Captain Brad Geary
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Like we have this need, like three to four years later, some program office somewhere delivers something that's like, okay, that would have been useful three years ago when we highlighted that it was a need. Now it's almost irrelevant. These guys were doing that within months. Wow. One capability they thought of, open source bot, got waivers to dive it, and we implemented it.
We added some mods to it because we got waivers to that, and we implemented it on a real-world op in less than a year from concept to execution, proven and taken downrange, and it was all them. Wow. All young dudes in spite of the system, in spite of us who just hold that thing back sometimes. Wow.
Probably both. Probably both. It's hard to say. I mean, it's hard to say. We've got some really good ones out there that are trying to run with these guys. Like, let's go. You can do it. But then I know that we have dinosaurs who just can't let go of yesteryear's war. I mean, yeah. And I'll hit the dudes up. Like, yo, how did your training block go?
We spent four weeks doing mobility with MRAPs, big armored vehicles, right? What? You guys are still spending four weeks doing that in your workup? Why? Those were useful in Iraq, but we haven't been there for a while. And I'm pretty sure we're not driving those in Beijing next week or anything.
2018.
And this guy's a new team guy, just finishing his first platoon, was still doing an MRAP training block. Okay, guys, we have to evolve faster than that. That's a problem that it took that long. Now, I did hear recently, fairly, they finally just cut it out. But that's a problem, man. It should not take from 2018 to 2025 for us to fix that. Yeah, yeah. We got to evolve faster.
What were you interviewing with Hexeth about? Yeah, that's a funny one. We hadn't won our fight yet. We were still in the middle of it. And the week before Thanksgiving week, I get a text from Cash. And he said, hey, check your email. So I check my email, and it says, hey, can you be in West Palm Beach within the next 36 hours for interviews?
It said, you have, quote, been nominated for and are being considered for a senior position in this administration. I was like, well, that's interesting. Yes, I can be there. So I flew out, caught a flight at the last minute, went down there, and I interviewed with now Secretary Hegseth and Director Gabbard, DNI, both of which you've had here on the show, actually.
So we had a couple days of interviews with them and their staffs, and it went really well. We talked about a lot of the things that you and I have just talked about here today, and my observations that even these good admirals out there, even these good generals, these great leaders are institutionalized.
And so it's not lost on me that in the last Trump administration, he put a lot of three- and four-star retired generals and admirals in positions of politically appointed positions. And yet he meant institutional resistance, even though they were great leaders, great leaders in the military, but he meant institutional resistance because they're institutionalists.
If you notice in this administration, there's not a lot of three and four star retirees that he's nominating.
It's a lot of lower ranking, O5 and belows, who did a little bit of time in the military, enough to gain a perspective of it, but not enough time to where they're institutionalized. I said, I've noticed that too, and it's what I've noticed through my case. So I talked about all the change that's needed, and I told them, if you want change, I'm happy to be a change agent for you.
I've seen a lot of things that need to be fixed, need to be overhauled, and I'm happy to run fast in that direction. And I would be very honored and happy to continue to fulfill my oath to the Constitution wearing a suit instead of a uniform. But I see the need to wear a suit instead of uniform. I see the need now to have civilian oversight that's going to mandate change for the good.
And like we've talked about in our case, I see the need for congressional oversight because even the good meaning ones are institutionalized and they won't always do the right thing. So that's what it was all about. I don't yet know what, they're going to do with me, if anything.
I keep hearing my name circulated up there for some positions, but I know some of the positions I was being considered for have already been nominated for. So we really don't know now if I'm still in the running for anything. But it makes it tricky because I'm still active duty trying to retire as well. And I understand that's a complexity.
I think... You know, in the civilian courts, it's very important, our legal framework of innocent until proven guilty. I think that has been bastardized in the military over time. Not only one person's fault, just over time, like we've talked about. And you're very much treated guilty until proven innocent. And that's crushed a lot of people's souls.
Or you're even innocent, but find yourself being abused by this system. There's a very, there's a human cost associated with this stuff. Walk the Talk Foundation just put out a published document the other day. I don't know if they published it, but we've talked about it.
I can't remember the actual numbers of what that represents, but it's thousands. And I see that, and I felt it. It's the double-edged sword that is the SEAL teams in a lot of ways. For so many years, your value is defined by, does the team value you? Are you under the boat with them? Are you carrying your weight? And are you choosing to carry more on a daily basis?
And that's great because that produces things that, that's why they make movies and books about this stuff, because it just produces these supernatural units that go do things as a team that you could never do individually. It catalyzes teamwork. It's amazing what you can do with that.
The double-edged sword part of it is, over time, and the longer you do that, your self-worth, my self-worth, got wrapped into that. And so when I get wrapped into now an investigation based upon, like we've talked about, all the lies, it doesn't matter, you're ostracized to some degree. And you feel like you're no longer valued by the team anymore. And that can shatter your self-worth.
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