The United States faces a crisis that should result in declarations of emergency conditions, but we will not. Our citizens no longer trust the so-called leaders in our government. All one has to do is read the comments on any random post about drones flying over highly sensitive infrastructure to realize how dire the situation is. Trust and confidence in our military leadership can be restored the fastest if we have the courage. The video you just watched is from before the disastrous Biden Department of Defense. Not that long ago, and those leaders still exist, we just need to get them back on the job and give them the policy tools they need to get the job of providing lethality to America done. But leaders alone can’t get it done, our military and civilian classification systems for creating the most secret information, are being abused and misused in a way that harms our citizens and creates a vast corruption across the US government. Without strong reformation in both of these areas, we will not be able to do what needs to be done in the most broken area of the department of defense from a policy perspective, and that is in the area of acquisition. We must address the acquisition system, from our manufacturing base to the glacial processes that drive us to not be able to field new equipment within decades of development. We are behind our adversaries because we have turned away from our greatest strength, our industrial base. Two weeks ago, we debuted the Rank-and-File effort that has proposed a list of appointment candidates ready to answer the call of duty in the Trump administration Department of Defense and one of those Americans is my guest today. Retired Navy CAPTAIN Richard “Chip” Whitfield, a former MH-60R Wing Commander, Squadron Commander, and Navy Staff officer is here to discuss his ideas to address these issues!

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