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U.S. Congress funded
United Wa State Army documented
“The further impetus to create actual military units in special warfare was an action of Congress in 1950, building on America's traditional commitment to freedom and interest of captive nations. Oh, my God. The irony of that is just hilario…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 58:17
Kenneth Royal headed
United Wa State Army documented
“which was the province of the Army G2 staff. The paramilitary side had been viewed with some distaste by the Army Secretary Kenneth Royal, who said at a June 1948 meeting that he wished his service to know nothing about covert operations. P…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 54:47
Maxwell D. Taylor recruited
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“A classic field unit was an A-team at the lowest level, small units of Americans who could command and advise larger irregular formations. To perform technical and medical services and furnish support, the A-team had a wide range of skill e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 32:01
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“which JFK approved on January 18, 1962. This established the special group called the CI for counterinsurgency to formulate plans subject to the president's approval. Military men who worked on Operation Mongoose remembered that Taylor insi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 25:07
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“Robert Kennedy privately talked with Taylor about serving in the administration. He continued to resist, but softened to Robert Kennedy's wit and his skill as a negotiator. Taylor paid Bobby Kennedy the compliment of saying that he would ha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 22:44
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“But one of the main recommendations of the Taylor report was to establish just such an entity with the report called Strategic Resource Group. General Taylor returned to Washington where he declined the offer to serve as DCI, yet he did not…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 24:10
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“Max wondered if he should ask Dulles to test the waters ahead of him. Allen was in no position to do favors that day. He himself had been in the woodshed with the former president over the botched Bay of Pigs. Neither man needed to have wor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 23:46
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“Only three days after Taylor's visit to Gettysburg, Kennedy signed a charter letter appointing Taylor to advise and assist on military matters, which was basically an intelligence function at that point. With these general duties, Kennedy i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 24:38
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
United Wa State Army book_quoted
“But as thoroughly modern, flexible officers, they had like a kind of the macho airborne model. Mack Taylor was not the typical officer. The more conventional army officers were the men who throughout the 50s tried to undermine the developme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 25:36
United Wa State Army suffered_casualties_at
Sir Sink Airport host_asserted
“You could have very well been one of those people. The day that I got to northern Iraq, the C-130 that I flew in on for my six month tour there, the day before I got there, three of the army guys had went off the tarmac of the Sir Sink Airp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:20:00
United Wa State Army recruited
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“That's called accountability. Okay. That's my opinion. Yeah. But I've actually been in that position. Well, going back to Ted Shackley, I found it interesting. He was recruited out of the military for the CIA because the army tapped him, li…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 1:06:47
Ted Shackley member_of
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“And then finished, he put himself in the army at age 18. So I'm thinking he didn't come from a money background. His mother was a Polish immigrant. So he bootstrapped it with the army, University of Maryland. And then he had been doing some…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 1:07:18
United Wa State Army supplied_arms_to
Golden Gate Bridge guest_asserted
“Oh, here's a fun fact about Alcatraz since it's been in the news. There was a guy that worked there that we were talking to, and he goes, well, you probably didn't know this, but during World War II, you've heard of submarine nets, right, C…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 1:17:49
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
United Wa State Army founded
Blue Light documented
“Elite commando units, Blue Light and Delta. These initiatives received personal attention from Brzezinski. The third development was the fall of the Shah of Iran. What followed in its wake? Policymakers and intelligence analysts either refu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 1:05:03
United Wa State Army founded
Delta Force documented
“Elite commando units, Blue Light and Delta. These initiatives received personal attention from Brzezinski. The third development was the fall of the Shah of Iran. What followed in its wake? Policymakers and intelligence analysts either refu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 1:05:03
United Wa State Army overthrew
Athens guest_asserted
“Anybody else have anything? Ron, go ahead. Hey, what you were talking about earlier was the Battle of Athens. It happened in 1946. All these World War II veterans came back and they found that all the sheriff and the whole freaking county w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:52:49
United Wa State Army founded
20th Special Forces Group documented
“Although in 1950, only seven active duty Army officers were in that area, by 1952, which was two years into the Korean War, there were whole radio leaflet propaganda units, and the Army had set aside 2,500 authorizations for covert warriors…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 1:01:17
U.S. Air Force succeeded
United Wa State Army documented
“One-dimensional warfare versus three-dimensional warfare. And the ability to orchestrate an air campaign being subordinate only to Army senior officers limited its ability to do everything that it could do. And there was a decision made pos…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:19:00
Franklin Huddle Jr. trained
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“Layton also claims that Huddle undermined Horn's efforts to provide Burma's prosecutors and police with U.S. assistance to implement its drug laws. Why? Well, we know why. In contrast, Layton pointed out in his letter to Senator Shelby, Mr.…”
▶ he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4 @ 17:08
5307th Composite Unit member_of
United Wa State Army documented
“Others had an easier time, namely the military experts that were in the unconventional warfare area, for whom Gray had toiled while still at the Pentagon. In the early post-war years, there was little support for these methods in the armed …”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 44:44
United Wa State Army founded
Delta Force documented
“one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire force. Imagine that. So with the suppor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 1:07:21
United Wa State Army founded
Blue Light documented
“one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire force. Imagine that. So with the suppor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 1:07:21
Edward Lansdale member_of
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“That's what he did. And he basically got commissioned in the army. And then he was commissioned to he was switched over to the Air Force in the aftermath. But he was never really a military officer. He was a CIA agent posing as one.…”
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CIA financed_via
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“not to mention the funding for the CIA's covert actions. The CIA can use the proceeds of the drug trade to pay for armies around the world, which we know in fact they do. Lau also says a lot of careers in the intelligence community has been…”
▶ he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4 @ 27:27
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The narco trade of the Golden Triangle region is controlled by warlords who are able to field large armies funded by opium. Burma's military junta had struck bargains with these factions, such as the United Wa State Army, which had reached …
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We're going to get to the numbers. We lost quite a few Marines and Army guys. We lost 135 dead Americans for this bullshit. We killed 84 Cubans and we killed 400 Grenadians with this invasion. Just saying. The neutral movement under Maurice…
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And then, again, just to reiterate, 135 American military killed as a result of this, or killed or wounded, sorry. The land conquered. There remained the people's hearts and minds, which at the onset was done via radio stations and a huge p…
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and um through trap and trays and um and everyone was everyone that i knew that it was an activist was like but the navy built it i have one question about the navy um are they the most focused on nuclear no um i mean i don't know what you …
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has all fell into some form or fashion part of Operation Gladio and are to be hated and court-martialed as far as I'm concerned, but not a service per se. I mean, if you're inside the military, you make fun of all of the other branches. It'…
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But the naval intelligence has always been the premier intelligence of the military branches. And then the Army obviously came in with the NSA and whatnot. But in terms of implementation, the Navy has always been at the forefront of a lot o…
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That's what he did. And he basically got commissioned in the army. And then he was commissioned to he was switched over to the Air Force in the aftermath. But he was never really a military officer. He was a CIA agent posing as one.…
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My notes about basically. Oh, and they had this one. This this is really a weird one. Part of the special forces branch. Oh, and I did want to mention this to the military oftentimes refused to turn prisoners over to the CIA once they found…
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interrogating them because they were for actionable intel in the military operations. But in some cases, several of the military commanders had found out what the CIA was doing to them long-term and not using them just for actionable intel …
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And it says sometimes they had entire classes that were sent to a single location to increase the camaraderie of them working together, which I don't know. I just think this this is awful. So and this is the guy, the military side of this u…
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Now, there's military that end up working for the CIA like General Lansdell, and they're involved in all of this crap. But the military proper, where I don't think the ones that were not infiltrated by the CIA are pretending to be military …
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And he basically was setting up this whole thing from what he considered scratch. He didn't think anybody had done a good job. He was the son of a U.S. Army officer who was stationed in the Philippines when this guy was born. He went to Wes…
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to send all of these people. That was kind of like the advanced version of the schools of America to send these Gladio operators to. A lot of the Gladio people went to Fort Bragg for training. So it would make sense that they'd have somebod…
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insider mass shooting event that took the lives of those great Americans. And of course, I was fired up to go. So I went and went with a few special conditions. They were open-ended orders. I was to be there for the duration of the war and …
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I worked directly for the Army two star that was there as his aide and exec officer. My primary job there was personnel readiness, keeping track of where everybody was in the northern theater of Iraq. And then in my other hours of the day, …
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But I wanted to share something about that because when it was implemented into the military in August, I guess it was 2016. Yes. And, you know, so we had when I was out in Air John and they had representatives from the Surgeon General's of…
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It was evident by 63 that President Diem had lost most of the political support that he had, and his brother began using force to quell demonstrations by the majority Buddhists in the country. They were operating under the auspices of being…
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Colby's place as chief of station at Saigon was taken by John Richardson, an officer from the Army Counterintelligence Corps who had joined the CIA. Richardson was an authentic espionage hero in Italy back in 1944-45 when he was instrumenta…
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And he was so successful. He's been all over the world. He's deployed in almost every hotspot, calling in air support for Army units in harm's way repeatedly. And he got selected for group command at the last command board. And he is taking…
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Rigid ceilings had been placed on defense spending. With the atomic forces emphasized, the ceilings required reductions somewhere in the military, and these cuts could only come from the area of conventional forces. Eisenhower's period ther…
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From one of the chiefs of staff resigned over this very issue in 1955. With some notable exceptions, the Army generals also opposed the new look policy. But the president carefully kept the Navy and the Air Force satisfied and appointed the…
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divisiveness between the services. And of course, again, at that time, air power was just coming. We just set up the Air Force. And so people were taking a fresh look at all of that stuff. And so this would have been a monumental shift. And…
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That if it was created as a separate service, that the future was bleak for the army. There was substantial. OK, so the CIA was the one shop with an interest in common with the army. Limited war. Paramilitary operations were limited war wit…
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Allen Dulles allowed himself to be mollified by the promise that the CIA would still be allowed to get into operational aspects after the report was written. While further limited war studies were done, the CIA did participate in them. Its …
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The most prominent Army spokesperson was Chief of Staff General Max Taylor. Specifically, Taylor asserted that the strategy of massive nuclear retaliation could not counter brushfire wars and that the U.S. should adopt a strategy of flexibl…
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which is too limited to justify atomic war. It cannot protect uncommitted nations against a communist takeover using local or guerrilla forces. It cannot be used to so-called brushfire peripheral wars, unquote. JFK's vision was different fr…
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which JFK approved on January 18, 1962. This established the special group called the CI for counterinsurgency to formulate plans subject to the president's approval. Military men who worked on Operation Mongoose remembered that Taylor insi…
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But as thoroughly modern, flexible officers, they had like a kind of the macho airborne model. Mack Taylor was not the typical officer. The more conventional army officers were the men who throughout the 50s tried to undermine the developme…
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The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. while 782 men of the 10th were deployed …
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early expansion coincided with the repatriation of Korean War veterans. Subsequently, Special Forces expansion slowed to a snail's pace as ancient army generals preserved their conventional units as best they could. Because again, this is a…
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A classic field unit was an A-team at the lowest level, small units of Americans who could command and advise larger irregular formations. To perform technical and medical services and furnish support, the A-team had a wide range of skill e…
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one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire force. Imagine that. So with the suppor…
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that ran the PR firm that also ran a prostitution ring in Washington, D.C. under the guise of being a PR guy. So Gordon Gray had previously sat on the president's NSC while serving as the secretary of the army. Isn't that sweet? He was know…
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A North Carolina state senator, both before and after the war, an assistant secretary at the Pentagon and then secretary of the Army, Gray left government service in 1950 to preside over the University of North Carolina. A few short months …
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PSYOP wars were then assisted by the appearance of a NSC 10-A memorandum, which demonstrated presidential interest in the area of psychological warfare. Well, well, my gosh, then let's just have it. The Army began a staff study in January o…
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Army proponents also attempted to carve out greater roles for themselves because, you know, the infighting of the military is something to behold if you've never seen it. General Albert Wiedemeyer, chief of the Army's Plans and Ops Division…
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effort to enter the psyops warfare arena himself, argued that the Army possessed the greatest capacity for propaganda in the form of outlets and audience than even the State Department did. And Assistant Secretary of the Army, Gordon Gray, …
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which was the province of the Army G2 staff. The paramilitary side had been viewed with some distaste by the Army Secretary Kenneth Royal, who said at a June 1948 meeting that he wished his service to know nothing about covert operations. P…
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to his boss that we are actually participating in Europe in the psychological warfare arena. Meanwhile, the Army planning staff acquired a special warfare section within its psychological warfare area. Manned by veterans from Merrill's Maro…
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JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff 1807-1 recommended against any sort of special warfare troops. Instead, it favored individual training within specialists who could then call on, could be called on to lead a guerrilla unit. For its part, the Army …
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ERF, on the formation of a ranger group that they planned in early 1949 to include about 115 officers and 135 enlisted. These airborne reconnaissance agencies would be assigned temporarily to theater groups and Army units to execute specifi…
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Now, keep in mind, these Eastern immigrants are Nazi terrorists. This bill became public law 587 passed by the 81st Congress of 1950 on the eve of the Korean War. So we're getting ready to start a war in Korea. So we pay the Congress to pas…
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And we know where that led us. That led us into setting up stay-behind units in the northern area and basically annihilating most of the people in the south who wanted just their country back with no foreigners in it. The bill also provided…
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At Army headquarters in Washington, the increased need for coordination arising from the war, combined with continuing interest in the possibilities of psychological warfare, led to the creation of the Office of the Chief of Psychological W…
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Although in 1950, only seven active duty Army officers were in that area, by 1952, which was two years into the Korean War, there were whole radio leaflet propaganda units, and the Army had set aside 2,500 authorizations for covert warriors…
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American military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek. And at precisely the time when the U.S. covert action capabilities was coalescing within the CIA and the Pentagon. Now, keep in mind, basically the fighting is over in 1945. This is fou…
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And the CIA had went into Southern Korea because that was their, you know, how we talked about them being divided up. The Soviet Union ally was supposed to be kicking out the Japanese in the northern sector. The southern sector was under U.…
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The China campaign was the mastermind of the Far East Division, a unit that was a microcosm of the early atmosphere in the CIA. It was full of cliques, too. One came from the Army's World War II 19th Infantry Division, another from the OSS …
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was on loan to the CIA from the Army. He had headed the 19th Division Operations Staff. His China branch chief, William Dupuy, his primary logistics officer, Gilbert Strickler, and commanders of the CIA detachments on two different offshore…
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Specific medals, you have specific badges, you belong to specific units. That carries some pride and prestige in what you do and rivalries that go on. But along with that, I recall when the Army decided to put berets on every soldier. And w…
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Anybody else have anything? Ron, go ahead. Hey, what you were talking about earlier was the Battle of Athens. It happened in 1946. All these World War II veterans came back and they found that all the sheriff and the whole freaking county w…
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Reserve and Guard units assumed the bulk of special operation missions with a force level of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to conduct counterinsurgencies. Imagine that. Talk about the self-licking ice cream cone. With the s…
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weapons lab jointly operated by the U.S. Army and the CIA. The top secret work conducted included research on LSD-induced mind control, assassin toxins, and biological warfare. That was in fact being used in Korea and not by the Soviets. Ol…
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who was his colleague, had also collaborated on projects that made them less proud. After the war, they had traveled around the United States supervising the spraying of biological weapons from aircraft and crop dusters. Some of the tests, …
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conducted at Camp Dietrich. Olsen began to worry about how his airborne spray research was being utilized by the military. His wife said in addition to being deeply disturbed by the interrogation procedures he witnessed in Germany, he was h…
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We all have poster boys. The Marine Corps has poster boys. The Army has poster boys. That's the way it works. That's how you recruit. But along with that comes Wolf. And what really surprised me about Wolf when we're working towards getting…
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And the responsibility, I mean, especially in the Air Force. I know the Army and Marines are very different. You spend the first four years as grunts. And yes, some people get promoted faster than others. But for the most part, the Army and…
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And this is not a slam on the Marines in the Army, but especially in the Marines, what I learned later on when I was on the joint personnel team for personnel integration at the Department of Defense level is that the Marines specifically h…
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a lot earlier. And in the Marines, they have a large number of trigger pullers. That's what they do. They kill people. And there's only so many people that they need in leadership positions. And so for every 50 that comes in, you may get a …
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Yeah, and what was amazing to me on this joint team that I was on, I was on it for quite a while because it took forever. And then they decided to ditch it because the army was so backwards that they'd never catch up with the other three se…
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30 years behind everybody else technology-wise. And there was just no way that the system was ever going to work. But one of the things I found out being in aircraft maintenance in my prior life, it was funny because we were looking at all …
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I got like 90s. There's four categories and I got like 90s in all of them. So I could pretty much do anything I wanted to. I just wanted to be in aircraft maintenance. But the actual Air Force minimum requirement was like you had to get 70 …
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He happens to be somebody that embeds with Army Special Operations Command as an Air Force officer. And I'm like, I need you to check me. Has the chain of command somehow changed since I retired? Why is everybody talking about the SOCOM com…
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and an administrative command. SOCOM is an administrative command for all things special operations. They organize, train, and equip every special operator in the administrative military, the Air Force, the Army, the Marines, and the Navy. …
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I think it was General Shelton, the Army Chief of Staff, was screaming over the phone. I could hear him screaming at our two-star general about the unauthorized headdress being worn by the NCO to avoid being sunburned on the top of his bald…
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Because I worked on the Dimers Project for years, which was supposed to be a joint military system, I got to visit. And I was in 05 and 06 when I was doing that. I got to visit and learn about all of the other services careers because we we…
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You could have very well been one of those people. The day that I got to northern Iraq, the C-130 that I flew in on for my six month tour there, the day before I got there, three of the army guys had went off the tarmac of the Sir Sink Airp…
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had mined the entire area around the Sirsink Airport because this was going to be his personal airport to fly to his brand new mansion up on a mountain that was like 6,000 feet in the air that they were still constructing. And so the airpor…
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That the Army was not as smart as the Air Force in the numbering of the aircraft. I flew an OH-58A in Vietnam and a UH-1D. So the zero on the O could have been mistaken, unlike the wise Air Force that doesn't use those. Yeah. Well, obviousl…
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That's called accountability. Okay. That's my opinion. Yeah. But I've actually been in that position. Well, going back to Ted Shackley, I found it interesting. He was recruited out of the military for the CIA because the army tapped him, li…
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And then finished, he put himself in the army at age 18. So I'm thinking he didn't come from a money background. His mother was a Polish immigrant. So he bootstrapped it with the army, University of Maryland. And then he had been doing some…
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in enlisted intelligence people, which is what Shackley would have been in the army. They will send in a second lieutenant or a captain. And they sometimes they use our like OSI, which has people from the CIA sometimes embedded in it to do …
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I can hear you, but I can't understand what you're saying because of the background noise. All right. I'll try to talk later from another environment. Okay. Miles, go ahead. Bridget, I was in the garage, so I lost connection. Thanks for sen…
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And has that been fixed? So the Marines didn't come out of the Navy. The Marines were around a lot longer than the Navy. The Marines are there. When they reorganized, the Marines were put under the Navy at some point in time. The reason the…
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The history and a lot of the testimony was the amazing amount of air power and how it was used during World War II spoke highly of the fact that it was the future of warfare and that having all of the army generals, which are all ground pou…
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to be exploited as it supports ground troops and never as a strategic element of global power. And the people advocating for the Air Force to be its own separate branch of the service saw the future of air operations as strategic, not tacti…
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But again, it's focused on ground pounders. It's taking objectives. What's over the next hill? That type of thing. Where the Air Force and what was coming from the air component of World War II was far across the horizon that could be... It…
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One-dimensional warfare versus three-dimensional warfare. And the ability to orchestrate an air campaign being subordinate only to Army senior officers limited its ability to do everything that it could do. And there was a decision made pos…
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because that's the secretariat level. The Marines being subordinate to the Navy didn't have a seat at the secretary table. And so you have the Navy and you have the Army, and had the air component be left within the Army, you would have nev…
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significantly thwarted anything that would have been developmental out of the Air Force because they would have funded tanks before they funded B-52s. They would have funded tanks before they funded fighters. They may have funded the A-10s …
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the U.S. military, the Secretary of Defense, all of that. You have services like the Air Force, Space Force, Army, Navy, which houses the Marines. They train and equip their people in order to be matrixed to a completely different organizat…
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that goes forward and supports that warfighter. And those are operational commands. Those are completely different from your services. The services are only to train and equip people to go work for warfighters. And so you can think of the A…
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The war fighters like CENTCOM, PACOM, AFRICOM, UCOM, those guys are all the boots on the ground, go kick ass, blah, blah, blah. Those are two completely separate entities. SR-71? Thank you for all that explanation, Colonel. I did want to ad…