John Reid person
also: John Reed, Colonel John Reed, Reed, John
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Claims (6)
John Reid member_of
House of Commons host_asserted
“train later on with that short of a window in order to get into London. Yet almost a year later, in June 2006, John Reed, who was the Home Secretary, kind of like our HHS guy, solemnly informed the House of Commons an irritating minor civil…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK @ 37:39
John Reid member_of
U.S. Air Force host_asserted
“I was stationed at Randolph Air Force Base, for those of you that are new, in San Antonio, Texas. And I met a tremendous group of wonderful people. One of the guys that I'd been stationed with at the Pentagon, I pinned on Colonel there at S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 1:41:42
Colonel Towner reassigned
John Reid host_asserted
“that it was going to be my job because I was assigned there at the personnel center, even though I had nothing to do with that process, to get him reclassified as a navigator. And I didn't have the flipping clue how I was going to do that, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 1:44:27
John Reid member_of
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“He is what we used to call TACPES, the Tactical Air Liaison Officer embedded in Army units. And he did that for like 15 years. What happened with him was while he was waiting for his medical evaluation, they had temporarily assigned him to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 1:43:37
John Reid member_of
U.S. Air Force host_asserted
“I was a major at the Pentagon. He was a Lieutenant Colonel. I did not know at the time. So I just walk into a room. It's the ops area where everybody in there are pilots. Now, of course, I know a lot about aircraft operations in the Air For…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 3:28
John Reid carried_out_attack
Gulf War 1991 host_asserted
“And not only was he like an amazing F-15, like top gun level F-15 guy, but he was one of the mission commanders in Desert Storm. As a matter of fact, for those of you who are on Rumble, this picture right here, this is him. This is him comi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 7:23
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▶ 37:39
train later on with that short of a window in order to get into London. Yet almost a year later, in June 2006, John Reed, who was the Home Secretary, kind of like our HHS guy, solemnly informed the House of Commons an irritating minor civil…
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a boxing champion for the NCAA for like a couple of years running, and he was in his senior year. During practice for his final fight, which they anticipated him being like a third-time champion in his weight group for the NCAA, he got an e…
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was stationed at San Antonio, who had also been on the boxing team. And weirdly enough, the boxing coach at the academy was still there when our lieutenant went through this horrendous injury. And so he called John at San Antonio and says, …
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Well, nine months later, after he had moved in with John and Bonas and adopted my two younger daughters, he played he was in a band. He played the guitar. My daughter is now in a band because of him. He has just been a close family friend f…
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And the guy was so depressed. He didn't want to be a comm officer. He had pilot set and that's what he wanted to do. Well, the medical officials approved him to fly as a navigator, just not as pilot. And so to make a long story short, I was…
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And John Reed, my old buddy from San Antonio and the Pentagon, is going to be there with his wife tomorrow. So we're going to have a reunion. And I will be doing a few shows, but I am not going to be doing a show on Wednesday and Thursday. …
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The guy at Harvard who graduated in 2000, Walter Lippman, the famous media guy, was like, yeah, his buddy, I think, in the freshman year, I think, was John, you know, John Reed, whatever the guy, you know. Yeah, Reed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah…
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what you're stepping out on is like a glass ledge because it's not propped up either with historical facts or the facts as we know them. So yeah, I love it. And I've always found, as a matter of fact, one of my best, best, best friends, Col…
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I was a major at the Pentagon. He was a Lieutenant Colonel. I did not know at the time. So I just walk into a room. It's the ops area where everybody in there are pilots. Now, of course, I know a lot about aircraft operations in the Air For…
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the normal support nerd that just walks into a conversation about air ops. So he had spent some time in the reserve and came back on active duty. And he was talking about United Airlines. And again, because I'm familiar with, I worked for a…
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He was talking about the, at the time, there was massive union unrest at United, which was an employee-owned company. So you had the flight, whatever you call them, stewardesses in one union, the maintenance in another union, and the pilots…
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shitting on everybody else, basically. And so, you know, I'm new. I'm just standing there listening to him. And when he got done, because all the rest of the people had not ever flown for a civilian airline, they were still on active duty w…
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and keep your aircraft flying in the air. Does that make any sense to you at all? And so, of course, we got into a very long conversation, mine from the maintenance perspective and his from the pilot perspective. And I loved it. I ate it up…
▶ 5:44
And I learned more from those debating sessions with him, not only about stuff that I believe that wasn't true, but more commitment to the stuff that I did know and well, and could articulate it and confirm that my belief system. So I want …
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I talked to him at least once a week. He is my go-to guy. Later on, I found out that this guy's literally, from an Air Force perspective, a stud. Like, holy crap. So we got to be best friends at the Pentagon. We were stationed together at R…
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wonderful people but he asked me when he was meeting his colonel's board um to do his um in the air force you have to draft your own promotion recommendation form and give it to your boss they wordsmith it and then send it in and so…
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He asked me to draft his promotion recommendation, which from a personnel officer is a high recommendation. So he brought his record down to me and I'm thumbing through his record and I'm going, holy shit. So he's an academy grad and he fle…
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And not only was he like an amazing F-15, like top gun level F-15 guy, but he was one of the mission commanders in Desert Storm. As a matter of fact, for those of you who are on Rumble, this picture right here, this is him. This is him comi…
▶ 7:52
of him hanging in the UCOM command building over in Germany. That was after one of his first missions flying in Desert Storm. And so like literally a rock star. And he flew, there's a very elite exchange program with Canada where one of our…
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whatever it is. And they fly F-18s, not F-15s. F-15s are much better playing than an F-18. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. But one of the first years Canada came to the Air Force version of Top Gun called William Tell, John came with the…
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And in the final series of competitions, flying an F-18, he outflew every single one of his F-15 brethren. So he's in an inferior plane and still kicked their ass. And so again, I'm reading through his record and I'm going, holy shit, I can…
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just literally who he was. He's a rock star from, and I finally, when I visited their house in Nevada, because he didn't have his trophy with him in San Antonio. And of course he didn't have it with him because it's, come to find out it's a…
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or debate, whatever you want to call it. And we do so and we both end up kind of collectively agreeing to certain aspects of the other one's point of view. But it's always good natured and it's always good to do that because it solidifies y…