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Lohmeier and Gray: Fighting for a Military That Has Found Itself Bursting with Marxist Ideology and Sitting at a Dangerous Juncture

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By J. M. Phelps  |  Gateway Pundit

On Jan. 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a U.S. military plagued with force readiness, recruiting, and retention issues. A conglomerate of factors played into the breakdown of each issue.

Notable contributions included the infiltration of cultural Marxism, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology into the force, as well as the tyrannical enforcement of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s now-rescinded 2021 military shot mandate.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to Matt Lohmeier, Executive Vice President of Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS), and a former Space Force commander who was relieved of his duties in 2021 for comments about diversity and wokeness in the military.

The author of Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military explained, “The way in which Marxism has infiltrated the United States military has been largely subversively, just like it did originally in the university setting.”

Lohmeier said, “It then came far more directly in the form of diversity and inclusion trainings that are steeped in critical race theory, which teach our service members to view one another based on accidentals.”

According to him, these accidentals include but are not limited to race, ethnic, and gender identities.

For him, “There’s no better strategy that someone might come up with to destroy a military than to divide it and then conquer it.”

He warned, “Marxism never parades around as Marxism, but employs a different vocabulary to mask what’s being weaponized against the troops.”

“Genuine diversity and inclusion are not bad in and of themselves, but when divisive agendas get attached to those words then they are used to destroy unity,” he shared.

“Adding insult to injury, even as the unity of our armed forces has begun to crumble, so has the military’s long history of merit-based selections, because in order to achieve the aims of the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, a quota-based system is required.”

“While the military has been very careful to stay away from the term quotas, using other terms instead,” Lohmeier pointed out that “when terms like ‘force planning or force shaping’ are used, it means nothing less than that we have quotas.”

As a result, merit-based selection has suffered greatly through the years.

Nic Gray, a former non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and CEO of Uniformed Services Justice & Advocacy Group (USJAG), agreed. One of his primary concerns is that the military has failed to uphold its long history of merit-based selection.

He told The Gateway Pundit, “The military has unequivocally lost focus on the foundational elements of its success: unit cohesion, discipline, and readiness. Merit-based selection has been abandoned, leading to a significant erosion of true diversity.”

In addition, he pointed out that recruitment standards have been “undeniably lowered,” and retention is “clearly on a negative trajectory.”

While people often focus on the recruiting issue, Gray warned, “Retention must be at the forefront of our concerns.”

He noted, “Service members are resolutely choosing to terminate their careers early to escape entanglement with political or societal ideologies they view as fundamentally damaging to the military’s core values and operational effectiveness.”

Lohmeier agreed, pointing out that “all too often, some of our most talented leaders throw in the towel and retire early.”

“We still have great leaders all throughout and in every branch of the military, but many are quite discouraged,” he said, explaining “They’re discouraged by the abandonment of the meritocracy of the United States military and by overt political shifts in military culture, making many feel less valued somehow because they don’t fit a certain race or sex-based demographic.”

“When someone like that steps aside and goes quietly into the civilian world, you’d hope that the person that’s going to fill his shoes in a leadership capacity is the second best, but that’s not always the case,” Lohmeier offered. “But when this is not the case, you start to fill some of those positions with people that frankly shouldn’t be in a leadership position.”

And according to Gray, the ‘double negative’ scenario of substandard non-commissioned officers leading substandard recruits” fosters a toxic environment.”

This not only undermines force readiness but also jeopardizes national security in his opinion. “Such a cycle adversely affects both recruitment and retention, leading to a generational disillusionment with the prospect of military service,” he lamented.

‘The U.S. Military is at a Dangerous Juncture’

Gray said he “clearly recognizes” the abandonment of merit-based selection and the threat it has on USJAG’s mission to advocate for injured service members who are abusively and fraudulently discharged.

Emphasizing the role of commissioned officers in the discharge process, he said, “It is crucial for people to recognize that fraudulent discharges are primarily being sanctioned and executed by mid-level officers, whose primary motivation appears to be career advancement through promotion.

In other words, he said, “It’s ego and profit-driven at the expense of a fellow brother or sister.”

He explained, “Promotions are partially contingent upon force readiness, assessed by deployable status, with a goal of maintaining a 95 percent benchmark.”

According to him, “Mid-level officers, aware that injured service members are eating up scarce resources that could otherwise support healthy and deployable personnel, are resorting to fraudulent means to discharge these individuals.” For many, he said, it’s considered “a death sentence.”

“Laws are not being followed, [and] the rights of service members are being violated,” Gray lamented. “The new administration must address the unlawful discharges plaguing the military, because it’s been deliberate and injured service members have been the subject of total malfeasance for far too long.”

Injured service members have the right to heal, return to service, or receive medical retirement.

“Fraudulent discharges not only harm the individual but also their families and communities, adversely affecting recruitment, retention, and national security,” Gray shared. “The Department of Defense must not continue to self-regulate.”

“When one gets a glimpse beneath the surface of the Department of Defense and uncovers the pervasive issue of fraudulent discharges, it becomes clear that this could be argued as the most egregious scandal in the department’s history,” Gray argued. “The Department has failed miserably to play judge, jury, and executioner.”

For Gray, the solution is clear: “Implement third-party oversight in the discharge process of injured service members to safeguard their rights and ensure compliance with Congressional mandates.”

According to Lohmeier, “The U.S. military is at a dangerous juncture at the moment, because even with a new administration and a potential Secretary of Defense who wants nothing less than to prioritize warfighting, lethality, readiness and recruiting, you can’t fix certain problems overnight, [as] it takes a long time to generate a seasoned leader.”

“For this breed of military leaders currently in place, however, it needs to be very clear to them that their chain of command won’t put up with some of that old political activism that may have gotten them so excited in the past four years,” he asserted.

For the former Space Force commander, “It’s time to abandon partisan politics and simply focus on the lethality of the force and the mission.”

First published on Gateway Pundit

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DEI in Military with Matt Lohmeier

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Matt Lohmeier was on GSD Nation’s “Programming Lions” discussing a variety of topics (see below).

GSD Nation is “a movement started by a father and his kids, on a mission to build more producers* by thinking objectively, rationally and critically. We break down complex topics and engage with all ages, encouraging ways to become a more productive member of society and Get Sh!t Done.”

Watch:

TIMELINE
00:00 Intro
01:15 UFOs and Weather
07:39 Joining military
13:00 Being a fighter pilot
28:40 Marxism
37:09 Greed & capitalism
41:26 Space force activism
44:18 Fired for speaking out
46:28 Upcoming movie
48:06 Meeting Trump
51:50 STARRS
53:02 Rapid Fire

* In Atlas Shrugged, producers are the people who create value through businesses, products, services, art, and invention. They are the protagonists of the novel and represent Ayn Rand’s vision of the human ideal. The producers’ conflict with looters and parasites is a central theme of the novel, and represents Rand’s belief in an eternal conflict in human life. In the novel, producers are vilified by politicians, social justice activists, intellectual critics, and even family members. These groups are supported and funded by the profits that producers earn. However, it’s actually the parasites who are the true “greedy” ones, seeking something for nothing.

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Space Force commander vows to end DEI training in military after being fired for criticizing Marxist CRT/DEI agenda in DOD

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By Rob Waugh  |  The Daily Mail

A former space commander is on a mission to root out DEI training so American soldiers ‘can simply be focused on warfighting in a relatively apolitical workplace.’

Lt Col Matt Lohmeier led the 11th Space Warning Squadron in the Space Force in 2020 before being fired a year later for criticizing the Biden-Harris administration agenda, which also resulting in a loss of pension.

But last month Lohmeier was surprisingly rehired by Donald Trump.

The position came during a rally in North Carolina where Lohmeier thanked the now elect-president for saying that he ‘would fire those few woke generals who are a big problem.’

He then asked Trump if he would ‘setup a special task force office or position to ensure that these monsters never return to the Defense Department.’

Trump instantly responded: ”They’re gone! I’m gonna put you on that task force.’

Lohmeier told DailyMail.com that the encounter was ‘unscripted and unplanned.’ ‘I didn’t know at the time what that meant,’ he said.

‘I didn’t know if I’d simply join a larger team of people working on it, if I’d be put in charge of a task force, and I suppose all of that remains to be seen, and there’s nothing to say about it publicly just yet.’

He is now thinking of ways, ‘in which I might get involved in trying to restore accountability in the military and to eliminate the DEI diversity equity, inclusion training I was critical of. ‘

Lohmeier believes the Trump-Vance administration will energize the Space Force, driving cooperation with private enterprise in space exploration and the return to the moon.

In the wake of his encounter with Trump, he revealed that many troops in uniform have since reached out to him – including former colleagues in the Space Force.

‘They are very excited about the change in the administration and about the potential for the new Secretary of Defense,’ Loheimer said.

‘They’ve expressed excitement about, hopefully, a return to a simple sole focus on warfighting and not about politics and race discussions and political activist agendas.’

Lohmeier was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Space Force in the summer of 2020, and the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the dawn of the Black Lives Matter.

He described the events as ‘a period of unrest where activists and political agitators and race hustlers used a man’s death as an event that they could leverage for their revolutionary political purposes.’

Lohmeier highlighted that the impact on military culture was visible and ‘immediate’.

‘You had leaders in uniform, as well as young followers in uniform, seizing that politically fraught moment for purposes of their own political worldview, purposes of spreading their own political worldview,’ he said.

‘You had, for example, at my base, a base commander, a colonel who is black, say things to his troops, like, ‘No one at my base will stand in the way of the Black Lives Matter movement.’ Well, of course, at once that was terribly polarizing.

‘I saw the demonization of the sitting commander-in-chief by that same base commander.

‘It’s illegal in the military to publicly criticize, especially from your official capacity, your sitting commander-in-chief or your chain of command.

‘I recognized that a lot of the roots of our current social justice activism were found in Marxist thought and ideology.’

Lohmeier wrote a formal complaint and was dismissed from Space Force during the transition to the Biden administration.

His book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military,’ was published in May 2021.

Lohmeier appeared on a podcast to promote the book and said: ‘

‘The diversity, inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military…is rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism.

‘Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be.

‘That wasn’t just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.’

Lohmeier told DailyMail.com: ‘The following week, I was fired from my command for two reasons that were both false. The first reason was it was alleged that I was politically partisan while acting in an official capacity. That was false.’

‘Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be.

‘That wasn’t just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.’

He explained the second reason claimed he had publicly criticized his chain of command, to which he told DailyMail.com: ‘That wasn’t true either.’

‘I was never found guilty of either of those things, and I separated from the military after a little over 15 years of service in the fall of 2021 without my pension,’ Lohmeier said.

The Space Force noted it had removed Lohmeier ‘due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead’ after comments he made in a podcast while promoting his book.

Lohmeier said he was not surprised by the ‘cowardly’ response of senior defense officials.

‘They were afraid of the political climate we had created for ourselves in the country, and they were afraid to stand by a straight white male who was criticizing some of the race based political activism that was occurring,’ He said.

‘I’m talking about the three and four star generals.’

Lohmeier had a long and distinguished military career before becoming embroiled in controversy over the DEI influence within the armed forces.

He graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 2006 and was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force. He completed two Master’s degrees, one in military strategy.

Flying F-15C fighter jets and working as a T-38 jet instructor pilot, Lohmeier transferred into US Air Force Space Command after seven years.

When Trump’s administration launched the Space Force in 2019, Lohmeier knew he was a ‘natural fit.’

‘I was one of the first officers, and my unit was one of the first units that transitioned into the new Space Force,’ he said.

‘And so I was as of 2020, and 2021, a commander in the Space Force of a space-based missile warning squadron.’

Space-based missile warning systems are satellites that use infrared technology to track missile launches from a ‘geosynchronous’ orbit (meaning their orbit matches Earth’s).

The Space Force now administers Cold War ground-based radar dishes used to detect missiles and the space-based missile warning system.

 ‘You have a prediction of where missiles are going to land, and you call commanders down range and our allies down range, and we let them know: ‘Duck and cover. There’s a rocket headed inbound,” explained Lohmeier.

‘At first it was established in the Cold War specifically for the detection and warning of intercontinental ballistic missiles, which carry the biggest threat, but then that capability was used for much smaller heat signatures, much smaller weapons, like the rockets and smaller missiles that are often lobbed in the Middle East against the State of Israel.’

Other Space Force responsibilities involved maintaining GPS systems, which, while used by civilians, are a military system maintained by Air Force operators in Colorado that came over to the Space Force.

‘In addition to missile warning and GPS, the Space Force does strategic communications,’ Lohmeier said.

‘If there’s any kind of communication that is other that could otherwise be disrupted in the land, sea or air domains, space is one of those ways in which strategic communications can be provided to warfighters or key political leaders like a commander in chief.’

The thinking behind the Space Force is to establish space as a ‘domain’ like land, sea and air, with experts who can make decisions, Lohmeier explained.

‘You don’t want people who are used to thinking about things from a terrestrial perspective to go work in the space domain,’ he said.

‘The purpose is to deter conflict in through and from space. And if conflict does happen, then, like every other domain, you’ve got experts in that domain who know how to assist in the waging of conflict.’

First published on The Daily Mail

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Modern Warriors Veterans Panel with Hegseth and Lohmeier

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Matt Lohmeier was on Pete Hegseth’s Modern Warriors live show on Veteran’s Day, 11 November 2024 in Tennessee. This was the day before President Trump announced Hegseth as his Secretary of Defense.

Here are excerpts:

When a real leader walks into a room….

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Panel talking about the DEI/Woke agenda in the military:

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All it takes is the right man and the military recruitment crisis is over:

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Pete Hegseth talks about Day One at DOD (this is before he knew he was nominated for SECDEF) and the panel talks about American First policy:

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The Southern Border is a national security issue:

 

Watch the entire program on Fox Nation

 

 

 

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How Did the Military Go Woke?

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Matthew Lohmeier was interviewed by Restoration of America, which is dedicated to strengthening the foundations that made America the greatest nation in the world.

He gives a behind the scenes look into the Space Force and the ways in which Marxism has infiltrated our military. He shares why he decided to speak out and why it is essential that we reject Marxism to strengthen our military.

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Trump MUST win to salvage US military WARNS Whistleblower!!

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Matt Lohmeier was on Steve Gardner’s Taming Wall Street show talking about a number of different issues concerning the military.

Whistleblower: Trump MUST correct this…Or Iran, Russia and China will overwhelm US

Steve’s questions:

I first became aware of who you were at a Trump rally I believe In North Carolina. You talked with former president Trump about being in Space Force and losing everything because of raising concerns about DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the military. Can you tell me and my audience more about that?

If Trump gets back in he said he would like you to be on a task force to ensure racism and DEI don’t continue to disrupt the military.

On Twitter you said, If we are fortunate enough to see a Trump presidency once again, then there will be serious consequences for those senior leaders who have broken their oath, betrayed the trust of the American people, and participated in the hyper-politicization of the uniformed services.

What did you do in Space force and why was it created?

Did you or do you have any thoughts on 8000+ members of the US military being threatened and removed for refusing the brand new covid vaccines?

As a military person that has put in the time and put your life on the line, what are your thoughts on Harris and Biden allowing the United States to be invaded by so many illegal immigrants?

Many illegals are getting better income and benefits and medical help than Veterans. Thoughts on this travesty?

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Message From Matthew Lohmeier

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Dear American Veteran, Concerned Citizen,

A short time after my book Irresistible Revolution became a national bestseller, I was contacted by independent filmmakers. They asked if I’d be willing to make a feature-length documentary about my book, career, and the current cultural trajectory of the U.S. military and the country. After a lot of thought, I agreed to move ahead with the project.

For the last year, I’ve been on the road around the country making that film, Against All Enemies. Soon we will make the film public and I’m hoping it has tremendous impact in the hearts and minds of Americans at this critical time in our history.

As I anticipate the release of the film, I am looking forward to hitting the road once again to speak to supporters like you, especially the next generation of leaders in America!

So, what’s been happening to our most trusted institution, the U.S. military?

In the military, we’ve always had, and very much prized, a merit-based selection and promotion process.

However, instead of that merit-based system that made our military a lethal, ready, and trusted institution, senior military leaders have replaced it with a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda that effectively dilutes merit.

That agenda ensures our troops receive recurring “trainings” that brainwash them into hating their country, despising the Founders, and distrusting one another based on race.

My book and forthcoming film clearly show that diversity and inclusion trainings—the vocabulary and spirit of the entire agenda—are undeniably rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT)-Marxist revolutionary thought.

This destructive agenda has finally made its way out of the universities and elsewhere into the uniformed services.

And it’s having the same divisive and destructive impact in the military that it’s had in the universities.

The DEI agenda is dividing our troops; it’s pitting people against one another and crushing morale and readiness; it’s having a terrible impact on our recruiting and retention efforts!

We will never repair our recruiting and retention efforts without the complete elimination of DEI.

Actually, the father of lies is the founder of all of this division.

It’s not just a story as old as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who put together the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Marx and Engels themselves were obsessed with the revolutionary ideas that they believed would successfully topple regimes and bring about an entirely new order; they employed a narrative they knew to be divisive.

But the ideas did not originate with them. They go back to the very beginning of recorded human history. The ideas wear many masks and go by many different names.

The ideas have recently been clothed with the seemingly harmless names of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” while donning a mask of pretended virtue.

You can imagine how these ideas wreak havoc in an institution such as the Department of Defense, which requires unity to be effective in its mission.

Instead of unity, you have division. You have mistrust.

Instead of growing the next generation of leaders, these bad ideas breed contempt for and disrespect toward the country, the military and their leaders.

By and by, race politics come to predominate in the culture.

The men and women in uniform signed up to serve in an all-volunteer force wanting to provide noble service to their country.

They are offended by what’s happening to their country and military in this current regime that values DEI more than the merit-based promotion and selection system.

Servicemembers are offended when they are bombarded with propaganda that demonizes the country and Founders they love.

But they have been afraid to speak up!

There’s been lack of courage among servicemembers because of a climate of fear. Men and women have been afraid of being labeled racist when they know they are not.

They have been afraid to say something that could be perceived as going against an official party line.

Now, I’m noticing that things have been changing.

Especially in the past year, I’ve noticed some of these same men and women beginning to take courage.

Thanks to organizations like STARRS, with its deep bench of talented veterans and volunteers, including STARRS founder General Rod Bishop and others, some of our servicemembers are waking up and making the determination in their mind that enough is enough.

We should each ask ourselves the question:
If I don’t speak up, who will?

I am fighting back and invite you to join me. I’m speaking up and trying to make a difference.

The best all of us can really do is to try to become educated ourselves, and then to exhibit the courage to speak up and use our voice freely and respectfully in whatever sphere of influence that we happen to occupy.

I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the world stage and in their sphere of influence than they have at this moment.

Use your voices in defense of the Constitution and the principles that made our country great!

Because I’m committed to this fight, I’ve joined STARRS, a veteran-led nonprofit focused on eliminating DEI initiatives from the U.S. military, and restoring merit and unity.

If you align with this mission, we need your generous financial support to help it succeed.

Thank you!

Matt

Lt Colonel Matthew Lohmeier, former USAF/USSF
Executive Vice President, STARRS

P.S. The DEI agenda is dividing our troops, crushing morale and readiness, and needs to be eliminated from the military! Your donation is so critical in these pivotal times in order to win the fight.

Make a Donation

Letter in PDF format: 2024 Message from Matt Lohmeier

STARRS 2024 Giving Options (pdf)

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Unmasking the Marxist Agenda in the Military

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Matt Lohmeier was a guest on Kingdom Podcast with Greg Hood going in-depth on Marxism in our country:

Excerpt from the interview:

“Unfortunately Nations tend to wake up to their own peril just a little bit too late, that’s just a historical artifact. If you study history enough you see that about the time people wake up to the fact that they’re in big trouble it’s because that trouble has come knocking at their front doors and not because it’s just beginning.

For over a half century Marxists who have an aim of Communist Revolution have sought as a matter of strategy to infiltrate the United States government among other institutions. In fact this is as old as before it ever came to the United States in Lincoln’s presidency in the early 1860s.

There’s a letter I’ve got it on my shelf behind me here in a book called Letters to Americans and Marx and Engels and their comrades were writing letters to Western European comrades and to folks in the United States stating very clearly that they had the aim of infiltrating the United States government by running for office for the United States Senate, for running for office for the United States House of Representatives and eventually the presidency.

It’s not a surprise to somebody who’s spent a little bit of time studying the development of their efforts to appreciate today even though someone like Joseph McCarthy was demonized at the time that he was effectively calling out a bunch of people for being communist infiltrators in the US government.

He was demonized and he was blacklisted by history which is an interesting title of an excellent book that essentially vindicates Joseph McCarthy’s efforts. I’d recommend that read, it’s a tone but it’s fascinating.

What we saw after the collapse of the Soviet Union in fact that he was right about a great number of things that were taking place in the United States government but it’s much worse today.

We had a a exciting reprieve from the fight against communism, it seemed after the collapse of the Soviet Union but in reality that just wasn’t true Marxism was already deeply in place in the university campuses in this country. It had been there for decades in fact, it was in politics in Washington DC.

Trevor Loudon has done excellent work exposing who some of those specific personalities are that have been in elected capacities in Washington DC for a very long time. David Horwitz has done great work about that–they’ve done excellent work.

Today what’s most surprising is that people can be openly affiliated with or supportive of or advocating for a Marxist worldview and they’re not considered an enemy to the United States or its values. In fact we’re supposed to be inclusive and say well that’s just their worldview and all worldviews equally matter.

We’ve become all too tolerant of an of an enemy in our midst. It will serve as our unmaking as a people unless a whole bunch of things change moving forward from now.

I’ll tell you honestly I go back forth depending on the day of the week whether or not it’s even possible to recover but I’m heavily invested in both studying current events but even more so history and and the cycles of nations and empires that come and go. I’ll tell you it’s downright depressing to see just where we’re at as a country right now, just how much our language has changed, just how much division there is, just how much inability to communicate with the other there is and there’s a visceral emotional guttural response that people are having to one another right now that that portends civil violence. So that’s why I actually wrote the book that got me in trouble. . . . “

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“We fought a Cold War over the Containment of Communism and Marxist ideology”

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We just can’t shy away from calling things what they are. . . . We’ve got to call it what it is that we’re fighting: Marxism.

Matthew Lohmeier was recently on Frank Gaffney’s show, “Securing America” on Real America’s Voice channel talking about Marxism, his book, his interaction with President Trump, the National Space Council, the US Space Force and more.

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Frank Gaffney
We’re back. And we’re back with someone I’ve come to admire tremendously, both for his service in uniform and his service to our country. Since he was obliged to take it off. His name is Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Longmire, United States Air Force of the former pilot, a man who, was an instructor pilot as well. He was also, in command of a unit of the US Space Force early in its incarnation under Donald Trump.

He had an opportunity to interact with the former president, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last week. And I was anxious to catch up with him because I understand that, something very important may have come of their interactions on stage there. But before we get into all of that, I want to ask Matt to sort of level set with us a bit about his background and why he was, obliged to leave the service and, and a really important book that, should be required reading for everybody in the United States military, especially in leadership positions.

It’s entitled The Irresistible Revolution Marxism, Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of America’s Military. Matt, it’s good to have you back, sir. Welcome, board.

Matt Lohmeier
I’m happy to be back with you, Frank. Thanks for having me.

Frank Gaffney
Good to see you. It’s been too long. So this book is about Marxism, a subject that is unfortunately not, unique to what’s happened to the military. It just happens to be particularly ominous that it is metastasizing in our armed forces. Talk a little bit about your experience of it in uniform. And, what’s come of your warnings about it?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. Thank you. I just, in fact, spoke in Arizona, several weeks ago, and, I mentioned Cultural Marxism, Marxist ideology, as I am wont to do these days as I take a stage. And there was a veteran gentleman that approached me afterward and said, you know, I think you’re really missing the mark by calling this Marxism. You ought to find a different word for this. And I just told them, sorry, brother, you need to get caught up to speed because it’s no mystery anymore to people that are paying attention, that that’s precisely what what’s at stake. And and, you know, there comes a point at which we just can’t shy away from calling things what they are.

The left has done a phenomenal job over the past, well over its history, at inserting ideology into every arena so that we are rapidly changing language and confounding tongues for Americans, for the Western civilization. And we can’t do that. We have to say what it is.

Frank Gaffney
I just make a quick comment on. Yeah, because I have had this discussion endlessly with people in the, you know, sort of political arena who are saying, well, yes, we understand it’s Marxism, but we have to call it socialism or big government socialism or big government. Something else. I couldn’t agree with you more, Matt. We’ve got to call it what it is.

And the fact that we refrained from doing so simply compounds the peril that we’re facing. So talk a little bit about it in the military in particular, and what you saw of it during your time in it.

Matt Lohmeier
Fortunately, before coming into command and the space forces you mentioned, I had had several years of dedicated study of Marxism. And so when I showed up in command in the summer months of 2020, it was in the the couple of months after George Floyd’s death and the BLM and Antifa riots that the American people were seeing on TV.

They saw the windows being smashed, the raised fists, the people kneeling and apologizing, for their white guilt or anything else that they could be coerced into confessing. And I recognize that impulse as Marxist. It was a part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. You can ask those who participated in that there. And of course, Marxism wears different masks and it goes by different names depending on which organization is pushing it or how it appears on a syllabus in a college campus.

However, I chose to call it Marxism. I chose to at first before ever publishing a book, share feedback with my chain of command all the way up to a member of the Joint Chiefs, General Jay Raymond, who is, I considered a friend of mine, and I was his aide de camp during the stand up of the Space Force.

I had private phone conversations with General Raymond, sharing with him what I was seeing.

It was what I what I can still very honestly characterize as both anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American rhetoric coming out of, young troops on the base, but in particular, what I was most concerned about was a base commander who was sharing, he was using this moment in history to push his political worldview, which was very leftist in nature.

And I said, there’s this is undeniably Marxist. There’s Black Lives Matter propaganda showing up on the base, which was an avowed Marxist organization. Its founders were Marxist, and he expressed support for my concern, General Raymond did, and said, this has got to stop. Shortly thereafter, President Trump issued an executive order banning critical race theory and diversity and inclusion trainings in the federal agencies and in the uniform services, so they recognize that this is a problem.

And yet it didn’t seem to completely stop the problem, especially after the election and the Biden Harris regime came to power, which is what compelled me to write a book about it, you know?

Frank Gaffney
And, it was an extraordinarily well done book, by the way. Obviously bearing, the, the fruits of your labors and studying the matter, but also your courage and clarity in describing it and your comments in the, early years of the, new administration obviously brought you into conflict with those who were promoting this culture and Marxism in the uniform ranks, both, and the officer corps side, I guess, as well as the civilian side.

Just quickly, what befell you as a result?

Matt Lohmeier
Unfortunately. So I ended up being relieved of my command literally the week after the book was published. And it’s a print on demand self-published book. I doubt they could have got their hands on it and read it that quickly. And in fact, that included all of the legal caveats I needed to in the front, middle, and end of the book, saying that this represents my own views and not the views of the Defense Department, which, by the way, I need to add.

It’s ironic that I even have to say that in relation to this topic, that we fought a Cold War over, which was the containment of communism and Marxist ideology.

And the book is not, it genuinely not intended to be politically partisan. It is pro-American and it is anti Marxist. You would think that, both major political parties in this country would be anti Marxist, but allegedly or apparently I should say they are not.

And the fact that I was fired for alleged political partisanship is really telling about the state of, American politics at the moment. It was deemed that I’m too conservative and too pro-Republican because I’m anti Marxist and I am very conservative and I am a registered Republican. But that didn’t matter. It was the fact that they deemed the attack on Marxism as partisan, which tells you something about where the Democrat Party has landed.

I couldn’t say it that boldly when I was in uniform and I didn’t, but I was fired nevertheless. There shouldn’t be that partisan. I mean, we should all be anti-communist if we’re Americans and we love our country and we love our history, and we love where we need to go.

Frank Gaffney
But especially Matt and just, you know, develop this thought if you would, when you’re talking about the United States military, whose sole mission is to protect the country from enemies like the Chinese Communist Party, for example, if it is being indoctrinated, if it is actually being subverted, I would argue, by cultural Marxism right out of Mao’s playbook, which is a divide and conquer strategy.

Right? It creates a, a parallel, as I say, for the country and not just for the institution of the military, but for the country as well. Does it not?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, our senior defense officials should recognize at once that our greatest I’m reluctant to just call it a military threat. I mean, a one of our grand competitors, perhaps the grand competitors, China and XI Jinping, who exert tremendous influence on the world stage. And XI Jinping has become a kind of de facto emperor of communist, the Chinese Communist Party, and will continue to be in power as long as he can control that party.

And the fact is, they’re communist. They would love nothing more than to insert communism and Marxist thought and Maoist thought into the American system, into the American political debate. One thing they’re not focused on is DEI initiatives, critical race theory. There were purges back in the in the Cultural Revolution to be sure, but there is an enforced uniformity there where they can where they can do so, but they love they know exactly what to do to tamper with the American political dialog.

They know exactly what to do to upend culture, to destroy the religious communities, to make the religious people think that they have no place in the political sphere. And, to demonize the man, the man that made America great. You know, I’m not talking about the orange man bad Trump.

I’m talking about men and manliness. I’m talking about, the manly ethos, the warrior ethos. They’ve undermined all of that, and we do it to ourselves when we allow for those narratives and rhetoric that have so pervaded the universities for decades to infect an institution that’s been long trusted, like the United States military.

Frank Gaffney
So this brings us of and we’ve only got about a minute and a half before we have to take a break. But, just introduce what happened on the stage, with President Trump in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Matt Lohmeier
Yes, I, I ended up last, Friday getting a chance to meet President Trump on stage. I didn’t expect it. I didn’t seek for the opportunity. It was really, it was an orchestration beyond my control, which I’d like to share with you the background of. But I ended up having a face to face dialog with President Trump on the stage that turned into something quite promising.

Frank Gaffney
That is, the subject of, I guess, you know, everything else we’re going to talk about, it’s it’s looking forward, not back. It’s looking, to help correct some of the things that you personally were subjected to and have been warning about, and it’s extremely exciting to hear that, you not only made that connection with him, but, I’ve heard a little bit of the back story and, and, there’s only one explanation for how it all came to pass.

It seems to me. And that is, true, that the hand of God. So when we come back up from the other side of this short break. But I was going to tell us a little bit about that interaction with President Trump and what we hope may come of it.

Welcome back. And a special welcome once again to Matthew Lohmeier, Lieutenant Colonel, forced out of the military for warning about the penetration and subversion of an institution in which he served with great distinction over Marxism and what it was doing to the uniformed services of our country, as well as, I would argue, to the country more generally.

And, Matt, you were just telling us about, an interaction that you had with former President Donald Trump on the stage at, in Fayetteville. Not too far from what was formerly known as Fort Bragg, I gather. He said he’s going to call it Fort Bragg again. He’s, put back in office. Tell us a little bit about your interaction with him.

I understand that it didn’t go exactly according to plan, but, it seems like a higher purpose was very much served.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, I got a call on a Wednesday night, and the event was on Friday, and, it’s no small trip for me to get out to North Carolina. And, I suppose everyone was told last second to maybe try and make it out, but I was invited to come out and basically be a plant to ask a question with a number of other veterans who are invited to come out.

I have to tell you this, you know, many people in the public haven’t yet heard this, and I think you’ll appreciate this. The woman who had given me the phone call said that she had called another retired general officer as her last selection to be on the stage. She didn’t know who I was, and, she she called this general and said, hey, can you make it out?

He said, I’m sorry, I just can’t make it. And she said, well, I need to find one more person who can join me on stage. And right as she said that, an email came in on her computer screen in front of her from another woman, that she’d never met before and never heard from or never heard of, and said, you have to get Matt Lohmeier at this event with Trump.

She asks the retired general officer, she said, do you know who this Matt Lohmeier guy is? I’ve never heard of him. And he said, oh, yeah, I can’t say enough good things about Matt. You need to have him take my place. So she called me. She gets me out there.

I fly out the very next morning, and the whole day and a half lead up to that event, I’m getting text messages from her saying things like, no guarantee you’ll get into the event. No guarantee we’ll get you, a microphone to ask a question. And I’m thinking, what am I doing out here? But I end up getting there backstage several hours before the event, and, all of us were kind of separated out. Some of us got to sit in the audience, and some of us were told, we get to join President Trump on stage.

I was selected to go on stage. And then we were given these three by five note cards that had canned questions on them. And and no doubt my question was an important one. I didn’t, frankly, like the way that it was worded, but it was something like, hi, I’m Matthew, how will you help us avoid World War Three?

In the right context, I suppose that’s a pretty important question, but I thought, you know, I’m not here to ask that question. I don’t believe this was orchestrated. So I can come have him leave here not knowing who I am, whether certain missions, in my mind, that needs to be accomplished.

I sat there for an hour during that town hall, listening to him as best I could hear him (it was hard to hear where I was sitting), say things about Ukraine and Russia, say things about Iran and Israel, say things about China, Taiwan and World War three. And I thought, they haven’t even let me ask my question. He’s already touched upon all of the the, tinder boxes. That could be World War Three. I don’t want to revisit it and look like an idiot.

So I wrestled there on the stage. I thought, why am I here? What’s my purpose here? And it was to speak to the man from the heart, tell him who I am, and that he mentioned firing woke generals.

I don’t think that’s far enough. With respect, you’re going to need some consistent, persistent overwatch of the of the Defense Department for the next four years to make sure that this monster that we call DEI and critical race theory and cultural Marxism doesn’t rear its ugly head again in the in the uniform services on your watch.

As I was speaking to him, he were four feet from each other. And he’s looking in my eyes and I can tell I mean, metaphorically speaking, he’s scanning me up and down, sizing me up, and he’s making a judgment call. I and I had the strong impression he’s about to hire me for that very job. And he did on the stage.

I couldn’t even hear him. That’s the funny part. It was after I left the stage and watched a video clip of what had happened. Then I heard the whole interaction, but, but he said, this after after that interaction, the cameras were rolling. He came up to me and hit me on the shoulder and we were now very close.

He he pointed at me. He says, I know my men. When I find them, you’re coming with me to the White House. And then he said, heaven willing, I will be in the white House and you’re coming with me. So I, I think he means it. And I’ve been in touch with his transition team, point man for Defense Department issues, related matters. I got on my resume and information they’ve asked for, it’s sitting at Mar-A-Lago right now.

Frank Gaffney
Fantastic. Well, not all I can say is, thanks be to God, because that’s the only way that would have happened. And I think so. Thank you for it. Thank you for your willingness to schlep across the country. Just to see what the Lord had in mind. Let me just ask you this because it, it goes to the heart of what you might yet have a chance to do.

The Marxists know what they’re doing, as you understand, better than just about anybody, certainly outside of the Marxist camp. Is it not conceivably too late for the United States military to be reformed? You couldn’t be more right that you’re going to have to be monitoring, you know, the people being pulled up the ranks. But those ranks have now been inseminated with people who’ve been going along to get along the starting, I would argue, with the joint chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a perfect example of a DEI proponent who has been elevated to the highest position in the military.

What are your thoughts about, what if you were in the Trump White House or the Trump Pentagon? You could do to, scramble these eggs?

Matt Lohmeier
There have been many months in the past couple of years where I’ve been totally discouraged at that. The path that we’re on to the point where I think, I don’t know if it’s possible to reclaim what’s happened here in this short period of time and what administration really. It’s been multiple administrations, but I’ve had a glimmer of hope for the first time after that interaction, and because of the response of our troops to seeing that interaction, on stage, I have been flooded with my phone’s been blowing up for 72 hours, and there are people that I haven’t talked to for many years reaching out to assure me they’re the good guys.

First off, it’s like, okay, now you’re my friend right now. Everyone wants to be my friend. It was too of it was too scary to reach out showing support when, the Biden Harris regime was firmly implanted. But there’s the sense that many people have that, hey, the tide might be changing. And and maybe there’s maybe there’s some hope that we might turn some things around and they’re reaching out, wanting to. They’re applying for jobs with me, and I be on the task force, to hire them. And so I think people sense hope. And that’s that’s really positive because maybe, maybe there’s some time that we can buy, maybe there’s some change that can be introduced. Some things can be quick, quickly fixed within, like the first day.

Frank Gaffney
It starts with leadership. And I ask you to hold the thought and we’ll come back to it on the other side of this final break with Matthew Longmire, a lieutenant colonel, no longer a in the military, but we’ll see where he’s going next. Stay tuned for more right after this.

Welcome back. We are having a fascinating conversation with one of the men I admire most. With a military background. His name is Matthew Longmire. He served as a, among other things, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force Space Command. And we’re going to talk in a moment about what’s the status of our space capabilities. But before we do, Matt, just to round out the conversation we just had about, your extraordinary, truly providential conversation with Donald Trump, and the hope that you sense people are beginning to feel that there may be a change, that there may be fresh leadership.

Is it enough, do you think, to allow this thing to be turned around?

Matt Lohmeier
Well, there are some things that you can fix very quickly in a matter of a day or a week. Things by executive order. You can abolish CRT and DNI trainings and agencies.

Frank Gaffney
And that’s critical. And then the diversity, equity, inclusion, the catch words for these, Marxist programs. Yeah.

Matt Lohmeier
Yes, yes. You know, one thing that President Trump could take care of on day one, for example, is to make sure that there are no more, purple braided, rope wearing cadet, dye czars at the US Air Force Academy or at any of our other military service academies. Those positions go away in an instant. The problem is, is that it takes time to regain the trust of the American people.

It takes time to, properly, incentivize young men and women who are capable and who are patriots to, to think that they are interested in serving their country. Again, we’ve so damaged our reputation and it extends beyond that. It takes time to to repair our relationships with our allies and our, the perceptions that our enemies have of us on the world stage.

Frank Gaffney
Right. All of those are hugely important, needless to say. Well, your leadership could be incalculably important, so I’m appreciative of your willingness to serve if the opportunity presents itself. Yeah. I want to talk about the last portfolio that you had for a moment, that you, served in a command position in the nascent U.S. Space Force.

You have an appreciation for, the threats that we now face in and from space. They are real. Chances are, I think very high. That is, in the event there is conflict with the Chinese Communist Party and or its friends. It will involve, war in space. I did want to give you an opportunity, both to comment on that, but maybe for starters, to talk about one of the other jobs that Vice President Kamala Harris had, as vice president, namely as the chairman of the National Space Council.

Yeah, hugely important position, especially against that backdrop. What do you know about how she comported herself in that role? And, whether she’s fit to be commander in chief, especially, guard of the space threat?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. We don’t talk about this in mainstream media. I suppose there’s a thousand things we could talk about, and we only get to the fact that she’s a failed borders. Which they’ve even denied. She was in charge of the National Space Council is an exceptionally important, counsel that was resurrected by the Trump administration. There was, a director of the National Space Council there in the Trump administration.

I think it was stood up again in 2017. It had been disbanded since the Clinton administration, 1993, when we were really taking space seriously up until the end of the Cold War, the Trump administration, research institutes, or Reestablishes, the national Space Council, and they’re meeting, semi frequent. They’re the meeting frequently quarterly, in fact, to figure out the state of the threat and space and to advise the president of the United States and how we ought to be shaping our policy in order to respond to China, the China threat and the Russia threat in space.

Kamala Harris is the chair of the National Space Council, which during the last four years has met three times. And I hear two of those three times was to discuss how we further advance the DTI, the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda in our space exploration and military space programs, which was a joke to those who are currently sitting on the council.

And another third time was for a photo op that lasted ten minutes. They have not taken the space threat seriously at all. China, on the other hand, has been steadily marching to a 50 year plan that includes, military supremacy from the space domain. They’ve sent, several of their landers to the far side of the moon, near where there’s water ice, which is absolutely vital resource for the further development of space, space manufacturing capabilities and a military threat from space.

The United States has backed far away since since the Biden-Harris regime came to power from its serious attitude towards the China threat in space. It’s a big problem, and she’s not fit to be a commander in chief who doesn’t take that threat seriously.

Frank Gaffney
Amen. Let me just ask you, Am I correct in your estimation that, the Chinese in particular, but the Russians as well, and they’re they’re partnered up, but we forget they are part of our viewing space as just another theater of military operations, and one that is absolutely essential to the United States military’s terrestrial operations. If they can gain dominance there, set aside Mars or even the moon for that matter. But just in the, you know, high altitude orbit, they can, in fact, materially degrade our military’s capability, can they not? So you can’t can there be any other recourse to this, but to take this matter with the utmost seriousness.

Matt Lohmeier
The creation of the US Space Force, which was a congressional act, but it was championed by Donald Trump, have been a bipartisan, supported issue for many years. They thought Trump would kill it when he got excited about the idea, in fact, made it happen. And there was bipartisan support for this idea precisely because China and Russia and partnering in that arena had become such a threat to the United States and our national security, that we thought a separate branch of the military ought to be exclusively focused on both the budget and the development of, our of national security space, our economic, prospects in and through space.

And so you’re absolutely right in suggesting that that’s something that deserves our utmost attention. China has been taking it seriously, even when we are not. It’s tends to meet its goals, and it tends to stay on task and meet its timeline objectives. And we have not. We were supposed to have them back on the moon in 2024 under the Trump pence, policy that was shifted now to 2026.

My suspicion is if Trump doesn’t end up back in office, it’ll it’ll forever be off the table. Why does it matter? That’s a conversation for another day, but we’re not taking it seriously enough.

Frank Gaffney
A conversation for another day. It’s another place in which a few are back inside the military in some form or fashion. Matt, I know you will make an outsized contribution as well. We look forward to further visits with you and all of this. My friend. Thank you for taking some time. I know how busy you are now that you’re, a rock star. And, the Donald Trump world. But, we’ll look forward to it.

Matt Lohmeier
We’ll see what happens if.

Frank Gaffney
You have a chance. Yeah. Please, God. Thank you, thank you. Come back to us soon. I hope the rest of you do the same next time. Until then, go forth and multiply.

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Matt Lohmeier: DEI is the Manifestation of Marxism in America

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On the Feds for Freedom podcast, Vice-President Cameron Hamilton spoke with Matthew Lohmeier about the overt politicization of our Military and the Federal Government’s propensity to assume anti-liberty positions due to a culture of intrusion.

Lt Col Matthew Lohmeier, USAF fighter pilot and a former space-based missile warning squadron commander with the US Space Force, is a public speaker, consultant, and author of a bestselling book. He currently serves as the Executive Vice President of STARRS, an organization of US military veterans and citizens concerned about the divisive racist and radical CRT/DEI/Woke ideology and agenda infiltrating the military. They seek to expose, stand up against, and eliminate it in order to keep our country safe.

Matt’s book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military was published in May 2021, at which time he was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon.

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Task Force to Rid DOD of the DEI Industry and Agenda

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Matt Lohmeier was interviewed on OAN’s Real America with Dan Ball about Trump saying he would create a task force to root out the CRT/DEI agenda from the military and have Matt a part of the task force.

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OAN Host Dan Ball
Now to discuss how our military is being demoralized by working in all this nonsense. Woke CRT crap that has nothing to do with protecting our country. It’s the man you saw right there calling out the president and saying, Will you do a task force? Will you get this out of our military ranks? I say he’s a hero just for doing that, but he’s done a lot more for this country.

He’s a former lieutenant colonel and commander in the Space Force. Or at least he was. He’s now the executive vice president of Starz’s US. Matt Lohmeier, the guy you saw right there on that stage in North Carolina with the 45th president. Matt. Thank you, brother, not only for coming on the show today, but thank you for having the guts to stand up there and really push on Trump, too, if he gets elected. God willing to get in there and fix the military. Thank you brother. Thank you.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah, thanks for having me. Come on and talk about this. In fact, you just said something that Trump said after the cameras stopped rolling, which is worth repeating. He said, “Heaven willing, I’ll end up back in the white House and you’re coming with me.” He said, “I know my people when I see them, and you’re one of them, you’re coming with me.”

I really respect that about him. And I love the subtitles that you just showed on the screen as that clip was playing, which I hadn’t seen. It said in big, bold letters, and he gets it done. He listened and he got it done. I could sense as I stood there four feet from President Trump, as he looked me in the eyes, he knew I was serious.

He thought, here’s someone who’s serious, who can come in and help us clean up some of the problems. He was serious about getting it done. I’m serious about getting that done. And so heaven help us and heaven willing, he’ll end up back in the White House, come January of next year. I’m also hoping that he’ll make good on that promise, and I’ll end up on a task force that will help rid the military of the monster that is the diversity, equity and inclusion industry and agenda.

Dan Ball
I would put, every penny I have on him doing that. If you get in and if anything I can do to help. I’ll be there as well. Hopefully we’re getting another interview with him soon. I’m trying. I’m working on that, and I will ask him that very question about the awesome DEI nonsense in the military. Let’s back up a tick here.

And let folks know your story briefly, if you could. Why are you no longer in?

Matt Lohmeier
Sure. I wrote a bestselling book, what became a bestselling book called Irresistible Revolution. The subtitle says more than the title of the book does. Its Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military. It was a public criticism of critical race theory, cultural Marxism, the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda, and it was also championing the greatness of the American ideal.

I was fired for that book. It was a non truly nonpartisan book, but I had spent months before writing that book actually filing a formal written complaint with the Space Force Inspector General’s office detailing the ways in which we had unethical and illegal race based discrimination going on at the base and in the military, and tying the the current diversity, equity and inclusion agenda to its cultural Marxist roots, which a lot of people to this day surprisingly still deny.

And so I wrote a book about it. I spoke out about it. I was fired from my command for doing that, and I had spent over 15 years in the military on active duty service up until that point, both as a commander and also as a fighter pilot in the 15 C I’d been a T-38 instructor pilot, and I had a fairly successful career up until that point by anyone’s, standard.

What’s ironic about my firing for alleged political partisanship is that when I separated without my pension in the fall of 2021, I received later thereafter a notice from the Air Force inspector General’s office saying it had concluded an investigation into me, and I had been found guilty of no wrongdoing. So it was really a bitter irony.

I’ve said for a long, long time, I’ve been speaking in the public arena about these issues ever since. But I thought, surely we can do only so much pushing back, even from within the ranks or as private citizens. We need President Trump to start by issuing an executive order on day one, banning these CRT and DEI trainings.

But then it will require persistent, consistent oversight from some special task force to make sure that for years to come, we’re doing our best to root all of this out of the military, and that we’re incentivizing those men and women that actually love their country and that do truly see each other as equals, get them to a place where they’re incentivized to serve their country once again, fix the recruitment and retention issues that we’re facing.

Fix our service academies, the military service academies that also have problems with woke instructors and, woke activism. You really start to solve very quickly some of the big problems that we’ve introduced over the past four years. But some of those problems are going to take many years to fix, which is why we need a new administration.

Dan Ball
Well, besides the new administration, there’s going to be a lot of generals and some colonels. Yes, is fired, period. That’s right. I mean, they’re going to have to be, you know, they booted people out for refusing the facts. They booted you over the high stuff that you were standing up to. Yeah. There’s going to be a lot of top brass that need to go by, by not demotions, not a new command.

They’ll just reinstate their DEI crap. They need to be removed from the rank and file, period. Matt, let me ask you about that day with the president. Was that the original question did you plan on and how did you get there? And because that seemed pretty organic. And I saw you look at your notes and then you just kind of ad libbed, I do that a lot. So does Trump.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah, he does. And I know he respects that about real men. So I thought as I sat there on the stage for a whole hour listening to this town hall, most of which I couldn’t really hear very well, I had a question in front of me that was driven by, polling numbers, and interest, and they gave us very strict instructions: don’t depart from the script that we’ve given you.

I understand why they do that, but I had to ask myself honestly as I sat there, is this why I’m here? To read a scripted question to the president? Or do I speak from the heart to a man who will recognize that and try and solve a problem?

And that’s exactly what I elected to do. And, felt led to ask exactly what I asked and to propose exactly what I proposed. And I, and I could tell that he recognized that judged accurately, that I meant what I said and was interested in solving the problem with me, which I very much respect about him.

Dan Ball
That’s amazing, I love it. And then right after you had that big, 15 seconds, 15 minutes of fame with the president on a national stage, on live television, you put a tweet out to your fellow service members, and I want to put that up and read that on this show, because I know we have a lot of veterans that watch this network on this program.

And, folks, let me tell you what Matt wrote here.

A NOTE ON THE NEW TASK FORCE: Since last night, when President Trump suggested at his Fayetteville Town Hall that he would put me on a special task force to rid the military of wokeism and DEI, I’ve had troops sending me screen shots of trainings they’re still receiving: pro LGBTQ agenda, pro trans, pro anti-white racism, anti-Americanism etc.

I HAVE A REQUEST OF OUR TROOPS: please start capturing screenshots today of emails and trainings you’re receiving. They will try to hide and delete and cover up evidence of their involvement if Trump wins, but there will be accountability. We will ensure we eliminate this rot from the military. Many patriotic, America-loving men and women wish to serve in the world’s greatest military. We can make it strong and great again but we need accountability. You can help us with that. Capture the evidence.

I wanted to put that all call out Matt to the Active-Duty troops or veterans that may have gotten out recently, and maybe you took screenshots. You saved some emails. Send them to Matt and Matt. How do we do?

So I know you have this amazing. Is it a nonprofit? I checked your website today STARRS, that’s STARRS.US.

Matt Lohmeier
STARRS dot US, STARRS with two R’s. It is an education based nonprofit that’s focused on educating Americans about the Marxist rot that’s even infiltrated our military. It champions the greatness of the American ideal, the oath that all of our veterans and our current active duty service members took to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

And it’s truly nonpartisan. I mean, it is an education platform. It’s a phenomenal website. You can contact me and us there. We have a list of, I think it’s now 200 pages of boots on the ground perspective, feedback, unsolicited from our troops that we’ve gathered from online and that they’ve sent directly to us about what they’re seeing by way of training in the military. (1,900 comments showing CRT/DEI agenda hurts recruitment, retention and moral)

Please send it to that website and we’ll continue to collect it, compile it, and make sure that it’s, it’s reviewed thoroughly every single submission that we get so that I can take that with me to that task force if Trump ends up in office again.

Dan Ball
Well, again, we’ll end where we began. God willing, the 45th president will become the 47th. And then there’s a whole lot of work to do in this country, from foreign policy to the economy to the border. But the military, if we don’t have one, we’re not a country. We have to have a strong military, a non woke military that is battle ready at any moment and right now.

And I hate saying this when I say it on live television to the enemy, but I don’t feel under this regime our fighting forces are as ready as they used to be because of the woke training, because of all the people that got kicked out and because of the people that left over all of this. Matt, thank you so much and I will keep you, let me tell you what, you’re on speed dial from now on. You know, you’re an ex Air Force guy that went Space Force. I’m an old Air Force guy as well. I worked for Air Force back in the day. So I informed you and made you laugh while you were flying.

So. We all had our role to play, right? And we have to fix this. It has to be fixed. Matt Lohmeier, folks look up his website. His charity nonprofit rather nonprofit STARRS.us with two R’s. And if you’re active duty or veteran, help him. We’ve got to get this wokeism out of our active duty. Matt God bless you, brother. You take care.

Matt Lohmeier
Thanks, Dan. We’ll see you. Yep.

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At NC Town Hall, Matt Lohmeier asks President Trump to remove divisive DEI from the military

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Matthew Lohmeier, a US Air Force Academy graduate and former Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force/US Space Force, was on the stage during a Town Hall in Fayetteville, North Carolina (home of Ft. Bragg) where President Trump answered questions from veterans and military families–including a question from Matt.

With Matt on stage was Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, and former Green Beret John Frankman, who was kicked out of the Army for refusing to take the untested C19 vax. Also on stage was a Marine Vietnam veteran who had given his Purple Heart to President Trump after the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.

Matt was the last person to ask a question. Here’s the video and transcript:

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
Thank you, Mr. President. We now have time for one last question. So our last question.

President Trump:
Make this a good one!

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
Our last one comes from Matthew. Matthew? He is a F-15 pilot. I won’t hold that against you. Okay?

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
Mr. President, first off, I want to speak on behalf of everyone here and say thank you for taking time tonight to speak with our troops.

President Trump:
Thank you. Thank you again. We got a lot of good looking men in this audience, don’t we, huh? And a lot of good looking women also, by the way. Thank you very much. Okay. Go ahead.

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
I’m going to revisit something you’ve talked about already. My name is Matt Lohmeier. I was an Air Force F-15 pilot, and I was a commander in your newly created U.S. Space Force.

I am also the first veteran of the Space Force, because under the Biden-Harris regime, I was fired from my command and lost my pension for criticizing the DEI trainings that were rampant in the military.

Those trainings are still dividing our troops. And thank you for saying you would fire those few woke generals who are a big problem.

President Trump:
They’re gone.

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
I’m going to suggest that it might, in fact, require ongoing oversight and a persistent, consistent, watchful eye within the Pentagon to ensure this monster never returns to the Defense Department.

Will you consider establishing a special task force office or position to ensure that these monsters never return to the Defense Department?

President Trump:
Yes, and you know what I’ll do, and I’m pretty good at this stuff–sometimes you get it wrong. I’m going to put you on that task force.

I think it’s good–I’m not going to do better than him. I’ll put you on. Make sure you give the name. Thank you. You’re beautiful guy, right? (talking to the other veterans on stage) I have your approval?

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
Yes, sir.

President Trump:
I have your approval? (talking to the other veterans on stage). We’re not going to get better than him. You’re right about it. You’re right, 100%. Thank you.

Full Video: President Trump Hosts a Town Hall in Fayetteville, NC – 10/4/24

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Matt Lohmeier: Navigating Ideological Shifts in the Military

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Matt Lohmeier, Executive Vice President of STARRS, author of the book “Irresistible Revolution” and a public speaker, gave the keynote talk at the STARRS Rally for Our Republic in September 2024 in Arizona. His presentation starts with a video introduction of his story, an early preview of his upcoming documentary.

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Former US Air Force/US Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeier (also a 2006 USAFA grad) shares his personal journey from commanding the 11th Space Warning Squadron to grappling with a profound leftwing ideological shift within the military amplified by the events in 2020. His evolving sense of patriotism and deep appreciation for American history sets the stage for a candid discussion on the impact of leftist ideologies on morale and readiness at Buckley Air Force Base and the resulting challenges of military recruitment.

Matt talked about the thought-provoking literature he introduced to troops at Buckley, sparking conversations that challenge and broaden perspectives. Starting with Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” and moving through historical and political topics, he talks about intriguing links to Frederick Douglass’s philosophies amidst today’s political movements. This literary journey wasn’t just about books; it was about fostering meaningful dialogue in a space often dominated by rigid narratives.

Matt’s talk takes a reflective turn as he explores the dilemma faced by conservative Christians balancing faith and societal change. Drawing on lessons from Cleon Skousen’s book, “The Naked Communist,” he discusses the enduring power of the “Christian Code” as a response to contemporary ideologies. With a call to love, pray, vote, and consider military service, he inspires listeners to engage actively in civic life, championing the values and principles they hold dear, while offering a heartfelt appeal to young men to serve their country in a time of need.

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Matthew Lohmeier on the Military Justice Today Podcast

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On this episode of Military Justice Today, attorney Robert Capovilla interviews former space-based missile squadron commander and author, Matthew Lohmeier.

Topics include his best-selling book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, as well as his opinions about the impact of CRT/DEI/Woke ideology on the U.S. Military’s operational readiness.

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Matt Lohmeier on Marxism, CRT, and the Unmaking of the Military joins Take FiVe

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“I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the world stage and in their sphere of influence than they have at the moment. I’d like to invite men to step up and be men, and to have courage.”

Matt Lohmeier was interviewed on His Glory TV. Starts at the 4:40 mark. Watch:

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Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
. . . . All right. Now, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier. Lieutenant Colonel, thank you for joining us.

00:04:43:02 – 00:04:45:00
Matt Lohmeier
Happy to be here. Thanks.

00:04:45:03 – 00:04:59:17
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
So, could you give, the his glory, audience and family a background on yourself? I mean, I look at that year to master’s degrees in Space Force and wow, fighter pilot. This is pretty, pretty impressive stuff.

00:04:59:20 – 00:05:25:29
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. I started my military career at the US Air Force Academy out in Colorado. And, that’s where I decided I wanted to fly after graduating and commissioning. ended up doing that. I was a T-38 instructor pilot for a number of years in Oklahoma. I spent a bit of time, down in Texas. In fact, we have a program called the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals that we do after someone leaves pilot training.

And in my case, after I left, being an instructor pilot in Oklahoma, I went down to Wichita Falls, Texas, for my first time in Texas. left there, went to, Oregon to learn how to fly the F-15 C and went on from there to Okinawa, Japan, and flew jets, as you’ve indicated before joining the Air Force Space Community, which later became the U.S. Space Force and ultimately finished up my career as a commander in the U.S Space Force and leading, a unit that accomplishes our nation’s space based missile warning program.

00:05:59:26 – 00:06:16:28
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Wow. That’s a that’s amazing. well, we’ll get into that. Also, the day of the military and what’s happening on our military today. Yeah. but fighter pilots are near and dear to my heart. My grandfather was a reason I went in the Marines was because he was a fighter pilot in World War Two, in the Korean War, a marine, lieutenant colonel as well. And, so watch what you guys do as a fighter. Pilots are just absolutely amazing stuff. So can you talk about, the day and state of our military right now? Well, what’s happened to our military?

00:06:31:02 – 00:07:08:27
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah, I do focus personally and professionally on diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s lineage of ideas which stem from Marxist ideology; many people are waking up to that reality. but it is DEI that is not the only the reason our military is currently suffering retention and recruiting issues. It’s not the only reason, our ability to maintain an effective mission ready force is being affected or it’s not the only reason it’s suffering.

However, I do focus quite a bit on that, and it plays a tremendous, role. It is one of the root causes for, many of the problems were suffering. So diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been around, of course, in the universities for decades now. And we’ve seen, if we’ve been paying attention, the ways in which ideology can be so utterly divisive, it can wrecked it, can wreck proper thinking as it seeks to attack Western civilization.

Critical theory, specifically, any of its variants, what people are now colloquially referring to as wokeism is precisely what I’m talking about. And that is a kind of religious worldview in and of itself that determines for you who the bad guys are, who the good guys are, and how to line up on on the right side of things, who the oppressor and who the oppressed classes in society are now that’s predominantly race based, although they’ll they’ll grab a hold of any particular subset of society they think they can sufficiently agitate to cause unrest, aggression, hatred and violence.

In my view, the father of lies is the founder of all of this. And it’s not just as old as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who happened to put together the Communist Manifesto in 1848 with a similar narrative. It goes back to the very beginning of recorded human history, and, and it wears many masks. It goes by many different names, but its most recent variant, I’ll say, to keep it simple is diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that pits people against one another.

You can imagine how that might wreak havoc in an institution such as the Department of Defense that requires unity in order to be effective in its mission. Instead of unity, you have division. You have mistrust. For the other, you have a disrespect for leadership and race politics, eventually, or inevitably then, predominates in the culture.

That’s the thing I’ve been trying to speak up about and against for several years now. It’s the reason I was fired from my command back in 2021. And, in fact, the reason I’ve joined a nonprofit organization called STARRS, you can see the sign right over my shoulder that that is a veteran led nonprofit that focuses specifically on eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the United States military and tries to refocus our troops, our senior leaders in the military on, the things that actually unite people, which is their mission, their common mission, their common blood, their common uniform, and a love, for their country and for the Constitution and the ideals that shaped our country.

00:09:56:22 – 00:10:14:19
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Yeah. It’s, it’s, insanity what’s happened to our military is you talking about stars? We’ve had General Bishop on several times. He’s been a huge fighter and proponent to stop this day. I did get a call about a year ago from a Canadian former Canadian general, what they were doing in our academy in the Air Force. I got it to General Bishop, and he was able to change it in the academy. But to for that type of behavior to get that far was extremely concerning. How did how does our military, the generals, allow something like this to happen in our academies?

00:10:32:22 – 00:10:55:18
Matt Lohmeier
Some of them happen to be true believers in these ideas, unfortunately, and many of them are afraid to speak up. And there’s a lack of courage, culturally, we’ve created a climate of fear. There’s a pendulum that swings, of course, back and forth. And, in the aftermath of the last presidential election and the instantiate of a new regime, there was a tremendous fear that people had.

They were afraid of being labeled something like racist. They were afraid to say something that could be perceived as going against a party, an official party line, and as we’ve seen, I think especially in the past year, people starting to regain some courage there. They’re learning enough about these issues that are hurting recruiting and retention, thanks to organizations like STARRS and General Bishop and others to to to make that determination in their mind that enough is enough.

If I don’t speak up, who will? I’m willing to join the ranks of those who are fighting back and speaking up and try and make a difference, even at the local level. The best all of us can really do is to try and become educated ourselves, and then to exhibit the courage to speak up and use our voice freely and respectfully in whatever sphere of influence it is that we happen to occupy.

And that can go much further and make tremendous impact in ways that we can’t foresee always.

00:11:54:07 – 00:12:18:21
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Well, General Bishop, General McInerney, General Valley–General McInerney, and General Valley are on with us every month. So the last jabs that went after, military people in the military that, you know, had lieutenant colonels like yourself in the Marines, there were fighter pilots in Arizona, 18 years experience, if they wouldn’t have taken the jab that they were going to get dishonorably discharged.

What has happened again to our military? And talk about somebody like your level, Lieutenant Colonel, you’re the one of the most seasoned, officers out there, and all the training is taking you to get to that point. How damaging is that to our military and readiness?

00:12:37:13 – 00:13:11:16
Matt Lohmeier
It’s proven to be terribly damaging, not just because we’ve lost over 8000 of our troops because of what I now clearly see was, an unethical and illegal mandate. In some ways and, it seems to have specifically targeted conservative Christian service members who had a spine and, whether or not any individual went about their resistance to that unethical mandate, appropriately, they were all trying to, be true to their own convictions.

Now you’ve got that small percentage of the military that’s effectively been purged during this regime as a consequence of them standing on principle, saying it went against their personal views or convictions or religious ideas or convictions and, what’s more, and what’s equally as concerning to me, it’s not just the injustice of the treatment of some of those who resisted.

It’s the lasting, consequences for those of our service members who are still in uniform, who chose, in many cases, very reluctantly, to go ahead and and take that shot or series of shots. They’ve had terrible health problems. There’s a Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long in the Army who’s just now retiring after her honorable service, and she’s been a foremost whistleblower, talking about some of the terrible, devastating consequences of, as as a result of this, really quite foolish policy of mandating that your very young, all volunteer, healthy, relatively healthy force, submit themselves to an experimental shot.

You have to begin to question the motives. Of course, as we’ve seen, the difficult, consequences from a health perspective are good. The grounding of pilots and, and people ending up with lifelong, debilitating, sickness, for example, you have to wonder what agenda was at play and who’s behind an agenda, because I don’t think it was an accident that that’s what we saw happen now.

00:14:51:06 – 00:15:09:12
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
And it’s very concerning when you hear pilots that just collapse, in the cockpit. Right. And I heard many stories of Marines that way.

Lieutenant Colonel, can you talk about the readiness of our armed forces? We see recruiting numbers are way down. Readiness? Just, potential recruits. I saw something yesterday. Like 70% of American, youth could not pass a physical to get into the military today. so where are we at? A readiness if we had to go to some sort of extended war or, heaven forbid, on 2 or 3 fronts at once.

00:17:49:20 – 00:18:15:21
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. We do have a problem overextending ourselves on the world stage, which is a concern even when you’re in a, a ready to fight fit, state as a military. Of course, there’s been concern for some time that we’re not necessarily in a ready state to to fight a war. I just had an email come in earlier this morning sharing with me from a cadet at West Point that Elon Musk just visited this past week.

I was really interested in finding out what Elon Musk was going. I’m surprised they let him show up at West Point in the first place given the controversy about his stand on free speech and his alignment with conservatism over the past couple of years, and West Point’s been the opposite, in fact, in many respects, but Elon Musk shared with this group of cadets, as a primary concern, the military’s readiness to wage conflict and not just on a multi, regional scale, but in any, serious conflict with a great power competitor.

I think it was unspoken. I don’t have a recording of what he said. I think it’s unwritten. But, he indicated, that he thought our ability to manufacture weapons and military capabilities in this country is far too slow. And I’ll add from a to compete at that level anymore, and that, I’ll add.

Our ability to keep ready aircraft, and mission capable numbers, of both personnel and machinery has suffered for the for the past several years even as we can’t retain the talent that we have, even if certain people are on medical profiles or have become sick as a consequence of this illegal shot mandate. so there’s a very negative trend as far as military readiness, our ability to wage combat.

Heritage Foundation even has conducted annually independent assessments of the US military strength. And I think that the name of their annual report that they put out is an index of U.S. military strength. Overall, in 2023, the report concluded that, the US military was weak, I think is the word that they used as their overall rating. There were multiple levels and some of the branches of the military, including the Air Force and Space Force or one or the other was very weak, and that the way in which they go about making that assessment is not just, a wag.

They have, metrics that they use, like the mission capability of our fighter force, for example, of our Navy ships. So when you see both, word of mouth, feedback coming from our troops about their dissatisfaction about morale in the workplace, on the one hand, you see metrics based, analysis coming out of institutions like the Heritage Foundation who are trying to provide the American people and members of Congress, some awareness of what they ought to be looking into and how to fix some of these problems.

You begin to see a very concerning picture emerge. It’s that there is a consensus from boots on the ground to, to members of Congress, to, the veteran community that we might not necessarily be properly postured to wage a serious conflict, on the world stage, that ought to frighten Americans. If if all of the other concerns and problems that we were having as a country didn’t exist, and there are many of those from border issues to public education issues to you name it, whatever your issue is said.

All of those aside, let’s say they were all cleaned up tomorrow, and the only remaining problem was whether or not you’ve got a lethal, capable, ready, high morale military to protect your nation. That issue alone is is has enough weight to it that, it could protect it could potentially put the United States in jeopardy, of losing its security and not being able to defend itself.

I think we’ve seen a turn in and the tides, so to speak, from the comfortable position we were in post-Cold War where we came out, the kings of the world, so to speak, and, had a relatively, hubristic, proud approach, on the world stage and, the ability to exert power in the Middle East and on multiple fronts to now the, a debacle in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the lack of credibility and seriousness both with our allies and the enemies on the world stage.

All of that goes a long way when you’re trying to project power or to maintain your security. We’re we’re staring into the abyss at the moment, I think standing on the precipice and the American people have really, you know, I say this is not speaking on behalf of my organization, but just as a personal opinion.

The American people have very serious decisions to make here come election season. If we’d like to plunge into that abyss or if we’d like to try and reverse course and, and we have to choose wisely and hope that our, our votes count. Right. And hope that the system hasn’t been so ultimately compromised that none of that matters anyway, that in fact, it does matter.

And so we speak up. We vote, we vote, and we we try our best to influence a positive outcome because that’s that’s about all you can hope to accomplish as a bystander and as a citizen at this point. You do your part and you pray and hope that, the outcomes can be different for the next administration.

00:23:32:23 – 00:23:50:27
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
So how do we how do we do that? How do we get this, get our military back in ready order. And I’ll ask you a second question. The question is, which I ask every lieutenant colonel and every general that comes out his glory. What happened? What’s what’s this disconnect between the lieutenant colonels and a four star generals of today? And why are the four star generals not exercising their constitutional rights in the military to make sure this stuff does not happen on their watch?

00:24:02:01 – 00:24:24:04
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, Lieutenant colonels, for example, promote through the ranks based on their merit. Largely it should be that way, and accomplishment and talent. You get beyond that to a certain point, people begin retiring, and then you have political appointees that end up being general officers, flag officers. Many of them are good, good men and women, don’t get me wrong. I’m grateful for the good men and women. but there is a political aspect to their ongoing service, as general and flag officers, that they are reluctant, extremely reluctant to compromise, and to, be disloyal to. I think they’re interested in being yes men and yes women.

There’s been a time and place for that, and it’s been necessary for a functioning military. There’s civilian control of the military, but we’ve now got, a position where we’ve got more and more political ideologues who are rising to power because of their political worldview.

If they don’t share in the same political worldview or seem to be contrary in any way, then they they find that they’re somehow disqualified for continued progress through the ranks, and that there’s been a subtle shift over time. But it’s apparent now, now that it’s kind of taken root. There was a purge of general officers under the Obama regime, and you ended up with, certain political leaning after that phase.

There’s been a purge that’s been deliberate during this administration. People find themselves disgusted if they maybe share our worldview or some semblance of our worldview. So they choose to retire, they choose to get out of that arena and to go into a more private life at the very moment when they should, in fact, be speaking up.

So that’s why I think there’s a disconnect between maybe the lieutenant colonel and the general officer ranks. But back to your first question. How do you solve this problem? The military up front. We need a different administration. You’re not going to solve these problems with the current administration or a 2.0 of this administration after election season, and you need new senior leaders.

We need we need to hold senior leaders accountable. We need to hold the lowest level of our military accountable for political activism in any form. They’re welcome to their political worldview, but they need to be laser focused on the mission that they do and becoming lethal ready warriors. They need to have instilled in them the kind of respect for the warrior ethos from senior leaders that we’ve had for so many decades that we’ve now lost.

I just reviewed some training from the Air Force Academy, in fact, that I got yesterday in an email and was a bit I was embarrassed to read the language that our new cadets that are coming into the Air Force Academy are getting from their senior leaders. It doesn’t engender respect. It’s not impressive. It looks like it was written by people who are somewhat uneducated, but who have a political ax to grind.

I thought, yeah, these young men and women are going to show up and what they thought they were signing up for. It is not what they’re meeting with and their experience there and some of them are going to be discouraged by that, and some of them might not choose to stay in and commission. Some of them have expressed I’ve heard anecdotally that they hope things will be different when they commission and get out into the real Air Force.

They might be unfortunately surprised, too. So we need an overhaul of the leadership in the military. You can’t do that under the current administration. I think, speaking of accountability. Some people need to be recalled and tried for illegal activity. That’s the that’s the bottom line. You can’t let people get away with criminal conduct, illegal discrimination, unethical behavior and go off quietly into the night and and enjoy a comfortable retirement.

I’m not calling for anything radical. I’m saying you need to instill accountability in this country. Otherwise you lose it forever. You have an unjust state. When you have an unjust state, things will devolve all the more rapidly into something I warned about in the book that I wrote, which is civil conflict.

So to say nothing of all of our great competitors on the world stage, the rest of Russia’s and the Chinas of the world, and maintaining the respect of our alliances in the on the world stage, you’ve got a domestic problem, that’s been fueled by illegal immigration, but it’s also fueled by the terrible partisan divide that we’ve got at the moment where people actually hate the other, and that’s grown so aggressive that there are people now of the view.

I’m not advocating for this, but they’re now of the view that there’s only one solution to the problem we face. It’s to kill. When you get to a point like that in a country, any number of matches, so to speak, could be lit. That could ignite the whole thing. You can’t predict how that might play out.

So I really hope and pray that we have more time to solve some of these problems, reverse course, repent as a country, and to start to heal some of the fractious divide that we’re seeing, lest we end up on that path.

00:29:07:18 – 00:29:25:05
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Yeah. Absolutely. Right. When we sign up for the military, we’re signed to the Constitution, lawful orders. I like what you said. We have to follow these generals need to follow lawful orders. Me as a private I have to follow lawful orders. I’ll let you have the last 30s. Lieutenant Colonel.

00:29:25:08 – 00:29:43:11
Matt Lohmeier
Well, I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the world stage and in their sphere of influence than they have at the moment. I’d like to invite men to step up and be men, and to have courage.

00:29:43:13 – 00:30:01:10
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Thank you so much, Lieutenant. The lieutenant Colonel, thank you for serving this great country. God’s not done with us, Eagle Nation. Thank you so much. That is today’s take five going is.