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Oct. 26, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Collateral Damage: The War Our Weapons Waged on Us
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It wasn't long ago, earlier this year, in fact, that we did a show and had a conversation about the injuries soldiers sustain, but not only from the enemy, but also from our own stuff, our own tools, our own weapons.
The weapons of war in which these men and women are given, they train on, they use in the field, and then also use in combat.
They're hazardous to the brains of all of these folks.
In fact, TBI is exactly what we're talking about here, but not from only roadside bombs, not from enemy action, but from our own tools.
And allegedly, the government, the Pentagon mainly, has conducted this research and knows all about it.
So today we're going to have a conversation about that.
I have some of my own thoughts.
Plus, I got a new little style to try out.
Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but we're going to give it a shot today.
So stick with us.
Don't go away.
we start now.
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Okay, so TBI, traumatic brain injury in the men and women that serve in our military.
There was a gentleman who composed an article for the New York Times about soldiers being injured and continuing to be sent out with the same tools of war that are giving them these injuries.
And what he's talking about is things like artillery cannons, mortars, even small arms, 50 cal machine guns, all of these things, vehicles, main guns on tanks.
Also not just weapon systems.
They talk about pilots, fighter pilots mainly that I read about and the excessive amounts of G's that they are required to sustain and pull in flight.
And a bunch of research allegedly has been conducted on how these things affect the brain.
And what he found was, at least what he says he found was that all of these tools, planes, the tanks, the artillery cannons, the mortars, some of the larger small arms weapon systems, 50 cal machine guns, 240 Bravo is a 763 fully automatic weapon, which replaced the M60 from the Vietnam era.
All of these things.
And over the course of a career, using these weapon systems, training on them, using them in combat, being around all of this excessive noise and blasts and all of these things slowly but surely damage the hell out of our soldiers, our troops.
And he says, allegedly, that the Pentagon knew about it.
They've conducted research.
They know that these things exist, that these hazards to our soldiers exist.
So the other thing I've done is I've taken a bunch of information.
I'm new to trying to use this new AI stuff.
I'm not very great at it, but what I have done is taken the things that I found, loaded them into an AI chat, and asked them to prioritize it for me and kind of just make it easier to make sense of.
When you're taking multiple sources of information, it's kind of helpful actually to have something that will scan it and put it in a way that's kind of easy for you to navigate and then give me bullet points of all the things I read.
If I relied on my mushy brain to remember everything that I read, I probably wouldn't be able to do a show because there's a lot of information.
And this topic is pretty interesting to me because I believe that some of these things are things that affect me.
You know, I have been diagnosed with a TBI, but also it was from roadside bombs that we experienced while I was in Iraq from 2005 to 2007.
Actually, we weren't in there in 05.
We got there in 06, but our deployment was from 05 to 07.
And some of these symptoms that they talk about, the confusion, just the stuttering, and a lot of this stuff, they contribute to TBI.
And what they found was that soldiers are being massively misdiagnosed.
These things are being diagnosed as post-traumatic stress.
And in return, they are given a bunch of antidepressants.
They're given a bunch of psychological medication pills to try to treat these things.
And for some, it doesn't seem to be working.
It's not very effective.
And according to this article, these articles and the study that was conducted, they're not working because these soldiers have been misdiagnosed.
There's an actual physical injury there.
It's not a psychological problem.
It's a physical injury.
And the physical injury was sustained from prolonged use of weapon systems, just being around these weapons firing and the massive concussive results of these weapons firing.
The question remains, though, what do we do?
Like, what do we do about these things?
If we can say that the tools of war that we as soldiers are given to conduct combat operations to fight our enemy, to close in and annihilate an enemy and wipe them off the face of this planet, if the tools we're given are what is hurting us and for many ultimately killing us, what's the alternative?
Because it's not a matter of when.
And it's not a matter of if, but it's a matter of when these things will have to be used to conduct combat operations again.
And the men and women that find these tools in their hands, according to this information, are the ones that are going to suffer the most.
Should they survive?
I mean, of course, we know, and we're not naive about it.
People who fight in combat, a percentage of them pay the ultimate sacrifice.
They pay the ultimate price that comes with the job.
It's a risk that you know about and clearly you're willing to take if you continue to go down the path of whatever job it is that these things are happening.
So let's excuse me, let's go through this.
So this whole conversation, as we talked about, is not about enemy action.
It's not about combat.
It's about the hidden dangers of our own equipment.
As I said before, mortars.
If you don't know anybody who's ever been a mortarman, I believe that they can tell you that it's quite a, a lot of these guys would tell you, and I would tell you, being around mortars a few times while they're being fired, it's a hell of a rush.
Being in the vicinity of howitzer field artillery cannons that are shooting these huge rounds at insane distances.
Well, when they're shot out of these humongous cannons, it's loud.
It's concussive.
You feel it in your chest.
And to be quite honest with you, it's quite exhilarating.
When you are in the vicinity of a gun battery and they start making those guns sing, which means you go, then you go, then you go, then you go.
And they try to reload them.
And these guys are pretty.
They're pretty amazing.
They get these things reloaded extremely fast and they can go down the line one after the other.
So it sounds like they're like a fully automatic howitzer.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
It's really something to behold.
And I'll tell you, if you're standing there watching them and you're in the vicinity and you watch these guys work and the way that they move and they unload and shove a new round in the chamber, discard the old one, they signal the other guy, they pull this cord and the gun fires and they do it all over again in seconds.
And they get their techniques down and it's amazing.
It's really something to see.
If you've never seen it, look it up on, you can probably find it on YouTube or here on Rumble.
I'm sure that there's footage out there somewhere of a field artillery battery conducting a mission and just getting rounds down range.
And you feel this stuff and it just like pumps you up.
Like instantly your adrenaline is pumping.
You get excited.
You're screaming.
You're cheering.
You're rooting them on.
And the guys that are doing it, they love it.
For the most part.
But what they don't know, apparently, is that it's turning their brains into mush.
The concussive nature of these weapons.
And the same thing for mortar teams.
These guys, they get their mortars.
There's a solid plate you put into the ground.
You secure it.
You put your tube on.
You get down to the site.
You dial in your coordinates for where you need to go, your distance and your windage.
And then the team starts dropping them in.
You drop them in, it shoots.
Drop them in, it shoots.
And just one after the other after the other, and they send whole barrages downrange.
And keep in mind that the jobs of these folks, artillerymen and mortarmen, are to provide, are to provide support to the troops that are forward, the infantry platoons, the forward observers, anybody who needs help and then is in the vicinity of the range of these guns.
And so not only is it exhilarating, not only is it exciting, not only does it pump you up, not only apparently is it turning your brain into mush, but you also know that the mission in which you are conducting and these rounds that are flying downrange, the purpose of that is to save the asses of your battle buddies.
And of course, there's other things to shoot long-range munitions at, you know, buildings, town squares, vehicle depot, whatever it is to destroy something that belongs to the enemy, we don't want them to use any longer.
Artillery even shoots, they shoot these bunker busters that they hit the ground, they penetrate a certain distance, and then they blow up again to try to take out tunnels and bunkers and things like this.
There's so many different things.
But apparently, it's extremely harmful to the men and women in which use them and become experts at them that are surgical with these tools.
They say it's a slow-moving chronic injury, and it's caused by thousands and thousands of small impacts over a career.
It's a widespread occupational hazard.
So like we talked about, artillery crews and mortar teams, fighter pilots who are pulling excessive amounts of G's.
And truth be told, I don't know a whole lot about military aviation and what pilots have to go through in their training and all that stuff.
I wish I did.
I can remember being a small child and seeing the movie Iron Eagle for the first time with Doug Masters and Chappie Sinclair and Doug Masters' dad gets shot down over somewhere in the Middle East.
And this teenage kid who just graduated high school steals an F-16 with some old man who was a friend of his dad.
And they fly over the Middle East and destroy all the shit.
Chappie gets shot down and here's Doug Masters all by himself in an iron eagle loaded to the teeth with rockets and bombs and bullets.
It takes out all these things.
He lands a plane on an airfield, rescues his dad, and they fly out of there.
It's a pretty unconventional story, but it's awesome.
I wanted to fly F-16s for so many years after seeing that movie.
I was probably four or five when I saw it.
So pilots who are doing all these things in fighter jets and they do amazing shit.
I know that most people have seen at least video clips of the Blue Angels and the Air Force, the Fighting Falcons or whatever.
They fly the red, white, and blue F-16s, excuse me, at air shows and these types of things.
But apparently, this is extremely harmful to these people.
One of the biggest groups of people in the military community, they say that is affected are special operations folks.
The Navy SEALs, the Delta Force, the Green Berets, Army Rangers, the PJs, the Pararescue guys, the Air Force Pararescue, Force Recon Marines, all of these top level, top echelon operators, the tip of the spear, if you will.
And that makes sense because these guys, they get boots on ground, they get to where they're going, they conduct their operations, and they do it extremely well, and they have all kinds of fun toys to play with, to do their job.
But over the time of shooting and explosions and grenades and hand-to-hand combat, banging your head on shit, these things in the course of their duties are turning their brains into mush.
And the research that they mention in all of this information, they have been researching and examining the brains of these folks when they pass away.
And they are finding multiple cases, apparently, of physical damage to the brain.
And many of these folks, especially the top-tier operators, they don't really, apparently, for the most part, get the help that they need.
Because there's a mentality in that community, I believe, that you got to be hard.
You got to be hard all the time.
If you're sick, if you feel like shit, if you have headaches, if you're confused, if you're losing dexterity in your fingers, in your hands, suck it up.
Suck it up and drive on.
Because as long as there's breath in your body, you still have the ability to fight.
Which is a great mentality to have when you're on the battlefield.
When you're on the battlefield and enemies are closing in and there's bullets coming your way and things are blowing up and people are dying and there's all kinds of chaos.
As long as you have breath in your body, pick up your rifle and continue to fight until either it's over or you're dead.
And I get it.
I understand.
I understand the mentality.
We're all given a mission.
When you show up to work on that particular day, they hand you a pamphlet of paperwork and they tell you, this is the mission.
We are going to complete this at all costs.
So there is no failure.
The only way that the mission is over is either if you're dead or it's completed and you're successful.
And these dudes that do these jobs are amongst the best in the world.
They do an amazing job.
They provide an amazing service to this country that 97% of our population will never, ever, ever know about.
But they're out there and they do it.
I believe that it's true.
I don't know a whole lot of special operations people, maybe one or two that I've met over the years.
I can't say that I'm on first name basis buddies with any of these people.
But you hear enough stories.
When you're in the community, you're bound to know somebody that knows somebody and you hear stories.
And of course, you assume that they're true.
Because why would anybody lie about it?
There are plenty of people out there that do, that fabricate their stories for whatever reason.
But for the most part, these guys are pretty humble, but they have problems.
Anytime you see video footage on social media or anything like that of some super swollhole special operations guy, a green beret or a Navy SEAL, and they've been out of the service, but they're still jacked and they're still aggressive and they still conduct their life as if they're on the SEAL team still or they're still in special operations community anywhere.
But sometimes you see negative footage, negative content.
Somebody filming with their phone while this guy is having some kind of episode.
And a lot of this stuff that we see, now that I think back about it, and I went back and reviewed some things that I have recalled seeing over the last few years, a lot of this stuff reminds me of some of these, Antonio Brown, for example.
Antonio Brown was a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Took a lot of damage.
He got his head beat in, crossing the middle, catching balls for quite a long time.
And they say that all the damage to the brain, the CTE, caused him to just kind of go loopy.
And I don't know.
I don't know who he is.
I don't follow him.
I don't know what he's into now.
If anything, I don't know anything about him.
But I know what I read and I know what I saw just a couple years ago when he damn near stripped naked walking off the field and that was the last time he played in the NFL that day.
But then following that, there was a lot of talk about the trauma to the head that he endured while playing professional football.
And that these cases of football players over the years going nuts and killing themselves or hurting somebody else or just being just being super aggressive or off or forgetful, a lot of different symptoms.
Well, some of these guys that we see who were special operations folks or other veterans who are having some problems, some of the stuff looks exactly like the same behavior.
So that would lead me to believe that there's something to this.
The research shows that nearly 1 million post-9-11 veteran service members have been exposed to these situations that are a TBI.
They're a traumatic brain injury.
They're not post-traumatic stress.
It's not a mental condition.
They say that this is physical damage to the brain.
What do they call it?
Neuroinflammation, I believe.
So this is not about being exposed to big explosions, these roadside bombs, IEDs like we experienced when I was in Iraq in the early 2000s.
And I'll tell you what, the IEDs that I was involved in that hit us, you don't really get a good sense of it when it's right next to you.
The IED that went off that unfortunately I was given a purple heart for, I don't even remember.
I remember a bright flash and I remember my battle buddies in the truck beating the shit out of my legs with magazines of ammo or whatever they could find to try to wake me up.
I was unconscious.
So I don't even remember it, but I do remember seeing many of them off in the distance blow up on other U.S. vehicles.
I remember calling EOD when we found roadside bombs, when we found IEDs.
And then of course they send the robot up there with the explosives and they dispose of it so that we can continue to move down the road.
Sometimes sitting for four hours, three hours, sometimes even longer if you had to wait for them to get to you.
There was only so many EOD teams on the roads when we were in Iraq.
And if you call up a nine-line to have EOD come out and expose or excuse me, dispose of a roadside bomb, if you were third or fourth on the list, well, you're waiting.
Sometimes until the sun comes up.
And then the challenge there was that once the sun comes up, the local populace was allowed to use the roadways.
They were going to work.
They were going to the markets.
They were doing whatever.
They were conducting life.
But at 11 p.m., all civilian traffic off the road until the morning.
So if you're stuck out there and waiting on EOD to come and dispose of this IED and the sun comes up, well, now you have to deal with the local traffic starting because people are going to go to work.
They're going to want to move around.
They're going to want to do their thing.
They were still living and conducting their own lives in this war zone.
So that just presented another challenge.
But the idea is that these multiple, multiple low-level blasts is what they call them, is what does damage over time and starts this neuroinflammation and just slowly eats away at the brains of these soldiers.
The medical crisis.
Okay, so troops are reporting very real symptoms, right?
And they're unexplained.
So people are going into the VA.
If they're still in service, they're going to sit call.
And they're telling doctors about these issues that they're having that they don't understand.
They don't know why they're starting.
They don't know why they go away and come back.
They don't understand what's happening to them.
And these things are chronic headaches and migraines, memory loss and or brain fog, anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
Well, a lot of these things, memory loss, brain fog, anxiety, depression, insomnia, a lot of these things are labeled as psychological issues.
A lot of these symptoms are also symptoms of post-traumatic stress, as they say.
So is it something that we can hold the Pentagon accountable for?
I believe so.
I believe that after the longest war in our country's history, that we should know that anxiety, depression, insomnia, memory loss, brain fog, aggression, anger, fear, hypervigilance, all of these things are symptoms of both a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress.
And I'll tell you, full clarity, a lot of these things I have every day.
Chronic, I have headache every day, most of the day.
A few Advil here, switch it up every now and then and put an Aleve in my body because they say one's bad for your kidneys, the other one's bad for your belly, so you should switch it up.
A lot of stuff.
I also have been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, and I have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.
What I find interesting, though, however, is that when the VA rated me for a disability for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, they rated them as one condition together.
Well, this information kind of blows all that up, right?
TBI is a physical injury.
Post-traumatic stress is a psychological injury.
So how can they be lumped together?
The explanation, apparently, is that the symptoms are the same.
Okay, well, if the symptoms are the same, that's one thing.
But if we know that traumatic brain injury is a physical injury to your brain tissue, how do we lump it together with a psychological condition?
The treatment for the two are different, right?
For PTSD, I go and see a mental health professional.
And I sit down in the chair and I have hour and a half long conversations with this lady.
My psychiatrist is great.
I like her a lot.
She's at the Minneapolis VA.
She's really good.
She's also one of the only psychiatrists I've had that will call me on my bullshit and tell me when I'm being a dummy.
I appreciate that.
My wife will also do that.
Call me on my bullshit and tell me I'm being a dummy.
And so I do, but I do appreciate those things because I believe it's very important for me to be able to identify the things that maybe I'm overreacting about, maybe the things that maybe I'm just a little bit too angry about this over here.
And I stop and think about it and it helps.
But before I'm reminded, I don't see anything wrong with what's going on in my mind.
People around me do, clearly.
And they'll call me on it.
And when you stop and think about it and replay it in your mind, well, maybe they're right.
So they say here the key term to use is neuroinflammation.
It's a persistent swelling of the brain tissue.
A good analogy for this would be, I think we see it in, or have seen it in people like Leroy Spinks, for example, who was a world famous boxer.
Boxers who are punch drunk, right, after being punched in the head, after a whole career of boxing, they're able to function.
They're able to move around.
They're able to talk, although not very well at times.
But you'll see them with shaky hands.
You'll see them confused.
Sometimes the speech is slurred and sometimes you can't understand them, but they are able to function.
But it's sad.
It's sad to see in boxers these people who are at their physical prime, peak condition.
And after being punched in the head over and over and over again, they kind of just move around like lost children.
And some of them will mumble.
But overall, they can live out their days.
Quality of life may not be the best, but they can live out their days.
Anyway, folks, we got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
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Hey folks, welcome back here to, uh, the, the second segment of the show.
Let's just keep going down this path here.
What I want to talk about now is probably the most, I don't know if I'll call it devastating.
These guys call it devastating information in the whole batch of articles that I researched.
And that is that the Pentagon knows and they have known for a long time that these issues exist, that these injuries are not only from enemy interaction, not only from combat, but from our own tools.
They knew it.
They knew that the cannons and they knew that the tanks, they knew that the weapon systems that are used by soldiers were hurting them.
But yet, as they say, they prioritize combat readiness and firepower over the long-term brain health of our service members.
The Pentagon's own researchers identified that many of these weapons produce blast waves exceeding their own safety limits.
Despite this internal knowledge, these weapons have remained in widespread use for years without adequate changes to training or protection.
And so, my question to that is: to play devil's advocate, what do you do different?
What kind of protection that isn't already offered do we give our soldiers to shield them from these concussive waves from their weapon systems, from their equipment?
And the answer to that is: I have no idea.
I don't know that anything out there like that exists.
Maybe it does.
But I can tell you, I mean, we saw 3M, for example, had to pay out millions of dollars to veterans apparently for the earplug thing.
The earplugs that didn't work, that was taking the hearing of service members all over every branch.
I was given these earplugs.
We were given these earplugs when we deployed, and they didn't work.
They were two-sided earplugs.
You could put in one side and you couldn't hear shit.
That worked.
But if you flipped them around and put them in, they were supposed to still stop the concussive, loud noise, but you could still talk to each other.
How they supposedly worked or were supposed to work, I don't know how the technology and what the design is that allows that to be possible.
But I can tell you one thing: if you put the side in where you're supposed to be able to talk to your buddy while you're shooting weapons so that you can communicate and move around the battlefield, that side did not work.
The only thing it did was allow you to hear the ringing in your ears a whole lot, and it was a whole lot more prevalent.
You couldn't talk anyway because the ringing in your ears from shooting your weapons was all that you could hear.
And you were screaming at each other anyway.
So that takes any stealth out of your operation.
But of course, once you go loud, once you start shooting, your position is given up anyway.
The enemy knows that you're there.
Maybe not exactly where you're at in every case, but they know that they're there and the fight's on.
So, despite all that, we used them anyway.
And I have here a small tidbit from a veteran who was talking about this.
And he goes on to say, This: you think that you're just doing your job.
You get used to the ringing in your ears, the headaches, the migraines, and your leadership just tells you to suck it up.
Just suck it up, man.
We all have to go through it.
We all have the same thing going on, but we have a mission to accomplish.
I know that your ears are ringing.
I know that you have a headache.
Here's some Motrin.
Drink a canteen of water with these two, three, four, ten Motrin, whatever it was, whatever you needed.
Let it kick in for a few minutes, and then get back to training, get back in the fight, get back to work.
Right?
So you just get used to that.
You're told to suck it up.
Years later, however, you can't even remember your own kid's birthday.
You find yourself at the grocery store when your wife asked you, Hey, can you go pick up some bread and some milk and some butter and some and some uh and some turnips and some carrots?
Uh, and hey, by the way, can you get a box of life cereal?
And then you come home with bread and milk.
And your wife looks at you and goes, Well, where are the turnips and where is the where is the butter and where is the box of life cereal?
Where what happened?
Oh, shit.
Forgot all about it.
And let me tell you this: if you were to interview my wife and you asked her, Does Richard is Richard forgetful?
She would go, Excuse me?
Doesn't everybody know that Richard's extremely forgetful?
If I don't use my cellular telephonic device to take notes or turn on voice record and have her say, babe, tell me what it is you need me to get so that I can play it back.
I'll never get anything that she needs.
It's extremely frustrating.
It's frustrating for her.
It's frustrating for everyone around me.
I have the same issues at my job.
I sell motorcycle parts at a Harley dealership, and customers will call and go, hey, I need part number 1105-09A.
Oh, okay, well, let me look that up for you.
Hey, can you tell me that part number again?
And then they get an attitude, right?
Because now they got to repeat themselves.
And I know that it's frustrating.
And, you know, I try to take notes the best I can so I don't have to ask questions of them again for information they've already told me but these things are real you feel like you're losing your mind and nobody nobody can tell you what's wrong for this guy in particular he says they told me it was stress they told me that i was stressed out they told me that i had post-traumatic stress i have anxiety i have depression
I have adjustment disorder.
I have this, I got that, and I got the other thing.
And instead of treating you for a brain injury, a physical injury inside your skull, they hand you anxiety medication.
They hand you pills so that you can go to sleep.
They hand you things to keep you calm and mellow.
And all the while, this injury that you have in your brain is getting worse and worse and worse.
It's untreated.
And maybe, maybe it's not necessarily the doctor's faults.
Maybe it, maybe it's not on them.
Once, once all this has happened to me and I have all of these symptoms and I go and I ask for help and I explain what's going on.
And a lot of my answers tell them in particular, well, hey man, this sounds like you're extremely stressed out.
Maybe we need to, maybe we need to consider a lifestyle change.
Maybe you need to work out more.
Maybe you need to change your diet.
Maybe there's a, there's a whole lot, a whole litany of, of things that they'll tell you, well, this should help with that.
And this should help with that.
And that will help with this.
And none of them, none of those things are conducive to being treated for a physical injury to your brain.
And so then what happens?
What happens is your brain continues to deteriorate.
It continues to keep you confused.
It continues to keep you forgetful.
And on top of all of that, yes, yes.
When it's untreated and these things get worse for you and they keep happening.
Yes.
You get stressed out.
Because there's nothing worse.
And I can tell you from personal experience, there's nothing worse than having all this shit happen to you.
And you have no idea why.
Well, you're just as confused as the people who are trying to tell you what to do to help you.
And it makes it very frustrating because now if, if this guy, for example, is correct, even if, if half of the information he put out is correct, even if he's correct about the fact that the Pentagon knew, the military knows that these weapons are hurting our troops.
It pisses you off.
So, yeah, that does add stress to the lives of people, especially veterans and soldiers, top tier operators, pilots, infantrymen, artillerymen, mortarmen, tankers.
People that work in, in these, um, maintenance shops around all this huge equipment, they got to fix it and run it.
And they're banging inside the armor and it's echoing in your head and it gives you a headache and all of this stuff.
And so, um, it's all extremely frustrating, especially if we now know that the military knew that this was hurting us.
And so, we have here a few questions that we would like the now Department of War to answer.
Um, and those are number one, what immediate changes should be made or are being made to training protocols to limit blast exposure?
And I'll say this.
I think that the military has done some things to limit blast exposure to soldiers in training anyway.
You know, they'll do things like do controlled detonations so that nobody's really standing around just so that we can see what the equipment does.
For example, a lot of these things like AT-4, for example, which is like a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon.
It's like a bazooka, basically, is what people would probably call it.
Well, it's a recoilless, shoulder-fired rocket, basically.
We shoot it at tanks and things like that, vehicles to disable them, hopefully destroy them if you hit them in the correct spot.
But they're very concussive.
And you're holding it on your shoulder right next to your head.
And when it goes off, it's violent.
It's recoilless, of course.
It doesn't throw you back on your ass, but it's a violent, it's a violent thing.
It takes off like a rocket because it is a rocket.
And you better hold your breath when you fire it because if you inhale all the fumes that are coming out the back end of that son of a bitch when it leaves that tube, you're going to also be in the hurt bag.
Toxic exposure, maybe they'd call it.
So what immediate changes are being made, if any?
I would like to hope, and I believe, that blast injuries, for example, have been something that the military has been conscious of.
They know that blast injuries are hurting soldiers.
So I would like to assume that there have been precautions taken for that since I left the Army in 2021, anyway.
We'd like to think that that's happening.
Two, what new screening tools are being deployed to diagnose these brain injuries correctly and not be diagnosed as a psychological disorder?
And I believe that these are hard questions because I would like to think that if we knew that this was going on, that they have been thinking about this.
They have been talking and they have been trying to come up with ways to limit these injuries to soldiers.
Three, what is being done to find and treat the estimated 1 million veterans who may already be suffering from this unseen enemy?
What are we doing to go back and find these soldiers that are suffering through this stuff and extremely confused about what's happening to them?
What are we doing to find them?
What are we doing to make sure that they know that you're not alone?
We figured it out now.
We need you to come back so that we can help you.
What are we doing to reach out to these men and women to ensure that they don't get to a point where they have full-blown dementia or Parkinson's disease or they don't have something that is going to make them wig out and put a bullet in their head?
Because what we do know about a lot of TBI victims, we could call them, people that have experienced TBI, some of them become suicidal because they just don't understand.
They don't know.
They don't understand why these things are happening to them.
Because again, nobody can give them a good explanation.
And I'll tell you, one of my main frustrations with the VA is going there and sitting down with a doctor, even one that I trust, explaining to them all the things that are going on with me for him to look at me and go, man, I guess I'm not really sure.
Sounds like it could be this, or it's possible that it could be this thing over here.
But we're going to need to run some tests.
And even if he's telling me the truth, if he's telling me the truth that he's not quite sure that he's just as confused as I am, that doesn't help me feel better.
Because when I leave there, I still have to go home.
I still have to be asked by my wife to do this or pick up that or get that.
And then I have to stand face to face with her later and tell her I forgot.
And I don't have an explanation either.
So yeah, it's extremely frustrating.
And it brings on drama in my life for sure that I really don't need, nor do I want to have go on.
And I can't blame her for being frustrated or pissed off.
I think that she does a really good job at not being overly frustrated and pissed off with me personally, but at the situation.
And it's difficult, man, because there are times where I really, really, really don't understand.
I don't know.
I don't know why.
If she asked me, well, we just talked about this.
We talked about this 45 minutes ago.
You were gone for half an hour.
And you came back with two out of the six things I asked you to pick up that you volunteered to go get.
Yeah, babe, I don't, I don't know.
So I'll write it down or I'll type it into my phone in the notes.
And I'll put my shoes and my jacket back on and walk out of my fucking house with my head down because now I feel like a goddamn idiot.
And I have no idea why.
And so like this information hits, it hits close to home for me because these are things that I struggle with, that we struggle with.
And I'm so grateful.
I'm so grateful that my wife tries extremely hard to understand.
She doesn't always, and rightfully so, that's okay.
But man, it really sucks.
But that begs the question, what do we do?
What do we do differently?
Because our enemies are still there.
They're still preparing.
They're still going to possibly bring the fight to us.
And we have to be able to fight back.
We have to be able to effectively close on an enemy and destroy those son of a bitches with as much violence and as much speed as we can using all of the tools of war that we're given, that we have at our disposal.
But now we're being told that those tools are what are going to harm us in the long run.
And nobody has any answers.
The only answer that probably goes out is, well, we're going to take a look.
We're going to discuss it.
We're going to put focus groups together.
We're going to get scientists together with doctors.
We're going to do all of these things and all of this research.
And we're going to come up with a way.
We're going to come up with a way to protect our service members better.
But we have to, we have to be able to fight.
So until they do that, our soldiers are still going to stand next to those artillery cannons and pull the cord and fire them off and get super pumped and jacked about it.
Our mortarmen are still going to, they're still going to hump through the woods three, four, five miles with these big heavy steel plates and these tubes and all these mortars.
They're still going to walk them through the woods.
They're still going to walk them through the desert, set up their station, put rounds down range as effective as possible on the target.
They're still going to do it.
Our tankers are still going to get in their Abrams.
They're still going to get in their Bradleys.
They're still going to get in their paladins.
They're going to get in all these vehicles and use all this equipment the best way that they know how because there's a mission to accomplish.
And hopefully the powers that be aren't going to take their sweet ass time.
But the question is, what do you do?
How do you stop concussive waves?
How do you protect your head and your brain from shock waves?
I don't know that there's anything like that out there.
It's not, it wouldn't be effective to design some kind of fucking shell or structure to sit in that protects you from these things while you somehow operate outside of this shell.
I don't know.
I guess I don't know what the answer is.
I don't, I don't know.
Maybe the only answer is to automate robots and drones and this and that and the other thing, which I'm not necessarily 100% in support of.
Those things fail.
Batteries go dead.
Electronics fails for whatever reason at times.
I don't believe that we can replace our soldiers with robots and AI and drones and automation.
Maybe we can.
But the really good question is: what are we doing to find these people that have been misdiagnosed?
Maybe we don't have a good plan to stop this from happening in the future.
Maybe there isn't one yet.
I would suspect that there isn't.
But more importantly, what are we doing to find, as they say, these 1 million, roughly 1 million post-9-11 veterans that have been exposed to all of this shit, have been misdiagnosed to make sure that they at least get scanned, at least get treated for an actual physical injury to their brain.
Or are we going to just let them walk through the rest of their lives confused and pissed off, suffering?
And see, that's the thing.
We have, I would say, more than a million people out there that have sacrificed up into everything for this country.
This country that some people say now is a lie.
Everything we've known is a lie.
What did we fight for?
What did we defend?
I believe that the idea of America, whether it was evil powers that sent us to combat or not, I believe that the idea of this place and the greatness that we once have been, I believe we can achieve again.
How we get there, well, that's a whole nother conversation, probably.
But these men and women that are now walking through life confused, they deserve to be treated properly.
And maybe there is no effective treatment.
Maybe there is no way to fix it.
But I think that we at least owe it to them to try.
We at least owe it to them to let them know: hey, we fucked up.
Now we know better.
So let's try this.
Let's try this treatment.
Let's scan you for this and see if we can help.
My guess is that that probably isn't going to happen anytime soon.
I think that we can do better.
Because what we're not going to run short on, I believe, is patriots.
We're not going to run short on men and women that want to strap on those boots and they want to go to those artillery cannons and they want to get in that tank and they want to be as professional and they want to be as great as they can possibly be using all of these tools to annihilate an enemy to kill them before they kill us.
We're not going to run out of people that want to do that.
Hopefully we have enough people that want to help.
I want to help these soldiers.
Help these veterans that are confused and pissed off walking through the rest of their lives.
I hope.
Good night.
I can control what I put into my mouth.
I can control what I feed to my child.
I can control how I grow my food and if I want to spray pesticides or not, but I cannot control the experiments over my head.
Within an hour, it spreads out.
It creates a blanket.
We're in a war.
This is a war against me, you, our children, our grandchildren, and generations to come.
This is war raged on us.
These programs consist of spraying tons of patented aerosol pollutants into our skies without public consent.
This includes aluminum, barium, strontium, and more.
It's targeting your food, your water, and it's coming in multiple different ways.
If people want to know if this is a real thing, states have bills to ban it.
I think there are now 32 states that have taken an attempt at this.
This has become a huge issue.
If your average citizen knew the truth of what's going on and what they're being exposed to without their consent, they would be outraged and they would take action.
I don't want some creep ramming chemicals down my throat without my permission.
We need to prosecute those people that are doing it.
Do we stand in one spot and say enough is enough?
And if they don't listen, we take it to the next step.
You've been doing this for a while.
Yep.
Long time.
People do care.
Yep.
We care deep.
I know that.
So we're now getting really involved.
and now we're going to bring something legal against your company.
As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over and instead we're just sending them money and it's fucking craziness.
Look at the site of Israel.
Look at the site of Tel Aviv and look at the site of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going.
You tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God.
Go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign study, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the lot and say we stand with them?
Here you go, look at Trump's cabinet.
Here you go.
Biden's cabinet.
It's full of Jews.
I have a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I'd just like to say that, you know, in our Bible, it says that you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
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