https://www.tridentfortruth.com/ weekly 1 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/episodes weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/articles weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/about weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/submit weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/contact weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/privacy weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/terms weekly 0.7 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/episodes/britt-slabinski-conference-incident-what-do-we-owe-the-dead The Britt Slabinski Conference Incident — What Do We Owe the Dead? - Trident For Truth, Episode 3 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/images/csHHrHJ1SH8.jpg At Britt Slabinski’s speech “What We Owe the Dead,” he was asked to name the seven men who died on that mountain. He couldn’t. Then it got ugly. My wife and I were removed from the conference. This is what really happened. I’m Eric Deming — 27-year Navy veteran, 20 years in the SEAL Teams — and this episode of Trident for Truth is not two sides of a story. It’s the record. Medal of Honor recipient and retired Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Britt Slabinski gave a talk on “what we owe the dead.” When he was challenged to recite the names of the seven teammates from March 2002 on Takur Ghar — Roberts Ridge — he went blank. He later posted on LinkedIn that he owns it. What he did not own is what happened next: the spin, the pressure, and my wife and I being thrown out of that military influencer conference. Since the last episode, The Original Sin Part 2, the fight over John Chapman’s Medal of Honor has only gotten louder. Mitch Hall went on Cleared Hot with Andy Stumpf and made accusations against the Air Force and the Chapman family. Britt tried to recast himself as the victim. Jason Redman put his hands on my wife. I said the tape would stay private — until they made it public by lying and by putting hands on my family. This episode covers: - What was actually said at Slabinski’s speech - Why the seven names matter, and why forgetting them is not a small thing - The conference, the removal, and what they hoped nobody would see - The Chapman Medal of Honor fight, Roberts Ridge, and why Gold Star families are owed the truth — not a cleaned-up narrative - Why I will release the video I have We owe the dead the truth. We owe their families the truth. Stand by. Retired Navy SEAL Eric Deming | Trident for Truth #NavySEAL #RobertsRidge #JohnChapman #MedalOfHonor #BrittSlabinski #JasonRedman #TridentForTruth #GoldStarFamilies Watch the previous two episodes: The Original Sin — John Chapman, Roberts Ridge, and the SEAL Cover-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlalB https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/csHHrHJ1SH8 2026-09-29T23:49:32+00:00 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/episodes/the-original-sin-part-2-stealing-john-chapmans-valor The Original Sin, Part 2: Stealing John Chapman's Valor - The Story of the Coverup Continues https://www.tridentfortruth.com/images/SnUmCmKh0Ic.jpg https://www.tridentfortruth.com - Twenty years of changing stories. A documentary built on a lie. A Medal of Honor they still won’t let John Chapman keep in peace. In this second episode of the Trident for Truth Podcast, Retired Navy SEAL Eric Deming continues the examination of Roberts Ridge and the fight over John Chapman’s actions on Takur Ghar. Using Pete Blaber and Britt Slabinski’s own public statements, Deming shows the narrative shifting in real time — then rips Mitch Hall’s Ground Spoof. Chapman earned it. Slabinski didn’t. On March 4, 2002, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman of the 24th Special Tactics Squadron was left on Takur Ghar during the battle known as Roberts Ridge. He was embedded with a SEAL Team 6 element. Evidence later showed he regained consciousness and continued to fight alone. What followed was not only a dispute over medals. It was a fight for truth and honor. This episode digs deeper into how the official story has been shaped, delayed, and diluted over two decades, and why the campaign around Chapman’s Medal of Honor remains contested. Names in this account: John Chapman. Rob Harrison. Britt Slabinski. Tim Szymanski. Vic Hyder. Pete Blaber. Mitch Hall. Watch Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlalBcmBHOA Watch through. Leave what you know in the comments. Subscribe for the Chapman record, and for the later failures it made possible. #SEALTeams #MedalOfHonor #MilitaryHistory #TrueStory #NAVYSEAL #RobertsRidge #TridentForTruth #JohnChapman #RobHarrison #BrittSlabinski #TimSzymanski #VicHyder #EricDeming https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SnUmCmKh0Ic 2026-09-23T00:52:04+00:00 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/episodes/the-original-sin-john-chapman-roberts-ridge-seal-cover-up The Original Sin - John Chapman, Roberts Ridge, and the SEAL Cover-Up, Trident for Truth Podcast https://www.tridentfortruth.com/images/wlalBcmBHOA.jpg On March 4, 2002, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman of the 24th Special Tactics Squadron was left on Takur Ghar during the battle known as Roberts Ridge. He was embedded with a SEAL Team 6 element. Evidence later showed he regained consciousness and continued to fight alone. What followed was not only a dispute over medals. It was a fight for truth and honor. In this first episode of the Trident for Truth Podcast, Retired Navy SEAL Eric Deming talks with Rob Harrison, who was overhead that morning in an AC-130 gunship and later part of the Air Force effort to recover the footage and document Chapman’s actions. They examine how Britt Slabinski, Tim Szymanski, Vic Hyder, and Naval Special Warfare are alleged to have shaped, delayed, and diluted the truth of what happened on Roberts Ridge. Chapman’s actions saved lives. The official story shifted. His Medal of Honor was contested, then split. Awards went forward for men whose decisions that day cost lives. Deming calls that the original sin of the modern SEAL Teams: protecting a marketable NSW brand instead of accounting for a man left behind and the mistakes that put him there. Later episodes follow what that choice produced. Covering the failure, inflating the narrative, and treating honor as a product weakened training and accountability. The series traces how a culture built on burying mistakes and avoiding responsibility cost more lives in the years that followed. Names in this account: John Chapman.  Rob Harrison. Britt Slabinski. Tim Szymanski. Vic Hyder. This episode covers: - The battle of Takur Ghar / Roberts Ridge and John Chapman’s actions - What the AC-130 crew observed from overhead, and how that evidence was handled - Allegations that Slabinski, Szymanski, and Hyder helped bury or rewrite when and how Chapman died - The campaign around Chapman’s Medal of Honor and the split citation - Why Roberts Ridge is described as the original sin of modern SEAL Team culture For viewers search https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wlalBcmBHOA 2026-09-04T13:13:50+00:00 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/episodes/trident-01 Trident 01 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/images/r4pr2fBXZ3E.jpg What's Coming in the future. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/r4pr2fBXZ3E 2026-03-25T17:10:04+00:00 https://www.tridentfortruth.com/articles/how-to-verify-a-military-service-claim 2026-10-16T03:41:07.873188+00:00