Bannon's War Room - Episode 4892： Bringing Home Our Troops From The Pacific Lost In WW2; Denying Conventional Order

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00:03:01.600 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

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00:03:10.140 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

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00:03:18.000 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:03:19.960 Friday, 31, October, year of the Lord, 2025.

00:03:28.920 Let's bring in Cleo Pascal. 0.97

00:03:30.520 By the way, we're going to talk about this very special event that's happening right now.

00:03:35.400 And to give the audience a heads up, the president of the United States is going to be leaving,

00:03:39.640 departing the White House momentarily.

00:03:42.360 Can we get that beautiful shot?

00:03:43.580 Do we have the establishing shot of the White House?

00:03:46.300 The leaves are starting to change here in Washington, D.C.

00:03:49.460 And the White House looks absolutely spectacular.

00:03:52.180 President Trump had the trick-or-treat.

00:03:55.100 And now I realize they had it yesterday because he is leaving this afternoon.

00:03:58.240 In fact, he's leaving momentarily.

00:04:00.180 We'll cover that.

00:04:01.340 And also we will cover the, I'm sure he's going to have a few minutes to share with the media.

00:04:08.280 Let's go to, I want to start.

00:04:09.820 Cleo, why don't you set the, you brought this to my attention and I'm glad you did.

00:04:14.620 Why don't you talk to us about what is this all about?

00:04:18.280 What did we just see?

00:04:20.320 So there are still many, many Americans left to be brought home who fought in battles around the world.

00:04:30.160 And there are some people, including the people who are with History Flight, who are trying to find them.

00:04:39.380 History Flight is, it's a private charity.

00:04:42.480 They've been doing this on the ground forever.

00:04:45.300 They first came to my attention because I've been looking at what the Chinese are doing in places like Tarawa.

00:04:52.280 And History Flight is on the ground in Tarawa trying to find those men and bring them home.

00:04:58.200 And when they do, they get, sorry, I'm a little bit touched by what we just saw.

00:05:05.020 They get full honors.

00:05:06.420 They get brought home.

00:05:07.460 They get reunited with their families if they can find them.

00:05:10.880 Which is why it's very important if you have missing family members to let the Department of Defense know so that, or History Flight or something like them, so that they can do the DNA matches because there are also bodies that are waiting to be identified.

00:05:24.840 History Flight was founded by Mark Noah, who's an aviation fanatic, enthusiast, and so had the capability to do the transport and get around and know what was going on.

00:05:40.720 And also Sergeant Major Justin LaHue, who is the hero of Nazarene, Navy Cross winner, an unbelievable retired Marine, who at this very moment is walking from Ground Zero, from the memorial site of the Twin Towers in New York, to Quantico.

00:06:00.760 He's walking 250 miles to arrive at Quantico on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps, because next year they want to bring 250 more men home.

00:06:16.220 So that's one of the History Flight events that you saw, and that's what's going on right now.

00:06:23.120 You'll see him walking through, I hope he's escaped New Jersey now, but he'll be by the side of the road.

00:06:30.540 He's with another Marine.

00:06:32.660 He gets joined along the way, and he's done other walks.

00:06:36.140 The map that you have up now is the one that they did across the entire country.

00:06:40.720 It's called the Long Road.

00:06:42.420 And you can go to historyflight.com to hear more about History Flight, and the Long Road also tracks their road.

00:06:52.760 Let's bring in Sergeant Major Justin LaHue.

00:06:55.420 Sergeant Major, walk us through again, so I understand this, you've left Ground Zero, you're walking to Quantico, you're going to arrive on Monday, the 250th, commemoration of the birthday, of the birth of the Marine Corps.

00:07:14.020 Just take us through the whole thing, the logistics of it, what are you doing, and why are you doing this?

00:07:18.520 Steve, thanks for having me on, and Cleo, I don't think that could have been a better, more encapsulating intro, so kudos to you.

00:07:27.600 We started this on October 26th.

00:07:31.220 This is about the fourth leg of our 2022 continuation journey.

00:07:36.580 In 2023, it was 300 miles arriving at the Pentagon on National POW MIA Day.

00:07:45.900 2024 was all the way across, 120 miles across the Florida Keys, highlighting the history of the Florida Keys, the military history of that region.

00:07:56.780 And then this year was from Ground Zero on 9-11.

00:08:00.780 We really started at Fort Hamilton, very historic Fort Hamilton, as everybody should be aware.

00:08:05.800 And we've been covering 20 miles a day, 20 to 40-pound packs, and for the 250th, 250 miles for the 250th anniversary of the world's finest fighting force.

00:08:23.000 And we're currently, last night we walked into Philadelphia, and Philadelphia is the home base.

00:08:29.080 It's Ground Zero, it's the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps.

00:08:33.220 Just held a fabulous ceremony here for the city just about a week and a half ago, and went down to the Tunn Tavern sign.

00:08:42.000 We are going to continue, we took a day off today, going to continue on down the road through Wilmington, Delaware, down through Baltimore, Fort McHenry, down through Washington, D.C., the Marine Barracks, the War Memorial, the 9-11 site, the Pentagon, past the Arlington National Cemetery.

00:09:03.260 Remembering all those for veterans who have fallen in the service of their nation or served in the service of their nation.

00:09:12.100 And then ending up at a cake-cutting ceremony on 10 November at the beautiful and historic National Museum of the Marine Corps.

00:09:20.000 And a few years ago, Steve, I walked into a post office in 2022.

00:09:25.580 We were coming out of the pandemic shutdown that really killed a lot of international operations and recoveries of our service members abroad.

00:09:36.400 And it was, I found out that that black POW MIA flag that flies over every federal installation, every post office, and is the only flag that is authorized to fly underneath the American colors in all 50 states and territories.

00:09:51.080 Now, if you're from Iowa, you can fly the Iowa flag underneath the U.S. colors.

00:09:57.200 You're from Ohio, the Ohio flag.

00:09:59.400 But there's only one other flag all the way across our nation that's authorized to fly in all of those states and territories, and that's the black and white POW MIA flag.

00:10:09.640 And I found that people were really forgetting why that was created and what that was.

00:10:14.780 And I walked into a post office to mail a package in spring of 2022.

00:10:20.800 I talked to a very nice young lady that had a tattered POW MIA flag. 1.00

00:10:25.820 I asked if I could replace that for them.

00:10:28.520 They said that they had that on order.

00:10:31.760 And when I kind of walked out after failing the package and I offered to put one up for them again, she just stopped me and she said,

00:10:40.360 Can I ask you why that matters so much?

00:10:42.600 I've worked here a long time, and a lot of people asked to replace the American flag, but no one is ever asked to replace that flag.

00:10:50.660 And you're the first one.

00:10:52.160 And after about five minutes of talking to her, that woman was in tears.

00:10:56.280 And she said, I will get right on that, sir.

00:10:58.460 And when I walked past that post office the following morning, that flag was up.

00:11:01.760 And I figured, you know, if I can have a five-minute conversation and do that with one person, you know,

00:11:10.440 maybe I could walk across the nation or do a few other things and go where the rubber meets the road

00:11:17.340 and talk to individuals and get out there in the hometowns of America and remind people what that flag means and that service and sacrifice.

00:11:27.460 So it's an incredible honor right now, walking 250 miles.

00:11:32.240 We were in a rainstorm yesterday, about 50 mile per hour wind gusts.

00:11:37.480 A lot of people saying, hey, you knew that weather was coming.

00:11:40.220 Why didn't you just take the day off yesterday?

00:11:43.720 And it was like, you know what, since 1775, our nation and Marines have hiked in a lot worse weather than that.

00:11:52.880 And it was an honor and a privilege to be able to walk into the beautiful city of Philadelphia yesterday under those conditions,

00:12:00.320 representing 250 years of the United States Marine Corps.

00:12:03.500 So that's a little bit of the tidbit of why we're doing what we do,

00:12:07.560 a little bit of motivation behind that, Steve.

00:12:10.180 And again, thanks for having me on the program today.

00:12:14.860 Sergeant Major, we had the, after 17 years, we had the first premiere of the Last 600 Meters,

00:12:22.700 a film that Michael Pack wrote and directed, I produced with his wife.

00:12:28.800 And for 17 years, it's been suppressed by the PBS who paid for it.

00:12:34.840 And so we screened it for an audience of Marines last night who were actually in the film.

00:12:41.020 And it's the battle of First Fallujah, Najaf, and Second Fallujah.

00:12:47.440 And we've got a couple of minutes here.

00:12:48.680 I'm going to hold you through the break.

00:12:50.260 But one of the young Marines, who's not young now, the film was really made 20 years ago,

00:12:58.700 said that the thing that got him about the Marine Corps when he first showed up

00:13:02.200 is the sense of history that they instill in you every day.

00:13:07.080 Give me a minute or so about that before we go to break, sir.

00:13:09.880 Well, Steve, it's coincidence that you said that because I was a first sergeant in Charlie

00:13:16.780 Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines.

00:13:19.280 And I fought in that four-and-a-half-square-mile cemetery on August 5th to August 28th of 2004.

00:13:26.880 One of the finest fighting units that I think America has ever put on the field of battle.

00:13:31.080 I mean, everywhere that you look, nobody teaches you how to fight inside of a cemetery.

00:13:34.700 Everywhere you look, 125 degrees on the ground, 40 pounds of kids on these Marines.

00:13:43.900 I had 162 of the greatest warriors that anybody has ever put on the battlefield, I think, in

00:13:50.040 the history of the world.

00:13:51.360 And we pushed into that cemetery and fought for those 25 days to secure elections, to secure

00:13:58.360 a very hostile city, and basically be the first ones fighting the house-to-house, street-to-street.

00:14:04.700 That just a couple of months later, units like 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, and all of

00:14:10.040 that, we're going to push into the city of Fallujah.

00:14:14.860 And Najaf set the precedence for that. 0.59

00:14:18.420 U.S. Marines have been fighting hand-to-hand and house-to-house and street-to-street like that

00:14:24.160 since 1775.

00:14:27.140 And because we have people like that, Steve, we're going to be fighting like that because

00:14:31.660 we're Americans.

00:14:32.400 And we were born in war.

00:14:34.580 We're going to fight like that for the next 250 years for our survival.

00:14:39.040 And God bless that we have an organization like the Marine Corps that's going to do more

00:14:42.780 than their share for that.

00:14:44.780 Sergeant Major, hang on for one second.

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00:16:52.200 Okay, Sergeant Major Justin LaHue is with us, the hero of Nazaria.

00:17:00.160 But let me go back for a second to talk about Najaf.

00:17:04.200 I want to make sure, as we roll up to the 250th commemoration of the birth of the United States Marine Corps,

00:17:11.080 now more than ever, as we're trying to unwind ourselves,

00:17:15.540 remember, we're the anti-get-involved-in-Ukraine show.

00:17:20.500 It's also the Middle East.

00:17:21.980 We've got to watch all these things.

00:17:23.480 Now in Venezuela, when we commit American troops, we have to commit American troops to win.

00:17:30.080 We have to unleash them.

00:17:31.880 You only commit it if you're in this to win it.

00:17:34.540 And last night, it was very painful to sit through 1st Fallujah, Najaf, and 2nd Fallujah.

00:17:41.080 The climax of every scene is the Marines fight through with Army assistance.

00:17:48.680 The Marines fight through.

00:17:50.340 They reach their objective.

00:17:51.920 At the very moment when they reach their objective, which is victory,

00:17:55.520 they are shut down by the U.S. government.

00:17:59.420 In 1st Fallujah, in Najaf, in 2nd Fallujah, and really Najaf's the worst.

00:18:05.560 Sergeant Major, I think it took you 30 days.

00:18:07.880 The cemetery is unbelievable.

00:18:11.640 It's, I don't know, three, four times the size of the one in New Orleans, all above ground.

00:18:15.520 It was 115 to 125 degrees.

00:18:19.060 You guys fought really tomb by tomb, and then you got into the city, you got into the old city.

00:18:24.440 You fought block by block to get to the mosque.

00:18:27.840 What was that like, sir?

00:18:29.220 You know, nothing, as we said in the earlier segment, nothing really prepares you for looking out into a cemetery

00:18:41.220 in the direction of north, south, east, and west.

00:18:46.800 And as far as the eye can see to the horizon, it's nothing but above ground, tombs, crypts.

00:18:51.800 And on August 5th, when you're getting an order at 130 degrees of heat that day, roughly about 4 p.m.

00:19:01.240 in the afternoon, that says, you know what, we're going to take it to the enemy now,

00:19:05.980 because these were exclusionary zones before.

00:19:08.340 When we first took over Najaf from the U.S. Army, we were briefed that there were certain areas like Kufa

00:19:15.760 and the cemetery that were off limits.

00:19:18.340 They were red zones, exclusionary zones.

00:19:20.920 You could not go in there.

00:19:22.480 And the Marines instantly knew, well, that's where they're at.

00:19:25.620 So when we took over and a police station was attacked and a helicopter was hit on August 5th,

00:19:34.020 it was, we're going to pivot to those areas, and we're going to start putting bayonets on weapons,

00:19:40.240 and we're going to route tomb to tomb and street to street,

00:19:43.680 and we're going to clear 400 and 500 and 600 meters of this from stone to stone, above and both below grounds.

00:19:51.820 There is no amount of training or sitting in a school arena that ever has prepared Marines to fight in a cemetery

00:19:59.220 that is thousands of years old and is about five square miles.

00:20:05.140 People cannot even encapsulate that inside of their head.

00:20:07.680 And when you have the best people, the most tested people, the best-grown military,

00:20:17.620 and the United States Marine Corps are putting in, you know, we don't leave our dead and wounded on the battlefield.

00:20:22.180 We only go forward.

00:20:23.240 We don't go backwards.

00:20:25.500 Once you unleash that on the enemy, if you let that continue to go, they are going to route out every position.

00:20:32.960 They're going to route out every insurgent.

00:20:34.920 They are going to secure every block, and they are going to hold every position and every line in any place that you send them around the world.

00:20:44.540 That is the confidence level that we had in 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, when we were in the cemetery fighting Najat.

00:20:51.820 Steve, that was the confidence level I had when I rolled into the invasion of Iraq in 2003 on March 23rd in Nazaria,

00:20:59.700 and that was the confidence level that I had in 1991, and you name it.

00:21:05.260 That was imbued in me as a young Marine that we fight and we win.

00:21:11.780 We win our nation's battles, and we are in a nation that we have the most powerful military on the face of human existence to do that.

00:21:22.560 And we have a military, unlike a lot of other countries, that is not controlled in a martial society.

00:21:30.400 And I do believe that the United States, you know, rules of engagement come up all the time.

00:21:36.040 I believe more than probably any country that's been out there, the United States has adhered to more of – you hear of atrocities and a few other things,

00:21:48.580 but not at the scale when you deal with U.S. troops.

00:21:52.300 United States troops, when they're unleashed onto an objective, Steve, we call it controlled chaos.

00:21:59.860 We know exactly what we're doing.

00:22:01.720 We know the mission at hand.

00:22:03.060 We know the target set that we need to employ.

00:22:05.540 And we know the objective before we even start onto the issue.

00:22:09.580 So being an implementation of that kind of policy on the ground gives you, you know, north, south, east, and west, and the man to your left and your right,

00:22:21.840 it gives you the utmost confidence that there is no nation on the world that is ever going to take a piece of ground away from a U.S. Marine.

00:22:28.900 Talk to me about – so the best review the film ever got was 15 years ago when Michael and I were taking it around and showing it to Marine Corps groups.

00:22:40.640 And Michael lined up a group in – I think it was in Northern California.

00:22:45.220 And it was alumni of World War II, the greatest generation.

00:22:50.160 It was the Force Recon Marines of Peleliu and Terawa, which I would argue are the best of the best.

00:22:57.400 They watched this film of you guys in Fallujah, in Najaf, and in Second Fallujah, going tomb to tomb, going door to door, kicking down doors.

00:23:08.500 You know, what is it, a million rooms in Fallujah when finally the Marines went through there for the second battle.

00:23:15.000 And at the end of it, one of the Marines, and it had to be in his 80s or 90s at that time, said,

00:23:23.140 I can't believe the valor and courage of these young guys.

00:23:26.060 And, of course, Michael goes, well, hang on.

00:23:29.040 What are you talking about?

00:23:29.740 You're the – you're Force Recon of two of the most historic amphibious landings in not just Marine Corps history but human history.

00:23:37.840 And the guy said, hey, look, we were 17 or 18 years old.

00:23:40.780 We were trained.

00:23:41.500 Just – you hit the beach.

00:23:42.920 You clear-cut everything in front of you.

00:23:45.280 You know, you don't ask any questions.

00:23:46.780 You just go, and you do not back up an inch.

00:23:48.820 You just go.

00:23:49.420 He says, here, going door to door and all the pressure and tension of the little children and women running around, he says, you know, that's a very different war.

00:23:57.180 He said that would be 100 times harder.

00:23:59.620 And I'm sitting there going, wow, Terawa and Peleliu, the best of the best, the hardest of the hard, sitting there and talking about what the Marines is.

00:24:08.000 This is one of the reasons I've worked so hard with Michael to make sure this picture gets out there because you see – and this is nothing but grit for an hour and a half.

00:24:17.280 And the reason is it's how Marines live their life day-to-day in combat.

00:24:21.800 The whole film, 90 minutes, you're in combat the entire time.

00:24:24.480 There's no strategy.

00:24:25.540 There's no big picture.

00:24:27.380 There's nothing about the politics of the war.

00:24:29.180 It's just Marines, what they do every day.

00:24:31.580 But this is why I'm so intrigued by your walk.

00:24:34.600 Look, people don't realize at Terawa and Peleliu and all these places in the Pacific, which is so important to the United States today, geopolitically, this is so important.

00:24:45.680 There are men who have not been brought home.

00:24:50.100 Can you tell us about that for a second?

00:24:51.460 Because I think the audience is going to be shocked that we actually have – and it's not a government effort.

00:24:56.140 It's kind of a private charity effort to do this.

00:24:58.900 Can you walk us through what exactly is happening with Terawa and Peleliu?

00:25:02.740 Absolutely, Steve.

00:25:06.960 Most people don't know the Kiribati Island Chain.

00:25:09.620 When you're talking about island chains in the Pacific and you're always hearing about the first island chain and you're always hearing about strategic impacts out there in the first island chain or others,

00:25:20.800 what most people don't look or are aware of is when you have an overabundance of concentration, say, the Senkaku Islands or these contested areas between the slots in the Philippines and that.

00:25:34.460 What has happened is on 20 November of 1943, 18,000 Marines took on 4,600 Japanese Ruka Sentai.

00:25:43.300 Japanese Marines are special naval landing battalion individuals.

00:25:48.300 Admiral Shibasaki, Kenji Shibasaki, said it would take a million men, a hundred years, to take the island to Tarawa.

00:25:54.500 It took the U.S. Marine Corps 76 hours.

00:25:56.560 And if I move 76 hours in that brutal, hellish condition where basically there almost wasn't a living thing across that 800-meter-wide, a mile-and-a-half-long spit.

00:26:08.520 Once the Marines secured that island, that was the test case for Admiral Nemesis Island Hopping Campaign.

00:26:16.980 I mean, Guadalcanal was right before that.

00:26:19.900 You know, the Macon Island Raids.

00:26:21.500 Every one of these pieces were testing how much farther we can go, what kind of equipment we're going to need.

00:26:27.800 Push, push, push. 0.98

00:26:29.500 Tarawa was the first full-scale amphibious invasion that put people on a bayonet point and just rooted them out.

00:26:37.960 There was only 17 Japanese survivors on that island.

00:26:41.960 And one of them said that we thought we had the Marines dead to rights out 700 meters into the water as a reef that circles the island of Tarawa, Basio.

00:26:54.440 And he said, we thought we had them.

00:26:56.500 We saw all their landing boats stop right there.

00:26:59.360 We saw the Marines start to spill out over the sides.

00:27:02.520 And they started to have to wade to shore 700 meters.

00:27:05.580 And the Japanese were just slaying them in the water before they could get. 1.00

00:27:10.220 And then he said, my troops were emboldened.

00:27:12.680 We were going to win.

00:27:13.620 And then he said, we saw then these landing craft crawl up over the reef with Marines inside like spiders.

00:27:21.600 And then start crawling more and more towards us.

00:27:25.700 And they just would not stop.

00:27:27.460 And he looked at his troops and he said, the gods of death have come.

00:27:30.860 This has secured our fate.

00:27:32.100 We're all going to die here.

00:27:33.140 That was the test to take those amphibious landing craft and those assault forces and Marines that were going to then move into Saipan, into Kenyan, into Kwajalein, and just push all the way up into Japan.

00:27:48.260 By the end of that battle...

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00:29:03.140 I don't know if we could have a more signal-not-noise start to a show.

00:29:13.660 And, yes, we've got a lot of politics to cover, a lot of economics, a lot of capital markets, but you have to separate out the most important thing.

00:29:20.220 And one is that we don't leave our dead on a battlefield.

00:29:26.240 This thing, correct me if I'm wrong, Sergeant Major, I think it was history flight a couple years ago.

00:29:33.980 Didn't they say it was a terror, I'm pretty sure, not Peleliu, that they found some of these bodies, it was underneath the tarmac of the runway they had built there, that somehow they had been under there.

00:29:45.940 But the 300 bodies, there's 300 bodies of Marines who died in combat that are scattered around Tarawa somewhere, correct?

00:29:57.080 Either under this tarmac or in other places just buried in the sand or just where they fell?

00:30:03.800 Yeah, that's correct.

00:30:05.780 And what's even more important than that, Stephen, I think when people see, they think of American cemeteries or burials.

00:30:15.420 They envision Arlington National Cemetery or Omaha Beach or something of these really brilliant, beautiful headstones and crosses laid out in these fabulous rows.

00:30:26.460 Well, the problem is out on Tarawa, that's not the case.

00:30:29.520 So on that small little island that's 800 meters wide and about a mile and a half long, there were 541 U.S. Marines that were left on that island at the end of the war.

00:30:40.140 And in 1946, the American Grace Registration was given a tremendous task, and that task was go all over the world in a year and try to locate and return any of America's fallen and missing in action.

00:30:57.600 Most people don't understand, in 1945, we were celebrating in Times Square and everything, but we're bankrupt as a country after fighting since 1941.

00:31:09.580 And they're given this minimal task, so they go out.

00:31:12.980 In some cases, they're told, hey, grab, just get the skulls because it has dental records.

00:31:18.260 Just get the femur, if you can, and move on down the line, just something to try to get an identification of an individual.

00:31:27.260 And so in 1946, they return, they consolidate all those records, and then the American government sends out another wave of telegrams.

00:31:35.740 Now, understand, we're getting ready to go into the holiday season here in America, but specifically the Battle of Tarawa, of the 1,000 Marines that were killed and sailors on that island,

00:31:50.380 most of the American families received a telegram that their son was killed on that island, over 1,000 of them, on December 23rd and December 24th of 1943.

00:32:02.940 So Christmas decorations are in the windows, Christmas trees are out, knock on the door, Western Union telegram, Merry Christmas, your son was just killed on Tarawa.

00:32:14.860 1946, they get another telegram.

00:32:19.200 Not only was your son killed on Tarawa, we looked for him, and he's still unaccounted for.

00:32:25.020 And then in 1949, must have been the most heartbreaking telegram.

00:32:29.080 It said, not only was your son killed, not only is he missing, but we're no longer looking for him.

00:32:35.980 And I found that to be abhorrent, because those individuals are not buried underneath these beautiful cemeteries like you and I know.

00:32:45.800 They're buried underneath pigsties. 0.98

00:32:48.280 They're buried underneath public urinals with no marking whatsoever of their heroism, valor, and sacrifice.

00:32:56.100 They are out there right now because the CCP has moved into a lot of these islands, unobstructed, it seems.

00:33:04.500 And they are doing construction projects.

00:33:07.300 And now there's a Chinese backhoe or anything else out there on Tarawa just digging up the ground and scooping up American boys and probably for the most part just dumping them out in the ocean somewhere very unceremonially while they're building the next parking lot. 0.99

00:33:26.300 And that is absolutely abhorrent to me, Steve, because that's not just one island.

00:33:31.140 It's like that all through the South Pacific and in other places around the world.

00:33:34.740 So the purpose, I want to make sure that people are focused on, the purpose of your walk is obviously to commemorate the history and tradition of the Marine Corps.

00:33:45.020 But very specifically, you are working with history flights to identify where the actual bodies are on places like Tarawa and other places to get people over there to start looking for them so that we can collect them and bring them home?

00:34:01.280 Absolutely, Steve, since I retired from 31 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, I was the sergeant major at Training and Education Command with a great commanding general named Major General James Lukman.

00:34:15.220 And we held a honorary Marine Corps, and that honorary Marine Corps, there was less than 100 of those in history.

00:34:24.900 I mean, Chuck Norris is one.

00:34:26.240 There's some children with cancer.

00:34:29.180 It's a hard bar to make.

00:34:31.880 And Mark Noah was being honored that year for his efforts on trying to do this.

00:34:37.540 And that is where Mark and I linked up until about three years later when I called it quits as a career.

00:34:42.740 And Mark and I circled back around again.

00:34:45.040 He asked me after a short interview, I laid out battle histories and everything else.

00:34:51.340 And he said, hey, I'd love for you to come over here and run this organization.

00:34:55.680 I signed on there with him as a great partner.

00:34:59.540 As the chief operating officer and now the chief executive officer.

00:35:02.980 And we have searched with offices in the Philippines, Kabamituan, Palawan, operations going on there.

00:35:12.080 The island of Tarawa, it's still being contested by the Chinese, which we've had work visas frozen out to go back in to get those individuals, Steve, for going on five years now. 0.84

00:35:25.920 And the pace is not moving.

00:35:28.500 Even contact through the U.S. State Department doesn't seem to move the needle.

00:35:33.460 And a lot of other people that kind of say, well, yeah, we're kind of working on that.

00:35:38.180 Well, I don't know how much, yeah, we're kind of working on that is actually happening.

00:35:42.680 No, no, we can't tolerate that.

00:35:44.500 Let me, President Trump, when we first took office in 17, he put a executive order out about Vietnam and the MIAs and the POWs still there.

00:35:57.280 What that had, what was it, correct me, give me the details, 56 boxes were sent back, I believe, immediately.

00:36:04.760 What was the outcome of that?

00:36:06.380 That was in Korea.

00:36:07.580 So, of course, there's no operations going on in North Korea.

00:36:12.840 And that's where a predominant amount of American troops were either incarcerated, died in prison, in Chinese prison camps, or were killed outright in North Korea.

00:36:26.000 So, in Korea, there's roughly still about 7,400 missing, probably about 5,300 of those are in North Korea.

00:36:35.880 And in 2017, President Trump had negotiated with North Korea to return 55 boxes of remains.

00:36:44.140 Now, in those boxes of remains, those should not be equated to an individual.

00:36:51.920 Those were not just 55 individuals.

00:36:53.880 There were co-mingled sets of remains inside each of those boxes.

00:36:57.960 And when those were turned over to the Defense POW MIA Agency and their great labs out there in Hawaii, they started to cull through all of the bones and start to run down families, do DNA, try to get some material evidence, whatever they could.

00:37:15.400 And of those 55 boxes and remains, there were about 250 individuals when that was all laid out and all tested that had now been positively identified from those 55 boxes of unilateral turnover of remains.

00:37:32.360 And I really thought at that point, wow, we get it.

00:37:35.840 We're on a trajectory.

00:37:37.380 If we can do that and do that with North Korea, you know, we should be able to do that with just about anybody on this great humanitarian mission around the world.

00:37:46.980 But in a lot of ways, since 2017, access to a lot of those areas, not just in North Korea, but these other contested areas we're talking about, really hasn't opened up the door for this great humanitarian thing we have going on.

00:38:00.360 And a lot of momentum is not being moving forward.

00:38:03.060 And now, you know, these remains that still are out there getting turned up in the ground, Steve, you know, without people, without the money, without the resources, without the passionate people out there to do that, they're going to get lost forever.

00:38:20.700 Sergeant Major, I'm going to ask for your coordinates.

00:38:24.600 I want everybody to pile into this.

00:38:26.800 But I want to give you a reality check.

00:38:28.880 How many of those remains were men that were killed by the North Koreans and the Chinese after the at least the armistice or the ceasefire?

00:38:39.440 We don't have there's we're not at peace in Korea.

00:38:42.340 Understand the Korea Peninsula is still essentially in a suspended state of war between North and South.

00:38:48.380 But when that was agreed to, I think, in 1953, that kind of armistice, how many of these Americans that got shipped back were still held in prison camps, being tortured and died in North Korean and Chinese prisons after the armistice?

00:39:04.240 You know, I don't know if a lot of people can put the number on a ski, but you're correct.

00:39:09.620 When I was walking across the nation in 2022, I met a very nice spry couple in their 90s.

00:39:19.800 And Cabrera and his wife, Madeline, they were missing Madeline's brother, Jack Mather, United States Army, missing from Korea.

00:39:33.440 Well, he was in POW. He was known to be in POW Camp 5 for a while when the remains and everybody else who died in captivity of POW Camp 5 were turned back over at the end of the war.

00:39:45.340 Jack Mather and a known POW, his remains was never turned back over or his remains lay in an unmarked grave waiting for DNA testing.

00:39:55.120 But there are a lot when that when that ended and it never ended.

00:40:00.660 I don't think you can put a finger on how many Americans suffered at the hands in those brutal winters up there, probably for one, two, three.

00:40:11.420 Who knows how many years after that?

00:40:15.100 And in 1946, people, I mean, you get a telegram and a couple of years later, you get another telegram.

00:40:21.120 People just moved on. Well, we ain't moving on anyway.

00:40:24.260 Anyway, Sergeant Major, your coordinates, where they get to, where they get to everything about history flight, where they get to everything about your walk.

00:40:31.960 I know you're putting up stuff every day video.

00:40:34.320 We're going to continue to follow this and we'll obviously be there and have people there when you finish on the 10th.

00:40:40.340 The 10th all day, we're going to be celebrating, commemorating the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps.

00:40:46.600 Where do people go to get you, sir?

00:40:49.040 www.historyflight.com for the main overall mission.

00:40:52.800 You'll find a lot of fabulous information about returns, recoveries, and things like Cleo was talking about, about how to get DNA and how to find and help other families.

00:41:04.060 The walk is www.teamlongroad.com.

00:41:08.560 That will give you the overall thing from 2022 of the mission of the Hawaii.

00:41:14.640 We are out there doing it.

00:41:16.340 And right now we're streaming, Steve, on multiple social media platforms between Facebook and over on LinkedIn to try to capture.

00:41:26.060 Because not only are we out here just raising awareness for that, you know, we're out here to raise funds in the private sector to be able to go after and try to be one of the last hopes that a generation or American family has.

00:41:41.140 So, you know, if I'm pulling down between 25K and 50K out here, which is a nice swag window to be, you know, we've been out here for about eight days now.

00:41:51.900 And we are getting and generating some donations.

00:41:53.960 But we're not in that sweet spot.

00:41:56.900 We've got another week and a half to go.

00:41:59.080 And every dollar that anybody donates over here, Steve, goes right to the field to give another American family possibly their last chance at hope to bring home their fallen American hero.

00:42:13.160 Thank you, sir.

00:42:14.260 Sergeant Major, we'll cover this intensely.

00:42:16.500 Thank you, sir.

00:42:17.200 Appreciate you doing this and appreciate you coming on the show this morning.

00:42:20.620 Thank you very much for having me, Steve.

00:42:22.340 God bless America.

00:42:23.960 God bless America.

00:42:53.960 You can't get a work permit to come and get them.

00:42:56.820 It's a hell of a world, isn't it, folks?

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00:44:51.560 And a bunch of trick-or-treaters.

00:44:53.200 We're going to follow this.

00:44:55.060 Let's keep the music up.

00:44:56.340 I've got to hear the music.

00:44:58.480 President Trump's got a trick-or-treat.

00:45:02.680 Oh, folks are coming by and getting came.

00:45:04.440 Isn't this great?

00:45:05.100 We're going to follow this, folks.

00:45:06.360 Just watch it.

00:45:06.980 Great track right there.

00:45:25.900 South Lawn.

00:45:27.940 Amazing.

00:45:28.540 See, I think President Trump, this is the, this is, he's got his iPad.

00:45:41.940 This is his, this is his disco collection, isn't it?

00:45:45.260 I'm not getting a reaction from my production, so we don't.

00:45:52.080 Of everything he's got to do, folks, I want you to look at this.

00:45:54.700 He's got the ball cap on.

00:45:56.400 Milani, the first lady, they're handing out. 0.97

00:45:58.580 These are, look at the kids coming up there and doing this.

00:46:01.600 Tell their grandchildren.

00:46:02.720 I was at the White House.

00:46:03.780 He just got off, I don't know, an 18-hour flight.

00:46:07.820 He was negotiating with the toughest hombre in the world.

00:46:11.500 He gets after being, he gets on the flight, comes back.

00:46:14.780 Now he's there for the people.

00:46:18.520 This is what I voted for.

00:46:21.220 The guy never stops.

00:46:24.440 You're not going to agree with everything he does.

00:46:26.840 There's a lot of stuff that we say, hey, you know, what's going on here?

00:46:30.260 But, man, you've never had a president like this, ever.

00:46:33.780 I mean, who's got the energy to do this?

00:46:39.200 And look how great she's seeing the first lady. 1.00

00:46:40.880 It's just amazing.

00:46:42.640 Incredible.

00:46:43.860 And it's such a memory for these kids.

00:46:45.740 That's the important thing.

00:46:46.520 This, the Christmas in the White House,

00:46:48.820 over for Christmas in the,

00:46:49.960 and then, of course, the, um,

00:46:54.920 over Easter, the Easter egg.

00:46:57.440 And President Trump gets a kick at it.

00:46:59.040 You can see it right there.

00:47:00.060 This is what he loves.

00:47:01.140 What a beautiful shot.

00:47:06.440 I want to thank the real emergency.

00:47:07.360 Is that a White House read?

00:47:08.480 Or is that a guy's fantastic shot?

00:47:10.660 That angle shot?

00:47:12.540 Amazing.

00:47:15.320 All the kids in their costumes.

00:47:16.920 Incredible.

00:47:17.540 Okay.

00:47:17.840 We're going to, we're going to have this.

00:47:19.240 You're going to watch this.

00:47:20.820 I'm going to bring in Mike Lindell.

00:47:22.180 We're talking about scary.

00:47:25.380 Let's get Mike.

00:47:26.280 Just kidding.

00:47:27.880 Okay.

00:47:28.680 Let's go ahead and bring Mike Lindell in.

00:47:30.740 And, uh, let's just, we're going to keep that.

00:47:32.140 We're going to come back to it before we go.

00:47:33.700 Um, by the way, it's six o'clock.

00:47:36.320 Uh, while Israel slept, uh, 0.53

00:47:38.560 Yaakov Katz is going to join me.

00:47:40.500 This book, whether you're, you're pro-Israel, evangelical, or you're in the Tucker Carlson

00:47:47.540 camp, uh, or anywhere in between, buy this book.

00:47:53.060 I think it gives you the strategic situation of, of Israel, what's going on, but it goes

00:47:58.740 through minute by minute of what happened.

00:48:01.800 And this, I think is the reliance on technology, too much of a reliance on technology, people

00:48:08.620 that think they got stuff organized and they don't, and this should be a warning to the

00:48:12.120 United States about us reliance on technology, et cetera.

00:48:15.440 In fact, the movie, the last 600 meters tonight started out, Michael Pack was going to make

00:48:19.660 a movie about high tech in modern warfare.

00:48:22.640 And he ended up making a film that's Marine rifle platoons going door to door, neighborhood

00:48:27.640 to neighborhood in places like Najaf in Fallujah.

00:48:30.260 So, uh, while Israel slept for an entire hour, I'm going to be with, uh, Katz, the author

00:48:36.140 to go through it.

00:48:37.080 Mike Lindell, Arctic Frost, man, when I read those documents, they were coming after you,

00:48:42.040 brother.

00:48:42.260 Alex Jones and I think we're the only two journalists.

00:48:44.080 They're only two guys in media.

00:48:45.080 I wouldn't call myself a journalist. 0.57

00:48:46.680 Um, but brother, they came after you to take you down and burn you to the ground, sir.

00:48:53.440 Every, from every angle.

00:48:54.860 And I believe we were the first, Steve.

00:48:56.680 Um, we've already tracked ours.

00:48:58.420 We've been working on this all week.

00:48:59.840 I have with lawyers and, and investigators and stuff.

00:49:03.000 And we, they, they went after my pillow as early as early 2022.

00:49:08.380 You guys, they went after my vendors.

00:49:11.140 They went after my banks.

00:49:12.960 We got debanked at three different banks.

00:49:15.220 They went to them.

00:49:16.260 They went after, obviously they took my cell phone in September of 21.

00:49:20.160 Um, they went after, um, everything to do with my pillow and not just that.

00:49:27.720 They also reached out to phone companies, Verizon.

00:49:30.620 They shut my pillows, text marketing.

00:49:33.780 Uh, we weren't able to text market whatever they did.

00:49:36.620 Dirty deal.

00:49:37.400 They did with Verizon.

00:49:38.660 Steve, this goes so deep.

00:49:40.260 It's like, you know, all because why?

00:49:42.820 Because my pillows, my employee owned company, their CEO is out there going, hey, we got

00:49:47.140 problems with our elections.

00:49:49.120 Um, you know what?

00:49:49.980 There was a 2020 election.

00:49:51.620 We need to look into it.

00:49:52.740 We need to look into, uh, uh, the election platforms.

00:49:55.980 Um, somebody look at this.

00:49:57.380 By the way, everybody, remember I've been fighting against these government private contractors,

00:50:02.600 i.e.

00:50:02.980 voting machines for four and a half years now.

00:50:05.860 So isn't this funny?

00:50:07.060 You have the FBI, the IRS, and the DOJ come after me, my pillow.

00:50:11.740 And then because I'm talking about, um, under my freedom of speech, they talk about government

00:50:16.580 private contractors.

00:50:18.280 Steve, it's been absolutely disgusting.

00:50:21.860 So, um, tell me, what are you going to do?

00:50:24.780 And then I want to pivot to how we're going to pay for this.

00:50:27.580 You're going to pay for this, do profits in the company.

00:50:30.180 And that's where we're going to sell more, more towels, sheets, and pillows.

00:50:34.120 First of all, what, what action are you going to take?

00:50:36.720 Well, we're looking in right now is, uh, what is the process?

00:50:40.320 If you go after this, this was in my own government, the FBI, they were blatant.

00:50:44.940 The IRS, FBI, and the DOJ are the three biggest enemies that came after me, uh, with full

00:50:50.460 guns at all sides.

00:50:51.420 And then you couple that with just this week, um, smartmatic, uh, so that a judge in Minnesota

00:50:58.220 finds my pillow and myself guilty of defaming a corrupt criminal company, because it's out

00:51:04.440 in the news right now, last week, you can't obviously Steve, our first amendment, right?

00:51:09.300 A free speech is it, is it at, uh, this is our, everything that, uh, happened to my pillow

00:51:15.480 should never happen again in history.

00:51:17.380 We're not going to take it lying down.

00:51:19.080 I am going after, uh, whatever avenue I can take.

00:51:22.800 I don't know if you can go after the government.

00:51:24.660 I, the president did the other night.

00:51:26.240 He said, Hey, it's like suing myself.

00:51:28.200 It's a great lawsuit.

00:51:29.260 Um, and, uh, so we're gonna, we're going to be making a lot of moves here in the next

00:51:33.620 three, four days.

00:51:34.460 Right now, we're just gathering everything damage it did to my pillow.

00:51:38.240 So the damage it did to my pillow alone is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:51:42.660 Everybody, this doesn't count the, the stuff that they did with the machine companies and

00:51:47.500 the cancellation.

00:51:48.100 So you guys have made it possible.

00:51:50.180 You guys, please help us out.

00:51:52.060 It's the last day for the made in USA sale.

00:51:55.080 All of our, my pillow products that are made right here, our mattresses, our pillows, everything

00:52:01.560 that we make, the mattress, the bed frames, everything you can save up to 80%.

00:52:06.340 This is the last day for that.

00:52:08.340 You guys get those mattresses, mattress toppers.

00:52:11.080 Remember 60 day money back guarantee on all the USA price.

00:52:14.540 Yeah.

00:52:14.780 And, uh, we, we, we got, we got to bounce brother.

00:52:17.440 We'll see you tomorrow.

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Bannon's War Room - October 31, 2025

Episode 4892： Bringing Home Our Troops From The Pacific Lost In WW2; Denying Conventional Order

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