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Posted on 06/18/2025 5:43:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Without intervention, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge will be separated from the Army on September 1 for his objection to the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 shot in 2021, which was determined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be “unlawful as implemented.”
In March, with the hope of restoring his career, the Black Hawk helicopter pilot was advised by Gen. Randy George, the Army’s Chief of Staff, to submit his request for relief to the Board for Correction of Military Records (BCMR). And at the time, the general promised he would “get it fixed,” CW3 told The Gateway Pundit in a previous article. But instead, his application was denied on May 22.
Following CW3 Budge’s interview, J.M. Phelps emailed a letter directly to Gen. George on June 5 with a request for comment. On June 11, Phelps also emailed a letter directly to Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, calling his attention to the letter sent to Gen. George and more. The inquiries were ignored by both officials.
On X, Dr. Chase Spears, a retired U.S. Army public affairs officer, writer and host of the Finding Your Spine podcast, called for “Less talk, more action.”
Following his post, Dr. Spears expressed to The Gateway Pundit that Gen. Randy George, Daniel Driscoll, and others should have the “the moral imperative” to help everyone who serves in the Army, but admitted “this isn’t the case here.”
The retired public affairs officer said, “Gen. George’s promise to help CW3 Budge proves nothing more than words he had no intention of acting on.” Throughout his 20-year career, Dr. Spears observed that too many senior military officers “say what you want to hear, but aren’t actually willing to act upon what they say.”
Dr. Spears does not expect Gen. George to honor his word to CW3 Budge or respond to the letter by J.M. Phelps. “I’d be shocked, because you rarely find the kind of humility in a general to openly admit that he promised something but failed to deliver,” he explained. “Most senior military officials, even if they know that what they’ve done is wrong, they don’t have the moral fortitude to actually take the next step and make it right. The system used to promote them to the senior ranks ensures it.”
What’s equally concerning to Dr. Spears is that “Gen. George is a holdover general just like the other generals still in the Pentagon.” And according to him, “Many of these holdovers got their promotions by prosecuting COVID-19 policies under the Biden regime, taking part in punishing soldiers, like CW3 Budge, who actually showed independent thought and were willing question the efficacy and risk of the shot.”
“Only after the fact the tide turned were they willing to signal empathy for troops wronged on their watch, but so far actions fail to match their word,” he offered. “They may have dropped all the rhetoric from the previous administration about how the shot and masks saved lives, but you’ll never get them to admit they were wrong in enforcing it on people like CW3 Budge who is losing his career over it.”
“Until new senior Pentagon leadership put in place by President Trump begins the process of actually relieving the senior officers who broke the law,” Dr. Spears said, “they’re going to have these same senior officers working to undermine the efforts of the President and Defense Secretary to make things right for military members.”
For Dr. Spears, “We’re past the point of saying the Trump Administration inherited a mess at the Pentagon. We’re past the point of grace. If General George and the other cast of characters won’t take personal action to make a situations like CW3 Budge’s right, then they need to be shown the door.”
Others in the military community also reacted strongly to the letters sent by Phelps and the lack of concern by senior military officials.
Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army slight surgeon and whistleblower, said “what they have done to [CW3 Brandon Budge] and his family is an absolute disgrace!”
Retired Navy Medical Service Corps officer Lt. Ted Macie, also a whistleblower, found “it is disgraceful that doing the right thing apparently hinges on public pressure rather than principle.”
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Tom “Buzz” Rempfer, author of Unyielding: Marathons Against Illegal Mandates, encouraged various military offices and officials to act “promptly” and “remove adverse personnel actions related to the unlawful COVID mandate and remedy career setbacks.”
Dr. Spears encouraged readers to share Budge’s story on X, using the hashtag #RescueAndRestore.
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This is what happens both when no one is held to account…and no leadership on the matter.
Mad as HE double-hockeysticks I am about it.
Time for the CinC to step in with decisive action.
One would think the the Secretary of Defense could okay the fix.
...OR an EO on the matter.
IMHO this illustrates one of 2 things:
1. The power of the corporation over even POTUS,
2. Something deeper on the topic ongoing not yet revealed.
I’d hope for the latter, but my other hand filled long ago re rfk jr and, more recently, bondi. It’s a horrible look, especially given recent events as we sit on hour hands yet again...
Revolting.
A dog bites man story, but still, it’s important that each such example or episode of spinelessness on the part of Biden-era brass be chronicled.
I like Pete, but he should spend more time doing his job of cleaning house and less time yakking it up over at FNC.
He's been on FOX more than Brit Hume.
Bondi...
Don’t get This Guy started.
I’ll never understand thosecrapping on our vets.
Ungrateful shitbirds.
He could. And he could have.
Those at or near the top have a habit of not rocking the boat. They are afraid that if they actually do something, policy-wise, then that will be held against them at some point down the line by another administration. So for them to do nothing is better than doing something that might endanger their pension or promotion................
Same page.
Because he’s a CW3...................
We are so focused on foreign wars that we have a mess brewing.
POTUS is one man. We just got started and have been detoured. He is rather busy right now.
Why does that not surprise me? Why do these things never happen when a RAT takes the helm?
Perhaps he could & will do something against the General while he is at it. 😁👍
Sorry, you are not allowed to criticize anymore. She is a cut above Sessions though because she is still in her position.
The MSM just doesn’t report it.................
seems the Sec. of Defense should be able to suspend\cancel all these COVID separation from service actions.
The whole admin spends way too much time on FOX. I got rid of FOX years ago but see clips all over the place.
FOX and CNN biggest with older RINOs and RATs.
Barron needs to be listened to more. LOL
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