A reflection on leaving the Army
Today marks the one-year anniversary of my leaving the Army. As most of you know, I left the military due to lost career opportunities resulting from refusing to receive the COVID shot. Not taking the shot was one of the most difficult decisions I had to make in my life and was not a clear-cut issue for me at the time. However, through prayer and discernment, God led me through His peace to refuse the COVID shot as the most perfect way of obeying His will.
Though the exit from service was bitter sweet, I am now incredibly grateful to God for the way in which He has been guiding my life throughout the last year. Upon leaving the military, I immediately attended an Ignatian retreat to dispose myself to know the will of God and have the grace to fulfill it. Not long after that, my first op-ed was providentially published in @Floridianpress on the feast day of St. Ignatius of whom my retreat was styled. I could never have anticipated the direction God would take my life after that.
I immediately met an amazing network of former and active veterans dedicated to fighting for service members against the COVID vaccine mandate and for the future of our country. Among them are some of the most honorable and courageous people I know. Together we are working to raise awareness on what happened/is happening to our military, to get reparations for service members negatively impacted by the VAX mandate, and to hold DoD leadership responsible for the VAX mandate accountable.
I was invited onto multiple interviews and felt the urge to go to DC myself to advocate on behalf of service members negatively impacted by the COVID vaccine. I found myself on interviews with @TomiLahren, Steve Bannon, @JhWesten, @MaryMargOlohan, @OwenShroyer1776, @FrDaveNix, @NEWSMAX, and @OANN. I connected with amazing congressmen and their staffs such as @RepThomasMassie, @RonJohnsonWI, and @RepMattGaetz. I found myself getting quote tweeted by my favorite wrestler and now Knoxville County Mayor @GlennJacobsTN and was able to get an op-ed published in @BreitbartNews.
Together with 230 brave former and active service members, we signed the Declaration of Military Accountability where we pledged to hold DoD leadership accountable. Since its release on New Year’s Day, we have received tens of thousands of signatures in support of our movement. (If you haven't yet signed it, please go to http://MilitaryAccountability.com and do so.)
Furthermore, I was beyond blessed to be @mattgaetz' guest at the State of the Union, an invitation on behalf of the tens of thousands of service members negatively impacted by the COVID vaccine mandate that provided an opportunity to advocate for them in a public way and to multiple congressmen.
Unfortunately, though God has blessed our movement in many ways, the majority of the general public still does not understand just how devastating and awful the COVID VAX mandate was for the military. Furthermore, there has been almost no advance in getting any kind of adequate reparation for service members negatively impacted by the illegal, immoral, and medically unsafe mandate nor has there been any accountability for those flag officers responsible who enforced it. Beyond the military no one has been held responsible for the release of the COVID virus or for our country or the world’s COVID risk mitigation response. THIS WAS THE LARGEST INFRINGEMENT UPON OUR COUNTRY’S AND THE WORLD’S INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES IN OUR LIFETIME. IF WE DO NOT LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES AND HOLD THOSE RESPONSIBLE ACCOUNTABLE, IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.
However, reflecting on the last year, I’m incredibly grateful. God is watching over our movement and has blessed us with incredible opportunities to advance our cause. This is not just about fighting for service members and for repairing our military, but is about fighting to save our country from totalitarianism and against the many evils that threaten our country. In our battle we are not called to success, but to fidelity. However, we know that God is providential over all things and will work all things for good for those who love Him.
I am grateful for the platform God has given me, and will use it to continue to fight on behalf of service members negatively impacted by the military’s vaccine mandate. Not only that, but I worry about the future of our country and believe the radical left’s agenda poses an existential threat to our nation. Thus, I will do what I can to wake up Americans to the injustices the left commits regularly and to the growing threat our nation faces of becoming a totalitarian state.
Thanks so much for everyone who has supported me over the last year. I’m excited and hopeful for what the future holds. Let us pray for each other as we continue this fight for the spiritual and political renewal of our country.