From West Point to Military Accountability | UK Column Interviews

**Charles Mallet** (0:08)
Hello, I'm Charles Mallet with the UK Column Interview. And today I have with me Brad Miller, who is formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army, having had a battalion command in the 101st Airborne Division, and also most notably the author of the Declaration of Military Accountability. Brad, a very warm welcome to UK Column. Thank you very much indeed for joining me.

**Brad Miller** (0:31)
Yeah, thanks so much, Charles. I really appreciate you reaching out. I'm happy to dig into some of these topics here. And I think we're going to have an interesting discussion. I will make one tiny modification to what you said in the intro there.
I am one of a group of authors of the Declaration of Military Accountability, not the principal author, but definitely one of the individuals who was key in helping to promote it and get it out there. If I had to name one person who was the primary author, I would actually point to Rob Green, who is actually still serving as an officer in the United States Navy. But Rob and I worked together quite a bit on kind of propagating the message out there. But I do just want to make that one tiny correction. I would just not want to misrepresent the role that I had in crafting the Declaration.

**Charles Mallet** (1:20)
That is a very critical clarification. Thank you very much indeed, Brad. That's great because when we do come to talk about that, it does already demonstrate that you were not acting on your own as some fringe lunatic that this was.
This was something that a lot of people were thinking about and taking seriously. Now, I introduced you as a former military man. In fact, your facial hair at the moment would absolutely qualify you for pretty much any rank in the British Army these days.
But let's get some of the military history out of the way. Because I think people have a tendency to think, okay, here we go. Somebody else who was embedded really for nearly 20 years in the sort of, you know, the state's architecture. Why do we want to be listening to him? Just tell us a little bit about your career. And I think for most people who've served, it's sort of characterized by the interspersement of high highs and low lows. Just give us a bit of an insight.

**Brad Miller** (2:17)
Sure.
So I graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. I graduated in 2003 I would go on to serve a little over 19 years on active service and ended up retiring from the, excuse me, resigning from the military in late 2022 My last day of active service was September 15th, 2022
And ultimately, I resigned before reaching that critical juncture of 20 years. 20 years is the mark in the United States Military at which you can qualify for your retirement pension. So it's a pretty significant mark on the wall. And the reason that I resigned about eight and a half months shy of that mark is that I got to the point in which I realized that I could no longer reconcile the way in which I viewed our government, our Constitution, the oath that I had taken as a military officer to support and defend the Constitution with military service. Now on the outset, a lot of people are going to look at that and find that quite paradoxical that you as a military officer who had taken an oath to the Constitution in your capacity as a military officer, you're saying you can't reconcile continued service in the military with that oath. But that is in fact the seemingly paradoxical situation that I found myself in. Now that issue in and of itself is quite large, but the occasion that brought me to that realization was the Covid shot mandate. So in the summer of 2021, the Pentagon mandated that all service members would take the Covid shot. Now, by the summer of 2021, I was extremely resolute in my own mind that I was not going to take the shot. And sure, that was a decision that was partially about my own health. That's true. But I also felt that there were bigger issues at hand. I was a commander of a battalion at the time, which meant that once this mandate came down, that in my command capacity, I would then have to order others to take the shot as well. But even in a much larger, if we look through a much larger aperture than even that, I just felt that we had been lied the entire time about Covid, what it was or wasn't. A lot of narratives had clearly been spun a year and a half into this madness that we all experienced in 2020 and the first half of 2021 So by the time that we got to the late summer of 2021, there was just no way that I was going to go along with this. Like I say, one, because I didn't trust the shots, just from a safety or an efficacy standpoint.