<p>Former Navy SEALs Mike Sarraile and Andy Stumpf spoke to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a> about the criticism of their training and warned against the push of &#8220;progressive policies&#8221; in the military because &#8220;evil exists.&#8221;</p>
<p>During Spotify&#8217;s &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5TZaO4N1t37pjwj1L7UcWx?si=-hwbsrZcTBmAa3eJnSkLIQ">podcast</a> on Thursday, the host asked his guests to respond to criticism over their training after video surfaced online showing &#8220;guys getting exposure to CS gas&#8221; outside who looked like they were passing out, couldn&#8217;t breath, and more.</p>
<p>&#8220;And the point of that training is it’s supposed to be difficult,&#8221; Stumpf explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s supposed to suck. It&#8217;s supposed to be difficult. You&#8217;re supposed to be exposed to that in a controlled training environment. … It sucks. But the first time you experience that shouldn&#8217;t be in a combat zone.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So, it&#8217;s a volunteer only program,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You can leave this particular training block if you want at any given time. And oh, by the way, every branch of the military exposes their people to this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rogan noted that they &#8220;exposed people to it on&#8221; the TV reality game show he used to host, &#8220;Fear Factor.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stumpf said that when people ask him about the training and how people have died from it, he said he tells them, &#8220;It needs to continue to happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want it to happen,&#8221; Andy said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want anybody to lose their life. But if the training becomes so exceedingly safe that that&#8217;s not a potential, then we&#8217;re not serving people in that training. And we&#8217;re not preparing them for what the battlefield&#8217;s going to expect.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Sarraille said there&#8217;s &#8220;been a push to make the military a playground for progressive policies.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And it is the last place, politically, that we want people playing,&#8221; Sarraille explained. &#8220;And, I mean, you even see China has an initiative to actually make their men more masculine. Yeah, so we&#8217;re going the opposite direction. You know, there&#8217;s a diversity, equity, and inclusion chief at the Pentagon now who wrote a book that basically called the first responders menaces … basically painted them as white supremacists. It&#8217;s going [in] a very bad direction.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rogan asked his guests how these &#8220;progressive policies&#8221; are infecting the military. Mike said he&#8217;s &#8220;sick and tired&#8221; of these perceptions people have about the military thanks to Hollywood. Sarraille said people don&#8217;t understand what is necessary to be trained for what they face on the battlefield.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve gotten comfortable,&#8221; Sarraille admitted. &#8220;We&#8217;ve gotten way too comfortable here. And if they saw the atrocities that we saw over there, they would understand why [training is necessary]. You know, evil exists … we saw ISIS throwing gay men from seven-story roofs with the people in the town watching.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-tells-joe-rogan-the-left-has-gotten-goofier-and-dems-are-going-to-get-their-a-kicked-in-november" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher Tells Joe Rogan &#8216;The Left Has Gotten Goofier,&#8217; And Dems Are &#8216;Going To Get Their A** Kicked In November&#8217;</a></strong></p>

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