Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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I could go to the lawyers in my command.
I could go to write a letter to Congress and say, hey, I'm in the active service and I don't like this.
But
The final step is you say, if I don't like this to the extent that evidently Major Watson doesn't, the next step is instead of going on the steps of the Capitol, you tender your resignation as a military officer and go on the outside in civilian dress and say, I used to be in the military and this is what I think about this.
But that's the only step.
And by the way, Tim, I think we've probably seen
And we haven't seen the results of it yet, but we've seen probably a couple of retired generals and admirals who are likely going to do that when their retirement papers come through.
People who have retired during this Trump second term, you expect to see that?
Yeah.
And as long as they're waiting for retirement, which most of them are, I could name three that I know of that may be willing to speak out after their retirements are approved or they're waiting for the end date.
But I won't.
But I think some of them have seen some things that they're ready to talk.
Yeah, you know, I teach an MBA course and we talk about values and how every single person has to have their own personal values.
I have four.
I won't cite them except for one.
One of my personal values is personal courage.
The requirement to speak up and not
you know, stand back when I see something wrong occurring.
But even by applying that particular value of personal courage, and by the way, that's an army value too, you have to think about the repercussions and how you do it.
Everybody struggles.
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