around the survivor, and that is the quickest way to get somebody out of harm s way. o donnell: usually don t fly in weather like this, do you? usually when what we do well, it is not a nice day like this. rescues ke place ding those tural disaers like hurricanes, which have become stronger due to climate change. admiral linda fagan is the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, the first woman to servee in that role in the branch s 232-year history. my battle cry is, tomorrow looks different, and so will we. reporter: one of the major challenges facing the one o commandant: recruitment. the coast guard has missed its recruiting goals the last three years. has the recruiting challenge reached a crisis point? we are not at a crisis point yet, but we need to turn the corner. o donnell: she took us to what is described as the heartbeat of the coast guard, cape may training center, where every enlisted coastie starts their journey. what are they shouting?
military members thrown out because they wouldn t take experimental vaccine. this is at a time, brian, when military is missing the recruiting goals. the army miles an houred it by almost 25% this year. and throwing out folks that we have had tens of millions of dollars invested in their training. brian: do you have the votes in the house to do it even in the lame duck session? if not, what can you do to force the president s hand because you have john kirby who is an admiral for some reason for some reason is he for the mandate. isabrina spring she is for the keeping the mandate in and i can canning everybody out. what can you guys do? would you he we don t have a military funded unless we pals the ndaa. we have the votes. memory serves 60 no votes. on the vaccine issue i think you are not going to get that many democrats voting only because of that here is another stab, stat, brian, 4464 folks that applied for a religious exemption in the
populations, and those who are concerned about it have options available to them, one of them being a vaccine. about you to mandate this for the military and kick people out or not allow them to serve, continue serving this country because of a mandate that s proven again that made no sense, it s just it s undermining what they are trying to accomplish with the recruiting goals. brian: it s not smallpox, not polio, this is different, not a matter of come one, come all, and admiral kirby and general lawson selling out their brother, and 50 for the fallen, anniversary of pearl harbor, ruck march 50 miles around oahu. i m joining, i m proud to support this amazing non-profit, 50 for the fallen. in a few hours i ll be joining them as we kick off our 50 mile ruck march, it s a ruck march,
because of wokism, because of the decline in benefits and so forth, that really has a serious impact on whether or not we can meet recruiting goals. and so i think that we need to really seriously relook at the direction and the push of political agendas in the military primarily by a president and by the, his appointees in the pentagon. the generals are going to follow their lead, unfortunately they become politicized as well. david: yes. now, one of the biggest problems is that the worse thing for military strategy is when you get contradicting orders. and we ve had so many different views on this. in 2011 obama came out with these executive order called diversity and inclusion. that s the one that really started this process of wokism within the military. then president trump came in at the end of his term, he reversed that. then as soon as biden came in, he reversed the trump reversal.
vaccine. brian: unbelievable. the thing unacceptable, do you believe who is behind it. do you believe president biden himself is behind it? is this his chief, secretary austin the army general? it s got to go aoun all the way up to the top. it s got to be secretary austin, biden forcing these vaccine mandates on our military service members and then denying their ability under religious exemptions to not take it. it s got to go all the way to the top. brian: the way you see it they are going to graduate for academy, great years great grades and all the requirements and not get the degree because of a vehicle seen mandate? not even being not commissioned, which is one thing. but show won t get commissioned or degree for the four years she spent there it s absolutely atrocious. brian: look at the big picture of our military we are falling short everywhere. army is 15,000 short of the recruiting goals. national guard 7500. navy 10% of goal. the marine met their goal, the air for