Speaker 1: Horn and fair of face.
Speaker 2: Morning Ding dong.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm just kind of curious. The census doesn't count
Speaker 3: people that are staying in hotels and motels, do they?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, that would just boost the numbers
Speaker 3: for people for representation. Most of the people who stay
Speaker 3: in motels are US citizens, but they don't get counted correctly,
Speaker 3: even if they are just passing by. Kind of seems
Speaker 3: weird that they be doing the illegal.
Speaker 4: I think we just, well, don't we just make up
Speaker 4: a number every state? Just make it, just make up
Speaker 4: a number. I don't normally do this, and it's and
Speaker 4: it's risky because it may just fall flat on its face.
Speaker 4: But because I'm curious, then I want you to be curious.
Speaker 4: At eight o'clock Eastern time six o'clock our time, the
Speaker 4: Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Speaker 4: held a news conference to hold a second briefing on
Speaker 4: the success of the Iranian strikes. Well, I've been watching
Speaker 4: and our clipping service hasn't posted anything, but a couple
Speaker 4: of other outlets have. Let's see one, Fox News has
Speaker 4: posted something and MSNB has posted something. So let's start
Speaker 4: with Fox because they start out with Hegsath at the beginning,
Speaker 4: and let's listen to what he had to say. I'm honestly,
Speaker 4: with all due respect to the Secretary of Defense, I'm
Speaker 4: more interested in what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Speaker 4: had to say. But let's listen to a couple of
Speaker 4: minutes of the Secretary of Defense, and then we'll skip
Speaker 4: back over and we'll go to the General Kine and
Speaker 4: see what he had to say. So here we go.
Speaker 4: Let's we're doing this together. Find out what they said.
Speaker 4: Maybe interesting, dolls.
Speaker 5: Hell, game changing and historic, a shift in burden sharing
Speaker 5: to European responsibility in NATO that most would have said
Speaker 5: was impossible at the beginning of his term.
Speaker 6: But he said NATO needs to pay up.
Speaker 5: They started in the first term, and here in his
Speaker 5: second term, we've accelerated that.
Speaker 6: Thirty two NATO countries committed to spending five percent.
Speaker 5: Of their GDP on defense on actually investing in the
Speaker 5: NATO alliance.
Speaker 6: So I hope, with.
Speaker 5: All the inkspilled, all of your outlets find the time
Speaker 5: to properly recognize this historic change in continental security that
Speaker 5: other presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about.
Speaker 6: President Trump accomplished it. It's a huge deal.
Speaker 5: You see, we're here this morning because in hunting for
Speaker 5: scandals all the time, in trying to find wedges and
Speaker 5: spin stories, Corps and the press Corps miss historic moments,
Speaker 5: miss historic moments like five percent at NATO, which when
Speaker 5: you hear I was in the closed door briefing, I
Speaker 5: wish there could have been cameras in there when you
Speaker 5: heard the prime ministers and presidents of other countries to
Speaker 5: a man and to a woman looking at President Trump
Speaker 5: and saying, this never could.
Speaker 6: Have happened, never would have happened.
Speaker 5: This seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago, eight
Speaker 5: years ago.
Speaker 6: But here we are because of your leadership. If you
Speaker 6: ask them the question, I bet they'd say the same thing.
Speaker 5: But searching for scandals, you miss historic moments like recruiting
Speaker 5: at the Pentagon historic levels, and the Army, the Air Force,
Speaker 5: and the Navy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe there'll be a little mention here or there.
Speaker 5: But because it was under President Trump's leadership, because it
Speaker 5: was because Americans are responding to him as commander in chief,
Speaker 5: the press Corps doesn't want to write about it or
Speaker 5: bring us to the topic of the moment.
Speaker 6: On the highly successful strikes in Iran. Let me read
Speaker 6: the bottom lying here.
Speaker 5: President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation
Speaker 5: in history, and it was a resounding success, resulting in
Speaker 5: a ceasefire agreement and the end of the Twelve Day War.
Speaker 5: There's been a lot of discussions about what happened to
Speaker 5: what didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Step back for a second.
Speaker 5: Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions
Speaker 5: to end the war, decimating choose your word, obliterating, destroying
Speaker 5: Iran's nuclear capabilities. I want to read some of the
Speaker 5: assessments that have been provided, because whether it's fake news, CNN,
Speaker 5: MSNBC or the New York Times, there's been fawning coverage
Speaker 5: of a preliminary assessment.
Speaker 6: I've had a chance to read it.
Speaker 5: Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DA.
Speaker 4: I want to pause it for just a moment. I
Speaker 4: want to mention something about the Defense Intelligence Agency. There's
Speaker 4: a hierarchy in the intelligence community and it the d
Speaker 4: i A probably ranks in the bottom third of that hierarchy.
Speaker 4: And insofar as the PDB, the Presidential Daily brief when
Speaker 4: when they when those briefers from the CIA or the
Speaker 4: d N I would come to my office to give
Speaker 4: that briefing in terms of a just take a topic.
Speaker 4: Whatever the topic may be, doesn't make any difference. Let's
Speaker 4: say there's some uprising in I don't know Poland. So
Speaker 4: an uprising is going on in Poland. Well, every part,
Speaker 4: every aspect of the IC of the intelligence community will
Speaker 4: have their human intelligence, their signal intelligence. They'll have their
Speaker 4: their analysts back here in or or back there in
Speaker 4: d C H or Fort Meta, wherever whoever it might be,
Speaker 4: or Langley. Those analysts will take all that human and
Speaker 4: signal intelligence and they'll analyze it. They'll also analyze, interestingly,
Speaker 4: analyze all of the stuff that's into public domain. What
Speaker 4: are what are the local reporters saying, what are the
Speaker 4: international reporters saying, what are the cable channels saying. They'll
Speaker 4: they'll compare and contrast all of that. The point being,
Speaker 4: there's this hierarchy, and the D I A is in
Speaker 4: the lower hierarchy. So if I'm looking at a chapter
Speaker 4: in the daily Brief that happens to be on uprising
Speaker 4: in Poland, there will be put together by the C
Speaker 4: I A. Now the D and I there will be
Speaker 4: the overall brief that takes into consideration all of the
Speaker 4: other n s A, the the d i A, all
Speaker 4: of all all of the components, I mean even Homeland security.
Speaker 4: Every component will have theirs, but there will be the
Speaker 4: one at the top that is a compilation based on
Speaker 4: their analysis, is of everybody else, and usually the d
Speaker 4: i A is one of the first. Therefore one of
Speaker 4: the least reliable, and one that is not given as
Speaker 4: much credence as what is normally given, particularly to the president.
Speaker 4: Like you would not give the president just the d
Speaker 4: I A briefing, they would get the entire ic briefing.
Speaker 4: So when he talks about the Defense Intelligence Agency, I
Speaker 4: always took it with a slight eye of skepticism. It's
Speaker 4: it's kind of the equivalent of the first reporter on
Speaker 4: the scene of an accident, or the scene of a crime,
Speaker 4: or the scene of a natural disaster. Those first reports
Speaker 4: are generally and there's some truth to them, but they're
Speaker 4: not entirely accurate, And as you get more contacts and
Speaker 4: more information, the entire com the entire complexity of that
Speaker 4: particular report may change over time.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at it right now again. It was preliminary
Speaker 5: A day and a half after the actual strike.
Speaker 6: When it admits itself.
Speaker 5: In writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary
Speaker 5: data to make such an assessment.
Speaker 6: It's preliminary.
Speaker 5: It points out that it's not been coordinated with the
Speaker 5: intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular
Speaker 5: report's oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: The Secretary of Defense is making my exact point. So
Speaker 4: I'm curious where he's going with this. But he just
Speaker 4: made my point. I didn't know he's going to say that.
Speaker 4: I just hadn't de positive there because he mentioned DA
Speaker 4: and he just confirmed what I said.
Speaker 6: It says in the report. There are gaps in the information.
Speaker 5: It says in the report multiple lynchpin assumptions are what
Speaker 5: this assessment a lynchpin assumption.
Speaker 6: You know what that is.
Speaker 5: It means your entire premise is predicated on a lynch pin.
Speaker 6: If you're wrong, everything else is wrong.
Speaker 5: And yet still this report acknowledge is it's likely severe damage.
Speaker 6: Again, this is preliminary, but.
Speaker 5: Leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy
Speaker 5: the waters and make it look like this historic strike
Speaker 5: I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman in
Speaker 5: a moment because he's gonna lay out the particulars for
Speaker 5: you based on his professional military experience.
Speaker 6: But here's what other folks are saying. The d IA
Speaker 6: that put that.
Speaker 5: Report out says, this is a preliminary low confidence report
Speaker 5: and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available.
Speaker 4: Okay, if that's the case, then I want to I
Speaker 4: want to skip that and let's just go I think
Speaker 4: he's just gonna make whatever points he wants to make politically.
Speaker 4: Let's instead go to General dan Kine the termine of
Speaker 4: the Joint Jesus of Staff UH and see what he says.
Speaker 2: Transfers.
Speaker 7: You got to get rid of that.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Thank you for thank you for being here.
Speaker 8: As a follow up to my comments on Sunday press conference,
Speaker 8: I wanted to give you a few updates this.
Speaker 2: Morning on something I'm honored to do as a.
Speaker 8: Chairman, and that's a chance to get to talk about
Speaker 8: some of our service members and the incredible things that
Speaker 8: they do on behalf of our nation. And I apologize
Speaker 8: ahead of time for the length and the detail. Today,
Speaker 8: I'm going to brief you on a couple of things. First,
Speaker 8: I'm going to talk about our air defenders at al
Speaker 8: you did in Qatar and their actions on Monday. Then
Speaker 8: I'm going to walk you through a little bit about
Speaker 8: the academics that went into the attack against four dah,
Speaker 8: the massive ordnance penetrator weapon, and we're going to show
Speaker 8: a video that highlights the.
Speaker 2: Effects that that weapon has.
Speaker 8: Of course, nobody was down inside the target, so we
Speaker 8: don't have video from the target first. On Monday, as
Speaker 8: the President has stated, on Monday morning, we began to
Speaker 8: receive indications and warnings that Iran intended to attack US
Speaker 8: bass in the region that morning. Building on the work
Speaker 8: that Sencom Commander Eric Carilla had done and on the
Speaker 8: orders of the President. At Alud'd Airbase and Katar and
Speaker 8: around the region, we assumed a minimum force posture.
Speaker 2: Most folks had moved off.
Speaker 8: The base to extend the security perimeter out away from
Speaker 8: what we assessed might be a target zone, except for
Speaker 8: a very few Army soldiers at alu Ded at that point,
Speaker 8: only two Patriot batteries remained on base.
Speaker 2: Roughly forty four American.
Speaker 8: Soldiers responsible for defending the entire base to include Sencom's
Speaker 8: forward headquarters in the Middle East and entire air base,
Speaker 8: and all.
Speaker 2: The US forces there.
Speaker 8: The oldest soldier was a twenty eight year old captain.
Speaker 8: The youngest was a twenty one year old private who'd
Speaker 8: been in the military for less than two years. So
Speaker 8: let's put ourselves out there for a second. Imagine you're
Speaker 8: that young first lieutenant. You're twenty five or twenty six
Speaker 8: years old, and you've been assigned as the tactical director
Speaker 8: inside the command and Control element. You at that age
Speaker 8: are the sole person responsible to defend this base. Listening
Speaker 8: next to you is your early warning operator, whose job
Speaker 8: is to notify you of imminent attack. There's five people
Speaker 8: inside a vehicle and five people outside of a vehicle
Speaker 8: around these total of as I said, forty four. By
Speaker 8: the way, you've sat in the Middle East for years,
Speaker 8: deployed over and over again, extended multiple times, always being prepared,
Speaker 8: but unsure of when that particular day will come that
Speaker 8: you must execute your mission and not fail at doing it.
Speaker 8: In this case, these Patriot crews were deployed from Korea
Speaker 8: and Japan as part of our US forces there to
Speaker 8: ensure that we had the most capable missiles in the
Speaker 8: sentcom area of responsibility. As the day continues, you start
Speaker 8: to hear more and more chatter in the information space
Speaker 8: about an appending attack, and as the sun starts to
Speaker 8: set in the west, you get orders from your higher
Speaker 8: headquarters to make sure that your missile batteries are pointed
Speaker 8: to the north. There are just a few other teammates.
Speaker 8: It's hot, you're getting nervous, and you expect an attack
Speaker 8: outside of those Patriot vehicles. Your hot crew, which is
Speaker 8: one NCO and four additional soldiers, turns a key and
Speaker 8: relinquishes control of those missiles to that young lieutenant inside
Speaker 8: the vehicle.
Speaker 2: And you wait.
Speaker 8: You know that you're going to have approximately two minutes,
Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty seconds to either succeed or fail.
Speaker 8: And then at approximately twelve thirty pm on Monday, that's
Speaker 8: seven thirty pm in Katar, as the sun sets in the.
Speaker 2: West, Iran attacks. As the targets were detected, round after round.
Speaker 8: Of Patriot missiles are ejected from their canisters by an
Speaker 8: initial launch charge.
Speaker 2: Then the main.
Speaker 8: Solid rocket motor ignites. You can feel this in your
Speaker 8: body if you've ever been around a Patriot taking a shot,
Speaker 8: and round after round goes out and guides against those
Speaker 8: missiles coming inbound. We believe that this is the largest
Speaker 8: single patriot engagement in US military history, and we were enjoyed.
Speaker 8: We were joined in this engagement by the Katari Patriot crews.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to tell you how many rounds were shot,
Speaker 8: but it was a bunch because of classified purposes, and
Speaker 8: we're aware that something there's reports of something getting through.
Speaker 8: What we do know is there was a lot of
Speaker 8: metal flying around between attacking missiles being hit by Patriot boosters,
Speaker 8: from attacking missiles being hit by patriots, the Patriots themselves
Speaker 8: flying around in the debris from those Patriots hitting the ground.
Speaker 8: There was a lot of metal flying around, and yet
Speaker 8: our US air defenders had only seconds to make complex
Speaker 8: decisions with strategic impact. These awesome humans, along with their
Speaker 8: Katari brothers and sisters and arms, stood between a salvo
Speaker 8: of Iranian missiles and the safety of value.
Speaker 2: Deed, they are the.
Speaker 8: Unsung heroes of the twenty first century United States Army.
Speaker 8: And I know a lot of you have seen the
Speaker 8: videos online and the excitement as those Patriots departed their
Speaker 8: launchers and went up and guided.
Speaker 2: This really demonstrates.
Speaker 8: The combat capability and capacity of our army Air defenders
Speaker 8: simply stated, they absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 2: If you'd flip this over. Thanks. Let me Let me next.
Speaker 8: Move to a walkthrough of the GBU fifty seven Massive
Speaker 8: Ordnance Penetrator weapon and share a little bit about the
Speaker 8: planners who did this and their work on the weapon. First,
Speaker 8: let me set the stage for you. There's an organization
Speaker 8: in the US called the Defense Threat Reduction Agency DITRA.
Speaker 8: DITTRA does a lot of things for our nation, but
Speaker 8: DITTRA is the world's leading expert on deeply buried underground targets.
Speaker 8: In two thousand and nine, a Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Speaker 8: officer was brought into a vault at an undisclosed location
Speaker 8: and briefed on something going on in Iran. For security purposes,
Speaker 8: I'm not going to share his name. He was shown
Speaker 8: some photos and some highly classified intelligence of what looked
Speaker 8: like a major construction project.
Speaker 2: In the mountains of Iran.
Speaker 8: He was tasked to study this facility, work with the
Speaker 8: diligence community to understand it, and he was soon joined
Speaker 8: by an additional teammate. For more than fifteen years, this
Speaker 8: off ser and his teammate lived and breathed this single
Speaker 8: target four dough, a critical element of Iran's covert nuclear well.
Speaker 1: We haven't got to what they did though, Michael previous
Speaker 1: talkbacker just call one of you there space.
Speaker 7: No, he's referring to Dragon.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm ding Dong. You're fair and face.
Speaker 7: I'd rather be ding Dung.
Speaker 1: That sucks to you, then, Dragon, I.
Speaker 4: Were just complaining during the break.
Speaker 7: Well, Dragon wasn't complaining.
Speaker 4: I was complaining about our clipping service, you know, something
Speaker 4: as big as this briefing that they didn't already have it.
Speaker 7: Up for us to use.
Speaker 4: But during the break I did find, ironically on ABC News.
Speaker 4: So ABC News has up on their website the part
Speaker 4: where General kin the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has
Speaker 4: been describing what DITRA does.
Speaker 1: And I've got the whole thing up at Michael says,
Speaker 1: go here dot com.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but don't go there yet. Listen here first, then
Speaker 4: you can go there. So here's General Kane. I think
Speaker 4: I found the inflection point where he really shifts from
Speaker 4: He just described what DITRA does and how this team's
Speaker 4: been working for years studying Fedor and what that site
Speaker 4: is like and how it is, how it has been hardened.
Speaker 4: So now he's going to describe what they did. This
Speaker 4: is what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 8: I am so honored to be a part of this.
Speaker 8: To you both, thank you and thank you to your families.
Speaker 8: Operation Midnight Hammer was the culmination of those fifteen years
Speaker 8: of incredible work, the air crews, the tanker crews, the
Speaker 8: weapons crews that built the weapons, the load crews that
Speaker 8: loaded in.
Speaker 2: Before I run through this video, today.
Speaker 8: I want to talk a little bit about weaponears and
Speaker 8: what goes into an attack. Weaponeering is the science of
Speaker 8: evaluating a target. I mentioned all of those factors before
Speaker 8: that these two DITRA officers had thought about. Ultimately, weaponeering
Speaker 8: is determining the right weapon and fuse combination to achieve
Speaker 8: the desired effects and maximum destruction against a target. In
Speaker 8: the case of four DAH, the DITTER team understood with
Speaker 8: a high degree of confidence the elements of the target
Speaker 8: required to kill its functions, and the weapons were designed,
Speaker 8: planned and delivered to ensure that they achieved the effects
Speaker 8: in the mission space. By the way, in the beginning
Speaker 8: of its development, we had so many PhDs working on
Speaker 8: the MOP program doing modeling and simulation that we were
Speaker 8: quietly and in a secret way, the biggest users of
Speaker 8: supercomputer hours within the United United States of America.
Speaker 4: N I don't want to hear from what's his name
Speaker 4: from the shark tank, so we'll skip that and get
Speaker 4: to skip and here we go.
Speaker 8: So let me talk about Let me talk about the
Speaker 8: graphic a little bit. In the GBU fifty seven, which
Speaker 8: all of you I know know, is a thirty thousand
Speaker 8: pound weapon dropped only by the B two.
Speaker 2: It's comprised of.
Speaker 8: Steel, explosive and a fuse programmed bespokely each weapon to
Speaker 8: achieve a particular effect inside the target. Each weapon had
Speaker 8: a unique desired impact, angle, arrival, final heading. In a
Speaker 8: fuse setting, the fuse is effectively what tells the.
Speaker 2: Bomb when to function.
Speaker 8: A longer delay in a fuse, the deeper the weapon
Speaker 8: will penetrate and drive into the target.
Speaker 2: So on four.
Speaker 8: Doh in June of two thousand and eight, you can
Speaker 8: see these three holes depicted Here is the main exhaust shaft,
Speaker 8: with two additional ventilation shafts on either side. The United
Speaker 8: States decided to strike these two ventilation shafts seen here
Speaker 8: on the main graphic as the primary point of entry
Speaker 8: into the mission space.
Speaker 2: In the days preceding.
Speaker 8: The attack against Fourdeaux, the Iranians attempted to cover the
Speaker 8: shafts with concrete to try to prevent an attack.
Speaker 2: I won't share the specific.
Speaker 8: Dimensions of the concrete cap, but you should know that
Speaker 8: we know what the dimensions of those concrete caps were.
Speaker 8: The planners had to account for this. They accounted for everything.
Speaker 8: The cap was forcibly removed by the first weapon and
Speaker 8: the main shaft was uncovered. Weapons two, three, four, five
Speaker 8: were tasked to enter the main shaft, move down into
Speaker 8: the complex at greater than one thousand feet per second,
Speaker 8: and explode in the mission space. Weapon number six was
Speaker 8: designed on each side, so there were six on each side.
Speaker 8: Weapons number six was designed as a flex weapon to
Speaker 8: allow us to cover if one of the preceding jets
Speaker 8: or one of the preceding weapons did not work. The
Speaker 8: video I'm about to show you is a culmination of
Speaker 8: over fifteen years of development and testing. As I said,
Speaker 8: hundreds of test shots on various models.
Speaker 2: This is one weapon.
Speaker 8: So if you take a view of this is five additionals,
Speaker 8: you'll get a sense of what this looks like. Hopefully
Speaker 8: you can see it and there's not too much reflection.
Speaker 8: Tom runs our videos out there.
Speaker 2: We'll run it.
Speaker 8: At full speeds so you can see it and then
Speaker 8: go back through it.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Tom, and it shows the bomb going into
Speaker 7: a ventilation, shows the penetration of the bomb as it penetrates,
Speaker 7: it waits.
Speaker 1: This is the part where you can go to Michael says,
Speaker 1: go here dot com Yeah, and then it explodes after
Speaker 1: it's gone down into the ventilation shaft.
Speaker 2: Keep it going for a minute.
Speaker 8: You'll see the inside the mission space.
Speaker 4: So this will be the sixth or seventh bomb. Then
Speaker 4: it explodes inside the space.
Speaker 8: Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact
Speaker 8: creator because they're designed to deeply bury and then function.
Speaker 8: I know there's been a lot of questions about that.
Speaker 8: All six weapons at each vent at four doh went
Speaker 8: exactly where they were intended to go. A bomb has
Speaker 8: three effects that causes damage, blast, fragmentation, and overpressure. In
Speaker 8: this case, the primary kill mechanism in the mission space
Speaker 8: was a mix of overpressure and blasts ripping through the
Speaker 8: open tunnels and destroying critical hardware. The majority of the
Speaker 8: damage we assessed, based on our extensive modeling, was a
Speaker 8: blast layer combined with the impulse extending from the shock.
Speaker 8: Imagine what this looks like six times over a point
Speaker 8: that I want to make here. The Joint Force does
Speaker 8: not do BDA by design. We don't grade our own homework.
Speaker 8: The intelligence community does. But here's what we know following
Speaker 8: the attacks and the strikes on four dough. First, that
Speaker 8: the weapons were built, tested, and loaded properly.
Speaker 2: Two, the weapons.
Speaker 8: Were released on speed and on parameters. Three the weapons
Speaker 8: all guided to their intended targets and to their intended
Speaker 8: aim points. For the weapons functioned as design, meaning they exploded.
Speaker 8: We know this through other means, intelligence means that we
Speaker 8: have that were visibly We were visibly able to see them,
Speaker 8: and we know that the trailing jets saw the first
Speaker 8: weapons function and the pilots stated, quote, this was the
Speaker 8: brightest explosion that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It literally looked like daylight.
Speaker 8: Let me now turn to the bomber crews themselves give
Speaker 8: you a few details about them. The crews that attacked
Speaker 8: Fordeaux were from the Active Duty Air Force and the
Speaker 8: Missouri Air National Guard. The crews ranked from captain to colonel,
Speaker 8: and most were graduates of the Air Force Weapons School
Speaker 8: headquartered at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. I will
Speaker 8: state for the record that there is no beach, volleyball,
Speaker 8: or football at the Air Force Weapons School. They were
Speaker 8: male and female aviators on this mission, and a crew
Speaker 8: member told me when I talked to them on video
Speaker 8: the other day that this felt like the Super Bowl,
Speaker 8: the thousands of scientists, airmen, and maintainers all coming together.
Speaker 2: One last story about people.
Speaker 8: When the crews went to work on Friday, they kissed
Speaker 8: their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd
Speaker 8: be home. Late on Saturday night, their families became aware
Speaker 8: of what was happening, and on Sunday, when those jets
Speaker 8: returned from White Men, their families were there, flags flying
Speaker 8: and tears flowing.
Speaker 2: I have chills literally talking about this.
Speaker 8: The jets rejoined into a formation of four airplanes, followed
Speaker 8: by a formation of three, and came up overhead white Men,
Speaker 8: proudly in the traffic pattern, pitching out to land right
Speaker 8: over the base and landing to the incredible cheers of
Speaker 8: their families who sacrifice and serve right alongside their family members.
Speaker 8: Like I said, there were a lot of flags and
Speaker 8: a lot of tears. One commander told me, this is
Speaker 8: a moment in the lives of our families that they
Speaker 8: will never forget that, my friends, is what America's Joint
Speaker 8: Force does. We think, We develop, we train, we rehearse,
Speaker 8: we test, we evaluate every single day, and when the
Speaker 8: call comes to deliver, we do so. I could not
Speaker 8: be more proud standing up here today of our joint force.
Speaker 8: I'm filled with gratitude that I get to tell their story.
Speaker 8: And as we stand here right now, our forces remain
Speaker 8: on a high state of readiness in the region, prepared
Speaker 8: to defend themselves. And one last thing, our adversaries around
Speaker 8: the world should know that there are other Dittri team
Speaker 8: members out there studying targets for the same amount of
Speaker 8: time and we'll continue to do so.
Speaker 2: Thank Wow.
Speaker 4: Now that's pretty good. That's basically saying to our enemies,
Speaker 4: you know we have these you know, the teams that
Speaker 4: put together the planning, the modeling, everything for how we
Speaker 4: would destroy this location. We've got teams studying other locations too. Wow,
Speaker 4: you talk about a shout across the bow. Don't test us. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we'll be right back.
Speaker 9: Listening to that report that you just played really makes
Speaker 9: me feel proud to be an American and proud that
Speaker 9: Donald Trump is our president because he said don't don't
Speaker 9: screw with us. Thanks Michael.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I want, you know, just a little
Speaker 4: inside baseball.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 4: For you P one listeners and for those for those
Speaker 4: of you that you know tune in and out of
Speaker 4: radio all at time time, will you'll probably hear this
Speaker 4: later on today. I just wanted you to hear it
Speaker 4: from me first. That's why I was so adamant about
Speaker 4: trying to find some video some audio of what was
Speaker 4: said today. Is the other thing that he mentioned that
Speaker 4: I think is worth kind of focusing on is DITTRA,
Speaker 4: the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. I had. I had interactions
Speaker 4: with DITRA quite a bit because they do in all
Speaker 4: their research that they do of how to reduce threats.
Speaker 4: Obviously FEMA prior to DHS had a lot to do
Speaker 4: with that. I was fascinated to hear that they've been
Speaker 4: working for fifteen years to develop the GBU fifty seven MOP,
Speaker 4: the massive ordnance penetrator bomb, specifically for fifteen years, specifically
Speaker 4: to target the Iranian subterr Ranian nuclear facilities, particularly for DOE.
Speaker 4: And he then went on to note how Dittrich's efforts
Speaker 4: focused on ensuring that the MOPS the Bunkerbuster mombs could
Speaker 4: penetrate and destroy deeply buried and hardened Todd targets, like
Speaker 4: for those underground centrifuge halls. It's they're planning and all
Speaker 4: of their programming and modeling and then turning it over
Speaker 4: to okay, here's what we think we need. Here's what
Speaker 4: we need. Now, contractors go build this. That all ensured
Speaker 4: that those initial strikes. Notice how he said that we
Speaker 4: know the Iranians tried to cement over the ventilation shafts.
Speaker 4: If you imagine like almost like a pitchfork, except just
Speaker 4: three prongs. You had the main ventilation shaft and then
Speaker 4: two shafts coming out from the main shift out also,
Speaker 4: and they knew that the Americans did. We knew it,
Speaker 4: and they tried to cover all three holes with concrete.
Speaker 4: And apparently we knew the depth of that concrete, so
Speaker 4: we could model and make sure that everything for the
Speaker 4: mops for the bombs that they were designed to first
Speaker 4: penetrate that and then do their penetration even further, and
Speaker 4: they were able to do so because we knew exactly
Speaker 4: how thick that concrete was. That is precision weapon performance.
Speaker 4: And that's all because of Ditra and he credited that
Speaker 4: fifteen year effort in developing the bomb and their precise planning,
Speaker 4: specifically for targeting for DOE, as pivotal to what he
Speaker 4: described as and I wrote this down the operations tactical success,
Speaker 4: ensuring this strikes hit their intended marks with maximum impact. So,
Speaker 4: just because I'm a nerd, one of the things I'll
Speaker 4: do when I finish here is I'll go home and
Speaker 4: I'll read more or listen to more about what they said.
Speaker 4: He also said this. He reiterated that the initial battle
Speaker 4: damage assessments indicated extremely severe damage and destruction to all
Speaker 4: three sites. Becautioned that a full assessment would take time
Speaker 4: because of the subterranean nature of the targets. Well, that's
Speaker 4: just logical. If you've blown up the guts of a mountain,
Speaker 4: the satellite photos will tell you some but until you're
Speaker 4: able to get and I don't know that we'll do this,
Speaker 4: we probably won't. But listening last night to one of
Speaker 4: the experts that I quoted yesterday, I forget the which
Speaker 4: organization it was, but he talked about how Massad has
Speaker 4: infiltrated the the IRGC to such an extent that they
Speaker 4: really have moles inside the ig RC that IRGC that
Speaker 4: we'll be able to tell them, Hey, here's what we hear,
Speaker 4: here's what we're being told, or here's what we've seen,
Speaker 4: depending on the level of the particular mole that they've
Speaker 4: got inside the IRGC. So Massad is probably as we speak,
Speaker 4: collecting all of that human human intelligence to give us
Speaker 4: more details, and that's how we're going to get these
Speaker 4: battle damage assessments done. We'll actually let the Uranians do
Speaker 4: it for us totally. Hey, this is really cloak.
Speaker 7: And dagger stuff.
Speaker 4: This is wonderful cloak and dagger stuff, and it shows
Speaker 4: how good we are and to your point on the
Speaker 4: talk back, how it sends a huge psychological shiver down
Speaker 4: our enemy's spine.