Veterans Unite Leading With Responsibility And True Leadersh

They definitely didn't make it easy. Here's the good point about that. As a community, we recognized it. Certainly starting to. Took some time. Yeah, certainly starting to. And now there are so many organizations that are helping each other and they're working these things out that that's where the beauty of this comes from. From where that tragedy is does come triumph and that triumph only comes through unity. And the veteran community has done a fantastic job of that. We've created a community outside the military for ourselves. And I think it's a very, very strong community. I just wanted to pull on a couple of threads there because in the 5GW book, you kind of really talk about how to establish some radical response, personal responsibility within communities. And then I'm thinking about what you're saying about the way that veterans are really hung out to dry by the government and wondering if that's by design in some way, because they serve, they stand to serve such noble and important roles in our society, such grounding roles in our society. And whether it's by design or whether it's just happenstance, because, you know, the government is not good at very much at all. It has led to where we are today. And just wondering what you're thinking about the kind of the nexus of those two things, the fact that this community is coming together, the veteran community, and they are standing up and kind of hanging together. How can they, in a way, lead the charge for the rest of us, you know, in this radical responsibility that is taking care of, you know, your family first and your community, regardless of what happens in the world around us? I think the first thing to do is really, is modeling and mentoring, right? You have to model and mentor. You have to model the actions you want other people to do, and then you have to mentor them through the process. I think modeling and mentoring the mindset of the warrior ethos is very, very important. I think modeling and mentoring leadership, true leadership, not just out there advocating for likes, but I mean, doing the hard job. I think General Flynn does a fantastic job of that. I've worked with him so much that... I know his depth and it is, it's unbelievable. And he's willing because he, he has that depth. He has the ability to stand firm, you know, in, in the direction that he knows things need to move. He stands firm. He's pretty unyielding about what needs to happen. So he's not, he's not politicking, you know, he's leading. And I think there's, there's a lot of, there's a lot of value in that. So, The first thing that the warfighter community should do for the United States, for the citizens, for people around them, for our culture, is model and mentor the things that we know others should be doing in order to push this thing forward. And that means embodying that. You go to basic training, you get that drill sergeant or that drill instructor in front of you. Their job is to model military culture. On all aspects. That's their job. And then people start to morph into that because they're in that environment all the time. Well, it's kind of the same thing. You know, now we need to model and mentor Americanism. We need to model and mentor unity, model and mentor leadership, true leadership. Again, not politicking, but I mean leadership. making the hard calls, doing the hard work, staying up late, getting up early, making it happen, taking care of yourself, being very centered, being focused on what the goal is, not being completely willy-nilly, this narrative today, that narrative tomorrow, but stay focused. I think there's avoiding mission creep. I think that's a huge, huge thing. And I think that's where we start.