Culture & Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast - A Warrior’s Perspective [Featuring Chad Robichaux]

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

Chad Robichaux’s team rescued 17,000 people from Afghanistan, and “The only way I can explain it, is it was a God-ordained miracle,” he told Pastor Allen during this podcast. Robichaux, a former Force Recon Marine and a Department of Defense Contractor, provides a boots-on-the-ground perspective on America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and the wars in Ukraine and Israel. He also discusses the severe PTSD he experienced after retiring from the military, and how he went from being suicidal to thriving in his faith. “Applying biblical solutions to the problems I was facing led me to restoration, hope, and ultimately to purpose,” Robichaux said. His transformation led to him begin The Mighty Oaks Foundation, which offers faith-based programs that have helped over 500,000 warriors, to date.More Information:The Mighty Oaks Foundation: https://www.mightyoaksprograms.org/--It’s up to us to bring God’s truth back into our culture. It may feel like an impossible assignment, but there’s much we can do. Join Pastor Allen Jackson as he discusses today’s issues from a biblical perspective. Find thought-provoking insight from Pastor Allen and his guests, equipping you to lead with your faith in your home, your school, your community, and wherever God takes you.Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3JsyO6ysUVGOIV70xAjtcm?si=6805fe488cf64a6dListen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culture-christianity-the-allen-jackson-podcast/id1729435597

made a decision that you know maybe my family would be sad without me but they'd be better off and i'd decide to take my life and uh you know i'd sit my closet in my apartment i had a glock 22 pistol and i put my family pictures on the floor around me and try to build the courage to pull that trigger and it was one morning my wife uh came in my apartment and she had knocked on the door and wasn't going to answer it um but i had a i had that pistol on my hand and when she when she knocked on a door she asked me a question that just radically changed my life and saved my life that day She's like asking me how I could do everything she's seen me doing the military. And when it comes to your family, you'll quit.

And for me, there's no more soul-cutting word to be called the quitter. And she was absolutely right. I meant success with all these professional things, but when it came to the most important thing, like being a husband, being a father, being that young 17-year-old kid that raised his hand and made a commitment to do something important. And quitting all those things, including my will to live. And I made a radical decision in that moment to get back in the fight. I didn't know how to do it, but one thing I knew is I couldn't do it alone.

And I couldn't do it with the people all surrounded about. us off by. Welcome to our culture and Christianity podcast. Just so happens today. We're at the tail end of a culture and Christianity conference here at World Outreach Church in Murphersboro. It's been a wonderful couple of days. And I have recruited one of my friends to sit in with us.

Chad Robesho. Chad, welcome. Thanks, Pastor Allen. I'm going to mess your credentials up, but I know you were a force recon Marine. Yes, sir. You did six tours in Afghanistan? Did eight tours? Afghanistan as part of a J-Soc task force.

You can tell I'm ignorant about too much of the military, and I apologize for that. No, no. You're... Plain language, you're a hero. Well, I would not say that from... No, no, I know you won't, but I will. I'll be happy to say that. After we withdrew from Afghanistan in such a shameful way,

yes, sir. We abandoned a man who had been a great help to you. Yeah. And you recruited some friends and went back to get him. That's right. Aziz. You know, Aziz had served all my mother. employment's with me. He was not only my interpreter, but my teammate. And ultimately, he's my friend.

You know, he saved my life on multiple times. And he's just an incredible human being and a hero to America, even though he had never been here. And there was no way I could sit back on my couch and watch us leaving behind. He would have certainly been killed him, his wife and six kids. And so we went back to get him. So the active military couldn't help you. So you had to recruit some buddies that were retired? Yeah, we put together a team of a dozen former special operations guys who were out of the military and had, you know, the unique skill sets to do that kind of operation. And, and originally it started just to get Aziz's wife and six kids. And like I said, you know, Aziz not only saved my life, but like when I wasn't operating out in the mountains

of Afghanistan, I was at his home. I held his kids when they were born, sort of family to me. And it was very important to me that he got out safe. And so I had some amazing friends that agreed to help. But as we started preparing to go help him, one of our teammates had a got a text message of these 3,000 orphans that had just been abandoned and to withdrawal because everyone was just getting out of there. So people that would have been running an orphanage would have been leaving for to save their life and they left these 3,000 kids. And so at that moment, we all kind of looked at the situation and said, hey, let's just lean forward. And we're all believers. We believe God was burden of hearts to help. But we had this tremendous experience

on our team. Let's help as many Americans, interpreters, their families, women and children, let's just help as many people as we can. And we believe. And we believe, we have. And we gotten a lot of credit for it since, but the truth is, and I keep saying this, and it's the only way I know I explain it. People are like, how did you guys pull off rescuing Aziz, his family, and ultimately, you know, the 17,000 people? How'd you guys pull that off? And I, and I, and I was 17,000 people, right? Okay, I wanted to be sure. The only way I could, I could explain it is it was a God ordained miracle. Like, I'm not smart enough or logistically capable enough, and I don't believe anyone is to pull off what what it actually pulled off. There was a series of events that took place that allowed that to happen

that is nothing other divine in nature. That's amazing. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you for modeling that for us. I'm my opinion, I'm certainly not a military expert or a global strategist, but I think that expression of weakness in the way we withdrew from Afghanistan, abandoned the sacrifices that had been made, left all of the hardware there, was the signal that has resulted in so much of what we've seen since then, all the way up to October. October 7th? Yeah. I mean, the world is, you know, burning down because of it. I mean, if, look, Afghanistan, if we could pause there for a second, it's Bagam Air Force Base, the most strategic place in a globe between Iraq, Iran, Russia, and China. The American people have been lied to to say that we are in this 20-year war, this endless war, and we have to pull out. American sons and daughters are dying. We could have declared a victory in a war and terror and kept the presence there. Twenty-five hundred troops is what we had there. At the exact time of withdrawal was about 4,000. But I A second place around the world that we have the equal amount of troops. In fact, since World War II, we still have 80,000 troops in Japan, 40,000 in Germany,

35,000 in South Korea on the 30th parallel to keep the North Koreans from a Cromeda cross. So keeping military contingents in places like Afghanistan isn't prolonged wars, preventing wars, creating stability. And anybody that understands military strategy knows this. We had the entire international community supporting a support and advisory role to the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police. and it was working effectively. And so when we left the way we left without, you know,

by the way, they dumped the Bogum prison with all the ISIS K, Taliban fighters, dumped them in the civilian population, closed Bogum Air Force base, left $80 billion in equipment there before we moved our civilians out even. So even if I'm wrong with a draw, you don't do that. And they handed a Neo operation, not combatant evacuation operation over to the State Department. So it's handed politically and not militarily.

and it created this catastrophe I left thousands of Americans in Afghanistan to either be killed or lost. We don't know where all of them are now. And we left tens of thousands of our allies. And so not only was it a catastrophe of what we did in Afghanistan

and then leaving 40 million Afghan people to suffer, 20 million women and little girls to be sexually enslaved, but we sent a statement to the world that we will buckle under the pressure of our enemies. And that pressure in Afghanistan didn't come from

the Taliban. It came from China. China wanted the U.S. military out of Afghanistan for the mineral rights in the Hindu Kush Mountains. And I was called the conspiracy theorists for saying it on Fox News, but we left on August 30th in September 1st. China had the mineral rights to trillions of dollars of worth of lithium in the Hindu Kush Mountains. Additionally, China wanted to build a move sanctioned all from Iran to China through Afghanistan, but they couldn't do it with the U.S. military there. And they started doing that September as well. So we were bullied by our by our enemies to leave and the world took note. Why did Putin put 100,000 troops on the eastern Ukrainian border and flex?

He wanted to see what Biden would do. And he had already seen we did in Afghanistan. And what did Biden do? He took out the troops from Ukraine. He closed our embassy and consulate. And the rest of the world followed it did the same. And that gave a green light of Putin to move into Ukraine. Putin would have never moved into Ukraine if the U.S. military would have kept the troops there.

And people would argue and say, well, there was only 160 troops there. It didn't matter if there's one. Article 5 of NATO says, if they injure, even indiscriminately or unintentionally injure a U.S. service member or NATO service member, Article V violation. Putin is a lunatic. He's evil, but he's not stupid. He would have not done that.

And so we gave him the green light to do it. Now you see October 7th and what happened there. And, you know, Iran firing rockets into Israel and with money that we're giving them still. I mean, there's just zero consequences in the world. And when America is weak, the world is a dangerous place and it's unstable place. And that's what we're seeing right now. That is a frightening chain of events you just described that our withdrawal from Afghanistan was because of Chinese pressure or some desire to give China an opportunity. When you look at any scenario and you can't figure out where the, you know, what's the like who's responsible with this?

You look at motive, right? And who benefits? Who benefits most? And the Taliban, you know, got a country, but the Taliban is really not a player. They're a puppet in this. The United States of America didn't have benefit. Our national security is jeopardized because of it. Afghanistan didn't benefit.

None of our allies benefited. The only people that benefited from this is Iran, Pakistan, ISI, in China. And China is the one that benefits most, Bogum Air Force base, that strategic base that we gave up and all the equipment there. China occupies that base now. And then within weeks of that, if we didn't outright initiate, we in, invited the war between Ukraine and Russia? Absolutely. You know, and again, that's the thought that we might have initiated it, which I would not, you know, there's so much speculation to be made there, but I would lean on the side of that. Our hands are all over that. When I say our hands, I mean, the White House, it's a,

it's a money-making and money-laundering machine. And there's a lot of people that are sending billions of dollars to Ukraine that have the ability to end that thing in 24 hours. And, But the incentive is, the incentive is to end it would be, you know, the people that are actually making the money, they would have to be incentivized in it or not. Zewinsky's not going to end it. President Biden's not going to end it. They're all benefiting from this thing. And so I believe that it was very deliberate to remove the U.S. troops and close our embassy and consulate to give that green light for Putin across. So there's been more than a half a million casualties, right? Yeah. I would say a minimum. And there's a, you know, those are very. rough estimations because you can't go there's no journalists that are going into the eastern front

but i've been to place like so i'd say you know that's a minimum number is probably half a main casualties in there and in the surveying casualties are grotesque i mean i've been to car keve and odessa and all in the front line uh is zoom and and personally witnessed uh seeing apartment buildings 10-story apartment buildings blown down to rubble uh that no no men would have been there uh you know most fighting age males would have not been there There's no military targets there. Neighborhoods that are like elderly neighbor. It's just so eerie going there because you're going there and this is not a third world country.

I've been to a lot of war zones, but going there at a place like where we live with ice cream parlors and pizza shops and malls, they're just leveled. And apartment buildings leveled. And I personally have eyewitness and reported like leaked to Fox News, mass graves of civilians, women and children hands bound behind their backs and executed and pushing the mass graves, 1,400 of them. And so the atrocities on the back. battlefield there or real. Those are not propaganda. Those are real. And this is in theory. You've been there, what, 10 times? I've been there 10 times. Mighty Oaks as a team has been there 30 times. So we've done 30 trips through Mighty Oaks Foundation. So this is firsthand experience. And then we hear the government telling us, I haven't heard any calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine. We just

keep funneling billions of dollars in weapons. But in Israel, when they're attacked by Hamas and innocent civilians are brutally murdered, all of a sudden we're self-righteous and we need a humanitarian ceasefire. Yeah, it's so inconsistent. And you can just look at the motivations behind that. I mean, for me, when I say Ukraine can be ended in 24 hours, that's exactly how you do it.

A humanitarian ceasefire, you move NATO troops in, not to go fight with the Russians, but to provide humanitarian aid to the civilian casualties and atrocities and war crimes conducted against civilians in Ukraine. Once those, the U.S. and NATO troops move in there, now Putin has risk of an Article 5 violation. There will be a line set somewhere, and that line will hold as long as those troops. And the troops just stay there and remain in doing a humanitarian effort. And that essentially ends the Ukrainian conflict.

But it would cost the people that are profiting off it billions of dollars. And that's why those are the same people that have the ability to make that choice. And then you see in, you know, in Israel, that's what they call far right away because the script, you know, the story is kind of a flip script. A different set of powers there. Yeah. Yeah. Are you surprised by the anti-Semitism, the hatred being expressed towards the Jewish people across this nation now? It hurts.

It's shocking, but it's not surprising because, you know, we're in the culture in Christianity Conference. We've seen our culture just so allied to manipulate it in. and manipulate it over the last 20, 30 years, that it's, you know, the fact that we got here where we are now is, it should not be surprising. I mean, the misinformation that's being pumped into our youth through schools and universities and it's not surprising at all. Right. Yeah. Unfortunately, it's not surprising. Yeah. Tragically, we can explain it. Yeah.

It's happened on our watch while we were dittling and weren't paying any attention. Right. And we're going to have to wake up and create a new future. or we're going to lose our freedom and liberty. Yeah, we certainly will. It has reached that point to where it's on our freedom and liberties. Is that a breaking point? Yeah, I think we're on life support.

Yeah. You, after you retired from the military, that's kind of a theory, but you founded the Mighty Oaks Foundation. You understood the trauma of coming back and kind of reintering civilian life. That's right. And I mean, only God got you through that. So you put together the Mighty Oaks Foundation, the other people coming back that are struggling. Can you tell us a little bit about Mighty Oaks? Yeah. You know, when I came home, I was dealing with anxiety, depression, debilitating panic attacks.

I was diagnosed with PTSD. And I spent about three years in a downward spiral that ended with me almost losing my family in a very real attempt to take my life. And it's... But from the outside, you look pretty successful. Sure. You were an MMA fighter, world champion. Yeah, I got home and I, you know, to cope and deal with that, I dove into... a sport I did my whole life. I was, you know, been a more shorter since I was five years old. I was already a professional Mayfighter aside. So I dove into that as a coping mechanism, which isn't bad for you, by the way. It's good to do, have physical outlets and hobbies, but I took something that was good for me and I abused it and I never actually got well.

And so on the surface, I'm, you know, winning fights. I'm ranked number six in the world. I won a world championship. And I ended up being 18 to two as a professional fighter. So on the surface, it looked like I was extremely successful. But underneath that really false facade of success was a very broken person in a home that was falling apart. And my wife and I's marriage was falling apart. And I was in relationships with the women. And eventually we, you know, decide to divorce and sold our home. And there was three months that we were apart in separate homes. And we sold our home and was in separate apartments. And during the time, I had made a decision that, you know, maybe my family would be sad without me, but they'd be better off. And I'd

decided to take my life. And, uh, you know, I'd sit my closet in my apartment. I had a Glock 22 pistol and I put my family pictures on the floor around me and try to build the courage to pull that trigger. And it was one morning my wife, uh, came to my apartment and she had knocked in a door. I wasn't going to answer it. Um, but I had a, I had that pistol on my hand. And when she, when she knocked on a door, uh, and announced herself and I heard her voice, I panicked. Um, I was so ashamed to what I was doing. I actually hid that, that gun under a blanket. And I went to the door. It may sound twisted. But, but I was, it's, it may sound twisted. I was so mad that she was there interrupting me killing myself.

It would sound silly, but I was. And I was just opened a door, started berating her and yelling at her while she was there. She wouldn't leave. It's a shame to say this, but because I've never been physically abusive in my life, even though I've been definitely been verbally abusive, but I grabbed her purse from her, and I just wanted to leave so bad that I grabbed it, took it from her, and threw it over the balcony because I wanted her to leave so bad

because I just, I didn't want her interrupting me in that moment. I remember stuff flew everywhere. And she's not a very calm, arguer, by the way, but she's the opposite. I'm usually calm and she's not. But in that moment, she was like so calm. And she asked me a question that just radically changed my life and saved my life that day.

She's like asking me how it could do everything. She's seen me doing the military going to a special operations, the schools, the training, the deployments, training for fights, like the discipline that it takes to do all those things. She's like, how could you do all those things? And when it comes to your family, you'll quit. And, you know, for me, there's no more soul-cutting word to be called to quit her.

And she was absolutely right. I mean, success, well, all these professional things, but when it came to their most important, thing, like being a husband, being a father, being that young 17-year-old kid that raised his hand and made a commitment to do something important. And quitting all those things, including my will to live. And I made a radical decision in that moment to get back in the fight. But I didn't know how to do it. But one thing I knew is I couldn't do it alone. And I couldn't do what the people I surrounded myself by. Because I had surrounded myself by people that told me everything I wanted to hear and not what I need to hear.

And so she was going to this church when we were separated. I didn't care about her church. I didn't care about God. But I wanted someone outside of my story. circle that would help hold me accountable as decision. I asked her to contact some man of this church. And I met this man named Steve Toth. We sat just like we are right now at a Starbucks coffee shop and I wrote a five-paragraph order like a military operations order. It was how I was going to fix my life. And it was really good. I was super proud of it. I slid it over to Steve because what I wanted was him to show it to Kathy so I could like win her back and press her and I would sweep everything in the rug and move forward. But he didn't even look at it. He just slid it back over to

me and told me it was going to fail. And I remember he tapped on a paper. He said, this plan does have anything to do in your relationship with God. I'm not going to waste your time. I'm not a lady waste mine. And I had tried everything at that time. I'd been through medication, counseling, had professional success, financial success. I'd rebuilt notoriety and my ego was rebuilt.

Like all those things. And some of those things were good. Some of those things were bad. But none of those things changed my situation. And at Mighty Oaks, we have a saying that kind of comes from that moment. If what you're doing isn't working, then why not try something different? So everything had tried to work.

It was time to try something different. I gave God a chance and serving him a life to Jesus. And so God, restoring a life's not a theory to you or some theological point. You've lived it out. I lived it out. And beyond the decision, though, Steve disciples me for entire year in biblical living. That's good. And that was the change because what I realized that all this bad stuff that happened to me was not because of my experiences, but because of choice I made response to my experiences. And now the Bible gave me a blueprint to make better choices. So did it still get anxiety and depression?

Of course I did. But I had a blueprint to make better choices. You know, people say life doesn't come with a handbook. And it actually does. We just don't read it. Isn't that the truth? It's kind of like the IKEA furniture. You ever see that? Like my wife will buy something and I'll get it and I'll put it together without reading instructions and it's like five extra parts and it's like wobbly and shaky. I'm like this thing's junk.

I didn't read the instructions and it's kind of our life. Our life ends up being drunk and we just never read a handbook. And, you know, so reading the Bible and figuring out biblical solutions to the problems that I was facing led me to restoration and hope and ultimately purpose. And that purpose really manifested for me and God just putting a burden of my heart to pay that everything I just said forward to someone else. And that led to Mighty Oaks Foundation. I didn't know if it was to be one person. And now we're about a half million people in 12 years. But I just didn't know. I just leaned on. So if somebody's listening, they're a veteran or their

family members of veteran or somebody that care about and they're struggling a bit. And first responders. First responders. They can reach out to Mighty Oaks. They can reach out. Mighty Oaks Programs.org. We cover everything. Our programs are six-day intensives at our different ranches in California, Ohio, over in Virginia and Texas, and we even pay for the flights. So there's no strings attached. We'll get you there. A grateful nation loves you and provide support to Mighty Oaks to make it possible for us to. And these programs are non-clinical, faith-based peer-to-peer.

So all of our instructors have come through a program as alumni, and we disciple them to be leading. So it's peer-to-peer, which is very powerful. We're doing a Mighty Oaks group of some kind here. You guys are. You got Larry and Maples and some of the folks came through Mighty Oaks and you can start an outpost here. And that's, I mean, this is one of the things that we do is not just our intensive, but partner with churches like world outreach across the country to make sure the communities have resources and equipped to build to care for their veterans and first responders. That is so good. You've got a new book coming out.

I want to hear a little bit about that. It's called Mission Without Borders. Mission Without Borders. It is based in Ukraine during Ukraine invasion by Russia. But it's not a geopolitical Ukraine book. It does give some of that. What the book is really about is. me and my sons.

My oldest son, Hunter, is a combat veteran Marine, 84 years of service in our family. But Hunter and I are kind of unique because we both served in Afghanistan. But even though he's his own man, he's a Marine combat veteran, I'm still his dad. And I still love him and want to protect him. And so there was this transition for me of like him wanting to God burdening his hearts the same thing as me to go into war zones and help people.

He's just burden to do that. But me being dad saying, I can't take you in the. Eastern Ukraine with me, like, what kind of dad takes his son in no war zone? And my fear and my control saying, you know, I'm going to protect him. And me coming to the realization that the hard realization that I can protect my son, but I can never protect him better than God can. And I love my son, but I don't love him more than God does. And realization to bail to take that control off and relinquish that fear I have in the faith

in him, in his abilities, and the faith in God to protect him. have his hand over his life and allow him to do the things that God called him to do too because he didn't just call me to do these things. He's calling him and said to get out of my son's way. And so it's at the beginning of the book starts with me and him and both at the same time. I'm in a Zoom. He's in Bakhmut getting bombed. And that's kind of the pro the prolog of the book is we're both getting bombed simultaneously at the same time. And we're on the phone with each other. And then it go and then the book kind of goes back to the beginning where we're going to this Ukrainian operation. And I'm mentioning him. I'm not letting him do any

anything. And how do we get to not letting him do anything to where we're both getting bombed? And now he's he's been to Ukraine more times than I have. And he just, one of the missions he's leading there is not rescuing people. One of the things he's doing is, is they're training chaplains. So most of the Ukrainian soldiers are conscripts, people that recruited into or drafted into the army. Well, their pastors. I mean, like if that's happened here and you had half of your congregation, the men are out fighting, they don't have a chaplain. You might say, hey, I want to go be their chaplain, but you have no idea how to be a chaplain. And so we came in as Mighty Oaks and worked with the Ukrainian military.

That's cool. And we've trained 300 chaplains now of how to be, not to be a burden on the battlefield and how to actually be a chaplain. So he's led that. And like I said, I think there are just over 300 chaplains now that we've trained and certified and launched out. That is awesome. I actually thought of you a couple weeks ago, I was in Israel.

And we were down on the border of Gaza and the Israeli artillery was still firing. And I'm hearing those sounds. I know those sounds are being made by my friend, so that's not quite as scary. But I thought, I'm not as courageous as Chad. So I appreciate what you have done on behalf of this nation and for people. Well, I'm not thankful you had that experience, but in a way, I am that you could hear and see and feel it because it gives you a perspective that you, it's just that a lot of people here just don't, don't have. And, uh, freedom's not free. It's not a, it's a, it comes a cost of lives. And, you know, in America, you know, since 1775, I.

say 1775 because it's the Marine Corps year. 1775, every man and woman that's stolen the uniform and fought bled and died for our country. Through death, through injury, through losing their hearts and souls and minds, it comes at a heavy price. And that's one of the things that Mighty Oaks, we're here to kind of reconcile that and get these guys not back, not just well again, but back living again and have purpose again. Absolutely flourishing. Yeah, flourishing.

I talked about that in my message this morning here is to read hasty, if you remember read hasty going to not being able to fly from Oklahoma to California go for our program. Eight years later, he's the outpost in Oklahoma, like this one, 350 men a week meet. And only eight years, he's got 350 people a week meeting. And then going to Ukraine, couldn't comply from Oklahoma to California, go to our program because anxiety was so bad. Now he goes all the way to eastern Ukraine to share his testimony with those troops.

It's amazing to see that kind of transformation. That is awesome. Well, our commitment on this podcast is to be sure we always talk a bit about what we can do. Yeah. And when I'm with you, I'm reminded that our military, not intended to be an exercise in social experiments. That's right. There to defend this nation.

And tragically, they've lost their way. Without trying to assign blame to that, I think what we can do now is begin to pray on a daily basis that we'll have leadership in this nation at every necessary level that our military can be returned to their purpose and stop this insanity that's being pumped into them. Is that fair? That's fair.

I mean, look, the military exists for one reason and one reason only. That's to protect our nation and our national security and defend people around the world who can't defend themselves. that's why our military exists. And who goes in a military should be who's most qualified to do that. Not who's most woke, not who aligns with the new gender ideology of the day. It's who's most qualified to do that.

And we should not be making decisions that prohibit that from being the most successful scenario possible. And that's what our military is facing right now. And we've seen this become a national security issue because re-enlistments are down. We've never been, we've never had since Vietnam, since the draft. had a worse enlistment. We're down, we're 25% down on recruiting and realizing. And they're fudging the numbers, by the way. And so it's worse than that.

And I've never seen a lower morale in 30 years of me being around the military. Suicide rates right now are an all-time high in the military. It's a tough place to be in the military. And when this all start, since 1776, every U.S. service member was issued a Bible. And that stopped in 2009. President Obama stopped that. A lot of people don't know that. And that's when I've been around the military of 30 years,

and that's when I've seen the decline shift in the military. Now, if somebody don't want a Bible, that's fine. But we certainly, if you're a prisoner, you could get one, right? But if you're a United States service member, you can't since you guys' night. It's just wrong. Yeah. Well, my guest today's Chad Robesho, an American hero. I know you won't say it, I will.

Thank you for all you've done for us. Yes, sir. And for those of us listening, we know what we can do. We can start to pray on a daily basis. for those who are standing watch on our behalf, that they wouldn't be subjected to some sort of bizarre social experiment, but they would be set free to do what they volunteered to do. And that's put themselves in harm's ways

so that liberty and freedom can flourish in our nation and be extended to the peoples of the world. If God said he's a warrior and that he's the Lord of the Angel armies, we need to pray on a daily basis for those men and women standing guard on our behalf. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Chad. Yes, sir. Hey, thanks for joining me today.

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