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In this special episode we sit down with Professor David Schlueter after delivering the Prugh Lecture at TJAGLCS. We discuss the 75th anniversary of the UCMJ and persistent issues throughout the history of military justice. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/ or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

CAAF Chats is back! This week we examine what meaningful relief looks like during appellate review, and whether meaningful relief is even required. CAAF continues its trend of interpreting statutory changes to the UCMJ. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/ or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

CAAF Chats is back! This week we examine what meaningful relief looks like during appellate review, and whether meaningful relief is even required. CAAF continues its trend of interpreting statutory changes to the UCMJ. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/ or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

The latest BARRACKS TALK podcast episode is waiting, press 'play' now! **THIS EPISODE DISCCUSSES SUBJECT MATTER THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING; LISTENER DISCRETION IS HIGHLY ADVISED**   The Crew  discusses a topic that many find highly controversial, the death penalty. Is it truly immoral? Is it too far? Is it justified? Is there a way to remove the mental toll it (must) take on the executioners at the end of the day while still giving justice to the victims/survivors? They discuss this and Alabama's proposed bill to allow the death penalty for the rape and sodomy of children under 12, contrasting it with current civilian and UCMJ laws regarding sexual assault. - Hard Of Hearing, Deaf, or Have Other Hearing Issues? READ THE TRANSCRIPT! https://dvradio.net/deaf-and-hard-of-hearing/ - Grab Your DV Radio Ten Year Anniversary Shirts! https://bit.ly/DVR-SreamLabs-Merch  - - Websites Mentioned- -- https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-faqs/ -- https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/fair_housing_act_overview -- https://tadsaw.org/ Liberty Risk Podcast https://beacons.ai/libertyriskpodcast - Hope For 22 A Day www.HopeFor22ADay.org - INERT Mugs [DV Radio Challenge Coin] www.inertmugs.com - Want To Sponsor DV Radio? No pricing model beats DV Radio when it comes to sponsorship. https://bit.ly/SponsorDVRadio DV Radio on Rumble https://rumble.com/c/DVRadio DV Radio on twitch.tv https://www.twitch.tv/dvradio - INERT Mugs Website: https://www.inertmugs.com/products/20oz-burn-it-down-thermite-tumbler Do you want Betsy Ross's FIGHT? Email chris@affinityinc.tech; first come, first serve! Guests/Hosts: Oink, Joaquin Juatai, Bender, SGT WarDawg, Joel (MBR Radio) and Bo [NOTE: Click these links!] ---------- DV Farm Septic System Fundraiser https://donorbox.org/dv-farm-septic-system ---------- Parental Control Apps https://bit.ly/ChildSafeInternet ---------- Backpacks For Life https://backpacksforlife.org/ ---------- Wah-Tie Woodturning https://wahtiewoodturning.com/ ---------- Affinity Innovations, Inc. https://affinitybsc.com/ ---------- Backpacks For Life Fundraiser https://ko-fi.com/dvradio/goal?g=1 ---------- Edited by Munkee Bawlz Media https://www.munkeebawlzmedia.com/ ---------- Are you a Veteran Owned Business? Have unique, handmade items that we can buy and review on a show? Contact us, show us what you have, and we'll (at least Bo) will spend up to $50 per month and speak openly about your product(s)!! ---------- Find Out More About Betsy Ross At Her Website https://bit.ly/Fight-With-Betsy-Ross ---------- SGT WarDawg http://sgtwardawgtv.fans.link/ ---------- *Got an idea for BARRACKS TALK or any other show? Want to be a guest? Then please feel free to contact us by sending an email to info@dvradio.net, oink@dvradio.net, ptsdog@dvradio.net.* ---------- **LINKS TO CHECK OUT** EVERYTHING DYSFUNCTIONAL VETERANS https://whereisdv.carrd.co  ---------- Grab DV Radio's Battlegrounds From Ubora Coffee At: http://bit.ly/DVR-BattlegroundCoffee  ---------- DV RADIO PARTNERS, SPONSORS, and AFFILIATES https://dvr-listen-support.carrd.co

Today Josh Ewing, a long time listener of TSPC joins us to discuss his families journey as homesteaders. Solar power, green house growing, heating your home and more. We also dive into local politics, building community and community economics. This will be a great one. John Ewing grew up on military bases during most of his childhood. He joined the army reserves and worked in prisons in Kosovo and Iraq. John broke UCMJ law to marry his wife as the closest court house was outside the legal distance from his deployment mobility station during his stop-loss. In 2005 they purchased … Continue reading →

This week we dive into CAAF's latest opinion on Article 120. Specifically, we examine the role “without consent” and “substantial incapacitation” play in the UCMJ's statutory scheme. This is an important episode for all military justice practitioners as they embark on charging and defending sexual assault charges. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

This week we dive into CAAF's latest opinion on Article 120. Specifically, we examine the role “without consent” and “substantial incapacitation” play in the UCMJ's statutory scheme. This is an important episode for all military justice practitioners as they embark on charging and defending sexual assault charges. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

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Unleashed: The Political News Hour with Ted Noel MD – As Donald Trump prepares for inauguration, he aims to dismantle the Swamp with decisive actions. Leveraging Article 2, he plans to reclassify bureaucrats as "Schedule F" for easier dismissal. Additionally, he targets figures like General Mark Milley for charges under the UCMJ, ensuring a thorough purge of opposition within the government on day one.

Damon, Damo, and Tisha are joined by COMNAVSURFPAC CMDCM Charles “Chubbs” Smith for an episode full of jewels. The crew starts just catching up with each other to see how things are going. Chubbs talks about the power of having a squared-away uniform, remembering a sea story from his time as an undesignated Seamon. He then discusses passing on the legacy of service to his son, who's currently enlisted in the Navy. Damo talks to Chubbs about being the “first-generation” of family members to achieve certain things. They discuss the idea of unapologetically being yourself. Tisha asks Chubbs about the differences between being a TYCOM Command Master Chief and being the CMC of a vessel/command. Chubbs remembers one of his craziest DRB experiences and talks about how he holds his Chiefs accountable in the event they violate UCMJ. Has the Navy recovered from COVID? Damo and Chubbs have a light debate about the differences they've seen in the recovery process. We can't talk about Covid without discussing extremism. How did Chubbs' TRIAD handle the protests? Experiences with racism are expressed. Chubbs drops some jewels for any Senior Enlisted Leader going to their first command. Board Eligible results are out! What's next for eligible Sailors? Chubbs gives advice to all the Sailors that are up for Chief. Tish asks about marriage and personal life. Chubbs provides an entry to our #DoBetter segment about collateral duties and manning issues. Damon has a “selfish” #DoBetter for retirees.   Remember to follow the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on TikTok, Facebook, Discord, Instagram, and Twitter, and subscribe on YouTube.     Keep up with the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on our social media and YouTube - https://linktr.ee/Ptsfpodcast     Additional Credits: PTSF “Theme Music” - Produced by Lim0

Dive into the latest episode, as Andrea Motley Crabtree shares her groundbreaking journey from joining the Army in 1977 to becoming the first Black female deep-sea diver across all U.S. military branches and the U.S. Army's first female deep-sea diver.  Conquering intense training, her story of perseverance and the power of support will inspire you.  This is truly a story of courage and determination.    Audio mixing by Concentus Media, Inc., Temple, Texas.    Show Notes:  Bio:  Andrea Motley Crabtree, Ret. U.S. Army Master Sergeant enlisted in May 1977 and served through April 1998.  Her MOS were 35E series, Signal Corps/Ordnance and 00B Deep Sea Diver, Second Class, Engineer.  She entered the Delayed Entry Program (DEP) in February 1977 to May 1977 (PV1).  Then was shipped from Detroit MEPS to Basic Training at Ft McClellan, Alabama in May of 1977, and then graduated in July 1977 E 1st Battalion 1st Brigade (PV2).  Attended Advance Individual Training (AIT) Ft. Belvoir, Virginia 35E20 and 35E30 Senior Special Electrical and Electronic Device Repairman August 1977 to January 1978 (PFC).  Then participated in Hometown Recruiting Program USADRC January to February 1978.  Duty stations: 513th Maintenance Battalion 3rd ACR Ft Bliss, Texas February 1978 to May 1979 (SP4), 614th Maintenance Battalion Attachment 71st Maintenance Battalion Nuremberg, Germany July 1979 to May 1980 (SP5).  Reenlisted for Ft Ord California to get SCUBA certified.  Then stationed with Co A 707th Maintenance Battalion 7th Infantry Division Ft Ord California June 1980 to September 1981.  Fourth permanent duty station. 86th Diving Detachment 30th Engineer Battalion Ft Belvoir Virginia Oct 81 to Jan 83. Petroleum Distribution Systems Pohang Korea January 1983 to January 1984 (SSG).  511th Diving Detachment 30th Engineer Battalion Ft Belvoir, Virginia January 1984 to 1985 reclassified.  HHC USAG, 313 SIG CO, then to HHC USAG, G1, Ft Hood Texas 1985 to 1986.  DA selected for recruiting duty.  TDY To Ft. Benjamin Harris for recruiting school and graduated May 1987.  Recruiting duty. Newburgh Recruiting Battalion, Newburgh New York June 1987 to July 1988.  Ft. Gordon, GA for ANOC August 1988 to December 1988.  HQ&A 360th Signal Battalion, 15th Signal Brigade, Ft. Gordon GA. Assigned as instructor November 1988 to March 1990. Drill Sergeant School, Ft. Jackson, SC. January 1990 to March 1990.  Assigned as Drill Sergeant C Co. 360th Signal Battalion, 15th Signal Brigade, Ft. Gordon, GA March 1990 to March 1992.  HHC 17th Signal BN. APO, AE 09225 April 1992 to December 1993.  HHC USAG Ft. Carson, Colorado January 1994 to October 1995. Headquarters & Headquarters, 307th Signal BN. Camp Carroll Korea, APO Area Pacific 96260 February 1996 to September 1996. HHC DISCOM, 101st Airborne Division (AASLT), Ft. Campbell, Kentucky 42223, FORSCOM September 1996 to April 1998.  Certified by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) and the National Association of SCUBA Diving schools (NASDS).  But then turned down promotion to Staff Sergeant to be eligible for dive school.  Enroute to Ft Rucker Alabama, assigned there for UCMJ while TDY to United States Navy Diving & Salvage Training Center Panama City Beach, Florida. In October 1981 arrived at dive school, failed swim test.  She was given one week to practice, and retake swim test, but failed second swim test. She disenrolled herself and this allowed for the opportunity to come back to school later, as flunking out would not allow a return to the course. In October 1981 assigned to HHC 30th Engineer Battalion Ft. Belvoir Virginia home of the 511th Diving Detachment, and 86th Diving Detachment. She went swimming every day to improve her time.  In November 1981 TDY Ft Eustis, Virginia to attend two-week diver pre-screen course.  January 1982 went back to dive school and in April 1982 graduated. She has also participated and medaled in the National Senior Games in shot put, discus, javelin, and table tennis.  She loves Pickleball and tries to play five days a week. Her picture hangs at the U. S. Army Women's Museum at Fort Gregg Adam's, the painting of her by Henry Taylor hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Before We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, Tavares Strachan did a piece titled: In Plain Sight, Distant Relatives a piece at displayed at the Marian Goodman Gallery. She was a consultant for the book Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. She is included in the book The Only Woman by Immy Humes, (A book that spotlights 100 historical photographs of lone woman hidden among groups of men). Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America. Member of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, and her Website: www.reddiverdown.com. She owned and operated Crabtree & Sons Lawn Maintenance, Inc., substitute taught for two years, and studied computer science at Aiken Technical College.  She has three sons and a grandchild on the way.  Andrea is also a two-time cancer survivor.      

I first saw Tim's work when he represented retired Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher. Gallagher was accused of 10 UCMJ offenses while serving in a war zone. During this period, I never saw a team so adeptly defend themselves against charges within the military justice system. Later, he represented Stuart Scheller. Scheller spoke out on the Afghanistan withdrawal and faced time in the brig for his offenses. Again, this same professionalism was on full display throughout this public ordeal. Timothy Parlatore is the founder and Managing Partner of Parlatore Law Group. He is a nationally recognized attorney who practices criminal defense and civil litigation. Throughout his career, Mr. Parlatore has avoided pigeonholing himself into representing only certain types of clients or cases in favor of maintaining an interesting and eclectic portfolio of cases.  He initially rose to prominence through his representations of the former Police Commissioner of New York City, the men who parachuted from the World Trade Center, and organized crime figures. Though already well-known, he skyrocketed to worldwide recognition through his successful defense of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher in the most significant war crimes trial in the history of the U.S. Navy.  He has gone on to represent several significant and high-ranking current and former government officials including state and federal legislators, a former state governor, a mayor, a 4-star Admiral, and even a former U.S. President.  Though he enjoys representing political figures, he is rigid in his focus on the facts, evidence, and the law, as opposed to politics, and is equally comfortable representing people on both sides of the political aisle.While he is known for handling cases in the spotlight, he does not seek it and his preference is to handle cases quietly, without any headlines, to protect his clients' images and reputations. Mr. Parlatore's career path began by working for smaller criminal firms in New York City. It was there that he had the opportunity to work with and learn directly from several iconic defense attorneys, before running a successful solo practice.Mr. Parlatore has been recognized by several organizations for his accomplishments. He is a regular commentator on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.In addition to his remarkable legal experience, Mr. Parlatore is heavily influenced by his military background as a former Naval Officer and veVisit my website: https://thehello.llc/THERESACARPENTERRead my writings on my blog: https://www.theresatapestries.com/Listen to other episodes on my podcast: https://storiesofservice.buzzsprout.comWatch episodes of my podcast:https://www.youtube.com/c/TheresaCarpenter76

Der Uniform Code of Military Justice der Amerikaner gilt für Mitglieder der US Streitkräfte und enthält einige Gesetze, die eigentlich auch ganz reguläre Interaktionen betrifft.

Our host, Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Lisa Becker opens the recent publication FM 3-84: Legal Support to Operations. Joined by Lieutenant Colonel Dan Maurer, Professor in the National Security Law Department at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School and MAJ Charlie Fowler, author of FM 3-84. They discuss JAG integration and expertise within the Warfighting Functions, UCMJ, and the big changes for FM 3-84.

Our host, Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Lisa Becker opens the recent publication FM 3-84: Legal Support to Operations. Joined by Lieutenant Colonel Dan Maurer, Professor in the National Security Law Department at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School and MAJ Charlie Fowler, author of FM 3-84. They discuss JAG integration and expertise within the Warfighting Functions, UCMJ, and the big changes for FM 3-84.

In this second of a three parts, we continue our analysis of the CAAF's decision in United States v. Hasan. This episode addresses whether the military judge has a duty to excuse a panel member for cause and the constitutionality of Article 45(b) of the UCMJ.Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School on Facebook (tjaglcs), LinkedIn (tjaglcs), or visit our website for more resources at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/leapp You can also connect directly with the Criminal Law Department on Facebook (tjaglcs_crimlaw) or Instagram (tjaglcs_crimlaw)

In this second of a three parts, we continue our analysis of the CAAF's decision in United States v. Hasan. This episode addresses whether the military judge has a duty to excuse a panel member for cause and the constitutionality of Article 45(b) of the UCMJ.Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School on Facebook (tjaglcs), LinkedIn (tjaglcs), or visit our website for more resources at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/leapp You can also connect directly with the Criminal Law Department on Facebook (tjaglcs_crimlaw) or Instagram (tjaglcs_crimlaw)

CAAF explores the appellant's claims that he suffered cruel and unusual punishment under Article 55, UCMJ and the 8th Amendment during a period of post-trial confinement in a civilian jail. Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School on Facebook (tjaglcs), LinkedIn (tjaglcs), or visit our website for more resources at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/leapp You can also connect directly with the Criminal Law Department on Facebook (tjaglcs_crimlaw) or Instagram (tjaglcs_crimlaw)

CAAF explores the appellant's claims that he suffered cruel and unusual punishment under Article 55, UCMJ and the 8th Amendment during a period of post-trial confinement in a civilian jail. Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School on Facebook (tjaglcs), LinkedIn (tjaglcs), or visit our website for more resources at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/leapp You can also connect directly with the Criminal Law Department on Facebook (tjaglcs_crimlaw) or Instagram (tjaglcs_crimlaw)

This edition features stories on Air Force officials issuing guidance the use and possession of any substance other than alcohol and tobacco that alters mood or function, the 2010 Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration, some of the Air Force's Unmanned Aerial Systems' missions taking place at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, and Cpt. James Bales, an orthopedic surgeon, winning the Armed Forces Triathlon Championships. Hosted by Airman 1st Class Alina Richard

This case is about whether attempted conspiracy is a viable offense under the UCMJ. We also discuss the concept of waiver. Connect with us on Facebook (tjaglcs_crimlaw) or Instagram (tjaglcs_crimlaw)

This case is about whether attempted conspiracy is a viable offense under the UCMJ. We also discuss the concept of waiver. Connect with us on Facebook (tjaglcs_crimlaw) or Instagram (tjaglcs_crimlaw)

Whistleblower Report with DrLee4America – This is the story of Lance Corporal Catherine Arnett and the persecution, harassment, retaliation, and now arrest at the hands of Marine commanders at her base in Japan in violation of UCMJ regulations that give all service members the right to refuse experimental medical treatments...

“When Jesus died for our sins, how many of them were in the future? All of them. We weren't even born yet.” – David MikeHave you heard the one about the young soldier from a military family who started taking and dealing drugs? You know, the one where he had to fix his car on the fly with a firing pin from a gun he had in his glove box while he was hiding from the authorities avoiding arrest. A long time listener of the podcast, today's guest is now behind the mic and sharing his remarkable story with us. From honor to dishonor, from purpose to forgiveness, and from doing to Getting Off Our “Ask”, get ready for all this and so much more in this weeks episode. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the David Mike story! GUEST BIO: David Mike is a Christ follower, husband, father, author of Dishonor: One Soldier's Journey from Desertion to Redemption and Cosmetology Instructor in Omaha, NE. David is passionate about sharing the message that we do not have to be defined by our past and that God can use our kind of mess for good. PROUD SPONSORS:Remarkable People Volume 1: How They Overcame Adversity, Achieved Success, & You Can Too!  REMARKABLE NEW BOOK: CHECK IT OUT ON AMAZON NOW! SHOW NOTES :Guest Info:Website: https://dilemmamike.comFacebook: https://facebook.com/dilemmamikeblogInstagram: https://instagram.com/dilemmamike Getting Off Our “Ask” Special Offer(s):Ascend 2 Glory: Sales & Marketing Video Guide | RPP Listeners use promo code, “200OFF4RPP” for $200 off your order. Learn More and Order Now Here!Support the showHOW TO SUPPORT THE REMARKABLE PEOPLE PODCAST: Share the podcast with your family, friends, and co-workers. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel AND Monthly Email List. Rate the podcast in your favorite podcast player. Review us on sites such as Apple Podcasts, Listen Notes, our website, social media pages, and more. Sponsor an Episode at https://DavidPasqualone.com/SponsorInfo. Donate what you can to help us bring more great content to the world. Contact us and let us know how the podcast has made a positive impact in your life! HAVE A QUESTION? Click here to connect with David THE NOT-SO-FINE-PRINT DISCLAIMER: While we are very thankful for all of our guests, please understand that we do not necessarily hold or endorse the same beliefs, views, and positions that they may have. We respectfully agree to disagree in some areas, and thank God for the blessing & privilege of free will. THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THE REMARKABLE PEOPLE PODCAST!

I've always been fascinated with legal work, especially regarding false accusations. My next guest takes on the other side of sexual crimes, not politically correct to discuss but one which must be vigorously defended against.That is when a service member is falsely accused of sexual assault, harassment, or rape. Jocelyn Stewart specializes in this area of military law and is now using her hard-earned expertise to educate the masses on social media. With over 40k followers as @messymilitarylawyer on TikTok, her videos are an essential educational tool teaching so many about a criminal justice system that few understand.As a former JAG for the U.S. Army, Jocelyn C. Stewart prosecuted and defended Soldiers on active duty from 2004 to 2012. Since 2012, UCMJ attorney Stewart has provided superior representation exclusively to service members in need across all military branches worldwide. Ms. Stewart is determined to provide the best legal counsel possible using unimpeachable tactics to protect each client's career, reputation, and freedom.Find Jocelyn here - https://lnkd.in/eEH2GkicHer videos on TikTok - https://lnkd.in/ebsEdcq7Visit my website: https://thehello.llc/THERESACARPENTERRead my writings on my blog: https://www.theresatapestries.com/Listen to other episodes on my podcast: https://storiesofservice.buzzsprout.com

Mr. Borch reading from a 123-year-old manual? Sounds like the latest episode of Fred Talks. Join us as Mr. Borch shines a light on the proverbial dark ages before the UCMJ. What was it like to try a case 150 years ago? Why and when did the nation move towards a standard uniform code? All this and more on episode 4! ***The views expressed on the podcast are the views of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, the Army, the Department of Defense, or any other agency of the US Government.

http://convocourses.com   All right. I'm testing a new platform called stream yard, and this is convocourse's podcast. I'm gonna do about, I don't know, 20, 30 minutes to test this out and also to inform you guys of  a career move I recently made. I haven't really talked about this.  But about three months ago I was working as a cybersecurity consultant and that's much different from an information system, security officer. So in the past, Three four months.  I made a big Mo well, not really a big move. I I've, it's not a big move for me.  I've done both jobs before, but all I want to do is  compare the two kind of give you an idea of  what the differences are between  cyber security consultant. And what I'm going to be doing with information system security officer work, and  what's the daily life of both of those things. How do they compare and give you an idea of  which one you should choose before I start, you should know that  I own a site called combo courses where I teach cyber security compliance and  how to get in this field as a cyber security person. I've been doing this for 20 years, doing cyber security in  all forms of security, as well as some it information technology stuff  like being a system admin or network. Administrators, stuff like that. I've done a little bit of all that stuff.  But my specialty is really in security compliance. And so that's what I teach people to do. And. People ask me on YouTube, on, on TikTok questions. And I'll just go ahead and answer them and by the way, if you have any questions during this feel free to ask them and I'll do my best to answer. them sometimes we have such a great community that they'll actually answer the questions on my behalf. There're things I don't know. So, somebody, some other subject matter expert will jump in and then answer those questions and. My favorite times on this, on convo courses, because that's what convo courses in my mind is all about is about the community and us coming together, figuring things out. Okay. So, I wanted to tell you recently I made a huge move. I was working at a major telecommunications company that does cybersecurity on the side. They have a branch that does cybersecurity and    I did it because it was a great opportunity. One of my former coworkers.  Gave me a they referred me and brought me into the company. It was a great company. They had great benefits. It was some of the best benefits I've had outside the military.  It was decent pay and the only, probably bad thing was that there was a lot of travel and that eventually was the thing that got me out of there. And it was stressful too. And I was how having too many personal issues that happened at that at the time that I was working there, I worked for there for about two and a half, three years, and I was doing cyber security consulting for them. So, what we would do is we would. We bring our expertise to smaller companies.  We go to, and it's a lot of companies and banks and hospitals and healthcare industries that you probably use to be honest with you.  that? I Some of I was surprised were like, damn, I use this. We're doing security compliance for them. And   the security compliance it wasn't just security compliance.  It was basically, we would do a bunch of We would do a bunch of risk assessments and those risk assessments would be things like be we had 15… different risk assessments. So, 12, 12 to 15 different risk assessments, depending on what they chose. So we would do things like physical security assessments we would do. Of course, network security assessments. There was like three of those. We did cloud-based security assessments. We did…  We did wireless security assessments. We take all of those and we would give them an overall view of what their security looks like. And then we would prioritize where their major risks were. And then we would talk to the sea level or director or upper-level management to say, hey, this is where you should focus your energy because this is where we see the most risk. And the purpose of that was to reduce their. Their security any kind of vulnerabilities they have, and they can focus all their time, money, and energy and resources to that highest level of risk in their organization. That's what I was doing. And it wasn't too bad. I actually liked it.      I fit right in over there. The only I, we would do these reports, which were really easy for me, the. Challenging thing I found was sometimes the clients were a bit difficult to work with and it wasn't that they didn't know what they were doing or something like that. It was just very high strung because cybersecurity.  It could be very stressful because you're dealing with you.   If you have a vulnerability, a major vulnerability and you have to take that to the C CEO and say, Hey, we have. We have a bunch of legacy systems that are   in this area here, there's a lot of stress because you don't want to be the person that to, to barer of bad news, and we'd find those things and we'd say, Hey. You have this stuff going on. And there was just a lot of stress with that.  That's probably the hardest part of the whole thing.  The travel wouldn't have been a big deal if I hadn't had so many personal issues happening with my family, kids and everything that just all happened at once. So, I had to unfortunately had to leave because I actually really loved the people and everything. What did my daily life look like?     We were mostly going off east coast time for me, because that's where most of my clients were. They'd give us like two or three clients.  And then you would work directly with them. So, most of your day was coordinating.  The scans and the assessments that you'd have to do, if you had to go to their site, you'd have to coordinate that. And they expect you to go do that on your own.  It was very self-directed where it's you have the client, like you'd run the meetings with them. You'd coordinate when you're going to go there. You'd coordinate how many hours or  how much time it would take to get there and who you're gonna meet and all of that stuff you'd have to do. And then the scans, we had a, like a separate scan team. We'd work with the scan team. We'd work with the program. Managers we'd work with them and we'd put together this report to deliver. On a quarterly basis and sometimes annually, it depends on what kind of assessment it was. Because obviously you wouldn't do like a physical assessment every quarter. Because I didn't, that wouldn't really make any sense because it stuff doesn't change. But anyway, so that's what we would do. It is mostly meetings and coordination  and doing scans and reviewing the scans and then writing reports  that's your, that was your whole day as a cybersecurity consultant at this organization. I was with  where. The main thing we did was deliver these reports and we would do really, most of it was risk assessment type stuff. And I was very familiar with that because in the department of defense, we do a lot of security assessments and stuff.  So that's very different from where my main  core specialties are, which is security compliance. We would dabble a little bit in security compliance like every now and then. We  I would help them do like a PCI compliant  PCI audit or something like that  or we'd say, okay  here's how you, your system would fit into eight NIST 800 or here's how your system would fit into CIS controls. You do a little bit of that, but that wasn't really what we're, that would, it was separate from what we were doing was mostly risk assessment type stuff. So seeing where their risks are and determining that.  Now that brings us to the next thing, which is information system security officer. So information system security officer is more in compliance. It, the compliance space, security compliance and security compliance is making sure an organization is lined up with regulations, laws, industry standards. That doesn't have to be the federal government, which is mostly what I work with. It can be with  hospitals have a certain standard that they're supposed to meet. One of which is called HIPAA, where they have to make sure that they're protecting their patient's healthcare information and their digital records for the healthcare and stuff like that. Another example of industry standards would be PCI compliance.  That's protection of. Of  credit cards. So whenever  you are at a store and you're using your credit cards, they're supposed to have a separate network for those point of sale devices. So that doesn't touch,  say the wifi that's in the  that's for the staff or for  guest  to log in. So that has to be a separate protected network so that the credit card data has its has, is protected.  So separate from your. Other networks. That's just one of the things you have to do. Another things you have to do for PCI compliance is have the adequate  documentation for the security of the system. Like making sure that net, we have network diagrams and making sure you have  asset  and inventory of all the assets, things like that. Those are all    the types of things that you would have to do for PCI. And that's, those are just two examples, but you've got CIS compliance. You've got. ISO 27,001 compliance. You got many  different countries have their own security compliance and different industries like  have their own compliance. So my, my  specialty is in NIST 800.  Security compliance NIST 800  is what the federal government has created and adopted as the main source of security controls. Sec security controls is a set of security features that protect the organization's. Primary assets. That means like your main server that has all the social security numbers on it. Your  main server that has all the secret  secret data on it, the main server that's holding all  the maps of different parts of the world.  Those, that's what you call an asset. So those are just some of the examples of, and those are some of the difference. Now, one of the things that, what the daily, what it looks like from on a day to day basis for an is.  Just to  compare this versus  versus  the consulting I was doing. So it's also a lot of meetings. Security is a lot  of coordination. Cyber security is a lot of coordination with different organiz because  you're having to meet. Different  subject matter experts like you, you're not necessarily the person who's locking down the, those, that windows server. That's gonna be a server type person.  That's gonna be a person like a system admin who specializes in Linux, red hat, network, administration and windows  2019. Active directory servers  so  you are gonna coordinate with them. So in ISSO, that's what they do. They're coordinating with these different, the firewall guy, the  the privacy person.  They're coordinating with all these different people to make sure that the organization has a certain level of. So it is a lot of meetings. It's a lot of meetings with a lot of different people, and that's probably the main difference between  the meetings. Like an ISSO is gonna have a meeting with all kinds of people throughout the organization.  One organization, whereas a consultant is gonna have a meeting with just a few people at different organizations like me. I had  three or four clients at a, any given time and I would have to coordinate with the there's like a main point of contact. I would talk to big two or three main points of contact and every now and then  I'd meet like a C level exec, but I was talking to three or four different organizations. Whereas an ISSO is talking maybe one organization and there might be other sub organizations, but they're all one you're talking about many people in that organization. So you're going really deep in, in all of the details  and stuff and making sure that all the securities is  is in place. Now it wasn't, it's not like an enforcement role. Typically you are more like a news reporter. What I mean by that is a lot of people think that you're the police and you're gonna come and busting down doors and say, Hey, this, we gotta secure this server. That's not really  your job. Like you might point things out, but the person who has to be the enforcer is gonna be the management, because they're the ones, things come down from management. So they have to be the ones to enforce that stuff. Now  if you happen to be the voice piece, the mouthpiece to tell them, Hey, the CEO just said.  You're just a reporter. You're just reporting to them. Hey, this is what happened. We have to obey what is going on with this organization's policies. Here's what we have to do. So that's the main differences between a security consultant and information system, security officer. The reason why I quit my job as. A consultant and went over to, and now I'm going to back to information to security officers has more to do with. Not the work per se. It was, it is more like the travel, like the organization I was at was paid really good, had great. One of the best benefit packages I've ever had, but it was too much travel and I had too much stuff going on.    And I had too many clients, it was getting a little stressful plus I had family stuff I had to deal with. So that's the reason why  I transitioned over.  And now  I'm going to somewhere where it's a little bit more  It's gonna be  a better fit  for me and my new family situation. So that's  what's going on. Okay. I've got some questions here. Let me see for Mike. Thanks Mike, for your question. I really appreciate that. And Mike says  he says quick question  the ISSM role coming from being an ISSO. What is what's your suggestion? Quick question is S. A ism role coming from, are you gonna be doing an ISSM role from being an is O I'm assuming that's what you mean? So you were an ISSO and now you're about to be an ISS O  sorry. You were an is O you're about to be an ISSM that's I'm trying to interpret your questionnaire.  Any suggestions.  Yeah. So the biggest difference between these two roles is that  one is a manager information systems, creating manager.  You're gonna have more of  you're gonna have even more meetings.  I'm just gonna tell you like the differences. So an ISSO is more like they, they both have a lot of meetings, but an ISSOs has to be more in the weeds because ISSO has to be able to say, give an example of an issue.    A vulnerability comes down the vulnerability.  Is let's make something up.  A vulnerability is a zero day exploit on windows 2019 or something.  And  now the ISSO gets wind into this and that comes from the vulnerability team. Now they have to meet directly with the vulnerability team to figure out what's going on with this thing. And they might have to spend some time researching what the zero day exploit is.  What's the criticality of it. Like how quickly do we need to fix this thing? They have to be in the weed. So they have to go probably go to the CVE.  CVEs and then figure out what type of what this affects. And they have to probably look at  a list of every, all the systems that this is going to touch. And how quickly can we fix this? So there. And if so is more in the weeds in that they have to know  what is going on in a, on a technical level, they have to get more in the weeds and be more technical if you get what I mean.  They might not have to touch the system. A lot of times, they're not the ones implementing the security controls, but they're coordinating with the people who have to implement those security controls. Compared to that, to  an information system, security manager, their meetings are more with upper level people. So they're dealing with stuff that's more broad   and stuff. That's touching the entire organization and making sure you have enough making sure the security team has all the resources in that they need all the time and resources that they need to do their work. So your. Gonna have the same amount of meetings or more, but they're gonna be with upper level management from. Fields like you're gonna be talking to the it manager, the information technology manager who, whom  the network manager, the network engineering manager. You're gonna be talk, coordinate with them. And you guys are gonna be talking about like resources. How many resources do we have to do this work? Okay. We just had this zero date on windows, 2019. Do you guys have the resources and time to do this? How much time do you guys need to actually get this? So  you're talking about like on a broader scale, how do we manage the resources that our team needs to get this job done? And can we get it done and effectively  in a reasonable amount of time? And you're trying to, your main job is managing expectations to upper level management, the C level execs, the directors and all that stuff, managing their expectation. That is your main job, as well as taking care of the people  who are. You work for the ISSOs like your job is working for the, ISSOs managing the expectations of upper level management. So you're still in cyber security, but it's more of a management. You're not in the weeds. You're not having you. You'll never, you're not ever touching any technology. Whereas in ISSO they might have to touch something at some point like, and so they might have to touch the  EMA system where they're inputting information there, they might have to mess around with creating.  They might have to create a security policy, might help create the security policy review, the security policy. They might look at audit logs. They might. Help enable audit logs. They might be the person who's doing threat detection and stuff. The managers, they're not doing that kind of stuff. They're working on resources for the information system, security officers. So it's a great move because it is    is SMS are ma are legit managers. And so they're paid typically paid a lot more. They're paid more. And if you.  If you're a first time manager, you'll get, you should get a pay bump. But if you have been doing a management for a while, you get a significant  pay bump, like if you've been doing it for  a year or two, then you'll be able to like, if forever you move or. Those are the guys who eventually become directors. That's the path directly to directors and see C level execs and things like that who gets paid a lot of money. So  that's really good.  That's a really good move.  If that's the case, if that's what you're doing, then  that's awesome, man. And Mike says  got it. ISSOs  ISSO I worked  with EAs and C  C Sam  and tenable. Yep. Tenable NEIS and all that kind of stuff. That's right. Exactly. You got it. They're more hands on   and touching stuff. Whereas managers, they're not,  they're gonna ask about, Hey, you have access to eMASS. Okay, cool. Great.  They might look in there since, okay. Let's make sure that the system security plan is there. All right.  And any problems with the system security plan. Okay, good. There's no problems. Let's go  or, Hey  Does the new guy have access to EASs. Does the new guy have access to tenable? Okay, cool.  Or  let me help out. Make sure that we have, let me coordinate with the person who controls access to tenable to make sure the new guy has it. Okay. The new guy  we just have some people leave. Let's make sure  that person is not, no longer has access to eMASS or tenable stuff like that. That's the manager. They're not like putting things. Into EASs or running the scans necessarily.  Sometimes  I've been with some managers who did do that kind of stuff, but it was because they wanted to do it. And  they were very sharp, very technical, and they wanted to do it and they, but they te they totally didn't have to. And they had other things to do by the way. All right. Let me shift gears. If you guys have any questions, go ahead and feel free to, to ask me any questions. I'm testing out this new platform. That's why it all looks a little bit different. So if you want, have any questions whatsoever, feel free to ask me in the meantime, let me show you that I have  a book out called R MF is O where walks you through  it's a bird's eye view of what NIST 800 is all. And it's very quick, and this is actually the audio version, which is only like one hour long. And then also I've got  a deeper dive into the NIST 800 security controls, but I'm not hitting every single control. What I do is I hit the families and give you a practical understanding of what the families are and how you navigate those. And interpretation of the families of controls. And I focus from an ISSOs perspective. What parts of that family do you really need to know? That's the kind of stuff that I'm focusing on. And another thing you guys should know, if you didn't know already is I have a podcast here. It is right here. The podcast is, I'm doing the podcast right now. So this the type of stuff that you hear me talk about here is the kind of stuff that I actually is gonna be on the odd. But this, the difference is  on a podcast, you could just be in your car, on your commute and listen to it, or when you're cleaning or something like that, you can actually just listen to it. Listen to our conversation as we're, as you're doing your thing. So, that's the good thing about doing a podcast? I actually really like podcasts. I'm listening to one right now, learning a new language. And I really like it. Okay. Let me see. There's another question here from Mike. He says, can I book you for a consultant for my ISSO role  ISSO role  you know what  I'm actually in the middle of a couple of other consultations, you can email me  feel free to email me and I'll see if I can  find some. For you, I'm not saying no, but let me see what I can do. Here's my I'm gonna send you my contact. My contact is scrolling across the bottom. There is contact@convocourses.com. If you're interested in getting some kind of consulting and stuff like that, I'm  I'm getting back into the work field.  I'm not gonna be able to do as much consulting as I was doing before.  Because my hours are gonna get tapped, but Hey, who knows? Like maybe we can do it before I actually start my job right now. I'm going through the background.  The  background investigation process. Okay. I got another questions from. Mr.  Fernandez. He says, so I'm getting my bachelor's degree  in, in cyber security in December, I'm currently working on physical in wor working in physical security for government contracting. So I'm dealing with classified documents and D O D things  will. Will I be able to, okay, let me see the next rest of this question  to get an entry level is ISS O I think you mean ISS O job  in your opinion, yes or no. Okay. So L Ludwig  let me give you an example and I hope that my example  can give you an idea. First of all, short answer is yes. Okay. I know this because I actually start off in physical security myself. So  I was a. Security forces member in the air force. And basically what  I was really, I was a weapon expert. Like I don't even know if they have that, that it was called 3P0X1. That was my AFSC.  It's a specialty code that they have had in the military at that time.  I don't know if they I've been following it, but basically what I did was I was a weapon specialist  and. I guarded planes. I guarded    if the president came in to our base or whatever, I'd do that, I'd be on that detail.  Not much personnel security, to be honest, it was mostly garden resources. And then I also did some law enforcement. So I knew a lot about the UCMJ  use of force, all that kind of  weapons, training, combat training, all that work with the army and the Marines  and all branches and  different  countries.  Security people, but it was mostly physical security and I trans we call it cross train. I cross trained from physical security to cyber security. There's a lot of crossover. I was surprised to, to learn that.  Some I'll just tell you a few things that are gonna help you going from physical security over into cyber security into it in general. Number one  you are, you're gonna have a very sound understanding of security overall because it's not really that much. When you get into cyber security, it's just a lot of more layers and there's, it's more complex because you got defense in depth. Physical security still applies in cyber security, which is crazy. But when you think about it's common sense, if anybody can touch a system, then they own it. You can own a system. You can take the hard drive out, put it in another device you can use  password crackers you could use.  Oh man, you, you could  do forensics tools on it and then extract all the bits on it and figure out what people try to delete is that as a matter of fact, that's what forensics is all about.  And speaking of forensics  some of the laws that pertain to, to you, like  when you're talking about chain of custody, when you're talking about  Making sure that things that, that  things aren't tampered with during the investigations, all those things apply.  So some of the laws still apply.  What else applies, man?  Physical security checks, physical security assessments is it's. The concept is similar and actually is still used in cyber security. You has to still do physical security to make sure that the facility and the room that the information system resides in is protected so that all that stuff still applies. So it is gonna help you out. And then the main thing is that if you dealt with classified documentation before, and if you have a security clearance, all of that will also help you.   To get an entry level job in cyber security. And if specifically, in information to security officer, but any kind of entry level position, because you have a security clearance, if you have one  that helps. A lot of people confuse like security. They think that if you're in cyber security, you have to have a security clearance. No  that's not the case. Two different things. The security, they should just call it a clearance. It's very confusing. A clearance just does a background check on you to make sure that you are trustworthy to make sure that you don't have any criminal background that might that might. Cause a conflict of interest where you're working like a bank doesn't want somebody who robbed the bank. You know what I mean?    It's stuff like that.  A hospital probably doesn't want somebody who had malpractice it's stuff. Like they don't, there's certain criminal things that not to say that you  if you had some kind of. You had a case on you in the past that you couldn't work in cyber security? It's not what they're saying. It's basically, there's certain things that cause a conflict of interest. So I have to do a background check on you to make sure that there's nothing that might allow you to be exploited.  Or something that deems you as untrustworthy to do that particular job. So if you have a clearance  that really helps out a lot  if you've handled classified information before that actually helps you quite a bit as well, because some people don't have any experience with that and they don't know how that world works, but you knowing that, how that world works,  that helps you quite a bit. The main thing that you need to focus on now is technical. Because me going from physical security over to cyber security, that was the biggest challenge is learning all the terminology, learning information, technology, learning how computer works learning how Ram CPU and storage all works together. Learning how to protect those components of  information system. Those are the main things, all the layers  and the minutia  of learning networks, how to networks work  how you protect those networks, stuff like that. Porch protocols, and services. Those are the things that you need to be really focusing your mind on the security stuff will come very naturally to you. So the answer to your question is, yes, it will help you to get an entry level job when you get your, that bachelor's degree. Only thing I would recommend that you do while you're in school. And this is what I tell everybody is try to get experience. If you. Hands on technical experience, if you can. That means if you're whatever college you're going to, or if you happen to be in the military or wherever, whatever, wherever you're at, try to get hands on.  If you see the, we call them work group managers, fixing a computer, ask if you can help them out. If you can, if they will allow you to help them to fix that computer, whether it's update and virus, definitions, updating the security patches, whatever it is like even the simplest thing possible, even if it's putting the router in and plugging it in or whatever, you'll be able to put that on your resume. And the experience is what they really wanna see a degree is great. Certifications are great, but the experience is what they really wanna see.  Another thing is I would highly recommend that you, if you can, if you have the time, if you have the cycles to do it, some people do not is to get    a certification while you're working on your degree. Degree takes a pretty long time. And sometimes the degree helps you to get the degree. If they, if you're college or wherever you're going to has a degree, a certification program, I will go ahead and take it. It's not a waste of your time, especially if you get the comp Tia, any of the comp Tia ones. If you get any kind of cloud certification, if you get  any kind of networking certifications, those are all gonna help you out a bit, a lot on your resume. So I hope that answers your question. Okay. I've got another question here. It says  Mr. Fernandez says  and I'm a security plus certified I'm security plus certified, but I don't have  the most experience  with physical hardware. Okay. Yeah.  Yeah, that's what I'm saying is  go ahead and get as much. Experiences you can  with any aspect of information technology. And at this point, since you're new, anything will help you out. Like whether it's help desk type stuff, whether you're  Updating, like I said, virus, signatures, whether I, the reason why I keep bringing those up, because those are  the simplest things that kind of come up constantly over time. Like you've probably done it before you just don't it's something we do often so often that we don't even think about it, but that is something you can literally put on your resume. You just need to know  how to articul. Speaking of articulation, just to do a little transition here.  I'm working on a book right now, a new book. That's gonna tell you how to actually break down a resume.  How to, I have a course on this already. So  if you're interested  I'm not trying to cram anything down anybody's throat or anything, but I'm working on a book. That's a lot cheaper that. It'll be about 20 bucks or something like that. It'll have downloadable templates.  It's essentially this right here. This course right here is something  I've been using for a long time. And because of this, I haven't been without a job. I, this thing works like this process  that I've been doing, basically, all I did was to say, okay, how am I getting all these jobs? I literally get like 10 offers a day between LinkedIn. Messages on LinkedIn emails calls I'm literally getting anywhere from, it's not as much as it used to be before COVID and now we have some kind of  a downturn in the economy. So it's not as many as it used to be, but it's at least six messages a day. I get for different jobs and I'm just constantly getting undated with these opportunities. And so all I did was I condensed exactly how I'm able to do this into. Into a course. And I'm gonna make this into a book that tells you how to articulate your, any kind of.  Security, cyber security experience into  a workable template that is marketable to employers. So that is what I'm doing and it's coming, I'm working on it. I actually finished the first draft. I'm getting it edited right now. As we speak the first, book's gonna be a three, the four books series where I'm gonna break down. Not only how to market your resume and not only how to create the resume, not only a template so that you can use my mys as a sample and other people's resume as a sample. But I'm also what I'm gonna do is expand it out into other books that tells you how to get remote jobs. Because people ask me about that a lot and I'm gonna do one where it's talking about  the different categories of cyber security, because that's something I've found. People, the questions that they ask, I can tell they don't really know that there's different aspects of cybersecurity. So that is what I'm doing.  Mike says, I bought this course from you.  You need to update it. Oh, okay.   Yes, updates are on the way.  I'm working on  a whole bunch of stuff right now. So that's  when I'm not on these calls  that's what I'm.  Okay. If there's no more questions, guys, I'm going to, I'm gonna call it quits for the day and I'll see you guys next time. See you on the next one. Thanks for  thanks for jumping on this one. Thanks Mike. For all your questions. Appreciate it.  Appreciate all the questions and  and thanks, Mike. Thanks for the update, Mike.  I will get on that. I appreciate you later.    

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In this special episode, we're discussing General Milley's resignation letter to the President that he never sent, deciding instead to work against the Commander-in-Chief from the inside. Military members have a duty to be loyal to the service and the officers appointed over them. Military officers can be punished under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice for using contemptuous words against the President. And yet, if this new book is to be believed, that's exactly what General Milley did in his official capacity as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Why do we say this? The New Yorker recently published an alleged resignation letter from General Mark Milley that was never submitted to former President Trump. The article is an excerpt from a new book by authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, who are unsurprisingly senior reporters for The New York Times and the New Yorker. Lacking any imagination at all, the authors have titled the book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House.” According to the story, Milley wrote the scathing letter to Trump following federal officials clearing rioters out of Lafayette Square back in the summer of 2020. Remember, it was on June 1, 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd riots when Milley and other senior staff accompanied Trump part of the way across Lafayette Square after it had been cleared of Black Lives Matter. Milley apologized after he was criticized by lefties, saying he should not have been there because his presence created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” We discussed this in Episode 28, Self Before Service, as part of a larger leadership context. Anyway, now, Milley and The New Yorker have conjured up a resignation letter that was never submitted to the former president to make the anti-Trump general somehow look noble and heroic. Show notes at https://thedigressionpodcast.com/86 Sound Off! With a comment or a question at https://thedigressionpodcast.com/soundoff Like the show? Leave a 5-star rating and review: https://thedigressionpodcast.com/review Become a Patron or support the show in other ways at: https://thedigressionpodcast.com/donate Or just share our podcast with a friend! It's the best way to grow the show!!

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INTRODUCTION: This is episode is my first Solo Dolo - which means it's just me baby! You get to have me all to yourself as I grant you an in-depth look into the creation of my memoir and an overview of what each section means. INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to): ·      A Comprehensive Look Into My Memoir·      Insight Into The Creation Process·      A Breakdown Of What The Cover Means·      Insight Into Each Chapter·      My Case Against The Department Of Veterans' Affairs For Harassment·      My Hopes For This Project·      My Hopes For You  CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/_saved/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonEmail: DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com  DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS: ·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (Documentary)o  https://press.discoveryplus.com/lifestyle/discovery-announces-key-participants-featured-in-upcoming-expose-of-the-hillsong-church-controversy-hillsong-a-megachurch-exposed/ ·      Leaving Hillsong Podcast With Tanya Levino  https://leavinghillsong.podbean.com ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net VETERAN'S SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org  INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?: ·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon  TRANSCRIPT: [00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hey, all my beautiful souls out there. Welcome back to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. Again, one more week and happy pride month to everyone. Maybe whom the Lord sets free is free. Indeed. And I want to let each and every last one of you know, you are.You are truly free and give a fuck what anybody tells you. So let's go ahead and be a lovely self. Now today's episode is just going to be me this time. I'm going to be talking about my [00:01:00] book, which I recently released sex drugs and Jesus, which is my memoir. And I wanted to go through it and really give, given, express my heart about the different chapters while I call them what I called them. And, and really just lay it out in a very meaningful way.So you pick up on the spirit that went into this project, learning why I did it, what I hope the world gets out of it I hope you enjoy this episode. Hello? Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. I'm so happy to have you again with me this week. It's just me by myself this time. Usually I have all my homeys or my Ronnie's with me on the show, but today you have to have me all to yourself. I know you've always wanted that. So today you get to have it I'm crying.So today I'm going to take a little bit of time and talk to you about my book, sex, drugs, and Jesus, a memoir of self-destruction and resurrection. [00:02:00] And this is going to run through why I wrote it a little bit about the process, go through the chapters and everything like that. And I think it'll be really cute.I hope you think so, too. So to start off, let's talk about the cover. I like to be super meaningful in a strategic and intentional with everything that I do this cover was put together by my homeboy, Chris and con's designs over in Greece. And I met him through 99 designs.com, which is an excellent company to work with right website to go for all your design needs.So on the cover of the book from the top to the bottom, we have, of course, my name, the van and Hubert. You have a black bird with these mysterious blue eyes, holding a syringe with blood in it. And the blood is dripping out of the syringe onto the skull, which I'm going to talk about next. But this blood for me represents death.The syringe represents how wild my life gotten a [00:03:00] massive amount of narcotics. I used to inject every day. And then the two. You know, work in tandem with each other because you know, the drug life, you know, the it's very, very dangerous. And a lot of times it does lead to death and everything. The, the bird also represents the darkness of the times that I went through when I was homeless and everything like that.And just the general black hole that I fell into during the darkest time of my life, which is reflected within this book that we're keeping it lower. We're taking it lower. We've got the skull. The skull is me that Dan in his, in his head represents the headache. Everything that I went through gave me.There is a rainbow colored cross in the [00:04:00] middle of the skull. Now this represents the conflict in between being a non-straight and the problems that the church tries to throw at us for being non-straight. And in particular, in my own case, you know, for being dismissed from ministry at Lakewood church for not being straight, we work our way down.We see a little weed leaf over the left eye, the eyes contain jail bars, reflecting all the times that I got locked up while I lived in Houston, Texas, and then the nose instead of the nose, we put various pills there as he used to sell a hell of a lot of pills too. And it represents the drug. Behind the skull, we see gears in the farm background was represents how my mind was reeling and just working and going nonstop and how my head was just spinning out of fucking [00:05:00] control.We see music notes also floating behind the skull, which represents my musical inclination and how I can write music, read sheet music, and how I've been in choirs and stuff like that all throughout my life. And then there's a haze of smoke. Also enveloping the background of the skull, which represents confusion.It represents all the smoke from all the dope that I used to smoke also. And then below that we simply have the title of the book, sex, drugs, and Jesus, a memoir of sex self-destruction and resurrection. And so that's pretty much sums up the cover. So the process of writing this book started back in 2012 around about my probation had just been transferred from Houston to Baton [00:06:00] Rouge, and I knew that I had a story within BI.I had been thinking about writing books for years, but I never really had shit to say. And so once I hadn't done gone through all of this, I realized that it wasn't for me to path had been delivered from the strong problems that I had been delivered from. And then go have a quiet, peaceful, happy life and not say anything and not speak anything about the deliverance as the Lord had given me.And I, whether you believe in God or not this sort of story here, When someone comes from so many problems and they're able to overcome it, you can still appreciate the hustle and the struggle and the salvation of it all. And and I may mention God and Jesus and the holy ghost and all of them throughout this at some point.And I may not, but if I do, I'd just like to remind everyone that I don't think [00:07:00] Christianity is better than any other religion. And I don't think anybody is less than me if they don't worship God or anything like that. You know, I say it all the time. I love going and hanging out at the Buddhist temple and hanging around with other bald bitches like myself, because I feel seen and loved and all of that.And they make break vegetarian food too. So, so I started taking notes back, like in 2012 and. Ben was not put to paper to formulate an outline till around the time the Corona virus came to town. Now, during this time, my good friend to Theresa Hissong, who was also an author told me to to like D just get started on an outline.And I didn't, I didn't know where to start. I started taking notes and I had just a stack of tablets, just all kinds of thoughts that popped into my head as I was trying to get my life back together. And I was remembering everything that happened to me in Houston and when I was in the [00:08:00] air force and everywhere else that I had gone in my.In my life and I didn't know where to begin. And Theresa was just like, just store an outline, girl, just go from the beginning of your life up till now. And let me know when you've done that and we'll go from there. And so I did that. I started, I got the outline done and she was like, okay, now go back and take the main points and fill in paragraphs and everything like that.And so, and so I did that and After I got about 50,000 words in the book world, most books, they like, if you're going to write a book, you know, the powers that be like them to be like in the 50 to 60,000 word range minimum to you know, for it to be considered, you know, a serious literary work quote unquote.And so I did that. I wrote about 50, 60,000 words. Then I went about the business of finding me a ghost writer to help me because I realized that I was too emotional about everything that I was [00:09:00] writing. And I didn't want to sacrifice the quality of the story just so I can just do it all on my own at this point in my life.I know when I fucking need help. And so, and I'm not afraid to ask for it this time around. And so I went, you know, found somebody to. To take my thoughts and helped me to make sure that they're cohesive and it didn't come across as emotional spillage, you know, just word vomit all over the page. I needed to be sure we had some cohesive stories and concepts.No, he and I sat down for a couple of weeks and did interviews every day, you know, because he wanted his own perspective on everything that I had gone through, even though I had already written most of it out. And so I agreed to do that. That resulted in like a, about a 10,000 word outline and At the, at the end of the day, the book and ended up being over [00:10:00] 120,000 words.So strictly speaking it's about two books wrapped up in the one, but it ended up being very emotionally heavy for me to go through my story. And I did not want to go through this process twice and do like a part one and a part two I'm alive, and nobody got tired, but none of that, fuck it. I'm just going to give them these two books in one and be done with it.And plus, I don't like the TZ though, either I'm going to give you the damn thing or I'm not. And so, so it ended up being one book about 120,000 words of the paper copies, I think are about 330 pages. And something like that, the audio book, which I narrated myself as about 10 and a half hours. And so. So after me and the ghost rider got the outline together, like 10,000 words.I flew him down here to Louisiana because I wanted to take him to as many places as I [00:11:00]realistically could, considering we're in the middle of a pandemic and everything like that, and show him where certain things went down because I wanted this writing to be as real. And, and, and just that, wouldn't just bring you into the room, into the moment with me as much as I could.So we went around places in Baton Rouge, where I was born, where I went to high school. We, we went down to new Orleans, you know, where I went to my first gay bars and stuff like that when I was in high school. Oh God bless the gay bars in new Orleans, hallelujah, tabernacle and braise. We went over to Biloxi, Mississippi, where I was enlisted in the air force at Keesler air force base.We went over. The fucking goddamn Houston, Texas, you know where we're at, where I was a drug dealer where I got HIV, or I got hepatitis B or ended up homeless, you know, where all the shit, all the bad shit went down. Fuck. And so, and then while we were out on the road, we filmed a [00:12:00]docu-series, which is now live and fully edited and complete on my website to try to physically show you some of these places as well.And to bring it that much more to life. Now we were on the road and traveling about two or three weeks or something like that, trying to go to all of these cities and states. And so when that was done, you know, I sent him back home and everything like that. And then the, you know, the deep writing, you know, began, you know, the first draft was done and then all the editing and stuff like that commenced man is like, you can write a book in six months.You know, maybe two a year, and then you might be tempted to edit the motherfucker for another two or three years of no one would stop you. At some point along the way, me and this ghost rider had had a, I'll just say a parting of the ways of differences of perspectives. And so I've started the book by myself and then, so I ended it by myself.[00:13:00]It's not like I'm not a good writer. I just didn't necessarily trust that. I would tell my own story the best and be truly objective about it, which is why I hired a ghost writer in the first place. And so. Anyway. So we had our parting of the ways. And then I CA I, I finished the real rain, the, the arranging of the book of myself, and then I edited it and like a good 10 times or something like that.And then until I was finally done, and one thing about writing a book it's becomes like your baby, you just want to keep fucking with it than fucking with it and tweaking it, everything. And he's like in girl, at some point, you'd have to put the pin down, push a laptop back and just press publish. And You know, I say, just press publish.It's not that simple. When you're publishing a book in self publishing, like I did, it's many intricate things that you got to learn, how to do. You gotta get your own bar codes, technically speaking, Amazon, you know, in different places, we'll [00:14:00] provide you a barcode, but you can get your own barcode, your ISB in, I think that's like an international book standard number or some shit like that.What that stands for is that number that's under the book, the barcode. So you got to get that going. You gotta find some, you know, somebody to design you a book cover then you got to format it. So, you know, writing the book, one thing in my God, you know, Microsoft word is not necessarily the most book friendly app out there.I'm just going to say that now there are other options, better, better options available to you. So typing it up as one thing, formatting it so that it will be accepted wherever you're trying to submit it as another. So then I had to find a format or then the book cover is another thing, having it designed is one thing.Now you have to have it, you know, the margins and everything fitted and trim that to wherever it is, you're trying to publish the book, but there's another thing. And so then you got to determine [00:15:00] where you want to distributed and everything like that. I went with the hard cover and the paper back with Amazon, the electronic version I went through. I went through a company called draft the digital pretty gnarly. You can submit your electronic book to that one interface, draft the digital, and then they'll send it out to many different retailers and everything like that. A subsidiary of them is called find a way voices.And that's who I used to post my audio book, which would then send them. Sent it to like 44 different retailers. And so you know, so gone are the days where we have to, you know, go to each website and try to post, you know, our work and like Amazon, for instance, prints on demand. So gone are the days where the author has to buy a shitload of their own books and carry them around in a trunk and hope people will buy them, you know, thank God for the [00:16:00] digital era.It has made shit so much easier. And so if anybody ever has any questions about the book process, you can email me. I'm happy to make it a lot less of a headache for you than it was for me. And so, and so, you know, now it's published and everything like that, and I'm putting it those far and praying it, those wide, I'm praying that it helps someone, the whole point of writing all this, besides the fact that I felt like it was my obligation to do so is transparent.When I went through everything that I went through, sometimes I think even to this day, like I wonder if it would have turned out differently. Had I known someone who was going through or who had gone through the struggles that I was going through at the time, but me and my friends were too busy running around doing cocaine at the club, trying to be cute, say thin, trying to get down to a negative fucking two you know, and our waste and everything like that, you know, and trying to look like we had it [00:17:00] together and we're too perfect, but we were never discussing each other's weaknesses and problems and vulnerabilities and struggles.We have time for all that. We were constantly trying to Kiki and everything like that and turn the fuck up. And so when shit got bad and shit got real, I can feel like I can go to them. I wasn't raised, I was raised in the south in Louisiana. Down here, the grownups try to act like they have it all together and don't have any problems, or I didn't feel like I could go to my parents.They'd never shown me them going through a problem. So, so I said, fuck all this, this time, I'm going to be the transparent one. I'm going to put all my shit out there for the world to examine, pick at review, whatever the case may be. And the people who need help, we'll be able to know that at least this motherfucker right here has gone through what they've been through.And ain't ashamed to talk about it because bitch, it is what it is. I did what I did. I didn't said what the fuck I said, I have suffered from, I have suffered [00:18:00] from much of what I've done. And so, you know, so I hope, you know, I hope, you know, my willingness to bare my soul and embarrass all of my things that would make most people ashamed that embarrassed, you know, hopefully it helps you.It's still worth it to me. Doesn't bother me at all.And so, like I said, I like to be very strategic with everything. And so each of these chapter titles, you know, has a special meaning to me, you know, tell you what those are. There's 20 core chapters in this book, not including the prologue. There's an epilogue as a standalone story in the back, which is echo throughout the main text.But then we really, you know, present to you the whole reason why it was teased throughout the book. And it's called wisdom in Witchery that's the standalone story [00:19:00] at the back.So the prologue is called SWOT S w a T special weapons and tactics. Maybe we've seen the SWAT movie, the SWOT TV series, I believe there was a TV series and everything like that. So for those of you who may not know what a SWAT team. The, this is the special division of the police department that comes to your door.They don't knock on it. They take this, I guess, this Ram thing, whatever the fuck it is. And they just knock the bitch and you have to be a serious enough criminal, or they have to believe you're serious enough criminal to send the SWAT team to come and get yo ass. So I so this, this first, so this opening prologue here has to do with the way my big drug arrest went down.They sent the SWAT team in, [00:20:00] oh my God. It had to be at least 2047. But, you know, men armed with semiautomatic rifles, the Kevlar vests the face shields and got damn canine dogs running around knocking shit over helicopters, the whole nine, like I am, they were serving me up. Like I was Frank Lucas, John Gotti, you know, somebody like back, you know, it talks about that day, you know, how it went down and everything like that.And that time was pivotable pivotal because that drug raid after that is when I became homeless. You know, you kind of, can't go back to your apartment and live there after SWAT had to come get you, you then I was so ashamed and embarrassed and had so much other stuff going on. I, at that point I had lost the will to live and everything like that.And so I wanted to open the book with the, probably one of the most pivotal stories in the, in the whole book. And that has happened in my life. [00:21:00] The book is divided into five parts. Part one covers my life from 1982 to the year 2000. It opens up with a dream that I had. There's two dreams in this book.This is the what two dedicated dream pages in this book. Other ones are mentioned throughout the texts. I'm a gift that dreamer, I started dreaming around the time. I was like maybe like five years old. So when I say a dreamer, that means what I see in at night, or whenever I fall asleep, if I doze off right now, I'm going to have a dream.You know, whatever it is that I dream will come true, or it could be something that's already happened or it could be something that's currently happening. Dreaming spiritually speaking is like is a form of prophecy and a true gift of prophecy. It's past, present and future. So when God grants you sight, God sees all that has been all.[00:22:00] It will be. And all that is now, the prophecy I'm talking about is true to, to form like how you read about in the Bible and stuff like that. Not what these motherfucking preachers be doing now. Every other word out of their mouth, they say, I prophesied this. I prophesied that. I'm not talking about just speaking positive things about what you want to happen.I'm talking about a divine word from God about what has been, what is, or what most surely will be. That's the sort of dreamer I am. And the only time in my life that I didn't dream was from the time that that I got. Kicked out of Lakewood church did the time about five or six years later that I began to reconcile with God that, that, that devastation and all that was going on in my life was the only thing that ever closed my dreams off to me.But other than that, I see baby. I see. [00:23:00] And so, so we opened up with a beautiful dream. I'm talking with evangelist Nelson, who was my spiritual counselor in life. And now that she's transitioned over as a spirit, she still guides me and speak with, speaks with me in spirit form. I know many of you have ancestors and elders who have gone before.And crossed on over and they still come back and visit you in dreams. Some of you are clairvoyant yourself and you can see them, you can talk to them. Some of you might be smelling their fragrance that they used to wear, or that dish that they used to cook, you know, and it brings you back into memory.Some of them, you know, that's that spirit of that, of that deceased person hanging around you and helping you and stuff like that. I don't like to refer to dead people as you know, like they used to exist cause they still exist. They're just no longer doing the things that pertain to this physical form where they haven't ceased to be.And that helps me to keep a strong connection with [00:24:00] those who I can't can no longer physically reach out and touch. The title of the first chapter is called Jim stone. I, my God, I love collecting crystals and gemstones. I'm a licensed massage therapist. I have used them in my practice. I started collecting them though, as since I was a child, they, there used to be a thing called the discovery channels store and used to go to the mall back.When people went to malls and go into the store, you can get all your telescopes, a little dinosaur, figurines, geos rocks, and everything like that. And I fell in love with those also whenever, when the, when the Lord first called me and appealed to me, to minister for him to, to, to, to be used with him. And I was very, very young.And in this dream, it was a golden cross made out of the finest periods of gold. And it was covered in every kind of color gemstone on the sides around the top, the body underneath the arms of [00:25:00]the cross and everything. And it was spinning around. And a circle and it came and stood before me and I got the sense that it was pleading and in, and from that moment, you know, I felt like I was marked and I felt like I was set on a certain trajectory.You know, that I, that wouldn't be fulfilled for many, many, many, many years to come. But I was changed in that moment, in that dream. And that was when the Lord officially called me. I was about maybe like five or six years old when I started dreaming, when I started seeing, and that was my calling. I encourage everyone.And I challenge everyone to question your spiritual leaders find out when they were called, when did God first speak to them? And in what way did he do it? God speaks to us in many ways. I'm not saying they had to have been called the way I was called, but you know, when you read through the Hebrew Bible, [00:26:00] You know, a lot of times there's a point where a person is not being used of God.And then there is a point where God crosses paths with them. Maybe he sent an angel, maybe he sent a prophet to maybe he appeared to them in a dream like he did with Solomon and Joseph and the patriarchs. You know how you know, question your spiritual leaders find out when them people recalled that not everybody who's running a church is truly called.And then everyone who calls themselves a preacher is really a preacher. Be careful about that. And so chapter one, you know, growing up in the hood, you know, I was raised in the hood. The neighborhood was so dangerous. My parents wouldn't allow me out the yard, crack houses everywhere I would come to learn later on, I was almost kidnapped as a child.It was a whole thing. Chapter two, it's called changes that talks about a lot of rapid changes that happened. You know, like when I was in school, You know, [00:27:00] moving around from house to house PA problems within the house paint problems between my parents that were going on and, you know, all kinds of drama and stuff like that, that really made for a very unstable childhood.And it wasn't until years later that I was older and I realized, you know, my grades didn't fall because, you know, I wasn't smart or necessarily wasn't grasping the subject material, but I very firmly and thoroughly understand now how an unstable household and an inconsistent child hood can make somebody do poorly in school.So so that's why chapter two was called changes. It just talks about the inconsistency of my childhood and how erratic it was. Then we go right into part two. We didn't want to spend a whole lot of time on the background. Although the background is plenty dramatic enough to keep your [00:28:00] attention.This is a fairly thick book, like I say, at 330 pages over 120,000 words, but I have found it to be a very quick read. And so so part two covers my life from, to the year 2000 to the year 2006. Chapter three is called basic training because we opened right up with me going to the Lackland air force base in San Antonio, Texas to join the United States air force.And, you know, we built over, you know, some of the, the, the crazy shit that happens when you get a whole bunch of men together, you know, trying to, to. To fight to get into the military and not, you know, get sent home or discharged before you have a chance to even make it out of training. Basic training was six and a half weeks at Lackland air force base, which is, which is in San Antonio.Texas was hot as hell, hot as Satan's ball's sack out there. My God, you never seen a [00:29:00] black man tan. Oh, I was so much darker than that. What I am now. Good. God almighty. You were talking about like 120 degree, like desert heat, unforgiven on forgiving, you know, basic training covers that people are very interested in behind the scenes, look at the military.And so I really wanted to give you that. And yes, there's a lot of gay shit that happens in the military. There's so many gay people in the military, but there always has been a bitch. There always will be. I just wish there had been more orgies or some shit like that. And so in basic training, That's where I met my best friend, Adam, who I'm still friends with to this day in, you know, we kind of go from there.Chapter four is called rank and file.And this covers when I get out of a training and now I'm in what they call the operational air force quote, unfucking quotes. And I get to Davis Monthan air force base in Tucson, Arizona. And this. [00:30:00] Fall in love with the desert. I had never been this far west before I was 17 when I went to the air force in, in, so I was just young spring chicken from the country.Green is Hale green, this fucking hell. You know, I've driven all the way this far out west the Tucson, nothing but light brown desert everywhere, cute little road runners. Cactus is like, you know, the prevalent Greenidge you know, depending on where you go in much of the city. And so surprisingly refreshed by how refined a desert landscape is.It's very minimalist compared to. You know, having a whole lot of foliage around, I love me a good desert landscape, a lot of rocks, either yard to maintain, you know, there's no grass, so, you know, no need to pay a gardener, you know, or anyone like that. And so in this chapter, [00:31:00] we also get into like the the gay bashing, the, the, you know, the, all the hate speech and things like that, that I received while I was in the air force for not being straight.And so I was fortunately able to make it out of there without a dishonorable discharge for not being straight. But, you know, so many of my fellow service members got bad conduct discharge, or other than honorable discharges, just because of their sexuality. Now, I am thankful that they have started to reverse those decisions for my fellow service members and upgrade their enlistment.Well, so you so many service members listening, you can call, reach out to the DAV, the disabled veterans of America probably the American Legion or some sort of veterans service organization. And talk to them about getting your enlistment upgraded if you got kicked out for not being [00:32:00]straightened. So for those of you who don't know, there's different, when you get discharged from the military, you're rated a certain way, honorable all the way down to like dishonorable you've got bad conduct, medical discharges, other than honorable, it matters about your benefits.If you have like say a bad conduct discharge, then you don't get like access to your education. Definitely not your housing. And just certain like your medical list, certain benefits that I still benefit from this day, having served in the military, but I have an honorable discharge, another veteran may not, you know, so like I was able to get my house without paying the down payment because of the VA.Well, a veteran with a bad conduct, discharge pin can take advantage of that. I'm able to go to the VA for health care. If they have a bad conduct discharge, I don't believe that they can take advantage of that. Now I do know that no matter what the discharge status is, you can [00:33:00] go, a veteran can go to the VA, the department of veterans affairs, the VA hospital, a medical clinic for mental health.No matter what you can go there for free mental health, but they may not see you for like general health care. We all know how much healthcare costs, you know, there's a big difference. If you can go to the VA for free healthcare, which is like what I get versus having to pay for it out of pocket. If you don't have an employer or even pay some other ridiculously high amounts of money, these employers be wanting you to pay as well.That's like life changing stuff, you know, and to have that taken from you, just because of your sexuality, wasn't right in the first damn place. But you know, at least, you know, at least that wrong is being made right now. But many of my fellow service members have died, you know, waiting for changes like this.and so the next chapter is chapter five and that's called into the Aurora sea. [00:34:00] Sothe title of this one reflects what I saw when I went to my first rave. So out there. In in Tucson, they would have what's called desert parties. And basically this would be like a big ass Reva. So we've got all the glow sticks. The Aurora sea is comprised of all the blow sticks and photon lights and shit like that, that people would dance around with.These will be considered at least some mine underground parties. So these, you know, it's like, like out in the woods, but the woods is the desert. So you're on a paved road and driving Southern, you're going to turn off onto like gravel road and then go back into like a wild cactus wilderness and find this party.Thousands of people, you know, big name DJs, which are on the circuit back then. Mixed mastermind, DJ, Irene, people like that. And so I had a lot of fucking fun out there in the desert [00:35:00] and I'll thought it was so damn fun. I would title the chapter after it, in this chapter, we get into my heavy volunteer.I'm big in the volunteer rhythm in public service, you know, there was, I wouldn't have gone in the fucking military if I didn't give a damn about public service. And we talk about some of the volunteer thing that I did and stuff like that. And like say choreographing, the girl's dance routine. I was asked by somebody to choreograph a dance routine because I had taken dance in high school.And also I was able to do that. It was great. And then in the chapter, I talk about how I immediately felt like, you know, ashamed for not being straight wondering what would be found out because here I am, this big gay choreograph or on stage, you know, performing a number with these kids on a military base, you know, very interesting the way that we were able to to bring out that contrast.And it was so when you're serving in the military back in those days during [00:36:00] Diana's, don't tell, and you're not straight. On the one hand, you're happy to be there. On the other hand, you're always wondering if you're going to do some shit that's going to get you found out. And so you have like a high level of paranoia and shadow hanging over you every day.And you know, there's no wonder why so many services, so many service members get, leave the military fucked up and would all kinds of mental health issues. And they know that shit. And that's why they that's why they, they allow you every service member, no matter the, the, the rating and the nature and the quality of the discharge to go to the VA for free mental health, because they know they fucked each and every last one of us up on some damn level,And then also in this chapter, we were talking about me losing my virginity and you know, beginning to get curious about sexual exploration and everything like that. I tell you it was a bitch to do being in the military during don't ask. Don't tell because I couldn't go get a [00:37:00] boyfriend. I couldn't really do anything to be consistent and stable.I knew I probably have to move be sent to a different base eventually. So I just turned into a how, yeah, I was a total slut, you know, it was what it was like I said, I did what it did.And so then the next chapter is called curiosity. And then the chapter curiosity covers montage. My brief stint in recruiter school, before I moved on over to California. You know, I talk about my job when I, when I get to Davis mountain air force base, I'm working on aircraft that runs its course, and I'm like, fuck, this, I'm gonna become a recruiter.So now it's time to head over to California. So in this chapter here I get into The more scandalous side, say of the military, you know, how has the military recruiter? They tried to get me to lie [00:38:00] to my recruits and shit like that. Not abso-fucking-lutely refuse to do it. I was not about to get my ass shot up and Southern California, you know, not knowing who knows who, because the air force wants me to lie to, to a person about how they're, you know, what their, what their job in the military has done a B.So like when you go to the military, you don't just go to go to war. Like you have to have. And occupation a nine to five job that you're going to do every day. Be that cook food in the cafeteria, chow hall, a mess hall, whatever the fuck you want to call it, be it be a recruiter, an aircraft mechanic, photographer, journalist, public relations.And I see a military base is set up to function all by itself without any need of the outside world. So any job you can imagine on the outside world exists in the military in some form or another calibrating instruments, flying planes, you know, there, you know, there's all [00:39:00] kinds of stuff that you can do, administration, HR type work in the military, you know?And so it's not cool, you know, for the air force to have total. Yeah, Jake wants to be a photographer, but we want him to be security forces and be the police anyway. So a lot of him about the photographer job and tell him that's not available and we're going to go ahead and put him in this security forces job.And we just want you to convince him to take it. You know, that's the kind of scandalous shit that they will do. I tell my supervisors to go fuck themselves. And so they didn't go over too well. And my God, I barely made it. So thinking of discharge ratings, I barely made it out of the air force with a honorable discharge.I got to what they call an article 15, which is a bad thing to get. Is that something that, okay, so there exists something called the uniform code of military justice that UCMJ and that damn evil [00:40:00]ass book. It's it's like the damn dark hold or some shit from the Avengers. It's just that fucking evil book that can ruin your life.And then any little damn thing you can do, they'll find a way to make it wrong and then they can try to find a way to throw you out. And so, so this chapter gets into the, into, into my fight against the military and and I call it curiosity because, well, I got curious about some things I, in this trap that I began to try to turn myself straight.You know, the church had told me I was going to burn up and go to hell for not being straight. And I got this idea in my head. Well, I can hang around with straight guys. I can get me a girlfriend and I can like pray the gay away. And so I tried to fast and pray and spread myself out before the Lord and okay.And I'm gonna put some some works [00:41:00] behind this faith. And so I'm gonna go get me some girls and go fuck me some pussy and everything like that and make myself straight. I even got penthouse and Playboy magazines and cut out all the naked women and everything like that. And it plastered the walls of this room that I was staying in with nothing but vagina.I suppose I was trying to brainwash myself, I guess I thought if I looked at all of these naked women, I'll get more into it and stuff like that, girl, I'm here. I'm here to tell you right now that shit don't work. I am one of the most determined people. I know when I get an idea in my head, I'm going to do that fucking shit.And I have called upon the Lord for many things in my life. He's given me and he's answered me. He's given me dreams, you know, that have come true. As I stated, he's even showing me things in my dreams about other people that I did not ask him. So what [00:42:00] you might ask meone time, I had a dreamabout somebody who had had, it was the guy wasn't the girl, like they, there was like some sort of abortion or something that had happened. The Lord had brought this up to me. And so I asked him about it. Now, look, the Lord didn't tell me it was right or wrong. But sometimes when we do things and it's bothering us, then the Lord will reveal it to somebody.So that he, so that the Lord can send you an answer of peace through that person, because the Lord doesn't want us racking our minds over stuff. And so when I told them about the dream and the, and the Hebrew Bible says the prophet that has a dream, let him tell the dream. Okay. And so I told this dream, and then he clammed up and he was like, you know, don't tell [00:43:00] anyone.I was like, okay. So this taught me a few things. I was like, okay. So the Lord was showing me stuff and other people's life up until this point, I had only seen things pertaining to me, or sometimes I would have dreams about hurricanes and things like that before they would happen, which, you know, affected other people, but nothing ever this person, all about someone else.But, you know, I must remind people there, anything you can hide from the Lord. You can see your thoughts, your feelings, you know, your emotions everywhere you go, everything, you say, everything, you do be it about someone else about yourself or whatever. You cannot hide from God. And so this person clammed up and, you know, in that moment, if I ever had any doubt, the way that they were like, don't tell anyone, you know, I know that what I had seen was true and it had happened and I know God very, very well and of all the bad and stupid shit that I have [00:44:00] done.God, always, Tim came to me with an answer, a peace via directly through my evangelists, Nelson, my pastor, God is not interested in beating up, beating us over the head or trying to force us to do right. Right. You know, even though he could force us, he doesn't want to, he wants us to make the decision ourselves and and he wants to stay in a peace.And so. The only thing that God would have, you know, had me tell him with some sort of answer of peace, you know, what had done happened and happens. So there was no sense in hanging around feeling guilty about it now. and so I'm saying all that to say, the Lord speaks to me heavily you know, in my dreams and stuff like that. But the Lord has never, ever once shown me in a dream that he would prefer me to have a different sexuality. And so if he, if he, if God's gonna give me dreams to other people, and he's given me more dreams than that over the years that have to do with other folks, you know, I go and talk to them about it and we [00:45:00] deal with it and we work out whatever the message is.You know, it as much as I prayed and facet and did all of this stuff. The only thing that I feel like God is telling me about this from this period of time, where I try to ungay myself is to not try to engage myself. I don't believe he wants me any other way. And so if he wanted to, he would have responded.He would have sent me a dream of something. But the only voices in my head that have ever said anything was wrong with my sexuality was other people, conservative people, people who feel like they have a mastery over the interpretation of the Bible, which nobody does. No, man does. You know, I wrote my book, sex, drugs, and Jesus.I wrote that book. I'm the only person who can say that they're an expert on this and knows what every word means. Indisputable. So I don't accept the concept of biblical experts and stuff like that. The Hebrew Bible is someone [00:46:00] it's not even a one book, but it's comprised of many different authors in many different books from many different years ago in, in different languages.And, and I don't, and I just don't accept anybody saying that, that they know exactly what the Bible says and their way of looking at it is the only way it should be looked at. And if you don't look at it their way, then you're going to die and go to hell. Those, all of those people can go and fuck themselves in the ass with a porcupine dildo with like lava on the end of it or some shit like that.And so now I'm still very much not straight. I feel like my sexuality has been kind of fluid over the years, but Dick is a beautiful thing. It really, really is a beautiful thing. So in this. So in this chapter, you know, I don't recommend for anybody to [00:47:00] fucking go to the military at 17. You just to underdeveloped, you got so much growing to do.And so this chapter is going through me, making mistakes. People do. When they're a kid, I was a child, you know, doing a grown man's job. I did it well, but feel it affected me heavily and still to this day, you know, the military was very traumatizing for me. And you know, in this chapter, we're going through my wardrobe changes, you know, I'm from the country.I don't know fashion. I got to learn fashion. Now I'm out here in California looking like animate Bullock from Bush, Tennessee. That's Tina Turner. For those of you who don't know who I'm referencing, you, haven't seen the movie what's love got to do with it. D rich bitch. That's a hell of a motherfucking movie.And so I had to learn how to dress out there in California. You know, everybody's so confident with themselves or at least they appear to be on the surface. And I really, really love that [00:48:00] at the very least the very beautiful state and people care about, you know, appearances. I don't feel like that has to be a bad thing.I don't, I am not on board with the way people will do in the south and go out with rollers in, they head than a bathrobe on to go down to the store and everything like that. Girl. Bye. And so you would never see no shit like that out in LA. And so I don't think it has to be, has to mean you're superficial because you care about how you look.I think you caring about how you present yourself, you know, is important to your own self-esteem and is important if you want people to take you seriously. And so I'm not saying change the gain acceptance, but if you can go out with rollers in your head, don't be surprised if people don't want to hang around you.That's what I'm saying. And so I have to learn, you know, how to dress, how to put clothes together and stuff like that. You know, by the time I left California, you [00:49:00] know, I was in cowboy boots, designer, jeans, you know, shopping at Nordstrom and shit like that, whether I could afford to, or not, because for fuck's sake, I was terrible with money.But you know, that's what that chapter is all about. Chapter seven, it's called. 'cause I was so fucking bad at it. I almost got kicked out of the military for writing bad checks that I didn't have enough money in the bank to cover. I didn't know that that could be a misdemeanor or felony, depending on the amount had no idea.I had no fucking idea. And so that's a whole run in with, with, with the police and everything like that. And so in this chapter, I also talk about my first exposure to Joel Osteen and Lakewood church and how it was so inspired by watching him on TV and how that church was one of the primary decisions I left California and moved to Houston, Texas in the first place.I should have stayed my ass in California, but [00:50:00] live and learn. Right. And so, and there's some more scandalous shit about the military and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The military is very scandalous. Look, if anybody's ever going to go to the military bitch, I'm gonna tell you right now, do you like a quick, like two and a half year enlistment, four year don't stay in there that damn long, because you don't have to stay in there.But for one term to have, like for your housing benefits, you can have a service disconnected pension that will pay you for the rest of your life. Just from serving that one enlistment, you don't have to stay in there 20 years to retire. It's stressful on your children. You know, if you have them moving around like that, and it's also stressful on you moving around like that.Now look, if you in a terrible, terrible situation, running from gangs or some crazy shit, the military might be better than, you know, if it's the lesser of two evils, then for fuck's [00:51:00] sake, pissed pick the military. What I'm saying is don't get in there and get so damn comfortable that you feel like you got to stay forever.Because you can benefit greatly from that one enlistment from the rest of your life, if you work it right. And while you're in there, they're going to pump you up and try to make it seem like you're everything. And you're so important, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, dish. They will kick you out in a moment's notice if they feel like you're not perfect enough.But that's the thing that I hate about the military is they, they, they, they tell us that we're better than civilians. We have to do everything a hundred percent, right. 99% is unacceptable. And then when we come out of the military, it's hard to adjust down. You know, you've told me for years that I'm better than everyone else in the world.Now I've got to learn to get along with everyone else in the world. That's just after my six year enlistment, imagine somebody after 20 people, it's hard to go into the military and come out with a fully sound mind. So I say, take what you can get and leave bitch.So then we get into [00:52:00] part three par three covers my life from the year 2006 to the year 2012.This, this is the second dream here. Elongated dream that I talk about this dream here speaks to the dark times that are to come in my feature though. I don't know how this is not the only dream God gave me about the dark times that were to come. This is one of the ones that that I wanted to mention though.But the spirit was speaking to me all throughout my life about the times that were going to come. I don't think there's anything that I could have done to avoid going through all the, all the trauma and everything like that. For what it did, they're refined to me and it's like, it's shaved off. It's like, it's like, it's shaved off things that I didn't need, like pride and ego arrogance conceitedness.And [00:53:00] over dependency on myself being overly self-sufficient. And what I mean by that is not enough true dependence on God. Okay. Yeah. I'm confident and competent and able to get up and go and do things, but I need to give him more credit. And I also had an over dependency on church at, on preachers and all worship leaders, people call themselves pastors and whatever.I put too much stock into them. And so I'm very, very thankful for the dark times that came because it took all of that out of me and whatever it was, however youthful. I thought I was the God with four. I lost everything. I'm way more useful to him now. After having lost everything for and losing everything physically.Well, shit, I lost my fucking mind too. You know, I gained so much more, you know, spiritually and internally thinking, speaking. So we get into that very, very dark [00:54:00] dream there, mid chapter eight, it's called welcome to Houston. I that's the best thing I could think, because you know, at this time I'm still optimistic about going to Houston.I'm thinking I've got this bright future ahead of me and everything like that. I didn't think you know, and I'm going to Houston, I'm going to join Lakewood church. I made it out of the military without a bad conduct discharge. And so let's go to the third, fourth, largest city with the largest church in America and let's just do great things.Shit.Trying to get a job after serving in the military. Try that depending on what your job was in the military may not necessarily transfer easily. It was so hard to get a job. I ended up working every fucking where walked off half the damn jobs that people pissed me off. I had anxiety and shit like that and mental health issues.I didn't know, coming out of the military too. So I had a very short fuse but it just talks about me getting settled into [00:55:00] Houston, getting settled into Lakewood and, you know, thinking that life's just going to be great. Chapter nine is called aspirations. This talks about me moving forward in the Lakewood, going higher and volunteering stuff like that.Still talking about me being bad with money. I'm still a hell still fucking around. One of my favorite stories from there is where I got the DJ for an hour for the KSBJ God listens radio station. They're in Houston, Texas. And so that was cool.Really, really cool to have my home playlist on the radio for an hour. That was that some shit that I would do again. And so, cause I love making music and playing music and stuff like that. This chapter gets into my, a short stint at the Houston graduate school of theology because I was gonna have this whole big idea.I was going to go to church and become a I don't know, I guess I wanted to become like a worship leader, maybe a slash [00:56:00] preacher worship leader. And I wasn't gonna go get me a degree in theology because like every fucking body who was on staff at a church had a degree in theology, but I'm so glad I left that bitch.I left because one of the professors told us that they like to control people in church. And I was just like, I don't want to control people. I don't know why you think it's okay to just say that. So casually. But I'm glad I didn't, I don't have a degree from a seminary. I took like five or six classes and then that was it.I mean, I'm happy for what I learned, but you know, my evangelists Nelson, the preachers and the true profits and prophetesses that I grew up around didn't have degrees when they preach, they just spoke from their lived experiences, what God, or whatever the holy ghost was telling them then. So there was no prerecorded message.Pre-written sermon to be reviewed by the board at church or whatever. However, the fuck these people do it. There wasn't no iPad [00:57:00] for them to preach from. There was nothing. They went up there just with a Bible in their hand and the word of God and their mouth period done, period, that sort of preaching feels more authentic to me because, you know, people can use word play.To hypnotize you and mesmerize you and stuff like that, especially they have enough time to write out the speech. There's no different than what a president does or what a CEO does. Everything is intentional. You know, I'm not really fond of the word of God being written by a human in an intentional way like that, because I don't know how much of that shit is divine.How much of it is just him. And please believe that when these preachers speak, not every fucking word, if any, that comes out of some of their miles is of God. But when these people here, you know, the people who raised me with preach, you know, they just got up there and rolled and them preachers could preach for hours, baby, trust me, [00:58:00] I hated sitting in church for fucking three hours, but, but as they would say, when the spirit was moving, they would let him move.and so I feel more like. Like justified to preach and speak the way that I do though. And I say, I'm a preacher, a preacher is anybody who speaks the word of God. Yeah. I am a licensed and ordained minister, but I only got that to, to like marry my friends and shit. If they ever came there became a day in time where they couldn't find someone to marry them because they're not straight.I don't believe in the need to go to school to learn how to preach. I don't believe the way how they do here in the south. People go and get what's called like missionary licenses, because the denomination wants them to be licensed to carry the word, I guess. Or maybe this means they pass some class, or course I'm like bitching that you called or you not, you know, I don't think the prophets of old Isaiah, [00:59:00] Jeremiah, the apostles, when the new Testament had licenses, I don't think they went to school to learn the Lord, called him and dealt with them, justified them and send them.I'm glad I have none of those licenses and certifications and things like that. And then that way, you know, my, my word to use authentic and it's true. And it's from my lived experiences because I can't speak nothing I haven't been through or nothing that hasn't been divinely shown to me. And I don't want it to be all like like how in school, how everything is.Structured and methodical. I just like the free flow and the spirit, yo. And so then the next chapter is called debtors and collectors. I very beautifully open up this chapter with one of the first songs that came to me in a dream. So I hear a lot of music in my sleep and and so I'd get up and I go about the business of writing it out.And so I don't [01:00:00] know how these songs would ever be used. One day. I've been collecting them for many, many years. And and so I opened this chapter, chapter 10 debtors and Collette collectors with the song that I wrote, which is called worship while I live. If you get the audio book, you can hear me sing it.And and I call this chapter better than collectors because. Ciao. This is when my bad spending came to a head. So like I said, it's hard to get a job when you get out of the military. I got a job, but it was paying me far less than what I made in the military. And I was all these loans and shit. And I looked up online where you can do bankruptcy.So yes, I filed for bankruptcy, chapter 13, I think, whatever one that just wiped all the shit away, but it was a ding on my credit for like a decade after that. So yeah, I couldn't fast on filed for bankruptcy cause the bitch had bad spending habits. And so I did what [01:01:00] I did. but Hey, we can always get better, you know, about our spending and stuff like that.I talk in this chapter about the terrible job experience that I had working at the call center at CenterPoint energy, you know, in Houston, Texas fucking hurricane. I, you know, if you've never been through a hurricane, pray that you done. This is just pray that you don't pray that you down, but I go over the whole hurricane height experience and everything like that.And I don't know why the fuck they would name, you know, I'm thinking about I Turner, you know, I turned her, we'll be in the what's love, got to do with it, a movie. If you want to watch that, he's the man who physically abused Tina Turner and everything like that. I'm all like, I wish some of these damn people would think before they name some of these hurricanes, you know, they just give them some of the most like notorious names, like, fuck, what are they going to do next?Hurricane Satan? Or some shit like, please don't[01:02:00]and then let's see in chapter 11, it's called de-humanized. And so the core of this chapter here is me being fired from Lakewood church, from volunteering. And I call this chapter de-humanize because. That is how I felt. And it wasn't until I was talking to somebody a couple of months ago that they, that they gave me that word, you know, and I was explaining what happened.And they was like, you know, they be humanized you at Lakewood when they kicked you out, they told you, you weren't valuable and acceptable as you were. They stripped you of your humanity. And I was like, okay, I didn't know it was called that word, but that makes sense. You know, when someone tells you, you have to go.And so sometimes people will ask me, so did they tell you, you have to leave at Lakewood, but okay. Now if you tell somebody that they can no longer do the things that [01:03:00] draw them to the ministry, and then you tell them they can't do those things again, unless they change who they are. Are you not telling them to leave?The current form that they're in is certainly not welcome. You have established that there is ways to make people feel very uncomfortable and unwelcome without saying, Hey, Lee, You know, it doesn't have to be stated, you know, and I tried to go back there and sit in the audience, but it was too hard to do.I felt like people were looking at me and watching me. They found out on my MySpace page that I wasn't straight. And they said for that reason, I could no longer be in, in service of anything at Lakewood. And I was on Wednesday nights, I was a volunteer supervisor over all the other kids.Teachers is about 20 in total, 20 groups of kids, hundreds of fucking kids. I had my own class to teach. I was also in charge of the check-in process at the front, at the, at the check-in counter for all the kids into disputes that [01:04:00] happen. You know, I'm mediated that between the teachers and the parents.I sang, I was a worship leader for the kids too. And then also staying in the adult choir on the weekends. And they were like, you're fired from volunteering from all of that. Cause you're not straight. And, and they were like, we, you can't be over there hanging out in Montrose. Montrose is the gay district in Houston.They were like, you know, you can't be over there and I've come to learn that churches regulate people like this. Like there are staff members, churches will tell their staff members, you can't drink. You can't go here. You can't go there. That's how the military was with, with me too. They were like, even the military.We don't want you at this bar at this place. I don't know what the fuck, these organizations who they think they are, that they have. Dictate to a person what they're doing when they're not on, in this case, they, the church has time. I never bought boyfriends up to Lakewood. And none of that, when I was at Lakewood, I was on Lakewood's time.Okay. I [01:05:00] wasn't paid are none of this. And even if I was, it's none of their fucking business, what I'm doing when I'm not at church. And so they were like, well, one of the kids could have found your MySpace page. And I'm thinking that, you know, that shit, that kids do, you know, they have this glossy image of their children and I'm like, no, bitch, they would've done nothing more than what they're already doing.And so, so that was a devastating thing. You know, that, that, that, that was like a heartbreak that that's one of the top, definitely in the top two or three most terrible things that ever happened to me in my life. You know, up there with becoming homeless, getting HIV you know, having to deal with likely affairs that my dad had and things like that being kicked out of Lakewood churches is at the top of that list is that sort of trauma, the sort of shit that hurts you so deep.You just, you space out and you don't [01:06:00] think it's real, you just get numb and so much pain, you know, that's how that was.Just don't pass on from this chapter. But it was what it was par four covers my life when 2010 to 2012, Vish a lot can happen in two years, fuck me in the tits with a Dick shit can change. And so chapter 12 is called a fucking wreck.This statement here has two meanings. Personally. I was a fucking wreck after being kicked out of Lakewood and fired from volunteering, you know, internally I was a fucking wreck. And then I also literally had a fucking wreck because I was, I wasn't drunk, but I was very, very tired and fatigued. And I had heard the warnings about how it was not good to drink if you're tired because the alcohol can enhance the fatigue.And I didn't have that much to drink. Just a couple of bloody Mayer. I have been working like 12 hour shifts at the light company. No Houston. [01:07:00] And so I fell asleep at the wheel and I woke up to hitting light poles and every damn thing and total that car. And then that led me to buying my 2010 Ford Mustang.And I was the first person, I think, in Houston to have like a car, you know, that was that like that, that was a year. They changed the body style, you know, and they really, really tricked it out and amped up the Mustangs. It was a sick ass fucking car. and this chapter, we get into how I transitioned from being like this full-time church boy into this full time nightlife boy, that's my thinking. After I got kicked out of church, Yeah, they won't accept me. I know the streets will, so I'll start going to clubs and stuff a lot more so that I will feel loved.And so I didn't realize what I know now, how much we seek community. We're always going to find some type of bam tribes. So whether or not it's gangs, gamers, [01:08:00] you know playing video games, board games, you know, whether it's the hunting crew, the fishing crew, whatever the case may be, the fucking God damn croquet selling committee or whatever the fuck, bingo hall, whatever the fuck it is that you do.You're going to find some kind of way to connect with people. And so I didn't think, you know, to go to like a fine, I didn't know about like gay affirming churches. Some of the Presbyterian churches I think Lutheran, Episcopalian, metropolitan community churches. If you insist upon going to churches, they are actually churches out there who have gay pastors and leaders and stuff like that.We are not, you know, reduced to only going to these mainstream churches who don't like us and think we're wrong. They they're just what we tend to see a lot, but you have so many options if you're not straight. And my main message to the non straight people, when it comes to religion is stop going to churches where you were

In this week's episode Matt and Ryan discuss the military's Uniform Code of Long Distance Relationships when they advise someone dating a soldier who clearly keeping dependents in different residences if you know what we mean. They they discuss a raid in Russia in which authorities claimed to have foiled a Neo-Nazi wet-work cell that just could not get enough of Sid Meier's SIMS. Then they discuss an opportunity to purchase a piece of the Ukrainian resistance.Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and gmail @wreckyourpodVisit us on the web at www.wreckyourpod.comThis week's promo: Ignorance Was Bliss@IWBpodcast on Twitterhttps://iwbpodcast.com/

Episode 108. I discuss the new DOD policy letter on 'domestic extremism in the ranks', which labels things that are already crimes under the UCMJ as new crimes under the UCMJ, while remaining vague enough to initiate the political purges and compliance discussed in Episode 107. This is an army that cannot fight and they are being set up for a fall. Radio Contra Sponsors: Civil Defense Manual Tactical Wisdom Blacksmith Publishing Radio Contra Patron Program Brushbeater Training Calendar Brushbeater Forum Palmetto State Armory Primary Arms ReadyWise Storable Food

Ep 14 - Today we chat again with Little Bear about Lt Col Stuart Scheller's epic viral personal attack of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff's Afghanistan withdrawal and unnecessary loss of US service member lives.  Little Bear also explains how to take apart a Nuke.  Happy Veterans Day!XOXOStiffy and DirtyEmail us your stories to      TheDVsPodcast@gmail.comInstagram DysfunctionalVeteransPodcastPatreon: Half of the proceeds from our Patreon page go to Dallas area Homeless Support Facilities. Please consider supporting them today.  Get some awesome tea at Valhalla Tea Use code DVPODCAST for 20% offDonate to Dallas based non-profit that day houses homeless veterans OurCalling*****************************************Show notes:task and purpose article HEREmarine corps times HERE 

In a wide-ranging interview, Major General Paul E. Vallely, U.S. Army (Ret.) discussed the threats America and our allies face, the current state of the military, and the criminal charges that should be brought under the UCMJ against Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and possibly even former Defense Secretary […]

Autumn Schlimmer joined the Navy with one objective; to become a Master of Arms and to become the best canine handler that she could be. Receiving high accolades during her initial entry training and all through canine handler school, she arrived at her first duty station and was immediately instructed to dye her naturally blonde hair. Forced to work graveyard shift and her canine taken from her without justification, her shipmate accused her of drug use without any evidence, nor drug test. Within ninety days of her first assignment, she was kicked out of the Navy without an actual justification. For the past decade, Autumn has been fighting the Naval Board of Corrections of Military Records to give her a proper discharge, appeal her service records, and still be able to serve as a canine handler in the civilian world. In a remarkable feat of personal resilience, Autumn has become an avid knifemaker, motorcycle rider, and still works with explosives detection within the K-9 Community. For more information about our guest Autumn Schlimmer: Instagram @fraulinek9 and @heyautumndontfall~Music by Army Veteran, musician, artist, activist *YETI TEARS*IG: @yetitearsSpotify: Yeti Tears Twitch: yetitearsInterested in coming on the podcast with your story of making a positive difference? Reach out to Us!~Adam DeRitoIG: @adam.deritoFacebook & Twitter: Adam DeRitoWebsite: www.adamderito.com , ~HonorHillTacticalIG & Facebook: @honorhilltactical Links: https://linktr.ee/HHTmedia ,

During the making of Dark Sabre season 1, our team sat down with some brave and amazing individuals…from former employees of the Air Force Academy, to current and former cadets. One of our most impactful guests was Teresa Beasley, a civilian who worked as a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator within the military for over 30 years, and important to our investigation, she held this role at the Air Force Academy from 2007-2017. While performing this role at the United States Air Force Academy, Teresa found herself dealing with more cases of assault than she had ever seen, as well as an institution that was all too willing to do everything in their power to silence those who wished to bring this issue to light. In her own words, Teresa will share with us the true state of how Sexual Assault and other issues are handled at USAFA, including the bleak truth of how victims are treated within this American military institution.For more information about Teresa Beasley and her story: CBS News ~ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-academy-sexual-assault-former-official-alleges-cover-up/ , interview 2017 ELLE.com~ https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34110279/vanessa-guillen-sexual-assault-retaliation/ , interview 2020 ~ Podcast graphics by Navy Veteran *Brandon Tomason*, Owner and head designer of Veterans Apparel IG: @veterans.apparel Website: Veteransapparel.org , ~Music by Army Veteran, musician, artist, activist *YETI TEARS*IG: @yetitearsSpotify: Yeti Tears Twitch: yetitears ~HonorHillTacticalIG & Facebook: @honorhilltactical Links: https://linktr.ee/HHTmedia , ~Adam DeRitoIG: @adam.deritoFacebook & Twitter: Adam DeRito ~Dogs4Vets trains and certifies Veterans and service dogs as a team. Dogs4Vets began back in 2012 with the simple mission— to help Veterans get back on their feet and live a full life. Now 9 years later they have helped train over 800 Veteran/service dog teams. Learn more about Dogs4Vets, their mission, and how to get involved or donate.IG: @dogs4vets_Website: dogs4vets.org , ~Emergency Nutrition...We teamed up with Sports Nutrition Specialist Rachel Irons and her company to bring you and the first responders in your life healthy, macro friendly meal plans. If you live in the Phoenix Area and are looking for a legit meal plan service look no further. Use Code: (

Today's show is looking at the recent events in our Nation against the back drop of the poem called "The Snake" as read by President Donald J Trump, we need to pay close attention and learn just who the snakes really are, this show will touch on it, I hope you are informed and entertained.

The Full Rant Text [1:36] - I argue a lot of politics online. Sometimes that leads to interesting interactions, but not this week. Representative Kevin McCarthy posted some non-sense and I called him a traitor and said he wasn't a good source because he was a liar. Of course his supporters leapt to his defense. The arguments rapidly got mired in name calling and every republican fear being projected onto me.Let me slow down for a moment and pick just one. The United States can accurately be described as a Democratic Republic Magistocracy with Kleptocratic and Pornocratic tendencies all while supporting a robust Capitalistic Oligarchy and a Militaristic Hegemony.That sounds really negative and there is a lot to unpack there. I view it as a list of things to improve not a shit list and I won't unpack it, but I will share some simplified definitions:Democracy - a government where people vote on stuff.Republic - a government where people choose leaders who do the day to day governing.Magistocracy - Leadership by magistrates, judges.Kleptocracy - Leadership by thieves.Pornocracy - a government so corrupt and willing to embrace drama that it reminds one of the porn industry. In front of and behind the camera.Capitalistic - A culture that elevates money.Militiaristic - A culture relating strongly to warfare.Hegemony - A group of countries all taking leadership from one.So, knowing all these about the United States you can imagine my frustration when people say stuff like: wE aRe DeMoCraCy NoT a rEpUblic. And how that is compounded when intelligent people like Legal Eagle repeat that phrase not realizing it is a thought terminating cliche used as part of shitty political debate.With all of that complex categorical nuance it can be hard to discuss ethics in our leadership.People argue that the constitution allowed for McCarthy to try to vote away our election results, and it does. It allows for that so congress isn't forced to accept fraudulent results from the states and we had no evidence of fraud. So maybe we shouldn't be taking our ethical ques from government and laws which I already described as a Kleptocracy and Pornocracy.So where should we get ethics?Some reach to the bible and try to determine what jesus would do. I think that horseshit because there isn't much evidence to support religion, but that doesn't really matter because the bible doesn't really have much to say about modern problems. The bible doesn't say a lot about zoning or pollution. Even places where religious books appear to have some say like, abortion, taxation, or usury, it still takes human judgment to interpret that. Notice how the pious can't agree on these topics?Between the lack of being real and general lack of agreement religion is a not a good source of ethics.Some people might reflexively reach for science. But it doesn't matter how much you learn about the facts and reality of what is. It doesn't matter how much you study evolution, for example, because that can't tell you if genetically engineered corn is ethical. That study can tell you if the engineered genes can leak out into the ecosystem or not or if those genes will hurt people eating them. You can't infer a value judgement from the raw data alone, you need to use human judgement at some point.Put another way, science can't tell us what we want to do, but once we decide what we want to do we can decide how best to approach our goals using science. It is up to us whether we do that ethically or optimize for something else.I am going to pick on one extremely contentious but stale topic for a deeper example.In April 2011, one soldier now named Chelsea Manning, but at the time Bradley Manning, leaked a video of an attack helicopter killing some journalists. I think we can all agree killing people and journalists unprovoked is bad, and if you can't then fuck off.But they were in a war zone and reviewing the full 38 minute video makes it look like the pilots mistook bulky cameras for weapons. They asked for permission to shoot, they took some precautions, clearly not enough but more than one might expect for a warzone.Look at the full length video in the show notes. The full video is not clear, and these kinds of mistakes happen in earnest in war, communication is hard even on the best days. People seriously discussed punishing or firing the pilots and their commanders. The ethics around this is way less clear than it could be. How do we consider accidents or people who might be using accidents to cover up mistakes when thinking about ethics? Then the leaker, Chelsea, who claimed to just want to expose corruption also released three quarters of a million other files. She was tried and held with less than the entirety of due process. She was a soldier and subject to the UCMJ, a sort of military only law, in addition to normal law. And leaking such vast amounts put her in a special category, but also the relative ease she did it made leniency seem plausible. To leak this much when the laws were written would have taken semi trailers full of stuff. Should punishment be harsh or lenient. The press coverage at the time made her holding conditions seem like borderline torture. There were accusations that this treatment was in part because she was trans. Then her sentence was commuted 7 years from what might have been lifelong incarceration.There were so many mitigating factors. Chelsea tried to go through appropriate channels and it seemed that to everyone involved that Chelsea thought she was doing the right thing even though all of her superiors in the government disagreed that it was actually the right thing. How much should intention and goals factor in?Is any of that right or wrong?This topic is clearly too much for me to cover in a rant, but this scenario has enough moving parts to be used in thought experiments.Think bigotry against trans people is good? If Chelsea had access to cheaper counseling and not the hypermasculine environment that is the US Military she might not have wanted to leak these documents. That is pretty damningly anti-bigotry and seems on firm footing with the evidence.Should we have not gone to war in the first place? Most listening now probably think it was a bad idea, but when we started the war was overwhelmingly popular. We had evidence from previous wars and perhaps we could have known betterShould leakers be punished more or could leaks possibly be prevented by increasing the amount of material that leaves through the official channels? The evidence seems to show that beyond a certain point punishment is not an effective deterrent and at some point national security is important and needs to be protected so we can't just release everything. So maybe we should encourage a strictly volunteer military instead of coercing membership by paying for college with the GI Bill. If college were federally paid for then Chelsea Manning may never have entered what was obviously a difficult situation.I can't do this topic justice, I want to revisit it more in a future episode perhaps as a central topic. But we can keep asking hypotheticals about this situation because it is so public and has so much visible nuance.There are a lot of questions here and on ethics in general. I cannot provide good answers. I can say how I approach ethics. Here is how much I take for granted. I have no evidence that this is right beyond my own intuition, but I do believe this needs to be the foundation for human ethics. Just four words “we should minimize suffering”.That short sentence does a lot of heavy lifting. It implies that we know how. With enough science and data we can know how. You won't find that sentiment in most hol...

This is the recording of the actual appeal in it's entirety. The judges are civilian judges that oversee the Court Martial System. Normally they have the final word on any courts martial. The only other court that could hear this case is the US Supreme Court. They will not hear this case. It is interesting to hear how the government is turning over more and more authority to the military to try by courts martial, and convict civilians of crimes under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, (UCMJ). This recording was difficult to obtain. I know of no other place to hear it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/military-dragnet/message

What is the genesis of an Oath of Office that we take when we join the Naval service? Where does General Washington come in and what was his impact on an Oath? What does the Constitution say about an Oath of Office. What does "well and faithfully mean"? Why is this oath different for enlistment?

In this episode I talk with former Congressman Duncan Hunter and his staff Tommy Marquez, now a board member of the Pipe Hitter Foundation. Both veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Duncan and Tommy were dogged supporters of the military while in congress and have years of experience helping veterans and advocating for reforms to the UCMJ, VA, and other government institutions. We discuss issues facing the military community, and what changes congress and our military needs to make to better serve our men and women in uniform.

Eddie Gallagher is a retired US Navy Seal who was acquitted of war crimes after being falsely accused by his team mates.  For three years, Eddie and his family were put through absolute hell. He served nine months in jail, his children were dragged out of the house at gun point, and his wife waged her own war to save Eddie and their family.  Once he was acquitted, his problems did not let up. The Navy tried to take away his retirement and his Seal trident.  Nevertheless, Eddie persisted in getting his name cleared, and today, he is working to help fellow service members who were falsely accused or harshly punished by the UCMJ through the Pipe Hitters Foundation.  Eddie is also the author of a soon to be released book called The Man in the Arena, that tells the story of his and his family's ordeal.  Pre-order Eddie's book at https://theeddiegallagher.com/.

If ever you wanted to hear a true story of the relentless pursuit of truth, this is the one you need to listen to. This Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat veteran Eddie Gallagher, with 20 years of service to our country and 9 deployments in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq was accused of war crimes while being innocent all the while. At the end of his 2017 deployment, accusations escalated to a point beyond ridiculous and was imprisoned for 9 months without ever being charged. His wife, Andrea, spearheaded the “Free Eddie” Campaign effort to prove his innocence and fought tooth and nail to do so. After an unbelievable series of events, including terrorism against his family and young children, Eddie's innocence was proven. Eddie and Andrea have written the book The Man in the Arena to tell Eddie's almost unbelievable story.    In this episode you will hear:   None of the accusations against Eddie were about war crimes. “They locked me up in solitary, and nothing was explained to me.” There's no bail system in the military. The UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) makes it possible to put people in jail without charges. The level of terrorizing inflicted on our family shocked me to the core. I thought: “No one's coming to help us.” The truth will prevail no matter what happens. “I truly feel that God called us to this. He let us go through this for a purpose, and that purpose is way bigger than us.” Eddie's story can be paralleled with the story of Joseph in the bible. That story was a guiding light for us. If they can do this to us, they can do this to anyone – and these guys are heroes. Failure to protect one of their warfighters that served 20 years, is the biggest black eye, but we're gonna use it to make an impact on a larger scale to bring change to the UCMJ, and the way that we treat our military service members. “She's [Andrea's] the true hero of the story.” They held machine guns and assault rifles to our children's heads. [Eddie] was being restricted from legal counsel, contrary to what we, as Americans, constitutionally have. “Take failures and learn from them.” “We're gonna stand up for what's right.” “If we had quit, they would have taken him out for the remainder of his life.” Special New Year Deal! Every purchase of a 2-year plan will get you 1 additional month free. Go to ​https://nordvpn.com/TNQ ​and use the coupon TNQ at checkout.

What are your rights as they are shaped by the 2nd and the 3rd Amendment. What are the colonial Origins and Interpretations of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? What were Intentions of the Founders, and how and when were they changed? How has the Supreme Court interpreted this right today? Is there a connection between the original intent, and the rights and rulings today?

How did the Founders handle Federalism and State's Rights - that perpetually delicate balance. How does the 14th Amendment address these issues? Our constitution and our way of life remain a great experiment – it is our responsibility as naval officers, and as Americans to understand exactly what the Constitution guarantees to all citizens, and to prove that we truly are all created equal.

In March, President Trump has signed an executive order to giving him permission to try people under the UCMJ, which would be required if his plans are to arrest these corrupt people, and drain the swamp.

Once again the travesties of the UCMJ, or Uniform Code of Military Justice, are unnecessarily wreaking havoc on dedicated service members and their families. In this touching episode of the Froglogic Podcast, former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor David Rutherford welcomes Gold Star wife and veteran, Destiny Flynn to this week's show. Destiny is currently married to a MARSOC Raider who is being charged with the accidental death of a DOD contractor and former Green Beret Master Sergeant. Listen to Destiny as she tells her husband's side of the story and how the MARSOC command automatically assumed criminal conduct without reviewing all of the evidence in the case. She also details the unyielding mentality of a system she believes is determined to achieve success at any cost in order to advance careers. Please take a listen and then help Destiny and her family by writing into your congressional representative if you believe in bringing justice to these dedicated Raiders. Semper Fi. Award-winning Podcast Host, David Rutherford reignites his Froglogic Podcast by answering life's greatest questions. Listen to this former Navy SEAL Medic, CIA Contractor, best-selling author, and World Series Champion motivational performance coach, give his unique and profound insight about the human condition. www.teamfroglogic.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/froglogic-podcast/support

People who have worked with CSM Schroeder know he is a Soldier's Soldier. His 34 years in the Army spanned from his Germany days as an Electronics Mechanic to Command Sergeant Major of US Army Forces Command, a 4-star level command of over 750,000 Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve Component Soldiers. In this chat, CSM Schroeder shares the story from the beginning of his career, where he survived UCMJ then reenlisted to become an Infantryman. Through varying leadership positions at multiple echelons, CSM Schroeder grew into the iconic NCO leader that the Army is designed to grow. He is passionate about reclaiming the role of the NCO and advises that NCOs should leverage the authority and responsibility inherent in their rank. Though he retired last year, his transition to civilian life hasn't stopped him from continuing to influence the Army. He stays tightly connected to his Army network and is putting to paper his well-developed thoughts on Army leadership, which will likely find their way to bookshelves before long. Regardless of whether you are an officer or an NCO, Infantryman or cook, CSM Schroeder's insight will make you a better leader. If you would like to show your support for The Military Leader Podcast, please leave a rating and comment in iTunes. Thank you so much for the very kind ratings and comments that many of you have left. I'm flattered to know that the podcast is making an impact! The views expressed in this podcast do not officially represent the views of the US military or the United States Government. The music for The Military Leader Podcast was composed by Iliya Ryakhovskiy, who made a custom piece for the podcast. Thanks for listening and lead well!