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All right, without any further ado, let's have a really cool
conversation. A really neat guy.
He looks kind of big, though. What do you think?
Let's talk to John Franklin. He is a former Green Beret.
He is a former seminarian. He could have been Catholic of
the Year in 2023 if people knew, could have been in the running
of Myanmar. Cal.
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
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But if after you follow him you still want to follow me, you'll
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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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