Dave Butler
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90 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Dave Butler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Accepting the policy. Twelve white claws. And send this guy to the line.
I imagine he wants to go to the line, right? Don't you guys think? What if you got orders to the Pentagon? Very confused.
Not that it's a bad place. We do a lot of good things here, okay? Holy moly. There's a meeting on the Pentagon, all right?
Build it. Huge. That's actually a good fat electrician story. It's, what, 14 months it took to build the Pentagon? Did it really? It's a big-ass building. It's a big-ass building. 14 months or 15 months. It was a super short time. I mean, to compare that to, like, building a government building now.
I'm always like, so I'm sitting here and every time Brandon speaks, I'm like, don't respond.
Just ignore it.
Pentagon. Did you guys, did they hear about transformation in contact? No. All right, all right, come on. Let's talk about that. How are we on time? No, we're good. All right. Okay, okay. We're on your time.
Oh, the spokesman is here. So great. Okay.
The white club man is here.
Air quotes. Okay. No, transformation contact. Here's so General George knows what we do at the Pentagon, right? And so we decided... Instead of driving change from the Pentagon, right, instead of us coming up with PowerPoint slides and telling the force, telling the rest of the Army, here's how it's going to be, here's the equipment you're going to use, here's how you're going to use it.
So General George is being a line guy and, you know, what this future E4 will be doing. Yeah. We said, let's transform while this stuff is out there and get bottom-up lessons learned. So we're getting all the new equipment, some of the stuff you talked about, all new equipment, and a brigade at a time. We're sending it down. This last brigade from Germany had 200, I think, drones.
They had the new vehicles. They had the new guns. And you send it out down there, and we're like, here's some kind of loose parameters.
then tell us how it works tell us you know how you're going to use it how would you integrate in your formation how does it work tactically in maneuver space and then we take those lessons so bottom up some of these drones don't work in the cold some of these drones are really good for this but they're not good for that some of these robots are good for this but not that we take all those lessons then we put in the pentagon gonculator
And then we start to make buying decisions and organization decisions based on bottom-up lessons learned. It seems like a normal thing to do, but it's not normal in Army or Pentagon.
It's weird, right?
So we're trying to do that. Actually, we are doing that.
Thanks. Yeah. There's still the bureaucracy, to be fair. Sure. We're still governed by all these laws and acquisitions policy, and we're just banging our heads.
It's like I already have one. We take the Geneva Convention very seriously. I leaned into that. No, but the acquisition stuff. And so we're working with Congress. We're working with OSD and the bosses to try to change acquisitions process to make it faster and faster and faster. But the bottom line is General George, because he's
honestly a soldier at heart and i know i'm a spokesman i know how this sounds i believe it and people do anyway um he thinks about these guys down online and these gals down online and getting stuff to them quickly and stuff that they can use not the big fielding of stuff that we find out quickly it doesn't work and unfortunately we're locked into buying it for the next seven years we're buying stuff in short increments and just faster and faster so
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