Colonel

You guys just do a lot of stuff.

In fact, I've had Colonel Scott Mann on a couple times.

And I love his description of what a Green Beret does.

Something about the Verizon guy and a couple other personalities.

That's the part that like gets to run the show.

Right.

That's the Colonel, right.

That's the guy that wears the rank that, you know, makes the hard decisions that keeps me from feeling pain.

Welcome to the America's Frontlines for our 138th podcast.

I'm your host, Colonel Denny Gillum.

We've got an interesting show for you today.

You know, our podcast is called America's Frontlines because our nation is facing many challenges.

Hey, I'm no space expert by a long shot, but this clearly was a hostile move to me.

But what do you do about it? Matt, what do you think?

Well, Colonel...

It was obviously hostile because the two countries were in a war.

And so it's having a conversation.

Um, I think in particular at the Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel level, um, talent managers understanding not just what's on paper, but what's in that person and where they could succeed.

Hmm.

That is, uh, So good to know.

So I think we have a long way to go.

Yes.

And talking about the future of military talent management, you, I believe it was Lieutenant Colonel William Latham, you examined the challenges of the Army's individual replacement process during large-scale combat operation.

What concerns you most about America's ability to recruit, to develop, retain and rapidly replace the talent required for future conflicts?

Is this bored soldiers playing a joke on their captain? And actually, it's a couple of the guys turning the bed over.

is this, well, you see, Colonel, this is why I was in bed with a soldier.

It's all entirely innocent.

It was Poltergeist.

So we can come back to that if you want.

Got promoted to Colonel.

Well, I got selected for promotion to Colonel while I was on the joint staff.

And I was basically one of the most junior colonels in the Marine Corps.

So I got sent to Okinawa, Japan, which turned out to be an awesome assignment for my family.

Eric called a public meeting at the library here in Bozeman, told the people in attendance what he was trying to do, got a whole bunch of volunteers to say, yes, we'll help you.

And then he flew down to Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego, linked up with another Marine.

Lieutenant Colonel Rico Jones, who he served with in the Marine Corps.

Never one to worry much about the details, MacGregor made much of the regiment's fighting reputation, leaving out the fact that it had been earned after he had left.

When he returned to Edinburgh, he took on the title of Colonel and wore the badge of a Portuguese Knightly Order.

No one loved military insignia more than Gregor MacGregor.

The Scots didn't care much for his stories, and so he moved to London, introducing himself as Sir Gregor MacGregor Bard, falsely claiming to be a knight, to be the chieftain of the MacGregor clan, and a baronet and a colonel.

Unfortunately, by the end of 1819, MacGregor's luck was starting to run out.

At this point, McGregor was wanted in Jamaica for piracy, and Simón Bolívar, who was now the President of Colombia, having heard the stories of McGregor's awful behaviour, ordered his death by hanging if he ever set foot on the South American mainland again.

Michael Rafter, the brother of Colonel William Rafter, who had been left behind to be killed by the Spanish Army in one of these campaigns, published a book in London that year entitled, Memoirs of Gregor MacGregor, describing the terrible behaviour and the lies that had been told.

The book concluded that any person could be induced again to join him in his desperate projects would be to conceive a degree of madness and folly of which human nature, however fallen, is incapable.

I'm John Batchelor.

I welcome my good colleague, Colonel Jeff McCausland, United States Army Retired.

He is a visiting professor at Dickinson College, as well as the CEO of Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy.

The war fronts.

We begin with Iran.

Colonel, the White House is telling us that the president decided after next week there will be another round of bombing of Iran, focusing on the suspect nuclear weapons program that was destroyed in 2025, according to the White House.

However...

I'm told now, and there's no challenge to these facts, that there are several sites.