Are US Military Bases Under Attack?

0:00 This is something very weird.

0:01 And we've been reporting here on the show different odd occurrences

0:04 at military bases and it hasn't gotten a lot of attention.

0:06 The mainstream media has been ignoring this story oddly.

0:10 But now the mainstream media is paying attention to it.

0:13 Why are American military bases on US soil?

0:17 These aren't ones, you know, in Bahrain.

0:19 No, on US soil like Michigan, Hawaii experiencing blackouts,

0:24 power outages, water sources being turned off.

0:27 If that sounds like a conspiracy theory, it's not.

0:31 In fact, Admiral Kevin Lundy explained to CBS News exactly what's happening.

0:35 Take a listen.

0:37 Station Channel Islands, California had the power cut off.

0:40 A station in Michigan, Port Huron had services cut off.

0:44 Our air station in Barbers Point, Hawaii had natural gas service cut off.

0:47 We're able to restore all of it, but we're seeing the number increase and I

0:51 expect that number's going to continue to go up.

0:53 These are Coast Guard stations that are standing by to respond

0:57 to search and rescue missions and the lights are shutting off.

1:02 That's exactly right.

1:03 These are stations where our crews are standing by to respond at a moment's

1:07 notice to any mariner in distress or any threat to the nation.

1:11 And they launch 24/7 365 and suddenly

1:14 the lights go out or they don't have water.

1:16 Admiral, I think a lot of Americans would be pissed to hear this is happening.

1:22 Furious.

1:22 That's exactly right.

1:25 And we just learned just now USS Higgins has completely lost power after

1:30 a major fire just took just took it out in the Indo-Pacific region.

1:34 That just coming into us here just a a few minutes ago.

1:38 There is the gentleman on your screen that we wanted to talk to.

1:41 That's Colonel Rob Maness who has 32 years combat experience and of course

1:47 is an energy expert who served in the US Air Force.

1:50 Colonel, great to see you.

1:51 Last time we were on we were talking about how fragile

1:54 America's grid is totally unrelated to like these US military bases.

1:58 But first just your like high-level thoughts

2:00 about what the Admiral has been talking about.

2:03 Well, a couple of interesting issues here.

2:06 I had I had a very similar experience in the winter of 2011.

2:10 I was a commander of Kirtland Air Force Base

2:13 in New Mexico and Texas was supplying natural gas

2:17 to the state of New Mexico and because

2:20 of the cold temperatures they had difficulty maintaining the pressure.

2:23 So the natural gas to the sixth largest Air Force Base in the world,

2:27 the largest nuclear mission that the United States has had its natural

2:32 gas cut off in the middle of the night without telling the commander.

2:36 So these types of things can and do happen.

2:38 The The unique thing about the Coast Guard though

2:41 Clayton is they're not in the Department of War,

2:44 what used to be the Department of Defense.

2:46 They're in the Department of Homeland Security having been moved there

2:51 from the Department of Transportation in post-9/11 when DHS was stood up.

2:55 So seeing all of their installations in some

3:00 interesting states when you look at the partisan

3:04 bent of those states is very very weird to me because they should have

3:10 had agreements in the case of a lack

3:15 of funding with those local utilities especially to be able to keep the lights

3:20 on for their housing and for their critical missions.

3:24 But obviously that's not the case and it's it's troubling.

3:28 And you know what?

3:29 It's really sad because these men and women are on duty 24 hours a day,

3:34 seven days a week prepared to save anybody.

3:37 They're not just a uniquely military mission as you know.

3:41 They're out there picking people off of capsized

3:44 sailboats in the middle of the ocean,

3:45 saving their lives after they've been floating in a raft for a week or 40

3:49 days and those kinds of things and do it in all kinds of weather.

3:53 It's just unacceptable that they can't be funded.

3:56 I think it's one of the reasons why

3:58 my Congressman Mikey Waltz tried to get a department secretary

4:02 political appointee created to take care of the Coast

4:06 Guard so they'd have a little bit more political pull.

4:09 But unfortunately there were a lot of bureaucrats that were opposed to them.

4:14 I mean you would think given the conversation we're having right now about

4:18 whether or not we need a White House ballroom because of national security.

4:23 I always was under the assumption that there are people

4:26 who are running contingency scenarios in case something like this happens.

4:33 Was that a false assumption?

4:34 Don't It doesn't that job exist?

4:37 That That job does exist,

4:39 but as I mentioned the Coast Guard even though it's a really

4:43 a military service is not in the Department of War and you

4:47 didn't see these types of things happening with Department of War

4:51 military installations during the last shutdown when their budget was at risk.

4:56 So I think we and the Department of War side came about to find

5:01 some solutions to address this issue while

5:04 the Department of Homeland Security has not.

5:07 You know, quite frankly,

5:08 I think the Coast Guard should be moved under the Department

5:11 of War as a separate department with a secretary so

5:14 that it has the political staff and political power to be

5:18 able to defend its own budget and have those contingency plans available.

5:24 And the Department of War's got more money

5:26 that it can move around and those kind of things.

5:28 I'm glad you brought up the ballroom which is

5:30 my understanding is privately funded or I would be calling

5:32 for that those dollars to be given to the Coast Guard

5:36 so they could pay their people's utility bills and pay their paychecks.

5:39 Look, these folks are going to go without

5:41 a paycheck by mid-April if Congress doesn't get off

5:43 their butts and do the right thing and pass

5:46 the bill that's been languishing for several months now.

5:50 It's you know, it doesn't make me feel any better at all

5:53 that the Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security.

5:55 I mean you know, I you would think

5:57 that that that we're we're securing our homeland here,

6:00 but we're far more interested in funneling billions of dollars

6:03 to far-off wars and overseas than we are I mean

6:07 I don't know if you've seen the videos over the past

6:08 24 hours of the continuous flow of armaments into Israel.

6:12 I mean non-stop flights of armaments being sent to Israel and members

6:16 of Congress saying we've we're running out of our own munitions.

6:19 We don't have it here at home.

6:21 So here's just another example of not taking care of our homeland,

6:24 not our own military bases here at home and funding these foreign boondoggles.

6:31 Yeah, I don't know if you remember Clayton or not,

6:33 but I was opposed to the creation of the Department

6:35 of Homeland Security because all we needed was another

6:38 huge bureaucracy to get in the way of getting

6:41 the mission done and and that's exactly what it does

6:45 in my opinion and it's proven itself to be

6:48 an overly complex overly bureaucratic department that doesn't get its mission

6:54 done which is defending the homeland of the United States

6:58 against terrorism and drug cartels and those kind of things.

7:03 It has great difficulty staying focused on that because it

7:07 gets distracted by things like what we're talking about now

7:10 with the United States Coast Guard and that's why

7:12 the Coast Guard probably doesn't even need to be in DHS.

7:16 Needs to be over in the War Department so

7:18 that its budget can be fought for and protected

7:21 and increased when necessary or decreased when necessary depending

7:27 on what the mission set is required of it.

7:30 By the way, it's a very brave move of you back

7:32 to in the day to have fought against the Department of Homeland Security.

7:35 I I was there with you at the time.

7:38 We were minority voices.

7:40 You know, you had Tom Ridge coming out of Pennsylvania

7:42 leading up the Department of Homeland Security as the first secretary.

7:45 All the neocons in Washington were pushing for it in the wake of 9/11,

7:49 you know, the TSA and all of it, right?

7:52 So you were a very rare voice calling to to not have that.

7:57 I guess just to come back to the main story here.

8:01 It seems like right before major operations these things are being shut down.

8:05 So then you know, the conspiracy theorist in me goes to who's doing this?

8:10 Like this isn't just happening.

8:12 Someone just flicking a light switch.

8:14 Like this is intentional.

8:16 Do you Am I Is that a bridge too far for you?

8:19 No, it's not a conspiracy theory.

8:21 Let's look at the facts.

8:22 The The three main areas installations we're looking at are in Michigan,

8:26 in California and Hawaii.

8:30 I would have to look at it to see which

8:33 of those installations have forces deployed into the Middle East because we

8:37 have I think about 400 Coast Guard personnel doing national security

8:43 duty on those military deployments as part of the operation there.

8:47 It's not unusual.

8:48 We've had Coast Guard in the Persian Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz,

8:53 the Red Sea and those kind of places quite often since

8:58 we've been over there in a military capacity the last 25-30 years.

9:02 But but the interesting really unique thing is

9:07 that they all come from these states that are controlled

9:10 by the opposition party to the current administration

9:14 and they all seem to be happening at critical times.

9:17 And you know, especially that one out in Hawaii and California,

9:22 the Pacific is very very troubling because our real

9:26 adversary that we should be preparing to fight

9:30 a war with so that that we don't have to fight a war with and paying attention

9:34 to is the Communist Chinese Party and to weaken

9:38 even the Coast Guard in that part

9:40 of the world especially at this time when we're

9:42 moving assets around is could be very very dangerous.

9:46 And that's what it appears to look like to me.

9:48 And it's unfortunate that I have to say that, but those are just the facts.

9:52 Yeah, and the fact that Chinese buying

9:54 up farmland directly next to military installations.

9:57 so the thankfully on that?

9:59 Yeah.

9:59 [laughter] Well, Congress today finally moving on that, you know,

10:02 to actually pass a bill on that, thankfully, so that they can't do that.

10:05 Colonel, great to see you.

10:06 Thank you so much for this.

10:08 It's a very odd story.

10:10 Um I wish more people were talking about it,

10:11 and I hope that maybe now this could light

10:14 a fire under more media to start covering this story.

10:17 Um Colonel, great to see you, as always.

10:18 Thank you so much for your expertise on this.

10:21 I agree.

10:21 Thank you, Clayton.

10:22 Thank you, Natalie.

10:23 And I look forward to coming back sometime.

10:25 Good to see you again.

10:26 Colonel.

10:26 Great to see you.

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