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Laurie Buckhout: “I declined brigade command.”

Featuring: Laurie Buckhout, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House North Carolina, District 1

Life After The Military - Laurie Moe Buckhout

Published September 2, 2021 | Video Starts at 34:58

Go back. I knew I'd be gone the whole time again. My oldest son was just learning to let go of me. After me Being gone. And so I declined brigade command. Now what happened after that, though, is that okay? I'm just going to say this. When you're a colonel who's declined war college, declined brigade command, you know you're not going to go any further. (34:58–35:01)

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Asserts that Laurie Buckhout declined the command of the 7th Signal Brigade.

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“I lasted 89 days [at TASC].”
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“My battalion, we did the ground war, went in with 5th Corps, my battalion, 2/3 of it I cross attached to mostly the 3rd ID.”
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“When we crossed ld, third ID did not have enough communications teams to support all of their elements.”
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“I gave my teams to all kinds of people. They went to field artillery units, they went to medical units, they went to infantry units.”
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“I needed two bags, IV bags, to walk in my own battalion. Change of command.”
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“I was assigned to the Pentagon, and I was kind of wasting away. I was, like, starving to death.”
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“I had pneumonia three times. One year.”
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“I started going to counseling once a week and got medication when I was in the Pentagon.”
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“General Cody had seen me brief on electronic warfare and the army need to have it as a joint staff at the time.”
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“PTSD and these sorts of things are not about being afraid. For most of us, it's about loving where you were.”
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“I got selected to go command 7th Signal Brigade in Germany.”
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“I was one of the few people in the army who really understood electronic warfare at the time.”
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“I had been tasked by [General] Cody to stand [electronic warfare] up again.”
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“The army still needed these skills [in electronic warfare] when I retired.”
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“I got Lyme disease. I got bit by a tick.”
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“I had developed neurological Lyme. And at that point, it was affecting my brainstem and my optic nerve.”
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“I went blind in my left eye and I still am because the Lyme destroyed my optic nerve.”
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“Mark Fuller, who was the CEO of [Castellum], which they had just bought. It was operating as a penny stock.”
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“Their goal, he and his partner, was to grow it to a big, you know, 300, $500 million business.”
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“Some folks who wanted to buy me were foreign, so foreign born. Meaning that would be a challenge because I had top secret cleared business…”
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“Most of the time. They're not going to write you a huge check and say, hey, here's your money, go. Because like I said, they want to keep…”
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“It's normally a mix of that kind of stuff, and all that's negotiable.”
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“Castellum continues to grow and is doing a great job.”
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“I don't have a single original document in Qorvist.”
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“I didn't make up a single non compete NDA consulting agreement.”
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“My chief operating officer was a former Navy gal and she retired when I sold the business.”
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“PTSD brought about some depression in me that I've dealt with since.”
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“Anything I can do in the future to help you or your cause. Cause what you're doing is God's work.”
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