Daniel P. Driscoll

But as part of this, it's kind of like a razor, razor blade model.

I'll give you the razor, but I want to sell you the blades.

And so I might mark down the price.

And these are all the games that have occurred for 30 years.

I'm going to mark down the original price of this thing I'm selling you because I know you're locked into me to buy all the replacement parts going forward.

And I can charge you a...

20 X profit margin on that.

And so the way the whole system has occurred is we, the army, sinfully would enter these contracts where we committed to you, our vendor, not to repair our own stuff.

So what we didn't do many times is we didn't set up requirements of, well, if you're going to say I have to use you to repair my own part, you can't charge me more than a certain multiple of the cost to you.

We didn't tell them you have to keep parts on hand

so that you are able to empower us to repair our own equipment at some certain time.

And so what has occurred is you then have all this profit-seeking behavior from them, which is rational, but we can't keep our equipment up.

Soldiers suffer, and we don't have a very strong legal mechanism to go after them.

And so what we have said is, fuck it, we're just going to do the right thing.

just leave it to you you know yeah i think the president um and secretary hegseth have done an amazing job the president has done this across the entire federal government he's empowered he's picked leaders who are unconventional i mean i'm a 39 year old secretary of the army um with 1.2 million people and almost 200 billion dollars under me secretary hegseth i think he would say the same thing and he's done a remarkable job of

getting embedded in the decision-making of picking our current leaders and our future leaders, where I think most secretaries of previously defense, now of war, might not have been as involved as our secretary is in those decisions, but he's not letting it happen passively anymore.

He is digging in.

And I don't have as much experience in the other services, but I think he's done a remarkable job across the entire Pentagon doing this.

I think

if i look at our leaders the ones that come to mind at the very top i think we have um like the person running europe for us is this guy cd or chris donahue he was a delta guy for 10 15 years if you look at our superintendent of west point delta guy for 10 or 15 years our sergeant major of the army delta guy for a long time i think he was there sergeant major of the army weimer for 20 years 25 years