Veteran On 5th Gen Warfare Raising Kids Right

I got by the... Yeah, my name is William Samuelson. I'm actually Sarge on the Stone Daves podcast. I'm a 20-year infantry veteran and retiree. And it's interesting because I've heard everybody so far up here in the focus group talk about connection, basically. I'm fairly familiar, actually, with fifth-generation warfare. One of my assignments, I help teach some counterinsurgency stuff. And... I don't care if you're reading Fate of Empires by Sir John Glove or any of those things, we're kind of at a place in history that is cyclical. And if you look at the things that have consistently been done, it's dividing and creating the other. And we're in a situation of the other. And I really feel the best way to do that is for on the individual level. Everything we've talked about today, or we've listened to rather, we've been discussing macro, right, kind of big big picture, but to shape the operational environment, they're usually trying to vector on individuals at a time. And one thing we did when we started the Stone Dave's podcast was find common ground. You can find common ground and have a conversation with anyone. You know, there's that old saying that a person is smart, but people are stupid. I promise you everybody has family. Everybody has kids. Everybody has beliefs. You can find commonality with anyone. And so, yeah, disconnect and take the point to have your own individual civic responsibility for your family, for your kids, and for your country. Well said, sir. My name is Jeff. I'm a small business owner. I own multiple different businesses in Arnold, Missouri. A 22-year Army veteran, retired as a reservist. I got some active duty time in there as well. I think the biggest takeaway for me today, and I did not know what fifth generation warfare was, but now I do. Well, let me rephrase. I didn't know the title, but we all know what it is. Putting a name to it helps. What hit most with me, I think, is the family perspective and what we're doing with our children. I have a four-year-old and a six-year-old, and yes, I am 48 years old, so I started late in life. Established, correct? Established. But it's critical that I've identified that the problems that we've talked about and we've heard of from the panelists, or this group so far, the focus group, and then the panelists, it's critical that we make sure that we're passing that on down to our children as well. Like, my children don't get social media. They don't get tablet time. They get outside time. They get time with mom and dad. I think that's a huge part of... of what we have to do as a society, as well as Americans, is make sure we're teaching our youth the proper way to be a family, that nuclear family again. And I get it, not all of us come from two-parent households, some of us come from zero-parent households, but teaching our youth about the dangers of society, while not scaring them, and using technology to babysit, for lack of a better word, is honestly unacceptable. Until that becomes unacceptable as a societal norm, unfortunately we're going to keep going down the rabbit hole. So my contribution to society is to raise at least two children that understand principles and values and parent time and the way that mom and dad say it is the way that it is. I don't really care what Timmy's doing or what Jack's doing on this TV show that you watch.