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Veterans Americas Next Leaders They Have The Skills

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"We end up being pawns for groups, state actors, non-state actors, multinational corporations." Boone on why veterans are America's next leaders — they have the skills, the training, and the experience. They just need to stop being used and start leading for themselves.

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We end up in fighting. We end up, you know, being these these pawns for for groups or state, non-state actors, multinational corporations, you know, whatever it is. But now that now here's the next problem, because there are no solutions. There are only tradeoffs. The next problem is everybody goes willy nilly in a thousand different directions. And then we have no cohesion. Yeah, there's. There's no cohesion. And there's plenty of people out there pointing in all these different directions saying, you know, these people are manipulating, those people are manipulating, these people are in our government, those people are in our government. OK, well, at some point in time, we have to realize that if you're not going to put your faith in your elected officials and if you're not going to put your faith into your government institutions to be able to manage these things, if you want to do that yourself, well, then you have to take responsibility for every single bit of it. And a big part of that, what you just said reminded me when you're talking about losing faith in your government, something that you said was this, America has lost faith in what they used to believe, where the heroes of Hollywood, America has become disgusted with the political climate of today. So the only place to turn to and trust for leadership is the warfighter. And so I wanted to ask you about The warfighter, you know, you've done so much work with veterans, guys who have been scarred seriously from combat, from serving their country in the most harrowing environments. And sadly, many of them have chosen to exit this world. I'm sure because of your work, many of them have not. But the veterans who are out there, they have a unique skill set, guys like you and others. When you say they turn to the warfighter. We turn to the warfighter as an example of what we ourselves can do in the civilian world. What do you mean by that? The warfighters, we take over countries on behalf of our country. That's the bottom line. We take over countries, whether it's in small ways or in big ways. That's what we do. Well, the warfighter community knows how to take over this country on behalf of the people. know we have the skills it doesn't matter what the skills are we've already been trained to do that we know how to do that we've done it in very intimate situations so when i say that i'm talking about re-establishing the consent of the governed through people who understand how the those systems work and and it doesn't matter i mean if you if you're looking at war fighters who are at the general officer level believe me, they understand Geostrat. They know how to manipulate and how to control and manage those situations. If you're talking about guys who got out of the military and they only spent two or three years, maybe they're a water purification specialist. Well, guess what you might need if we have a breakdown of civil services? We might need water purification specialists. They might live in your neighborhood. So it doesn't matter the scale.

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