Charlie Hurt

Joey, you have a unique or unique to this table perspective of having gone into war and and had to suffer through hearing or maybe you didn't.

I don't know.

But the idea that you have men and women going into battle right now and they're listening to this carping back home, political carping back home from people who are clearly trying to score political points.

as you and your friends are perhaps willing to lay down their lives for that right to carp.

Yeah, we didn't listen to any of them.

They were all talking heads.

I didn't vote in a presidential election until McCain-Obama, and it's because I learned that McCain was a POW, and I thought that was kind of bad.

We you know, I don't think this generation has that luxury.

We didn't have smartphones, so we weren't checked into politics as a part of our personality.

I can tell you what the politics were of any of my buddies, except we all agreed on killing bad guys.

And that was a hell of a lot of fun, as General Mattis said.

So I think that in a lot of ways, maybe we're more ignorant.

Maybe we were less propagandized.

I don't know.

I think that a lot of folks right now in the military are excited.

I think that Pete Hegseth has done a hell of a job returning the warrior.

He said it in one of the latest comments.

I think maybe it was at the press briefing.

He said, we're not defenders, we're warriors.

We are waging war on our terms to win the goals that we set and come home and celebrate.