Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling

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143 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 21 Jan

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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | White House in Chaos Over Pete Hegseth's Venezuela Boat Strike - December 2nd, 2025 · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

Here's the thing, though.

I'm going to talk about what Tom just said and throw another beat into this.

And that's the implication of others.

Mitch Bradley, at the time of the strike in September, was a three-star admiral at the time.

He was the JSOC commander.

He reported to another guy, an Army general, four-star, by the name of Brian Felton, who is the SOCOM commander.

Now, I know I'm going to confuse some people here, except for Tom, because he knows this in the ranks.

But we've forgotten that part.

So the JSOC commander, Mitch Bradley, three-star, reports to four-star Brian Felton, an Army general,

And you have another Navy Admiral who's the commander of South Com who has what's called the area of operation.

So whenever JSOC acts in an area, whenever the special operations come into an area, and I had this in my area in Iraq, they report to what's called the ground force commander, which is me, or in this case, Admiral Halsley.

So you have three people at the three and four star ranks

who would have had to have known that these kind of strikes were going on.

At the same time, you have Admiral Halsey being, Hegsbeth basically says he's put in his retirement papers.

Now, when I heard that, when I first heard this, and Tom can reinforce this, so this is a four-star admiral,

who's been in the job for four months or excuse me, nine months as a four star, which means if he's putting in his retirement papers, he's not going to retire as a four star.

So that's a pretty big deal in and of itself.

So something went on.

where you've got a four-star admiral and a four-star general knowing what's happening with this JSOC commander, and Hegseth doesn't know?

Come on, give me a break.

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