00:04:25.680Today, nearly 80% of all Army recruits have a family member who serve.
00:04:29.000Meaning, if I join, maybe it's like, my dad served, I want to do the same.
00:04:32.180My uncle served, I want to do the same.
00:04:33.620At the same time, the Department of Defense said that 77% of American youth are disqualified from military due to a lack of physical fitness, low test scores, criminal records, including drug use, or other problems.
00:04:46.480So, if you don't have that big of an inventory and they're not qualified, what do you have to do?
00:04:50.260You either have to keep the standards, the waiters will say, well, why don't we just lower the standards to get more people that get in?
00:04:55.020And then at the same time, in 2021, only 9% of young people ages 16 to 21 said they would ever consider joining the military.
00:05:02.760Now, let's take a look at what's happened in America with different policy changes since 2011 to today.
00:05:06.7402011, U.S. repealed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy prohibiting gay recruits from serving openly in the military.
00:05:13.3802013, U.S. lifts ban on women serving in combat roles.
00:05:17.620There's a big thing that happens in 2013 when they said women can't go into combat.
00:05:23.440According to the Center for a New American Security, CNAS, the number of women serving in combat occupations increased over 60% between 2013 to 2018.
00:06:04.020All I'm saying is when you send thousands of men who are 18 to 25 years old with the testosterone level here, and the ratio for soldiers in active duty, not in combat, is for every five male active duty.
00:06:17.760There's one female, so out of six, one is a female, five is a male, and in combat, the ratios are astronomically higher.
00:06:24.960You're putting these men in a bad situation, but that's an excuse you're making for them.
00:06:30.900Don't put people in a bad situation to do something bad.
00:06:34.380These numbers tell us it's not a good thing that is happening.
00:06:37.320Again, bad policies have consequences.
00:06:39.960This is showing this was a bad policy.
00:06:42.140November 2017, this was the first time the Defense Health Agency approved payments for sex reassignment surgery for active duty U.S. military service members.
00:06:52.120As a matter of fact, Pentagon spent $15 million between 2017 to 2021 treating 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to the Defense Department data provided to military.com.
00:07:10.720I want you to think about, in Russia, in China, in Iran, they're getting a report.
00:07:15.880Did you know America spent $15 million for surgery?
00:08:27.280Harassment prevention and response in the armed forces.
00:08:29.340Policy created under direction of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
00:08:32.480So in 2018, Jim Mattis came up with a policy.
00:08:35.400The whole thing was around anti-bullying policies, which he came up with.
00:08:38.840And they defined bullying as offensive jokes, epithets, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs, displays of offensive objects or imagery,
00:08:46.800stereotyping, intimidating acts, veiled threats of violence, threatening or provoking remarks, slurs, derogatory remarks about a person's accent, displays of racially offensive symbols.
00:08:56.300Sounds like the last dance with the Chicago Bulls when you play with Michael,
00:08:59.480because sounds like all that stuff was Michael doing that when he was challenging his people.
00:09:02.780And we call him the greatest of all time.
00:09:04.320I understand some of these things may be harmful, hurtful, hurt someone's feelings, but you're defending a nation.
00:09:10.360Maybe in third grade, I understand these things.
00:09:12.960Maybe in fifth grade, maybe in a church, okay, you can't cross the line with this stuff, but you're being mentally toughened up to.
00:09:21.320Imagine what the enemy is going to tell you.
00:09:23.480If you can't take something from a peer, how are you going to, do you see the logic behind it?
00:09:29.080Now, the next one I understand, discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation.
00:09:35.100But even with that, do you want more women in war, in combat?
00:09:40.000Then these are questions we have to be asking because it's not working.
00:09:43.540And then sexual, unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, offensive comments or gestures of a sexual nature.
00:09:52.500And then a couple other things they have here, obviously, hazing and retaliation.
00:09:55.580I get the whole retaliation code red, you know, you can't handle the truth, totally get it.
00:19:33.700Every school year should start with every teacher in every class for the entire week selling America on why it's the greatest country in the world.
00:19:45.760Every kid in orientation first week needs to be sold on the greatness of America, the positive impact it's had in the world where you and I, whatever religion we are, whatever color we are, whatever part of the world we are, we can coexist.
00:20:48.920I'm in formation looking at grown men and women, E-8s, Sergeant Majors, First Sergeant E-8s, Captains, Colonels, Generals, Tears, and we're looking at them proud to be an American.
00:21:00.160They sold you on the greatness of this country, and you have to be proud about it.
00:21:05.220If we do that, kids are going to say, I love America.
00:22:19.820We have to keep that outside of the military.
00:22:22.640You go screw up as many Fortune 500 companies you want to do, okay, because long-term, everyone's going to realize your philosophies don't work, okay?
00:22:29.660Even Larry Fink recently said ESG has been weaponized.
00:22:32.580We have to change the word to something else.
00:22:35.300You've weaponized ESG against the American people, not the American people and the critics using the word ESG as a way to weaponize against you.
00:22:43.540Who the hell are you, an $11 trillion company, to tell American people we're weaponizing against you?
00:22:48.360You're doing it to the American people, and they're sick of it.
00:22:51.340Military, there is no place in ESG in the military.
00:22:54.320Next one, as a financial advisor, I've been a financial advisor since the day before 9-11.
00:22:59.120I got my Series 7 in November of 2001, and so I've been sitting with clients.
00:23:02.640So you have to look at our balance sheet, families' numbers, what they're looking at, what are you spending, what's coming in, income, outflow, all that stuff.
00:23:08.720So U.S. is spending, last year, $801 billion in the military.