Our Trillion Dollar Defense Budget Can’t Defend Us At Home | The Rob Maness Show EP 428

Listen to this from an October 12 Wall Street Journal report about a series of incidents at Langley AFB Virginia over a 17 day period in December of 2023: U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had been flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline. Kelly, a decorated senior commander at the base, got on a squadron rooftop to see for himself. He joined a handful of other officers responsible for a clutch of the nation’s most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors. For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told Kelly. The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers. The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port. The problem? No defense was mounted even though the most senior officers on the ground knew about this series of incidents. White house meetings were held for weeks, with appointees, civil servants, and military officers talking a lot, but not mounting an adequate defense of America’s premier advanced fighter base, a SEAL Team training base, the Atlantic Fleet’s Naval Air Station full of fighter and attack jets and the list goes on and on. America’s military problem is two-fold, leadership and lack of political will, and those are nation-ending problems folks. As a former commander responsible for two high value bases during my service, I have many, many questions and all of you should too. Americans are rightly questioning all of our institutions responsible for defending us, from election security, the border, and now our military bases at home. Former Senior DOD official, retired Army Colonel, and author John Mills is back with us today to discuss all this and more.