
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That's that we entrust over our young men and women.
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Absolutely. your family been marines for three generations.
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Three generations of marines.
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We served all my family served all the way back.
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World war one, world war two, korea.
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My father was a first marine in vietnam, myself
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As a marine in afghanistan,
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My oldest son as a marine in afghanistan,
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And then my youngest son as a marine as well.
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That is awesome.
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What a wonderful heritage.
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We have a new administration and a new secretary of war.
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Pete hegseth
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Feels like a completely new tone coming from
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The commander in chief into the the war department.
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I'm a civilian, but am i reading that correctly?
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You're reading it right now,
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And you and i, you know, sat in a pulpit of, of your church
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Where every church and talked about the nominated pete
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For secretary of defense at the time
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And why i was endorsing him.
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And i can proudly say today that the reasons i endorsed him
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And you don't often see this in politics,
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The reasons you endorse someone.
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Then i shake out the way as much as we are hopeful.
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But for pete, the reasons i endorsed him
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Have come to fruition and it comes so quickly.
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Pete, although he didn't have a star as admiral or general,
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Which is what he was taking, he he recognized something
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That i recognize
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That the most critical component of our national security
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Was the morale, recruitment, retention of our troops.
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And it was because of these agendas
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That were being pushed in our troops
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That were not focused on combat
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Readiness, lethality and warfighting.
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And it was
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It was
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It was that getting our military,
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Which in a sense, hurts our national security.
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And that's important. that's american.
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I care about that,
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And i care about our troops being ready and and look,
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We they had lost focus.
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They completely lost focus.
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And people
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Joined the military
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To be warfighters, whether they joined to be an administrator
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Or a logistician or infantry or special operations,
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They're joined to be warfare.
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That's why they're joining,
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And they need to be equipped to do that.
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But we had focused on the d and these policies
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And took us off course.
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And pete wrote a book about it.
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He was he was passionate about it,
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And he recognized how hard
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It was at the end of the the biden-harris administration.
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We had the lowest recruiting since vietnam.
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We had we had lost all of our got warfighter.
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So we it's very important when you have a war, when
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When you have 20 years of war,
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You want to maintain that institutional knowledge.
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I mean, the reason i was in my generation of training
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Was the guys that were still linger around
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And vietnam had a gunner going as it was a vietnam
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Veteran was still around, mentor to my first reconstitute
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That we were in.
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Like, it's important to have that
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We were losing all our gi warfighters.
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And my experience of being in
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And around the military for 30 years,
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It was the worst morale that i had ever seen.
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And pete said that recognized
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All those things that said, you want to fix those things.
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And that said, made me say he's the right guy for the job.
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And he and in only 18 months
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Now, we see the highest recruiting in 15 years,
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The highest retention in 15 years,
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And the highest morale that i've ever seen
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Around the military in my work of doing.
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And, you know, i've been around military.
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I continue to be around a lot.
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I just spoke at soft week at the prayer breakfast
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That, i've spoken over 600,000 active duty troops
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And my resiliency work at mighty oaks.
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So i get to 600,000, 600,000.
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So i'm very engaged with the military.
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I'd say
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I get to see
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Over the last 16 years where their level motivation is,
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And this is the highest i've seen.
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They have competence and faith in their commander in chief
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And their secretary and, and they're motivated and they,
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They believe that they're
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Being resourced and, and supported to do their job.
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And that's a that makes a big difference.
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And what that does is what people do
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When people don't realize is when you have
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A recruiting crisis, you have to lower the standards
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Because you need
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To lower the entry markers to get more people in.
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When you have a recruiting surplus
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And you had the highest recruiting
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15 years, well,
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Now you can raise those standards
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And make it very difficult to get in.
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And it should be. the military is not for everyone.
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The military is should be for the best
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And brightest of our of our nation.
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If only a half a percent of our nation is going to serve.
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Let's get the best.
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Let's let's be able to raise that standard
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Because people want to get in so bad.
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We have the highest standards with the highest people,
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And we could be the most lethal military in the
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In the world that make that that's make us a bully.
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It makes us safe.
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That makes the world safe.
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When united states military is in its prime,
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Not only is america safe,
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The world is a peaceful and safer place.
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We know that through history.
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So we need to take a short break
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And you stay for another segment. absolutely.
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We'll be right back.
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There's some things happening in our military
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Around the world that you need to know about.
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Some good, some bad. chad will give us the inside.
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Just a moment. we'll be right back.
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Just a moment. we'll be right back.
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We're back now with the
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Founder of the mighty oaks foundation, chad robichaux.
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Chad, you did a tour through afghanistan.
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I think it's safe to say you're familiar with the country. yes.
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You shared something with me, but we are still sending money
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To afghanistan, which means it's going to the taliban down.
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Yes. tell us about that.
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It's a staggering amount of money.
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It averages $80 million per week.
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And that's 80 million american dollars per week to the taliban.
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Part of the withdrawal was the doha agreement.
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Now, anybody that's a critic of president
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Trump will say what president trump initiated doha agreement,
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But it's a much different agreement
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Than what was executed with president biden.
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The terms of different.
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And when you give an agreement, there's usually some terms,
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And those terms have to be met and the terms aren't right.
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Then, then it's not an agreement anymore.
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It's, you know, it's null and void.
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And that's what we see with the taliban.
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The taliban agreed to this with the biden administration.
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And there's so part of that was $40 million in humanitarian aid
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That comes in through, comes through. it's very complicated.
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I gets there,
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But 40 million in humanitarian aid and $40 million in cash
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For counterterrorism.
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So about $80 million a week goes
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Now this
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This cash goes and, you know, pallets of cash
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And it goes to about ten different locations,
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All of which the individuals on their own or,
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Or are sanctioned by the u.s. government.
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And i think four of them, could be growing in number.
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I think it's still for them
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On the fbi's top ten most wanted list,
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Including bin laden's son and, and one of the other ones, or
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Worse, housing,
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Maybe even one still, to this day, american prisoner.
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And so this this cash is going to them,
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And they're the humanitarian aid they use as like
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Any other third world thug would use.
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They use it for power over the people,
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To control the people because they're controlling
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How to stay warm, how to eat,
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How to take care of themselves, how to how to have medicine.
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And they're using that humanitarian aid as power.
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That's what the taliban does.
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And then the humanitarian, the counterterrorism money.
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Well, i don't know what they're using it for,
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But i can tell you this that we only had two out
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Kind of training camps there, an afghan withdrawal.
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And now i'm told there's close to 70 kind of treated camps
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And 70, 70.
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And so they're clearly not using it for counterterrorism.
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But we know that it's been a terrorism safe haven.
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Even pakistan has attacked
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The taliban because they have become a terrorism,
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Safe haven.
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It's a protect their own country.
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They're attacking taliban.
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But we're we're finding that supposed to be alive,
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Which, by the way, i don't think pakistan, israeli.
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But we send money to pakistan as our ally
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And we sending money to taliban,
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And now they're fighting each other over terrorism.
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So this is ridiculous. it's our taxpayer money.
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One of the things that disturbs me, the most, as
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We are on the heels of memorial memorial day week,
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Is part of this money. what's allowed?
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Part of this money is a taliban mortar fund.
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So any taliban fighter that was killed by our u.s
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Service members during the war on terror,
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That we just killed them for their role, as in the taliban,
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Their families are entitled
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To a home and $1,000 a month from our taxpayer money.
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And as we're coming off of the, again, the heels memorial day,
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There's no gold star family in america
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That is giving a home in $1,000 a month
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Because of the sacrifice of their sons and daughter,
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Paying the ultimate price and defense of our freedom.
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And, i don't know why that's not, you know, here we are,
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Alan jackson now saying it, but it should be on every,
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Every news anchor.
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Should be streaming this this, the truth of this
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And every congressmen and senators should be held,
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To to take action on this.
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I mean, this is happening right now,
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And this and we've been calling this out for four years.
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Sean ryan, who's local here in the area is sean
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Ryan show and myself and the reality show, we
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We worked on getting a petition, in exposing this.
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And as members of congress, one of the congress members
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Here and, and, in your state and tennessee congressman timber
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Is adamant about this, but they are members of congress
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And in senate who are fighting to keep this money,
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Continue to go to taliban.
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And i don't know why,
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Other than, you know, selfish and or
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Complicit reasons or profound ignorance or profound ignorance.
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Yeah, but let's shift the conversation a little bit.
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Iran's front and center
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Being a global sponsor of terror for decades,
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Their terror proxies have been,
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To a significant extent, diminished.
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Hezbollah and hamas.
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But the regime in iran has proved to be more resilient
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Than we imagined.
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I mean, they've been bombed
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Into almost they're incapable of defending themselves.
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But they're not willing to yield the field.
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What do you see?
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What what's the best outcome?
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What are you hoping for there?
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What i'm hoping for is, many of the,
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You know, iranian people are hoping for that.
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There will be a turn
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In the hearts of those in the republican guard there.
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And, and the people of iran, there's only so much america
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Can do,
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When it comes to bombing
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A country into oblivion if we care about their people.
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Right.
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And i think america has a heart
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For the iranian people is the regime, is the ayatollah
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That's our enemy, is not running people are not.
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Because if we destroy all their infrastructure
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And all their bridges and all their power plants,
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The people suffer that horrific. that's right.
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So we are a nation.
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We are a compassion nation.
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President trump and and if their their strategic and
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And they're not just doing what they've been accused of doing.
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And so that leaves a that creates an opportunity
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For the iranian people to rise up
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And take control of their country.
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That's been stolen from them for the last 50, 50 years.
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But if we would finish it off ourselves,
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It would come at a tremendous cost to the iranian people.
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And i don't think,
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I don't think this administration
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Is willing to do that.
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And i don't think they should,
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I think they they've done what they should do.
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I think they should continue to try to finish the job
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Behind the scenes
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With the intelligence agencies and how we interact
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To provoke people internally of iran
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To take control of their country.
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I don't know, i couldn't say what we're doing there.
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I can only speculate.
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Not only our country, you know, i'm sure israel has a say,
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Has their hands in that.
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And, you know, they have a strong interest there.
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But we often, you know, help nations, you know,
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In the shadows to take control, and have a regime change.
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I don't know what's happened is we can help with that.
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Putting boots on the ground. i would certainly.
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And i do pray that that, that
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President trump and secretary acts
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Do not move forward putting boots on the ground.
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I don't think we will, but
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But i don't think that's the right move.
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Jared, i thank you for your time.
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I thank you for your service to our country
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And for your love for our country
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And inspiring a whole generation of warriors.
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Absolutely. thank, thank you for being.
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I mean, you guys have just been family
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Here to me and love you guys. thank you.
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Keep up the good work.
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I'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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And a niche base of advanced force operations.
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So the characters master quinn and,
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Get to share his journey with everyone.
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Well, i thought what was so fun
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Is when you wrote saving is easy.
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It was nonfiction,
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But the department
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Of defense redacted so much of it, you published it
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With the black
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Redactions in place, but if you write fiction,
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You can tell the rest of the story.
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Yeah, that that experience
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With the pentagon and in the book redactions,
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It really prompted me to go into the fiction
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Space to be able to share just these amazing stories
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Of americans and, you know, fictionalized.
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There's a lot of truth to this.
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Fiction
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Comes off of a lot of my experience,
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A real stories of people,
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My my own experiences, other people
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That i've been able to serve with awesome.
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The book is riptide.
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You can get it wherever you buy your books, folks.
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God is moving in the earth. don't lose hope.
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God bless you and have a good evening.
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Allen Jackson: Afghanistan Withdrawal | Allen Jackson Now

June 8, 2026 | 22:42

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