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Aug 26, 2024 13 tweets 5 min read Read on X
This time of year is appropriate to remind The People that our senior leaders, especially those "leading" at HKIA like LTG Chris Donahue @CDonahue1792 had significant advanced warnings of the Abbey Gate bombing prior to it happening. A Marine there recorded this 4 hours prior...
You all know Chris Donahue, he's the "leader" who's disastrous decisions at HKIA lead to tens of thousands of SIV holders and American citizens being left outside the gates of HKIA to be harassed by the taliban while thousands of unvetted randos got free rides abroad.
In addition to deliberately abandoning our allies and our own citizens, Chris had a sweetheart deal with the taliban to run outer cordon security for HKIA...what could ever have gone wrong with that?

Unfortunately, here is where things turn even more sinister... Image
Instead of performing "security" for HKIA, the taliban set up multiple checkpoints that screened every person trying to get into HKIA for evacuation. These checkpoints and roving patrols would harass AMCITs and attack SIV holders in retribution for working with US & NATO. Image
As a side note, it's important to point out that Chris was just doing the bidding of his bosses who were committed to abandoning as many of our citizens and allies as possible...all the while lying out of their teeth and gaslighting us all for believing our own eyes and ears.
The great thing about technology and Social Media is that, when utilized for good, it has the capacity to accomplish great things thru collaborative effort. The attached picture is an example of that: an interactive map of T-ban that could be sent out to all trying to evacuate. Image
Let's take a closer look at the immediate area around Abbey Gate just prior to the attack. From the first photo we can see T-ban atop connexes vetting each person heading to Abbey gate. The second picture and previous post show those hard point locations around Abbey gate.

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So the Taliban, who Chris @CDonahue1792 provided coordination with, were vetting each person trying to get to Abbey Gate (so they could harass AMCITs and beat/kill SIV holders). They also were sending out misinformation to SIV holders trying to funnel them to Abbey Gate...
...for some strange reason prior to the Abbey Gate attack. What is very odd, and a point that few people discuss, how did the bomber make it through the multiple taliban checkpoints right outside of Abbey gate unmolested while nearly every SIV holder was turned away/harassed? Image
I mean if Chris @CDonahue1792 was coordinating for security with the taliban, surely he communicated the advanced warning (at least 24 hrs prior) we had of an impending IS1S-K attack? The T-ban were so thorough, only 150 out of 1,564 personnel we coordinated for for made it thru. Image
How any of our contacts made it into HKIA and subsequent evacuation is a miracle. So many hurdles placed in their way: The admin providing kill lists, Chris turning away people at gates, @TimKennedyMMA's publicity stunt that shut down all gate processing for hours...etc. Image
Of course if you ever think about doing a good deed/what's right, you'll be placed on an insider threat list and referred to DoD threat working groups by dirtbags like LTG (ret) Maria Gervais and MAJ Jessica Dawson. I know, and so does @samosaur, the price of telling the truth. Image
Don't worry yourself about pesky accountability for Abbey Gate and the evac: @CoryMillsFL & many congressional reps are getting good PR by promising to impeach Lloyd Austin. They are so serious about this, none of their staff can return emails/calls about evidence/testimony. 🙄

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Feb 19, 2025
Since 2008, more servicemembers have died from suicide than the entirety of the GWOT since 9/11. We have lost 7,260, almost a Division’s worth of troops, from suicide since the DoD started public annual reporting in 2008. For active duty we have lost 5,001, more than a Brigade/Regiment. To put it in perspective, we are losing the equivalent of 1 Light Infantry Battalion in suicide deaths every single year since 2012.
That tragic level of lost combat power and readiness is staggering and horrific, but when we break down the numbers from the DoD’s annual suicide reports, a trend emerges that may allow us to intervene and reduce the loss by up to 1/3rd each year. It boils down to the legal and investigation use within each of the services. As demonstrated in the graphic, Administrative/Legal/Investigation issues are directly linked to a contributing factor for 32.8% of suicides and 29.47% of suicide attempts every year. Let’s take a deeper look at the numbers and how we can immediately start addressing it.Image
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Attention wanes the longer the posts go on, so I’ll start with the fix. When a SM is suspected of violating a law or regulation, they are investigated. While under investigation, their immediate commander places an investigative hold on that person’s personnel file (each service uses different vernacular). This specific code prevents several favorable things from happening like moving to a new unit or base (PCS), receiving awards, attending certain schools/training, and a number of other actions. That investigation can then lead to adverse action against the SM depending on what that command decides to pursue. Every time a SM is investigated or an investigation results in adverse action, that immediate commander has to counsel that SM on the personnel file code and what is happening. These two touchpoints are important for our ability to address suicide across the force.

From the DoD’s annual suicide data, Administrative, Legal, and Investigation issues are listed as a specific stressor potentially contributing to that SM committing suicide. From the previous graphics for both suicide deaths and attempts this stressor contributes to 1/3rd of the numbers every year. If we tie a specific stressor event to a trigger that requires commanders to push resources towards affected SMs, we can head off the downward spiral in a servicemembers psyche. We can change each service’s command regulation to require that immediate commander to order the SM to go have a conversation with the unit Chaplain or the Military Family Life Counselor (MFLC, located in almost every Brigade level unit and higher) in the same counseling session they are already required to have when an investigation or adverse action occurs. For SMs who are already a high risk (this is a function done based on indicators/issues each command team already prepared and briefed to higher HQ), a command directed behavioral health visit will be directed to connect the SM with a BH specialist.

The irony of me recommending a command directed behavioral health visit shouldn’t be lost to anyone after I was command directed twice for “emergency command directed BH” for different whistleblowing issues, but I stand by its ability to intervene at the right time to save a SMs life. While in command I utilized a CDE (Command Directed Evaluation) on multiple occasions for different SMs. This intervention tool saved the lives of kids (trainees) who were actively cutting themselves or getting caught trying to end their life in the bathroom. Each branch has criteria the command must meet and follow for CDEs based on the corresponding DoDI, so there would be no additional legwork on changing this aspect of command policies.

In fact, I emailed some of my collected data and the formal proposed command policy change to the Army G1 at the time, GEN Gary Brito. He emailed me back within 24 hours and thought it was a great idea. Unfortunately, like many things in the Army ideas die on the vine with bureaucracy. I was handed off to the chief Psychiatry Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General and after a reply from the COL praising the effort but expressing some concerns about resources, I never heard anything additional. The exact language to use for the Army, that the other services can be modeled after, is in the screenshot of the formal proposed change and the email I sent to the G1 below.Image
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Why would I choose the personnel file code hold (the Army calls this “Flagged”) to be the time to require commanders to order SMs to resources? Because it’s an easily distinguishable event that requires some sort of interaction with the commander that’s already part of command policy regulation. The event that drives 1/3rd of SMs to kill themselves is THE prime time to engage with that servicemember and head off them mentally spiraling. Heat of the moment/moment of passion suicides are fairly rare.

Besides Admin/Legal issues; Relationship issues, financial issues, and workplace issues are the other tracked psychosocial suicide contributors in the annual DoD suicide reports. As a commander, I have no command authority over a SMs personal relationship or where they spend their money outside of work; so that eliminates my ability to have a point of intervention in the remaining (basically) 2/3rds of the suicides. In fact, the Army regs recommend considering UCMJ if a SM cannot settle their outstanding debts.

Sometimes an investigation or an adverse event can be pending for months. I spent 870(ish) days flagged for either an investigation or adverse action after whistleblowing. Let me tell you, it is a miserable existence. If you care about your service and it’s something you’ve done your entire adult life, waiting on the outcome is a mentally exhausting roller coaster. Your entire career and way of life hangs in the balance. For many people, the thought of losing the means to provide for your family is enough to push them over the edge. People come from all walks of life and are dealing with all sorts of issues. Alcoholism, hypersexuality, and a myriad of other self-destructive behaviors are encouraged by cultures inside the service; many to cope with poor command/workplace climate. By itself, an investigation may not push someone over the line but added with some of these other behaviors/stressors, it may cause someone to go down a path they originally would not have taken.

There needs to be a separate conversation about the weaponization of investigations within the military (especially towards whistleblowers) and the increasingly consistent military-wide practice of administrative actions to circumvent UCMJ and due process. It’s an important conversation that needs to be had at some point. In fact, I think @walk_the_talk94 can provide some insight into that.Image
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Jan 27, 2025
When the DoD IG fails in its mission, the cost is as grave as the wages of sin—death. This can manifest directly through the despair of a servicemember who loses faith in the system, leading to suicide (or as was nearly my fate when Officers, unaccountable due to the IG's inaction, ordered my medical detainment and near death). Or it can occur indirectly when the IG's failure to tackle fraud, waste, and abuse leads to a decline in standards, culminating in preventable equipment failures that claim servicemembers' lives. Either way, the result is clear: harm comes to America's sons and daughters, and our military's readiness suffers.

I experienced firsthand what happens when the IG, through willful negligence or incompetence, turns a blind eye to leader misconduct and violations of the law throughout the force. I had the unique experience of being able to interact with thousands of SMs over the last few years and aid them during the covid mandate fight. Seeing every IG, almost on cue, deny these SMs claim about the very clear violation of the law and their rights (all because Terry Adirim wrote lies on a piece of paper), was devastating. How could this happen, it seemed so straightforward and clear cut?
It was medical detainment (and near death) for filing a criminal complaint for UCMJ violations that I witnessed and the “unsubstantiated” DoD IG letter I received months later (after never receiving a call from any investigator) that demonstrated to me just how useless the IG system was.

This last “unsubstantiated” was the third such response from the IG and the video of my family being held on the side of the road and the picture of dangerous substances with instructions to forcibly inject into me, didn’t manifest itself out of thin air one day…it began over half a year before those events with the failure of the DoD IG. I’ll explain:
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I was suspended from command on 22 March 2021 after making online whistleblowing remarks on 16 March 2021 about female trainees receiving additional rounds to qualify on rifle marksmanship (a graduation requirement) so that the number of female infantry OSUT graduates could stay above a certain percentage.
For males this percentage was 90%, if for any reason you dipped below a 90% graduation rate you would have to by-name explain to the Brigade Commander why you dipped below the % and concessions would be made to either “catch those trainees up” (by bending standards and allowing additional attempts outside of POI by sending them to other units to only participate in that event again where they would magically pass) or why you and your Drill Sergeants failed that trainee.
If that trainee caught covid at any point, the virus would be used by Brigade to explain why that trainee failed and often they would be placed in another unit to restart and try again. I do not know what the female graduation percentage rate was at the time because I was not in command of an integrated unit. At the two infantry OSUT battalions who trained females, both would give a female who was not meeting the “standard” an additional interview with that battalions commanding Officer before any decision was made by that Officer to recycle or initial-entry separate them.
I was made aware of this by my Drill Sergeants who attended a “Sensing Session” with the TRADOC Command Sergeant Major on or around 09 March 2021. The female Drill Sergeants assigned to those battalions who witnessed the events were exceptionally upset by the unfair practices and the violation of graduation requirements.

These comments ended up being posted on a social media account. Representatives Cotton and Crenshaw had launched a Critical Race Theory “Tip” line website and I sent in a narrative (as seen below) explaining to that site after being suspended. At the reading of my suspension, the BDE CDR made it known that this investigation was being directed by the commanding general of MCoE (the base and training command I lived and worked at). That General was Major General Patrick Donahoe.Image
I was assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade on Fort Benning while I awaited the outcome of the investigation. It is here where the majority of the reprisal occurred. Because I had still foolishly held the belief that commanders were duty and regulation bound to do the right thing, I trusted that I would be treated fairly and impartially and my rebuttal document to the investigation taken seriously. I had filed no IG complaint at this point due to the pending nature of the final disposition and my mistaken belief that these commanders were capable of doing what is right.

In June of 2021, while temporarily assigned to MCoE headquarters to work on the "Gender Inclusion Handbook" I was made aware of a Colonel who had submitted an IG complaint against MG Donahoe detailing multiple instances of wrongdoing (SHARP, EO, and Congressional complaints either hand-waived with incorrect information or swept under the rug as well as inappropriate command behavior). A Colonel who worked for Donahoe was retaliated against for filing the complaint by being given an extremely sub-par evaluation (destroying his potential for advancement).
I wanted to get in touch with this Colonel to give him information on an inappropriate online relationship I witnessed Donahoe behaving in back in December 2020. I knew what I witnessed was wrong, but I didn’t know if it was punitive in nature.

Here is where the disgusting part of the IG first started to rear it’s head. It is common practice for the IG to notify senior Officers (Flag Officers) that a complaint has been submitted against them. It is in this notification that the Colonel’s name just happened to be “accidentally” unredacted…so the guy who the complaint was against knew exactly who submitted it against him, and made him pay for it. Pretty clear cut retaliation right? Well if the command doesn’t respond with “yeah I took that negative action against the person because they filed a complaint” it’s basically “unfounded” retaliation in the eyes of the IG.

At the beginning of August 2021 I had developed a religious accommodation template for members of the Christian faith to file in order to prevent any potential adverse action for not taking the covid vaccine. While the mandate had not been announced yet, commands all across the military were utilizing brutal coercion to get SMs to “willingly” vaccinate themselves.
As hundreds of SMs reached out to me to tell me about the coercion they were experiencing by their command, I (foolishly) advised them to reach out to their IG office and file a complaint so the behavior would stop. Multiple individuals came back to me that their complaints were all dismissed. In fact, out of hundreds of SMs, I didn’t receive word back that one single complaint was founded and the command held accountable. I had @samosaur post the template so as many people could see it as possible and help relieve some of the pressure they were living under. Afterwards I started receiving death threats from leftist Officers on Twitter (I did not have a twitter account at the time). My Personally Identifiable Information and details of the investigation were leaked online to fanatical left-leaning military members who had a disgusting fanatical devotion to MG Donahoe. Shortly after these threats my home on post was broken in to while we were away. Nothing was missing from the home.
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Oct 15, 2024
The following is the order for 3rd Infantry Division and the base of Ft. Stewart & Hunter Army Airfield to vaccinate their Soldiers. Pay attention to the 2nd and 3rd pics with the red box. They ordered ALL medical exemptions deleted from Soldier's records. Not only is it against
AR 600-20 and AR 40-562 (the reg that covers vaccinations and medical exemptions) but it is patently illegal and dangerous. Non-medical personnel do not have the authority to order a standing and valid medical order (exemption) to be deleted. Where other units did this behind...
closed doors and through word of mouth/verbal orders, 3rd ID & Ft Stewart codified it in an order. Below is the remainder of the order for your records. I don't care to redact the names or contact info because honestly, anyone who reviewed/approved/participated did wrong. Image
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Oct 13, 2024
3 years ago today, while on leave, I showed up to a mass GOMOR Counseling on Ft Benning to make sure the base command was following the HQDA orders and providing accurate information to the Soldiers who refused.
3 days later I would be detained/arrested by base LE & denied lawyer
I was arrested for having the nerve to follow my Oath of Office and my duty of responsibility to Soldiers as an Officer. My egregious sin in the eyes of the command? I asked a question and informed Soldiers of their rights under the law when it comes to EUA products...
You see I knew the HQDA orders required commanders to physically verify "FDA approved" vaccines were available to their troops and I also knew that there was no such product on base. No such product was available to order in the entire military medical ordering system. Only EUA.. Image
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