E101 - Becoming a Green Beret, Fighting the Mandate, and Running for Congress | Ft. John Frankman

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In this episode, Hans sits down with John Frankman, a former Green Beret turned congressional candidate running for Florida's First District. John walks through what it actually takes to become a Green Beret, the brutal pipeline from selection through Robin Sage, and how the COVID vaccine mandate ended a career he'd spent over a decade building.

Hans and John dig into the moral, religious, and legal grounds for refusing the shot, the bureaucratic punishment that followed, and why John believes the COVID accountability fight is the linchpin for cleaning up the rest of the rot in the Pentagon.

They close on his congressional run, the establishment machine he's up against, and why most veterans in the most veteran-dense district in America don't have a veteran representing them.

Chapters:

00:00 – Opening segment

01:30 – From LA to ROTC to the seminary

03:50 – The Green Beret pipeline: enlisted vs. officer routes

05:30 – Selection: 34% attrition, four MREs a day, and 20 lbs lost

09:50 – Special Forces vs. SEALs vs. Rangers

13:40 – Working by, with, and through partner forces

15:10 – The Q Course, SERE, and language training

16:30 – Inside Robin Sage: the unconventional warfare exercise

20:45 – Military Free Fall and getting to 7th Group

23:15 – The transgender major and the first test of conviction

25:50 – The shot mandate hits the team room

27:15 – Vaccination rate as a metric for good leadership

30:45 – Aborted fetal cells and the Catholic moral case

33:00 – Counseling the command back

36:25 – A year of being un-deployable, un-PCS-able, useless

37:40 – The two-star & the town hall

39:20 – Why the reinstatement process is a joke

41:00 – Why COVID accountability is the linchpin

42:45 – From silent retreat to running for Congress

44:00 – Matt Gaetz, the State of the Union, and stepping aside for Trump's pick

47:10 – Why Patronis isn't fighting for the district

50:30 – The most veteran-dense district in America has no veteran on staff

54:00 – Thomas Massie, special interest money, and the uphill fight

57:10 – Where to find John and how to support the campaign

Key Takeaways:

The Green Beret pipeline is brutal and specific. Selection alone has an enormous attrition rate before the year-plus Q Course even begins. Special Forces work by, with, and through partner forces, which is what distinguishes Green Berets from other Special Operations Forces.

The COVID mandate metric was a disqualifier for leadership. The percentage of your team that took the shot became the measure of a good leader. That single inversion of values exposed which commanders had spines and which didn't.

The shot was never FDA approved when the mandate was issued. Comirnaty was the approved label, but it was never available. Pfizer EUA was what was actually in the vials, which made the order unlawful on its face.

Insubordination, done right, is documented. John responded to his counseling statement by numbering each paragraph and refuting it on the record. His whole team followed suit. Most commanders had no answer because there were no legally defensible responses.

The reinstatement process is theater. The administration wants a headline, not accountability. The biggest COVID tyrants are still in the Pentagon and still the loudest cheerleaders for every other ideological capture.