December 17, 2025 • 25 mins
Veterans deserve more than gratitude — they deserve community, stability, and real opportunity. In this encore presentation of Corsi Nation, Dr. Jerome Corsi is joined by Joshua Macias of Veterans First to highlight a collaborative effort focused on helping veterans successfully transition into civilian life.
This episode features a virtual tour and in-depth discussion of Modern Towers in Homestead, Florida, a residential community designed to support veterans through housing, employment pathways, counseling resources, and peer connection. Dr. Corsi and Joshua explain why Veterans First is expanding housing initiatives like this, how these projects are structured, and what they mean for veterans seeking long-term stability after service.
The conversation explores:
How Veterans First supports veterans through housing and community
Why stable living environments are critical for successful reintegration
The vision behind Modern Towers and similar veteran-focused projects
How veterans can access information and apply for accommodations
This encore episode revisits an important conversation about honoring service through action — not just words.
🔗 Learn more about Modern Towers and veteran accommodations:
https://www.excelloliving.com
https://www.liveatmoderntowers.com/gallery/
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This episode features a virtual tour and in-depth discussion of Modern Towers in Homestead, Florida, a residential community designed to support veterans through housing, employment pathways, counseling resources, and peer connection. Dr. Corsi and Joshua explain why Veterans First is expanding housing initiatives like this, how these projects are structured, and what they mean for veterans seeking long-term stability after service.
The conversation explores:
How Veterans First supports veterans through housing and community
Why stable living environments are critical for successful reintegration
The vision behind Modern Towers and similar veteran-focused projects
How veterans can access information and apply for accommodations
This encore episode revisits an important conversation about honoring service through action — not just words.
🔗 Learn more about Modern Towers and veteran accommodations:
https://www.excelloliving.com
https://www.liveatmoderntowers.com/gallery/
🌐 Corsi Nation Official Links
🌐 Website: https://www.corsination.com
📰 Substack: https://jeromecorsiphd.substack.com/
🌐 The Truth Central: https://www.thetruthcentral.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/corsi-nation--5810661/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of course he is, of course the Nation dot com
name broadcast South Care Joshua overseas, Joshua, Hi, and here.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm doing excellent good out of here about fort you're
gonna be here.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're down in Homestead, Florida, and we're in a set
of really magnificent kind of apartment village.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We show you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're creating a new project. This is the Veterans' first project,
and we're gonna take this national. Now, josh introduced you yourself.
You have a great service record. Please let people know
who you are.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, chapel, Joshua, see US here, US Navy Veterans, serve
ninety six two thousand and two, counter terrorism, counter narco terrorism,
founder of Veterans for Trump, Veterans for America First, excited
to be here, guys, talking about how we are putting
our veterans first in America, raising them up, helping them
get to the next level, living here in Homestead, Florida.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Now, Joshua was also a j six step.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
That's right, that's right, Chase six vets all the way, guys.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Three hundred and fifty of US plus served honorably shared
and showed up for President Trump, courageously fighting agains, stop
the steal, and ensuring everybody understood that we stood behind
our president as veterans, and ensuring to get our veterans
back on their feet again. We're also bringing them in
with our group home of Chase six Patriots and making
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sure that they get settled and get to their next
level of living as well well.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And so this is pretty interesting because Josh and his
attorney friend, who's Derek Storms. Derek's going to be, by
the way, the general counsel for the Veterans First Project.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He's a marine.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
We love our marines. Gotta have them with us, the
adults in the group.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, so we're forming this organization. We'll tell you in
a minute what it's going to be about.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I want you to know I undone a venter.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I did not serve because when I took my exam
physical for Vietnam nineteen sixty eight, they said a horrible exile.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
They said my skin was too bad to kill Via Kong.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
That's what they said to my father too, with Korean
warfare because of it and World War Two because of
his lungs. But he went on to serve honorably, sir,
just as you have in the intelligence community in guilty.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I want to make it clear because I don't want
any considerations is stolen honor.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I would never do that, of course, not a veteran
DT two fourteen holding is not on your side.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But your service hasn't clear.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, I'm even when I was a kid, I were
some of my own research centers at the university's first case.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Western Reserve and then at Brandice University.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
When I went to Harvard, I did a lot of
intelligence work that was under contract with various agencies. I
never held a federal government position. I want to make
that clear. Okay, now let's get onto our mission here. Yes,
so Josh, what are we going an attempt to achieve
with veterans Veterans First project, the Veterans first project.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
First, we have to house them. Housing first is imperative,
and in units like these are where we're going to
place them. Every units, as you can see, is lined
up in a luxury fashion stainlessteel appliances, luxury units. These
are within what we call fair market rental and we
ensure that it fits within whatever necessary Section eight Housing vouchers.
(03:20):
Housing Choice Vouchers PPP vouchers that we can assist our
veterans in to get back on their feet again. We
must house them first, and then once they're housed first,
then we can help them with their mental, spiritual, physical,
emotional wellbeing and helping them to get to their next
level of living. So first we house them and then
from there, once we get them housed and stable after
(03:43):
a triogion event, then we ensure that we bring them
back to their next level of living, helping them with
their job placement earned benefits, and then plug them into
faith in community because veterans need to be fruitful in community.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So Josh will be CEO of this organization first project,
the Veterans First Project. I'll be chairing. Now, Josh, this
is we're here in the complex.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We are let me saying, I turned around for our
crew here.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Show them the complex out there.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So we're sending on the sixth floor of one of
four of our beautiful buildings.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Here it's our parking deck. It's here.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
We're gonna take you downstairs to our clubhouse and pool area.
But from here we get a beautiful sunset of our
with our neighbors here in Homestead Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's like an oasis, guys. I mean, we have a
luxuries feel.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
We ensure that people when they come here, that they
feel relaxed and that they're in community.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And as you can see, this is all that zero.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
So when I see that zero, what I'm talking about
is we are a structure that can handle seven point
one scale, seven point one Richter scale earthquakes, two hundred
and ten mile per hour wins. The hurricanes will come
through here, doesn't even bother us. People come to us.
Last Hurricane Milton, okay, And we were helping during Hurricane
Milton with on your sixth relief ensuring that we got
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food and supports all the way from Tampa all the
way down to Key West. And this was our headquarter
of operation as we were getting food and supplies in
here in our parking deck and distributing out. So not
only are we taking care of our veterans, but we
ensure that we were taking care of our community here
at Modern Towers and Homestead, Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, no, this Josh built this complex and put it together.
Josh had a background, right.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yes, Yes, I'm grateful for my family, for the school
of the family and the School.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Of Hard Knocks has sawt a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, okay, so this will be able to take in.
That's our transitioning out of the military. We have to
have a path in order to get back into civilian life.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Who we do.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
We need to pull them into communities instead of just
seeing them get kicked out of the DoD, We need
to pull them into communities like this, help them get
into the using their earned benefits. A lot of our
guys that come here are zero literally have done nothing
with the VA, have not received any benefits or support
from the VA, even their own benefits or service connected disabilities.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And also the homeless vets are going to come in here, yes,
and homeless vets can be you know, PTSD can hit
when you're in your sixties and who knows.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh yeah, I mean different different times manifest different things
as well. And we've housed already one hundred veterans that
were previously homeless over this year, working with the Miami
VA and our outreach partners and our own outreach program
to get them in from off the streets, get them stable,
and get them into their own lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, I want you know, God is at the center
of this project he is and the whole purpose here
is to have people heal spiritually, mentally, the whole person.
So we're going to have counseling services. We will have
a clinic here, we'll have tell them medicine. We've created
veterans in dot com.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
They'll be lying shortly.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
We're going to be coordinating and working with the VA,
making sure we've got the vouchers designed so they've work
telements and what'll we hear on site be available to
the vets, to everybody in this community. This community, by
the way, can also take people from homes dead. So
we have basically a dual use and open community facility here.
(07:24):
But the whole point is to have this be a
veteran oriented facility.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's right, veteran military first responders.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We welcome you government employees as well, and their families
are eligible for other programs and we can assist them
with their intake first month's rent and last month's runt
as they come in as well.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Ye, law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I mean, this is really for those who provide US
security and depending their freedom, and we're going to honor them.
We need to have this warrior class be treated with
the respect throughout their lives for the service they've given
to us, to our families and our future generations. Now,
joshuait to put putting these facilities all over the country,
(08:04):
is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
We have twenty five other locations already in our sites
because we know the density and the need within the community.
I mean, there's quite frankly one hundred and fifty thousand
homeless veterans throughout America. Those are the real numbers, folks. Okay,
there's one hundred and fifty thousand out there. We're compoundingly
increasing that by twenty percent per year.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So this needs to change.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We need radical shifts, and I believe this is the
new wine skin mindset, and we have to plant here.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We've proven it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We've put in our vets first, and we've housed them
first here in Homestead, Florida.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So I envision will.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Have one hundred and fifty of these centers across the country.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
We're going to build them throughout the nation. They're going
to be all unified in purpose. We're going to function
the same way. We're going to provide the same kind
of services, and they're going to be nurturing places, places
where families are comfortable, where people are protected. They'll be
secure communities, there'll be refuges, refuges to come to.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yes in transition back from military or law enforcement or
first responder or any type of these security operations where
professional Schnomon transition.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Is billion life use even skills they've been given. I mean,
you know, these are highly trained people and these resources
need to be developed in the future so we can
as a nation benefit from all they've already accomplished and
all that they will accomplish for us. Now we're going
to do a very very quick.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Run through here.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I want to show you and Josh show the appliances.
All these are new, brand new of some of these
units have been had the tags on.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Show.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
So this is one of our units that's for as
you can see, stalles, steel, appliances, luxury cabinets. Yes we
haven't even used the oven, microwave. Everything that's necessary for
good upscale living. And let me forget that I have
(10:04):
to pull off my Puerto Rico's.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Life in the beach guys, that's where we are.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Life of the beach, all right, So just say and
this is how from here you have your own entry
exits to a balcony. Every unit has a balcony same
as this. Of course, our view here is a bit
(10:30):
grand voice top level.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Give you guys a little better view of the pan
of this building.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Now, this is a three bedroom, two bedrooms on this side,
and everything is standardized. One bedroom here, bedroom here, large closets,
bathroom and laundry.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
State of the arts, so.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That everyone understands. This is poured concrete. So when I
say net zero, your energy bills one hundred dollars in
this three bedroom unit that's eleven.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Hundred square feet.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Net zero means that our net losses are zero to
our unit.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And with the poor concrete forms, these were able to
be made in a week each floor doc. So as
as soon as the concrete is poured, it starts secure.
And as for those who know about construction, the longer
it sets, the stronger it gets. Now, all of the pipinge,
all the electrical was put in place first, and then
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the concrete form was poured. So when you write, quite frankly,
you don't hear anybody underneath us, because it's a solid.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
And look at the tile, guys, Okay, not just getting
in here and putting up garbage.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
What we want is zero next level living for our
service numbers.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
So this is going to be a family environment.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So the entire family is going to be able to
prosper here. And it's also going to be multi racial multicultural,
not because of DEI, because we're brothers and sisters.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's right, because our military is diverse, and for us,
the only color we see are green and Hayes gray
and underway, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Battle fatigues, that's what that's the only color that we see.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So it is an exciting project if we want to
get to it in the beginning of it, it will
be much more here. Joshua almas c S will be
the CEO, and we are very very enthusiastic to be
launching this. Thank God for the opportunity. We're showing a
couple more segments at different parts of the facility, so
(12:50):
we'll be back in a couple of minutes sitting by
the pool and having a nice conversation about recreational activities here.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yes, God bless us speed.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Remember fight, fight, Fight, stay in the fight.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That first all the.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Way, Doctor Joe Corsi, and we're at the second segment
here with corsenation dot Com And we're at the Homestead, Florida.
This is our new facility. We are the veterans first
project dot Com. We just put it together. And Joshua
sus here is our CEO. Joshua Silo.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hello, everybody, chaplin.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Joshuas here and a new person this is This is
another important member of the team. This is y G.
Storm night Storm. I love the night Storm. That's your
real name.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
That's my business name, a professional name. I ran up
a Congress with that name. I've had that name for
forty years. That's my name.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Well, that's a great name. So here we are. This
this is the first development we've done for the veterans,
the whole idea. Here and Joshua, why don't you explain
the complex, how you've developed it where we're sitting.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So we're sitting right now at our clubhouse. You see
this beautiful pool which I like to take in daily,
swim in whenever I get a chance. Right now, what
we are focused on and in net zero production. This
is poor concrete which we brought in this technology from Brazil.
It's never been done before in the United States, so
it took a little time to build. But once it's
done and set and cured. We have a bomb shelter
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above ground. You can handle two hundred and ten mile
pur Wins seven point one Richter scale, and it is
net zero luxury quality affordable housing for our veterans first,
and our military compatriots, active duty, and our general population
are now with us as well.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
So y G yes, your project manager here, Why don't
you describe your role here, your vision of what this
property is going to be?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Okay, Well, basically I want to start off by saying
thank you for having me here, and of course I
always good to have my brothers. But when we're talking
about displaced, homeless veterans or people who want a new start,
this come from a very real place. Nineteen ninety two,
I was homeless eighteen years old, didn't really have much
of anything, and I wish that I could have had
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a place like this to go because here it's all
about rebuilding the person, not just the veteran, not just
the disabled, but anyone that lives here. So you're gone
through any kind of adversity, especially with the times we
live in now, if you're gone through something, homestead right here,
monetized is the place, and here's why One. Yeah, you
get a roof over your head, it's a nice set
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of digs. You got a pull, you gotta gym. It's
a safe place. It's away from Miami proper. You get
a place of isolation, of quietness and peace to rebuild.
Two with the programs that we have, you come in,
I'll give you an assessment and we can talk about
things that have happened to you. You know, in your
life and your childhood, if you served, if you didn't serve.
But whatever issue you were dealing with, whatever the darkness is,
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this is a place to dissipate that. Three, we have
the resources to help you deal with whatever the issue is.
As I said, is not just the place to have
a shelter, This is a home to rebuild you. So
whatever you need some counseling, we do interventions here. If
you have strange children, if you're having a strange spouse,
family members, we have a facility of where you can
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come even spend the night and rebuild with that family.
Or bring that father in, bring that mother in. If
you're having children who are having issues. We handle a
whole lot of issues here. If it's women men dealing
with relationship issues, these relationship issues. It is what it is.
It's a partamental issues. If you need a recipit place,
this is just it's the place to be. So now
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you getting help healing mentally, you getting help kaling emotionally.
But we also have programs where we have organic food
delivered here every single week, So if you're hurting in
the pockets, which most people are in the current economy
with inflation and people using eggs like they used to
do drug dealing eggs and so it's super specive. Okay,
if you need some organic semas once a week, we
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have food delivered here for our residents, not just serving
the residence but the community as a whole. And if
you need any further assistance with jobs, we're partnered with
Careersource South Florida. If you need a place to work,
if you need something to help bring some income in
which we all need, we got partners to help.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And if you need to be tightened up for that interview,
want to get.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Your beard tightened up, for your hand tightened up, we
have Miami Barber Institute that comes here on the regular
just to take care of the residents here to get
you ready for that.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Number One interview, so you can reset your life. So
it's all.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
About taking care of the heart, mind, body, and soul
experience to bring it all together to rebuild the person
from the ground up.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Not who people think you need to be, but who
we know you already are. All right, So, josh wat,
this is Veterans First project. We're integrated into the community.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yes, yes, I.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes totally. So housing first is so imperative.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
So we are all about rooting our veterans in community
and helping them to get pulled into community leaders inside
the community. Many of our veterans have been looking for direction,
looking for the right placement for them to be rooted
so they could be fruitful again and whatever endeavor it
is that they want to be a part of. Once
they are rooted, then they get engaged with community as
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just as yg was stating. And then we also bring
more community to us as a Vet first initiative and
military first as well as first responder first. They have
the first chance to come in and pick up the
units once they are established. Once they move in, then
we open it up to community and help that community
for their engagement as well. And that's what we've been
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all about. So that's what we want to see happen,
is that veterans are integrated into community and as the
leaders that they are, have the chance to raise up
and go to the next level of living.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
And you, Josh, have a background in development. Yes, how
many units do we have here?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We have two hundred and seventy apartments right now in
Phase one, and we have another four hundred units that
we can build that we're planning on breaking route here
the next few months over in Phase two. That will
also include our medical as well as restaurants and commercial space.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
And we're going to build these all over the country.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yes, we are. We're launching nationwide.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Just so happens that right here in the Bible bell
buckle down here in Florida, you know, the southern tip
of America. This is America's bunker. We built the bunker
here for our community, and we're launching all throughout skint
in northern Florida as well as to the west coast.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
We'll go probably one hundred and fifty of these units
as quickly as we can. Yes, and we'll have a
process of setting up the foundation. The foundation will be
Veterans First Foundation. It's going to be a comprehensive effort
led by veterans that available as well to first responders,
police community. Yes, it's an integrated effort. Yes, I think
(19:51):
let's conclude this, but I like you each to give
the vision because this is a This is a lifestyle
business and our business not we're not developers as such,
were lifestyle oriented. To get our veterans who have tremendous skills,
to whom we all a debt that can never be
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repaid for our freedom, our safety, security. We want the
valuable resources that are our veterans to have a transition,
whether it's from the military and the civilian life. There's
problems in civilian life back into a productive civilian life,
but everyone who's been trained has great skills, and we
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want to honor and value future contribution of our vets. So, Josh,
a few words on statement of purpose.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yes, so our goal is to eradicate veteran suicide in America,
and it must happen here and start here with our
housing crisis. We're in an existential crisis of housing for veterans.
Not only are they under under house, but there's a
lot of homeless throughout them throughout the nation. We have
one hundred and fifty thousand homeless veterans across America and
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it's a twenty percent compounding increase every year.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
So with the.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Housing solution as we have here, we have the solution
right now. We can end effectively end homelessness in America
with the support of our candidate of President Trump now
forty seven as well as a community in a PPP
plan that can really be used for the veteran community,
but not just housing, but ensure that we're looking at
the whole veterans yg was speaking about, so we can
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place them into their earned benefits and the meaningful jobs,
so they can also be fruitful in faith and in community,
which is what our goal is, is to see our
veterans raised up to be fruitful once more. And this
is happening through our endeavors here in bed First.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
And why she's part of the national management team. You'll
be responsible of the project development nationwide and once your
vision and how that will be done.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Well, I appreciate that it's all about empathy and appreciation.
One thing that veterans have not received in the last
fifty to sixty years is that proper amount of respect
and appreciation and empathy. The reason why is so the
more the majority of homeless people are on the streets
of veterans is because we as a country have lost
our way on appreciating the people that take care of us.
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And so the approach that we are using is about
that empathy.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Is we get it.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Veterans have seen the darkest parts of humanity and lived
and survived. Some of us can't even talk about it
because it maybe classified top secret or things that we
ourselves just cannot process. And so the people around us,
they just don't get it. Not even the psychiatrists. If
we go to try to talk to civilian psychiatrists, they
don't get it. They just give you a bunch of
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pills and send you on your way, which increases the suicide. Yes,
here at Monn Towers, we get it. Yes, this is
not a place, like I said, just to help a
roof over your head. This is a place to re
build that veteran from the ground up back to the
hero that we know that you already are, and not
who you strive to be, but who we know you
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already are through the empathy. So even in our approach,
you're talking to someone to people who understand the understandable.
You're talking to someone who have lived through the darkness
as well as survived, and we are here as a
community coalescing to build each other up. This is a brotherhood.
We got sisters, we got this is a partnership. It's
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not just the people who run it, it's the people
who participate as a group. So when you come to
one of our properties, whether it's here, whether it's anywhere nationwide,
you're coming home, Yes, and you're going to be greeted
and treated a proper way, the way you should have
been in the last fifty years. Were gonna make up
for that and rebuild.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It a man.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
And I want to just reiterate that for those who
survived the firefights, who have been downrange, who understand what
it is to carry the scars of war, you will
be brought into a community where you're not just tolerated,
but celebrated. And that's what we're doing here in that
first project.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
And with God in the center. Family, Yes, God, Faith,
we're doing this to honor God and we hope to
fulfill His purposes building the Kingdom on Earth. Amen. This
Doctor Drone course, this is Coursenation Dot com will be
continuing to show you more of the facility and we'll
have more shows going on as we develop. Keep you
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posted minute by minute how we're going forward. With your help,
at God's help, we will succeed. Thank you, courtnation dot com.
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You aren't ang your of course nation that your girl.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of course he is, of course the Nation dot com
name broadcast South Care Joshua overseas, Joshua, Hi, and here.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm doing excellent good out of here about fort you're
gonna be here.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're down in Homestead, Florida, and we're in a set
of really magnificent kind of apartment village.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We show you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're creating a new project. This is the Veterans' first project,
and we're gonna take this national. Now, josh introduced you yourself.
You have a great service record. Please let people know
who you are.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, chapel, Joshua, see US here, US Navy Veterans, serve
ninety six two thousand and two, counter terrorism, counter narco terrorism,
founder of Veterans for Trump, Veterans for America First, excited
to be here, guys, talking about how we are putting
our veterans first in America, raising them up, helping them
get to the next level, living here in Homestead, Florida.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Now, Joshua was also a j six step.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
That's right, that's right, Chase six vets all the way, guys.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Three hundred and fifty of US plus served honorably shared
and showed up for President Trump, courageously fighting agains, stop
the steal, and ensuring everybody understood that we stood behind
our president as veterans, and ensuring to get our veterans
back on their feet again. We're also bringing them in
with our group home of Chase six Patriots and making
(01:24):
sure that they get settled and get to their next
level of living as well well.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And so this is pretty interesting because Josh and his
attorney friend, who's Derek Storms. Derek's going to be, by
the way, the general counsel for the Veterans First Project.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He's a marine.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
We love our marines. Gotta have them with us, the
adults in the group.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, so we're forming this organization. We'll tell you in
a minute what it's going to be about.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I want you to know I undone a venter.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I did not serve because when I took my exam
physical for Vietnam nineteen sixty eight, they said a horrible exile.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
They said my skin was too bad to kill Via Kong.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
That's what they said to my father too, with Korean
warfare because of it and World War Two because of
his lungs. But he went on to serve honorably, sir,
just as you have in the intelligence community in guilty.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I want to make it clear because I don't want
any considerations is stolen honor.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I would never do that, of course, not a veteran
DT two fourteen holding is not on your side.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But your service hasn't clear.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, I'm even when I was a kid, I were
some of my own research centers at the university's first case.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Western Reserve and then at Brandice University.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
When I went to Harvard, I did a lot of
intelligence work that was under contract with various agencies. I
never held a federal government position. I want to make
that clear. Okay, now let's get onto our mission here. Yes,
so Josh, what are we going an attempt to achieve
with veterans Veterans First project, the Veterans first project.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
First, we have to house them. Housing first is imperative,
and in units like these are where we're going to
place them. Every units, as you can see, is lined
up in a luxury fashion stainlessteel appliances, luxury units. These
are within what we call fair market rental and we
ensure that it fits within whatever necessary Section eight Housing vouchers.
(03:20):
Housing Choice Vouchers PPP vouchers that we can assist our
veterans in to get back on their feet again. We
must house them first, and then once they're housed first,
then we can help them with their mental, spiritual, physical,
emotional wellbeing and helping them to get to their next
level of living. So first we house them and then
from there, once we get them housed and stable after
(03:43):
a triogion event, then we ensure that we bring them
back to their next level of living, helping them with
their job placement earned benefits, and then plug them into
faith in community because veterans need to be fruitful in community.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So Josh will be CEO of this organization first project,
the Veterans First Project. I'll be chairing. Now, Josh, this
is we're here in the complex.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We are let me saying, I turned around for our
crew here.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Show them the complex out there.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So we're sending on the sixth floor of one of
four of our beautiful buildings.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Here it's our parking deck. It's here.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
We're gonna take you downstairs to our clubhouse and pool area.
But from here we get a beautiful sunset of our
with our neighbors here in Homestead Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's like an oasis, guys. I mean, we have a
luxuries feel.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
We ensure that people when they come here, that they
feel relaxed and that they're in community.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And as you can see, this is all that zero.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
So when I see that zero, what I'm talking about
is we are a structure that can handle seven point
one scale, seven point one Richter scale earthquakes, two hundred
and ten mile per hour wins. The hurricanes will come
through here, doesn't even bother us. People come to us.
Last Hurricane Milton, okay, And we were helping during Hurricane
Milton with on your sixth relief ensuring that we got
(05:13):
food and supports all the way from Tampa all the
way down to Key West. And this was our headquarter
of operation as we were getting food and supplies in
here in our parking deck and distributing out. So not
only are we taking care of our veterans, but we
ensure that we were taking care of our community here
at Modern Towers and Homestead, Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, no, this Josh built this complex and put it together.
Josh had a background, right.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yes, Yes, I'm grateful for my family, for the school
of the family and the School.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Of Hard Knocks has sawt a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, okay, so this will be able to take in.
That's our transitioning out of the military. We have to
have a path in order to get back into civilian life.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Who we do.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
We need to pull them into communities instead of just
seeing them get kicked out of the DoD, We need
to pull them into communities like this, help them get
into the using their earned benefits. A lot of our
guys that come here are zero literally have done nothing
with the VA, have not received any benefits or support
from the VA, even their own benefits or service connected disabilities.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And also the homeless vets are going to come in here, yes,
and homeless vets can be you know, PTSD can hit
when you're in your sixties and who knows.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh yeah, I mean different different times manifest different things
as well. And we've housed already one hundred veterans that
were previously homeless over this year, working with the Miami
VA and our outreach partners and our own outreach program
to get them in from off the streets, get them stable,
and get them into their own lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, I want you know, God is at the center
of this project he is and the whole purpose here
is to have people heal spiritually, mentally, the whole person.
So we're going to have counseling services. We will have
a clinic here, we'll have tell them medicine. We've created
veterans in dot com.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
They'll be lying shortly.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
We're going to be coordinating and working with the VA,
making sure we've got the vouchers designed so they've work
telements and what'll we hear on site be available to
the vets, to everybody in this community. This community, by
the way, can also take people from homes dead. So
we have basically a dual use and open community facility here.
(07:24):
But the whole point is to have this be a
veteran oriented facility.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's right, veteran military first responders.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We welcome you government employees as well, and their families
are eligible for other programs and we can assist them
with their intake first month's rent and last month's runt
as they come in as well.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Ye, law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I mean, this is really for those who provide US
security and depending their freedom, and we're going to honor them.
We need to have this warrior class be treated with
the respect throughout their lives for the service they've given
to us, to our families and our future generations. Now,
joshuait to put putting these facilities all over the country,
(08:04):
is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
We have twenty five other locations already in our sites
because we know the density and the need within the community.
I mean, there's quite frankly one hundred and fifty thousand
homeless veterans throughout America. Those are the real numbers, folks. Okay,
there's one hundred and fifty thousand out there. We're compoundingly
increasing that by twenty percent per year.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So this needs to change.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We need radical shifts, and I believe this is the
new wine skin mindset, and we have to plant here.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We've proven it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We've put in our vets first, and we've housed them
first here in Homestead, Florida.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So I envision will.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Have one hundred and fifty of these centers across the country.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
We're going to build them throughout the nation. They're going
to be all unified in purpose. We're going to function
the same way. We're going to provide the same kind
of services, and they're going to be nurturing places, places
where families are comfortable, where people are protected. They'll be
secure communities, there'll be refuges, refuges to come to.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yes in transition back from military or law enforcement or
first responder or any type of these security operations where
professional Schnomon transition.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Is billion life use even skills they've been given. I mean,
you know, these are highly trained people and these resources
need to be developed in the future so we can
as a nation benefit from all they've already accomplished and
all that they will accomplish for us. Now we're going
to do a very very quick.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Run through here.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I want to show you and Josh show the appliances.
All these are new, brand new of some of these
units have been had the tags on.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Show.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
So this is one of our units that's for as
you can see, stalles, steel, appliances, luxury cabinets. Yes we
haven't even used the oven, microwave. Everything that's necessary for
good upscale living. And let me forget that I have
(10:04):
to pull off my Puerto Rico's.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Life in the beach guys, that's where we are.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Life of the beach, all right, So just say and
this is how from here you have your own entry
exits to a balcony. Every unit has a balcony same
as this. Of course, our view here is a bit
(10:30):
grand voice top level.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Give you guys a little better view of the pan
of this building.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Now, this is a three bedroom, two bedrooms on this side,
and everything is standardized. One bedroom here, bedroom here, large closets,
bathroom and laundry.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
State of the arts, so.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That everyone understands. This is poured concrete. So when I
say net zero, your energy bills one hundred dollars in
this three bedroom unit that's eleven.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Hundred square feet.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Net zero means that our net losses are zero to
our unit.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And with the poor concrete forms, these were able to
be made in a week each floor doc. So as
as soon as the concrete is poured, it starts secure.
And as for those who know about construction, the longer
it sets, the stronger it gets. Now, all of the pipinge,
all the electrical was put in place first, and then
(11:49):
the concrete form was poured. So when you write, quite frankly,
you don't hear anybody underneath us, because it's a solid.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
And look at the tile, guys, Okay, not just getting
in here and putting up garbage.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
What we want is zero next level living for our
service numbers.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
So this is going to be a family environment.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So the entire family is going to be able to
prosper here. And it's also going to be multi racial multicultural,
not because of DEI, because we're brothers and sisters.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's right, because our military is diverse, and for us,
the only color we see are green and Hayes gray
and underway, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Battle fatigues, that's what that's the only color that we see.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So it is an exciting project if we want to
get to it in the beginning of it, it will
be much more here. Joshua almas c S will be
the CEO, and we are very very enthusiastic to be
launching this. Thank God for the opportunity. We're showing a
couple more segments at different parts of the facility, so
(12:50):
we'll be back in a couple of minutes sitting by
the pool and having a nice conversation about recreational activities here.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yes, God bless us speed.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Remember fight, fight, Fight, stay in the fight.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That first all the.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Way, Doctor Joe Corsi, and we're at the second segment
here with corsenation dot Com And we're at the Homestead, Florida.
This is our new facility. We are the veterans first
project dot Com. We just put it together. And Joshua
sus here is our CEO. Joshua Silo.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hello, everybody, chaplin.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Joshuas here and a new person this is This is
another important member of the team. This is y G.
Storm night Storm. I love the night Storm. That's your
real name.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
That's my business name, a professional name. I ran up
a Congress with that name. I've had that name for
forty years. That's my name.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Well, that's a great name. So here we are. This
this is the first development we've done for the veterans,
the whole idea. Here and Joshua, why don't you explain
the complex, how you've developed it where we're sitting.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So we're sitting right now at our clubhouse. You see
this beautiful pool which I like to take in daily,
swim in whenever I get a chance. Right now, what
we are focused on and in net zero production. This
is poor concrete which we brought in this technology from Brazil.
It's never been done before in the United States, so
it took a little time to build. But once it's
done and set and cured. We have a bomb shelter
(14:19):
above ground. You can handle two hundred and ten mile
pur Wins seven point one Richter scale, and it is
net zero luxury quality affordable housing for our veterans first,
and our military compatriots, active duty, and our general population
are now with us as well.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
So y G yes, your project manager here, Why don't
you describe your role here, your vision of what this
property is going to be?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Okay, Well, basically I want to start off by saying
thank you for having me here, and of course I
always good to have my brothers. But when we're talking
about displaced, homeless veterans or people who want a new start,
this come from a very real place. Nineteen ninety two,
I was homeless eighteen years old, didn't really have much
of anything, and I wish that I could have had
(15:09):
a place like this to go because here it's all
about rebuilding the person, not just the veteran, not just
the disabled, but anyone that lives here. So you're gone
through any kind of adversity, especially with the times we
live in now, if you're gone through something, homestead right here,
monetized is the place, and here's why One. Yeah, you
get a roof over your head, it's a nice set
(15:29):
of digs. You got a pull, you gotta gym. It's
a safe place. It's away from Miami proper. You get
a place of isolation, of quietness and peace to rebuild.
Two with the programs that we have, you come in,
I'll give you an assessment and we can talk about
things that have happened to you. You know, in your
life and your childhood, if you served, if you didn't serve.
But whatever issue you were dealing with, whatever the darkness is,
(15:52):
this is a place to dissipate that. Three, we have
the resources to help you deal with whatever the issue is.
As I said, is not just the place to have
a shelter, This is a home to rebuild you. So
whatever you need some counseling, we do interventions here. If
you have strange children, if you're having a strange spouse,
family members, we have a facility of where you can
(16:14):
come even spend the night and rebuild with that family.
Or bring that father in, bring that mother in. If
you're having children who are having issues. We handle a
whole lot of issues here. If it's women men dealing
with relationship issues, these relationship issues. It is what it is.
It's a partamental issues. If you need a recipit place,
this is just it's the place to be. So now
(16:35):
you getting help healing mentally, you getting help kaling emotionally.
But we also have programs where we have organic food
delivered here every single week, So if you're hurting in
the pockets, which most people are in the current economy
with inflation and people using eggs like they used to
do drug dealing eggs and so it's super specive. Okay,
if you need some organic semas once a week, we
(16:57):
have food delivered here for our residents, not just serving
the residence but the community as a whole. And if
you need any further assistance with jobs, we're partnered with
Careersource South Florida. If you need a place to work,
if you need something to help bring some income in
which we all need, we got partners to help.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And if you need to be tightened up for that interview,
want to get.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Your beard tightened up, for your hand tightened up, we
have Miami Barber Institute that comes here on the regular
just to take care of the residents here to get
you ready for that.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Number One interview, so you can reset your life. So
it's all.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
About taking care of the heart, mind, body, and soul
experience to bring it all together to rebuild the person
from the ground up.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Not who people think you need to be, but who
we know you already are. All right, So, josh wat,
this is Veterans First project. We're integrated into the community.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yes, yes, I.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes totally. So housing first is so imperative.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
So we are all about rooting our veterans in community
and helping them to get pulled into community leaders inside
the community. Many of our veterans have been looking for direction,
looking for the right placement for them to be rooted
so they could be fruitful again and whatever endeavor it
is that they want to be a part of. Once
they are rooted, then they get engaged with community as
(18:15):
just as yg was stating. And then we also bring
more community to us as a Vet first initiative and
military first as well as first responder first. They have
the first chance to come in and pick up the
units once they are established. Once they move in, then
we open it up to community and help that community
for their engagement as well. And that's what we've been
(18:35):
all about. So that's what we want to see happen,
is that veterans are integrated into community and as the
leaders that they are, have the chance to raise up
and go to the next level of living.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
And you, Josh, have a background in development. Yes, how
many units do we have here?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We have two hundred and seventy apartments right now in
Phase one, and we have another four hundred units that
we can build that we're planning on breaking route here
the next few months over in Phase two. That will
also include our medical as well as restaurants and commercial space.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
And we're going to build these all over the country.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yes, we are. We're launching nationwide.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Just so happens that right here in the Bible bell
buckle down here in Florida, you know, the southern tip
of America. This is America's bunker. We built the bunker
here for our community, and we're launching all throughout skint
in northern Florida as well as to the west coast.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
We'll go probably one hundred and fifty of these units
as quickly as we can. Yes, and we'll have a
process of setting up the foundation. The foundation will be
Veterans First Foundation. It's going to be a comprehensive effort
led by veterans that available as well to first responders,
police community. Yes, it's an integrated effort. Yes, I think
(19:51):
let's conclude this, but I like you each to give
the vision because this is a This is a lifestyle
business and our business not we're not developers as such,
were lifestyle oriented. To get our veterans who have tremendous skills,
to whom we all a debt that can never be
(20:13):
repaid for our freedom, our safety, security. We want the
valuable resources that are our veterans to have a transition,
whether it's from the military and the civilian life. There's
problems in civilian life back into a productive civilian life,
but everyone who's been trained has great skills, and we
(20:36):
want to honor and value future contribution of our vets. So, Josh,
a few words on statement of purpose.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yes, so our goal is to eradicate veteran suicide in America,
and it must happen here and start here with our
housing crisis. We're in an existential crisis of housing for veterans.
Not only are they under under house, but there's a
lot of homeless throughout them throughout the nation. We have
one hundred and fifty thousand homeless veterans across America and
(21:07):
it's a twenty percent compounding increase every year.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
So with the.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Housing solution as we have here, we have the solution
right now. We can end effectively end homelessness in America
with the support of our candidate of President Trump now
forty seven as well as a community in a PPP
plan that can really be used for the veteran community,
but not just housing, but ensure that we're looking at
the whole veterans yg was speaking about, so we can
(21:32):
place them into their earned benefits and the meaningful jobs,
so they can also be fruitful in faith and in community,
which is what our goal is, is to see our
veterans raised up to be fruitful once more. And this
is happening through our endeavors here in bed First.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
And why she's part of the national management team. You'll
be responsible of the project development nationwide and once your
vision and how that will be done.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Well, I appreciate that it's all about empathy and appreciation.
One thing that veterans have not received in the last
fifty to sixty years is that proper amount of respect
and appreciation and empathy. The reason why is so the
more the majority of homeless people are on the streets
of veterans is because we as a country have lost
our way on appreciating the people that take care of us.
(22:20):
And so the approach that we are using is about
that empathy.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Is we get it.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Veterans have seen the darkest parts of humanity and lived
and survived. Some of us can't even talk about it
because it maybe classified top secret or things that we
ourselves just cannot process. And so the people around us,
they just don't get it. Not even the psychiatrists. If
we go to try to talk to civilian psychiatrists, they
don't get it. They just give you a bunch of
(22:47):
pills and send you on your way, which increases the suicide. Yes,
here at Monn Towers, we get it. Yes, this is
not a place, like I said, just to help a
roof over your head. This is a place to re
build that veteran from the ground up back to the
hero that we know that you already are, and not
who you strive to be, but who we know you
(23:08):
already are through the empathy. So even in our approach,
you're talking to someone to people who understand the understandable.
You're talking to someone who have lived through the darkness
as well as survived, and we are here as a
community coalescing to build each other up. This is a brotherhood.
We got sisters, we got this is a partnership. It's
(23:29):
not just the people who run it, it's the people
who participate as a group. So when you come to
one of our properties, whether it's here, whether it's anywhere nationwide,
you're coming home, Yes, and you're going to be greeted
and treated a proper way, the way you should have
been in the last fifty years. Were gonna make up
for that and rebuild.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It a man.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
And I want to just reiterate that for those who
survived the firefights, who have been downrange, who understand what
it is to carry the scars of war, you will
be brought into a community where you're not just tolerated,
but celebrated. And that's what we're doing here in that
first project.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
And with God in the center. Family, Yes, God, Faith,
we're doing this to honor God and we hope to
fulfill His purposes building the Kingdom on Earth. Amen. This
Doctor Drone course, this is Coursenation Dot com will be
continuing to show you more of the facility and we'll
have more shows going on as we develop. Keep you
(24:30):
posted minute by minute how we're going forward. With your help,
at God's help, we will succeed. Thank you, courtnation dot com.
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