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Podcast: The PoliticsGirl Podcast
Episode: Everyone Gets Left Behind: A Conversation with Commander Bobby R. Jones
Description: Current leadership isnât just letting our military down, theyâre setting them up. Cutting benefits, firing veterans, changing alliesâŚ.Our soldiers might be, as Commander Jones says, âtrained to absorb a lotâ but they shouldnât have to absorb this kind of disrespect. The American military are not there to make the president appear more manly, or be used as an enforcement brigade to deliver real estate deals or bring political enemies to heal, so what happens when the administration asks our soldiers to do something for him but against the constitution? You donât remove the kind of expertise fr...