Jason Beardsley: Instead of providing more naval boats, Navy and DOD focus on 'diversity' and 'extremism'
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🗓️ 5 July 2021
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Jason Beardsley, Executive Director of the Association of the United States Navy, says that the Navy is "sacrificing material goods that can defend the nation to chase things that maybe are a little bit subjective and have not been defined," like "extremism."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and happy Independence Day or the day after we're celebrating all weekend |
| 0:12.5 | long. |
| 0:13.5 | I hope you have been maybe with a Kansas City stake. |
| 0:16.1 | That's what I did this weekend. |
| 0:18.2 | We are here the day after the 245th birthday of America and we're grateful for all who have |
| 0:25.9 | served for all who have created the incredible experiment of democracy and constitutional |
| 0:32.2 | republic that America is. |
| 0:34.6 | And today we have a very special guest, an American hero, a man who served his country |
| 0:41.7 | first in the Navy, then as a special operator, then in the VA and today both in the VA and |
| 0:48.0 | in the private sector. |
| 0:49.8 | He has given voice to our men and women on the fighting forces of America. |
| 0:54.2 | His name is Jason Baratzi. |
| 0:55.2 | You've seen him on Fox. |
| 0:56.2 | You've read his columns. |
| 0:57.7 | He's really one of the most important thinkers in the military security space today. |
| 1:02.9 | And we are lucky on this the federal holiday for the 4th of July to have him here talking |
| 1:08.3 | with us, giving us wisdom on everything from Afghanistan to Iran. |
| 1:13.0 | And from a real candid perspective, I think he's going to talk a little bit about the |
| 1:18.1 | tension between the woke agenda that some in the Biden administration are imposing on |
| 1:22.4 | the military and the mission of the military and the gaps in military readiness that our |
| 1:28.7 | military commanders are acknowledging in public. |
| 1:30.9 | We're falling behind China, particularly naval power, according to our U.S. leaders. |
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