How Is It Possible That The June 30, 2013, Yarnell Hill Fire Human Factors Perspective Is Exploited To Restrict Our First Amendment Rights of Free Association and Free Speech? (2024)

( www.yarnellhillfirerevelations.com )

Referring to Figure 1. above, author Susan Barsy states: "Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and endings; of gates, doors, and seasons; and all sorts of metaphorical passages. Associated with time and change, the two-faced god, whose gaze takes in both past and future, presides over all transitions, 'whether abstract or concrete, sacred or profane.' He opens and shuts doors with his key, his staff (depicted as a living branch heavy with fruit) symbolizing his power to determine what prospers. From this architect of the new, the month of January takes its name."

Many of us, including this author, worked on some of the very same wildfires as these two former Hot Shots. The alleged Pastor Brad Mayhew, who would become the eventual YH Fire "Lead Investigator" (LI). And the alleged "Judas" Jake Nuttal who became the eventual SWA Regional Fire Operations Director after a formal temporary assignment to the USFS Washington Office! What happened to both of them? Either by choice, or by Agency edict and grooming, or by personal malice, or whatever, they attained their allegedly respective steady rises to infamy, betraying those well established Agency ethics and conduct principles of good leadership, and good mentorship, attained while USFS Hot Shots; then drifting from their solid grounding. However, something untoward apparently occurred along the way, ultimately rocketing them both to become those alleged "chosen"USFS Quislings that are comfortable betraying others, doing what "they" wanted them to do. They allegedly spent several years grooming Nuttal for this power position. Or was this merely an ingrained deviancy within these two to begin with? Eventually, "they"allegedly wanted Mayhew and Nuttal to continue to be at the forefront of blocking this author's ability to share the truth about the June 30, 2013, YH Fire and GMHS debacle - the biggest cover-up, lie, and whitewash in wildland fire history!

Here's an informative and thought provoking InvestigativeMEDIA post by WTKTT questioning whether or not the GMHS were ever officially certified as a Type I HS Crew (https://www.investigativemedia.com/please-begin-yarnell-hill-fire-chapter-xxvii-here/#comment-479183)

“Men, it has been said, think in herds; it can be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds. Project Gutenberg (2008)

Let's explore their alleged ongoing schemings and why it might be advantageous to know more about these alleged "Public Servants." This author alleges that both Mayhew and Nuttal are the epitome of what's become known as the Party Liners, with their tentacles allegedly reaching into everything regarding the June 2013 YH Fire and GMHS debacle. This author also alleges that by pursuing this tactic they are / were likely attempting to create an impervious, impenetrable supremacy in the darkened foxholes of the USFS under the guise of legitimacy. This author further alleges that under the protective canopy of the US Forest Service - in tandem - they have likely conspired, hunted, and identified us as some sort enemy attempting to de-legitimize those that they deemed unfit to engage in and express our solemn Constitutional rights of Free Association, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Press regarding the historical June 2013 YH Fire and GMHS tragedy. This thwarted the required "complete lessons learned"needed to successfully reduce the number of inevitable wildland fire fatalities. Among other things, it likely was to avoid the phrase fostered by Diane Vaughan in System Effects: on Slippery Slopes, Repeating Negative Patterns, and Learning From Mistakes? She is the one who coined the phrases " from the Challenger (1986) and Columbia (2003) space shuttle disasters as the "Normalization of Deviance." Using this as a proxy to the YH Fire, one would think these so-called "experts" (LI & SWA FD) should and would be the ones revealing the truth about the June 2013 YH Fire and GMHS debacle. At a minimum, we should be allowed to speak up and speak out in public forums and advocate for positive changes putting WF and FF safety first instead of allegedly burying facts and the truth as these Quislings likely did.

and his fellow Quisling and Hot Shot"Brother" - the one-and-only YH Fire alleged Pastor Brad Mayhew- would likely have had plenty of time to commiserate and to communicate on-and-off enough with each other over the years. Then the YH Fire began. It is an accepted fact throughout the WF and FF realm and our world-renowned YH Fire Revelations website that there were possibly several firing operations that became necessary on the YH Fire, one of which was alleged to likely have killed the GMHS. However, the SAIT-SAIR chose instead to falsely blame their deaths on the wind shift! These firing operations, especially the Sesame Street and Shrine Corridor areas were treated cavalierly by possible unskilled WFs and FFs under questionable supervision. All the while concurrently and simultaneously working on the YH Fire, both as the Lead Investigator (LI) Mayhew and as a Division-Group Supervisor (DIVS) Nuttall, they had to know this was a reality. This is based on several accusatory public records. Clearly, a permissible inference!

Knowing full well that this author is an outright critic of the YH Fire and GMHS debacle from the beginning, and also a Truth Teller regarding other wildland fire cover-ups, this author would have been alleged and / or considered to be a threat to them based on discussions with Mayhew over the years currying favor with the USFS in various bogus wildland fire alleged investigation / review forums posted on the internet and the WLF LLC Incident Reviews forums, e.g. Pagami Creek Facilitated Learning Analysis (FLA)(2011) fairy tale and the convoluted Saddleback Learning Review (LR) (2013). It was even posted in Wildfire Todaywith this nauseating and obsequious comment from Bill Gabbert (RiP) in the June 20, 2012, Wildfire Today ("The very well done FLA is a must read. Someone should make a movie about this."). And then the alleged nefarious plan(s) to do a real "investigation" on the YH Fire, which he claims he did very well San Diego Safety Summit in 2023. However, he actually denies it in one of his publications and wants to revisit it because he claims that he is the onlyone qualified to accomplish this (Fireline Factors). So well, in fact, that his allegedly former light no longer shines in this dark world; he allegedly chose instead to become likely one of the many darker forces in the USFS world of deception. This author strongly alleges and contends that it is a permissible inference that Brad Mayhew (BM), as the YH Fire Lead Investigator (LI), and Nuttall as the SWA Regional Fire Director (SW-RFD) performing as a DIVS on the YH Fire, either while holding the SWA position or while on a formal detail to the USFS Washington Office, logically follows that the same thing appears to apply to "Judas" Jake Nuttall (JJN): it also appears that he subscribed to all of it and felt and still feels the need to further carry it on to discredit Schoeffler revealing the truth about the YH Fire and GMHS debacle in other forums.

This author confidently alleges and posits the following: (1) Given both Mayhew and Nuttall's respective Regional and / or National affiliations, (2) this author's professional associations with each of these individuals as well as at least some of the same Regional and / or National affiliation opportunities for access and exposure to public records (e.g. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lawsuit), (3) the numerous USDA USFS FOIA and PA Requests filed by this author leading up to the eventual lawsuit, etc.) and (4) the numerous personal and professional opportunities to perpetuate this alleged widespread fraud campaign. This author alleges that Mayhew and Nuttal have engaged in a likely combined, continuous, and almost unlimited collective falsehood, and unprofessionalism to establish the false rationales for discounting their discrimination. Employing an alleged hazy amalgam of guesswork, gossip, falsified information, intimidation, and academic arrogance, the BM and JJN hierarchy slowly and steadily cobbled together a likely personal quasi-judicial, quasi-national bureaucratic Hans and Franz setup with a Machiavellian twist resulting in the bogus SAIT-SAIR.

Figure 3. See the world more clearly, open to different perspectives image. Source: Roland Topor #Criticalthinking#Perspective#Truth, LinkedIn

Really? Please consider our tried-and-trued First Amendment rights: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution passed by Congress Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified Dec. 15, 1791. (American Library Association - First Amendment and Censorship)

From:tana.moreland@usda.gov

P. (626) 698-8623; tara.mooreland@usda.gov

This author has continued pursuing the applicable FOIA Request, however, opted to finally drop the formal EEO pre-complaint because of the USFS failure to provide the USFS Aerial Firefighting Utilization Effectiveness Study (AFUE) records in our lawsuit up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Law in 2017. The logic being that if the USFS is going to violate all manner of Federal Statutes regarding public records as listed here, then they would certainly avoid responding in this author's favor in an EEO Complaint against a favored high level employee as the SWA RFD Jake Nuttal (e.g. "The taking of a public record or document is prohibited by 18 U.S.C. §641. The destruction of such records may be reached under 18 U.S.C. §1361., "The necessary measure of protection for government documents and records is provided by 18 U.S.C. §2071. Section 2071(a) contains a broad prohibition against destruction of government records or attempts to destroy such records. This section provides that whoever: willfully and unlawfully; conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys; or attempts to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate or destroy; or carries away with intent to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate or destroy; any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document or other thing deposited in any public office may be punished by imprisonment for three years, a $2, 000 fine, or both). Several other germane statutes are listed as well. And for perverting the "State's Secret Privilege" (Art. II. S3. 4.3) minus the National Security prong, annotated in this Cornell Law Review link. Given all that, it is this author's professional opinion that the USFS would never rule in our favor on an EEO pre-complaint against two of their alleged cherished, faithful, favorite, and most needed employees to maintain their alleged truth about what we believe is the biggest cover-up, lie, and whitewash in wildland fire history!

Visit our August 8, 2023, Yarnell Hill Fire Revelations (YHFR) post titled: Where are the US Forest Service, June 30, 2013, Yarnell Hill Fire AFUE transcript records really hidden? They are certainly not where attorney Bill Solomon of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) U.S. Attorney's Office (representing the USDA U.S. Forest Service) says they are, (i.e. given to the AZ State Forestry and stored in the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records.

Consider now our July 30, 2023, YHFR post with more insight on the Almighty Reverend Mayhew titled: How are the Alleged "Historical Fiction" Writer John Maclean and the Alleged YH Fire "Lead Investigator" Brad Mayhew Both Off Track About the June 30, 2013, YH Fire? Pt 2

Consider this April 19, 2024, ESPN story (William Weinbaum and Jeremy Schaap) about the US Army Ranger Pat Tillman cover-up, lies, and whitewash titled: Pat Tillman, his mom and the 20-year torment of a friendly fire death. The ESPN article parallels to the June 30, 2013 YH Fire and GMHS debacle are disturbing and remarkable at a minimum.

Nuttall mentions Chris Wilcox, also a former Heber HS, and at the time, the current (2006) Fire Management Officer (FMO) of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Chris Wilcox would eventually become the Chief for the Branch of Fire Management with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) stationed at NIFC in Boise, ID. And according to a May 2023, news release Wilcox became the new Chief for the National Park Service (NPS) Division of Fire and Aviation Management (FAM).

On July 1, 2013, this author, while working on the Papoose Fire within the West Fork Complex near Creede and Pagosa Springs, CO as a Safety Officer, first became aware that the YH Fire and GMHS burnover and fatalities had actually occurred, and also that GMHS "Marsh was at the Boulder Springs Ranch (BSR)" instead of with his Crew; this was from another USFWS supervisor that knew former Heber HS Chris Wilcox, and close friends of Eric and Amanda Marsh.

However, GMHS Marsh's actualJune 30, 2013, location would later be called into question by dint of one of Joy A. Collura's PRRs which included a Yavapai County Sheriff's Office (YCSO) report dated June 30 to July 7, 2013, containing: "inventory list of items to put into safekeeping"for the SAIT "investigators" reportindicating that two YCSO Deputies dated June 30 to July 7, 2013, that calls into question whether the GMHS had, in fact, all deployed their fire shelters together and died together at the alleged DZ and eventual Fatality Site GMHS per the SAIT-SAIR on June 30, 2013.

This is also referred to in the July 2013, YouTube videoof the GMHS DZ News Conference video PFD Wildland Battalion Chief Willis.

PFD Willis admits: “’ … I relive it every day.” The following PFD BC Willis statement is squarely within the confines of the PFD “Prescott Way” of doing things that likely guaranteed their fatal actions.“Like many others … Willis has spent a lot of time asking himself why … ‘They wanted to reengage … Sure, they could sit up there in the black. But if they could try to get back in the game, they were going to. … do we just sit up here and watch it go by? They knew there was an evacuation going on, they knew there were people staying in their houses. So what would the public think? You’re not going to help us? Why did you even show up’” (YHFR - July 15, 2023)

Please refer to the SAIT-SAIRAppendix C: Personal Protective Equipment Analysis(pp. 82-95) READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

The SAIT-SAIR (pp. 45-54) specifically states at least seven renderings of the phrase "will never know" within the alleged "Factual"report. This really is significant, because misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious contemporary, wide-ranging events. Belief in misinformation can lead to poor judgements and decision-making and exerts a lingering influence on people’s reasoning even after it has been corrected — known as the "continued influence effect".The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its to correction (Ecker et al, Nature Reviews - Psychology - 2022)

In addition, please refer to the SAIT-SAIR where the SAIT specifically states at least seven renderings of the phrase "will never know" within the alleged "Factual" report. This really is significant because misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious contemporary and wide-ranging YH Fire and GMHS events. Not only can belief in misinformation lead to poor judgements and decision-making, it also exerts a lingering influence on people’s reasoning even after it has been corrected — an effect known as the "theory of psychological reactance."

Brehm, J. W. (1966). A theory of psychological reactance.Academic Press

Note: Appendix C. ("official" GMHS fire shelter placement) Caution!This link contains very graphic information that may be offensive or sensitive to some readers. Notwithstanding this author's professional opinion that these should be a mandatory element in all future S-130 Basic FF and RT-130 Refreshers, to alert FFs and WFs of the likely outcomes possible when failing to abide by the Rules of Engagement as well as viewing the GMHS fire shelters images and photos, and each of the graphic autopsy reports.Reader and viewer discretion is highly advised regarding these.

Mayhew's SAIT-SAIR continues: "Whether the crew recognized it or not, their decision to go down the hillside from the Descent Point was a decision to sacrifice some of their effectiveness in serving as their own lookouts. Taking a more direct [ER] to minimize exposure in the green generally means traveling a shorter distance and potentially reaching the [SZ] more quickly. Moving down the slope into the box canyon meant the [GM IHC] would no longer be able to see the fire. We wondered: Is it possible that they relied on the rock outcropping as a barrier to fire spread? But is it also possible that the outcropping blocked their view of the fire? We will never know if the crew understood that this route of travel required that they sacrifice some of their capacity to serve as their own lookouts. We will also never know if they understood the calculated risk involved in traversing the final distance to the Ranch without the level of situational awareness that a different vantage point might have afforded." (SAIT-SAIR p. 54) [These are professionally recognized standards, clear ROE violations, permissible inference violations nullifying the SAIT-SAIR's conclusion of doing it everything right, i.e."no indication of negligence, reckless actions [,] or violations of policy or protocol."] See "How was it possible to do everything right and yet 19 PFD FFs died in one fell swoop June 30, 2013?" (YHFR, July 15, 2023)

For further details on one of several alleged firing operations that took place, also consider this 2020 AHFE paper titled: Credible Evidence Continues to Surface Regarding a Likely "Friendly Fire" Incident Along the Sesame Street and Shrine Corridor Area on June 30, 2013." And Figure 8. below.

Consider now several informative InvestigativeMEDIA regular commenter WantsToKnowTheTruth (WTKTT) comments and cross-fade videos: ABC15-clip-18-crossfade video (2018) (https://youtu.be/NSYpnPMfPmc)

Also view the Oregon BIA FMO Colby Drake: We Saved GMHS Buggies (2013). VIMEO video: (http://vimeo.com/48411010) noting this was the third time that someone had to "save" the GMHS Crew Carriers. Indeed, the LI and SWA RFD were aware of these evidences during their Investigations.

Military veteran Brian Mockenhaupt noted in the 2014 article titled Fire on the Mountain noted in The Atlantic: “The Arizona State Forestry Division (ASF) commissioned an investigation team (SAIT) to determine what had gone wrong in Yarnell. ... After the other big wildfires that had killed multiple firefighters in the past century, survivors had been able to fill in crucial pieces of information about on-the-ground conversations and decision making. But the [GMHS] had died without any eyewitnesses.” That is partially incorrect because the two hikers (Joy A. Collura and Sonny Tex Gilligan) witnessed and recorded the fire for the full June 28-30, 2013, weekend with cell phones, cameras, and videos/ And they discerned and heeded those warnings without the benefit of two-way radios and yet they made it safely to their vehicle in Yarnell less than 15-minutes before the GMHS were burned over. Mockenhaupt accurately surmised: “As hard as they tried, however, the [ADOSH] inspectors were unable to answer the question that had stymied the first investigation team: Why had 19 skilled wildland firefighters left the safety of a burned-over area and hiked into a box canyon overgrown with dense vegetation …? ADOSH visited the GMHS DZ and Fatality Site with Collura and Gilligan compared to the tunnel-visioned SAIT and the LI who never expressed any interest to do so.

In their "officially sanctioned" podcast titled: “Reading, Reflecting, and Changing Behavior” September 10, 2021, (link provided) by the WLF LLC Center Manager Kelly Woods and the Plumas NF Graduate Degreed WF Erik Apland talk about Apland's WLF LLC Incident Review Database task to read all of their archived entrapment reports. Woods, in a calculated condescending question asks Apland: "focusing on this, this huge deep dive you've done in these kinds of events ...." [Deep dive? Really? Regarding his expected and presumed neutral, objective research, he instead provided a very narrow-minded insight on those hundreds of investigative reports to match the YH Fire SAIT-SAIR conclusion of no wrongdoing when stating his own conclusions and findings. Moreover, it is rather significant and telling that he totally dodged the subject of the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire (AZ) and yet had plenty to say about the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire (MT), the 1964 Sundance Fire (ID), the 1979 Ship Island Fire (ID) the 1985 Lake Mountain and Butte Fires (ID), the 1994 South Canyon Fire (CO), the 2002 Price Canyon Fire (UT), the 2016 Pagami Creek Fire (MN) and then this is what he had to say about the historic 1933 Griffith Park Fire:] “There's been things like I've heard of Griffith Park, right, that's it, that's about it. I'd heard it, it, that it had happened but I didn't know really anything about it at all, and there are fires in there that I didn't even know that happened never heard their name before you know pretty major fires, ..." One of my favorites in the podcast (35:17) was this use of a fire shelter: "... if you can improve your conditions, and, you know, prevent some burns, or get better air ... I think I've been thinking about this and I think so. Again, you know, I have multiple answers so I have the. I'm going to come up with. What are the scenarios in which I need to be wearing gloves, not having attached to me, but actually have them on my hands, because I realized that I've been in a lot of situations where I should have been wearing them, and I wasn't right. That's one thing that's kind of a really easy, sort of takeaway right, but the, the big thing for me is that it took, reading this stuff, and spending hours and hours with all of this to get to a point where it actually did sort of have the emotional weight, that it would change behavior I believe I mean I haven't been on a fire since it started this so we'll see, I guess, but I do believe that that it will change my behavior, and it took time, but I, you know, there's some really hard things in some of these reports, and when you, when you read through those. In others, that was somebody, right, and, and I think like you said, you know, we, we need to, we honor these people by remembering and learning from them right, whether they were injured or or or passed away in the way of sort of reading all of these and really diving into them is, for me, I think what it took to pass from kind of the, well that's interesting to. This is something that deeply connects with me enough to change my behavior. And that's a hard thing to get to, I think. But that's where you're going to be able to make a difference in yourself, or with your crew, or whoever it is having, finding a way to make that connection, so that it is truly meaningful to you, and not just kind of an interesting part of history. (all emphasis added)

And quite expectedly, there is absolutely no mention in this podcast of the world-renowned June 2013 YH Fire or the GMHS debacle or how effective the tried-and-true Ten Standard Fire Orders and the 18 Watch Out Situations (10 & 18) are toward the goal of Entrapment Avoidance. Once again, the fact that they obviously completely avoided mentioning even once, the most tragic wildfire in modern history is significant and disturbing, fully supporting our contention that the WLF LLC has clearly lost its ethically objective compass; misusing our Federal tax dollars, and straying far from its mandated roots: "A lesson is learned when we change our behavior" and "the LLC operates as a national, interagency, federally-funded organization with interagency staffing. The LLC’s primary goal continues to be striving to improve safe work performance and organizational learning for allwildland firefighters." What lessons?

Consider now the Misinformation Review (2023) authors and researchers Tay, Ecker, Kurz, Hurlstone, and Lewandowsky, distinguish between misinformation and disinformation: "Misinformation - which we define as any information that turns out to be false - poses an inevitable challenge for human cognition and social interaction because it is a consequence of the fact that people frequently err and sometimes lie. However, this fact is insufficient to explain the rise of misinformation, and its subsequent influence on memory and decision-making, as a major challenge in the twenty-first century. ... the term disinformation is often specifically used for the subset of misinformation that is spread intentionally. ... Thus, in this Review we do not draw a sharp distinction between misinformation and disinformation, or different types of misinformation. We use the term misinformation as an umbrella term referring to any information that turns out to be false and reserve the term disinformation for misinformation that is spread with intention to harm or deceive." Tay et al (footnotes removed) [Indeed, it perfectly describes the SAIT-SAIR! Sharing misinformation can also deepen ideological divides that disenfranchise individuals, encourage violence, and potential harm according to the authors, e.g. Eric Marsh Foundation (EMF) Facebook comments posting cryptic, oblique reference to the YHFR authors; then:"let us know where these people live, we crack heads for a living" currying favor with the EMF, curiously falling short of a legitimate FB "threat."].

Considering the above SAIT-SAIR "will never know" assertions, and the Reactance Theory, consider now one of the myriad definitions including the psychological Self-fulfilling Prophecy regarding the Fatalistic Rhetoric of "will never know" claims. "A self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the phenomenon of making a prediction or expectation of something and this “prediction” becomes true because "of one belief that it will." ... and behaved in a manner that created this. This suggests that a person’s belief can influence their actions. The principle of this phenomenon is that people create consequences regarding people or events, based on their previous knowledge towards that specific subject. Additionally, self-fulfilling prophecy can be applied to negative and positive outcomes."

Consider now the official time recording records (Fire Time Report (FTR) and Crew Time Reports (CTRs) suggesting that Jake Nuttal worked on the June 2013 YH Fire. AZ (Archive Library) along with the Lead Investigator

Consider now what this author alleges to establish a potentially serious ethical and legal issue for the SWA RFD - allegedly setting a good example for all his followers. And well documented based on Joy A. Collura's Public Records Requests (PRR) acquired Crew Time Reports (CTR) that the alleged "Judas" Jake Nuttall worked on the YH Fire as a Branch I - Division Group [DIVS] Branch Contingency (O-59) on a nine-day tour of duty from July 2 to July 10, 2013 (P3HL96); (July 2 0530-1200 1230-2130 H; July 3 0530-1200 1230-2130 H; July 4 0530-1200 1230-2130 H; July 5 0530-1200 1230-2130 H; July 6 (0530-1200 1230-2130 H ("Hazard pay for uncontrolled fire"); July 7 0530-1200 1230-2130 H ("Hazard pay for uncontrolled fire"); July 8 0530-1200 1230-2130 H; ("Hazard pay for uncontrolled fire"); July 9 0530-1200 1230-2100; July 10 0530-1200 1230-2100; July 11 0700 "Travel back to home unit." All of Nuttall's CTRs indicated that he supposedly took a half-hour "Bona fide compensable meal period" each day pursuant to "29 CFR 785.19a" requiring him to be "completely relieved from duty." (NWCG Fire Business Mgmt. Handbook). And each CTR was approved and signed by either an OPS 2 or OPS 1.

Consider now this IM post from WTKTT responding to a question about the YH Fire "Lead Investigator" Brad Mayhew on InvestigativeMEDIA (IM) by the YH Fire and GMHS debacle Eyewitness Hiker Joy A. Collura, on the June 2013 YH Fire: "WantsToKnowTheTruth says June 22, 2019 at 4:01 pm - You will NEVER be wrong about the Yarnell SAIT “arriving at a conclusion FIRST… and then creating a narrative to support it”. Brad Mayhew can keep yelling “Bullsh*t!” at you ( in public or private settings ) all he wants to. He is just personifying Shakespeare’s quote about when guilty people are usually the loudest ones in the room. “Me thinks he doth protest TOO MUCH.” It is OBVIOUS that is what the [YHF] SAIT did… and you will never be wrong. It was all about LIABILITY, really. Publish the TRUTH… and get out the checkbook. Say you CAN’T BE SURE ( even though you have evidence you are hiding ) …. and maybe it will just “go away”. What they forgot was that once you ask the entire nation ( indeed, the world ) to mourn with you and pay homage to dead people…. SOME of us ( a LOT of us ) aren’t ready to just swallow your bullsh*t. SOME of us ( a LOT of us ) that stood in lines and went to memorials and donated to widow’s funds actually want to KNOW what the [f**k] HAPPENED. And the YEARS that go by don’t change that desire. What the heck… a little more Shakespeare, anyone? "Foul deeds WILL rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them… to men’s eyes. - Hamlet (1.2.256)."

Consider now the formative and manipulative journey of the alleged one-and-only "Judas" Jake Nuttall on a USFS website (Oct. 1, 2021) titled "On the Move" - "Jacob Nuttall has accepted the position of acting director for Fire and Aviation Management [FAM] in Washington, D.C. Nuttall is currently the deputy fire director for the Southwestern Region [SWA FAM] the program." Mr. Nuttal is moving right along making new friends while betraying others!

Consider an extreme case, in a Stanford University student paper tilted: "The Theory of Groupthink Applied to Nanking" - "The leadershipof a group can also lead to groupthink, since complete control over the group by the leader can cause an environment in which no one states their own opinions. When extremely rigid leadership is implemented within a group (such as occurs in the military) group discussions are often tightly controlled. Any dissenting opinions tend to be suppressed through intimidation or be simply not allowing the dissenter to voice his objections. If a leader in a group situation makes his opinion clear at the outset of the discussions, group members will on many occasions refrain from expressing any disagreement out of respect for the leader’s authority."

"Consistency Versus Licensing Effects of Past Moral Behavior" Elizabeth Mullen ( School of Management, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192; ´ email: elizabeth.mullen@sjsu.edu. And Benoıt Monin Graduate School of Business and Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305; email: monin@stanford.edu

Biblically, by contrast, this author has intentionally chosen to focus on and travel The Narrow Way - “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. You will know them by their fruits. - “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them." Matthew 7: 13-20 (NKJV)

This Quote, ostensibly attributed to Marcus Aurelius, is a reminder that we should avoid taking everything we hear or see at face value. (PolitiFact)

Further consider what this author firmly believes and adheres to regarding the Feb. 2023 event: The "First Amendment protects some of our most cherished rights, including religious liberty, free speech, a free press, the right to assemble, and the right to petition our government for a redress of grievances. Together, these essential rights are connected to the freedom of conscience—protecting our ability to think as we will and speak as we think." (Constitution Center.org)

Lawsuits - "All your lawsuits against the USFS": Schoeffler v. U.S. Dep't of Agriculture Case Text.com (2018),

FOIA Requests - "All your FOIA Requests": The FOIA Project - Freeing information through public accountability.

Fred J. Schoeffler v. USDA No.18-16371 D.C. No.2:17-cv-00055-GMS Justia ('NOT FOR PUBLICATION" and "This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3." And why is that?

Firefighter Fights Feds for Radio Records From Deadly Arizona Wildfire - "The U.S. Department of Agriculture is knowingly hiding some radio traffic recordings from the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire near Prescott, Arizona, instead telling a firefighter who sued to get the recordings that they were turned over to state investigators and made public shortly after the fire, the firefighter’s attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Friday." (Courthouse News)

9th Circuit hears former Payson Hotshot chief Fred Schoeffler’s appeal for aerial firefighting records of Yarnell Hill Fire - InvestigativeMEDIA (February 12, 2020)

Where has the USDA/USFS hidden the June 30, 2013, Yarnell Hill Fire AFUE transcript public records? (YHFR Nov. 6, 2020)

Fred J Schoeffler, the USFS Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness (AFUE) Study Was Utilized On The Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013, and recorded Air To Ground (A/G) radio transmissions that exist as audio and written transcripts. These recordings and transcripts (3-ring binder) are being withheld and denied that they even exist. I just came across a few "key" public records basically affirming they "do" in fact exist ... So then, how can the U.S. Forest Service ethically and legally continue to deny these Public Records exist? (YHFR October 15, 2018)

FOIA Requests - All your FOIA Requests: The FOIA Project - Freeing information through public accountability.

Consider now the June 2013, USFS Saddleback Tree Fatality Learning Review Orwellian Doublespeak in their "Footnote 9. There were occasions in the Review where the difference between actions and decisions could not be separated, Thus the term action / decision was used, as it could have been either one, or combination of both." (p. 14) Allegedly, Pastor Brad Mayhew, on the Data Collection Team blatantly ignores that these are totally separate words with entirely separate definitions.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Are Godlike - Reginald Sarpong

On the contrary, the National Hot Shot program (mostly USFS Crews) is a National Resource effort beginning in the USDA USFS Washington Office, and therefore the SWA USFS Regional Fire Staff has some say in the HS funding issue, however, Nuttal would be unable to control it totally as their SWA HS Steering Committee Chairman made it sound. There is, as this author learned, a difference between someone being afraid of their job as stated by the former SWA Steering Committee Chairman and his alleged safety concerns.

Most definitely include Judas Jake Nuttall into that category based on his smarmy podcast, i.e. "Friendship with the man of specious airs; (having a false look of truth or genuineness ) friendship with those who flatter and friendship with the glib-tongued: ( artfully persuasive in speech ) these are injurious.” Tim Cotten (Medium 2020) The Philosophy of Three Friendships A Simple Lesson About Sincerity by Confucius

Everyone has a boss or supervisor - everyone. Unfortunately, the SWA WFs and others must work under the direction of the SWA RFD with his alleged questionable, unstable leadership skills knowing now that their alleged "leader" drank the Kool-Aid of this "chosen one," almost a twin "Brother" of, and very similar to the "Chosen One", i.e. YH Fire Lead Investigator and alleged Pastor Brad Mayhew in our July 30, 2023 YHFR post.

Given the dismal character of wildland fire politics, cries of the new and improved national fire service Agencies have a hollow ring. No need to be blithe in the manner of this alleged Janus, the new year will proceed as expected from the years we’ve just had. An impotent USDA - captive to an unproductive quest for narrow-minded servile employees agreeing to their self-imposed dominance as their minions, will continue using the ongoing diversionary national and international "Show Trials" of eras past.

"In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major studios pledged to never again employ a known Communist or unrepentant fellow traveler. The declaration marked the onset of the blacklist era, a time when political allegiances, real or suspected, determined employment opportunities in the entertainment industry. Hundreds of artists were shown the door—or had it shut in their faces." (Show Trial, Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, Thomas Doherty, Columbia University Press).

This perverse manipulation also includes subtle manifestations of George Orwell's 1984 "Two Minute Hate."A credible commenter states:"The Two Minutes Hate is an important piece of Party propaganda, which bolsters support for Big Brother while simultaneously providing an opportunity for disgruntled, irritable Party members to vent their negative emotions. The Party understands that the citizens live oppressed lives and are in need of an outlet to vent their rage. By creating a scapegoat like Emmanuel Goldstein and depicting images of enemy armies marching on Oceania, the Party successfully focuses the citizens' negative attention outward, which strengthens their control and grip over the population."This author and those of us that cherish our First Amendment rights of Association, Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press stand up for our beliefs, unafraid to challenge "the system"are typically subjected to such machinations, manipulations, ridicule, and much more.

Edward Bernays quote - Often referred to as “the father of public relations,” Bernays in 1928 published his seminal work, Propaganda, in which he argued that public relations is not a gimmick but a necessity stating: "These new techniques of regimentation of mind, ... had to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course."

"If past is prologue, the latest round of perp walks and show trials, far from administering justice or engendering real economic reform, will be much closer to what the ancient Romans called diversionary “bread and circuses.” Check out the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE; www.thefire.org), a 501(c)(3) dedicated to the defense of individual liberties on campus and elsewhere.

FIRE incorrectly refers to our Nation as a "democracy," i.e. "mob rule" because our Founding Fathers abhorred "democracy" as evidenced in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere. FIRE does a notable job of correctly stating: "Freedom of speech is a fundamental American freedom and human right. It is essential for democracy, scientific progress, artistic expression, social justice, peace, and our ability to live as authentic individuals. Yet, across our nation, this cornerstone of our free society is under serious threat. Far too many of us fear sharing our views or challenging those that seem to dominate. "Freedom of speech is a fundamental American freedom and human right. Nearly 6-in-10 Americans believe our nation’s democracy is threatened because people are afraid to voice their opinions. FIRE therefore defends and promotes the value of free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture. Our vision is an America in which people overwhelmingly believe in the right of others to freely express views different from their own, and expect their laws and educational institutions to reflect and teach this belief. Founded in 1999 as the [FIRE], for over 20 years FIRE has worked to advance the cause of free speech and the values of the First Amendment on our nation’s college and university campuses. We have done so through our commitments to sincere nonpartisanship, courageous advocacy, and an enduring belief in free speech as a force for good."

As noted in a previous YHFR post, this author will rarely - when necessary - integrate some select facts, ideas, and quotations from the writing of others into and within this author's own ideas in [brackets] as follows. "Underlying it all is a decline in cultural, institutional, and social leadership and the dying off of what was formerly an effectively unifying 'Old School' method and model of wildland firefighting. All pleaded for a renewal of civility, comity, and patriotic service, exhorting a new generation to assume the burdens of enlightened and disinterested leadership, in some cases pleading to us from beyond the grave. To my mind, motivating America’s wildland fire's “natural leaders” to resume their traditional role in promoting communal well-being and an enlightened leadership is a crucial task that will determine whether this year and beyond improves upon a personal and politically dismal 2023."

The Dunning-Kruger effect is when a person's lack of knowledge and skills in a certain area cause them to overestimate their own competence. (The Decision Lab - Why can we not perceive our own abilities?)

The Dunning-Kruger Effect applies to the LI and SWA RFD. And this historical (1720-1722) quote below describes the LI and RFD to a tee!

Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters No. 33 (1721) Between November 1720 and December 1723, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon wrote an extraordinary series of 144 weekly essays for the London Journal, taking their pen name, Cato, from the Roman statesman who had defied the emperor Julius Caesar. (The First Amendment Encyclopedia)

Transcribed using the Otter app This author certifies that this written transcription is approximately 95% to 97% accurate after editing context, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and readability while providing it as a nearly complete rendering of the content that was remotely broadcast.

More importantly, it is this author’s professional opinion, based on several untoward professional experiences, and now validated by professional psychologists, that what you are about to read is Judas Jake Nuttall’s and other alleged Quislings normal feigned attempts at sounding sincere when, in fact, they allegedly use their finest Machiavellian skills of deception.

This author challenges Nuttall's assertion here: "And I just can't say enough about the program itself, the Cadre that you have over the last 20 years, ..." because that statement clearly has a double meaning. Often what frustrated supervisors say when asked for a reference check on an undesirable employee that they'd rather get rid of. (Grammarphile).

Consider now the germane subjects of Arrogance, Aggression, and Assertiveness (08/03/2012) by Heiner Karst - Let's Talk Coaching. This author alleges Nuttall, in his current status, follows the Arrogance and Aggression prongs while personally avoiding the Assertiveness prong.

"Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity." Sitting Bull (c. 1831 - 1890), Hunkpapa Sioux. (Native Blood, FB)

Figure 15. The politically incorrect, say-it-like-it-is one-of-a-kind Former Happy Jack and Santa Fe Hot Shot Crew Boss and Supt. and eventual USFS Criminal Investigator Gary Olson Circa 1976ish Source: Olson FB

"Authors Note. Correction. This guy can't have sh*t-for-brains because back in the day, all Regional Directors of Fire and Aviation Management were old men. So...this guy must be some kind of Superstar? The only other explanation is that he sold his soul to the Devil (top-tier managers) at a very early age to get where he is at that fast. That's the problem with going above a certain level in the government, you have to be willing to sell your soul to the Devil. I wonder what he is doing with the extra 30 pieces of silver he gets every two weeks in his paycheck in exchange for endangering the lives of wildland firefighters who are still on the fire line."Why do people believe some inane, power-mongering supervisors’ lies even when they have been proven false? A sense of power buffers individuals from the stress of lying and increases their ability to deceive others. Fred Schoeffler is the longest serving Interagency Hot Shot Crew Boss in history (with something like 27 years) and that SHOULD mean something since he SHOULD be held in the highest esteem by everyone in the wildland firefighting community writ large in an unimpeachable emeritus and elder statesman Hot Shot Crew Boss status including wunderkind, petty, vindictive, and malicious U.S. Forest Service Southwestern Region (R3) Director of Fire and Aviation Management Jake “Judas” NUTTALL with his deeply flawed, myopic, and potentially fatal (to young wildland firefighters) "Kill the Messenger" mentality which are all serious character flaws he learned from his Machiavellian mentor, the previous Southwest Regional Fire Staff Duane Tewa. Judas NUTTALL is the current point person to retaliate against and muzzle Fred because of his outspoken views while speaking truth to power on the systemic lies and cover up of the destruction of the [GMHS IHC] on the Yarnell Hill Fire (YHF) of 2013. The most recent example is Judas NUTTALL prohibiting Fred from attending and presenting an important White Paper pertaining to wildland firefighter safety at February’s Southwest Area Hotshot After Action Review at the Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center, which is the type of thing Fred has always done since he retired (although he still went out to fight wildfires as a Safety Officer until they blacklisted him because of his stating truth to power about the YHF) as the longest serving hotshot crew boss in history with his emeritus and elder statesman status fully intact until he started speaking out on the YHF lies and cover up. ... And that’s you know…wrong. And so---I only have one question, WHAT THE f*ck IS WRONG WITH JUDAS NUTTALL? And this is a rhetorical question because I already know what is wrong with Judas NUTTALL, he wants to keep the 30 extra pieces of silver he gets in his paycheck every two weeks for betraying all past, current, and future wildland firefighters, but especially hotshots. But if you don’t want to listen to Fred, I have just shown you a couple of photos of what the typical mountains look like where hotshots are routinely sent to fight wildfires armed with nothing more than hand tools in the middle of summertime in the Sonoran Desert where the ambient temperatures often exceed 110 degrees, and you SHOULD go in his place. I would go with you, but I'm tired. And more to the point, I don't need to because I already know that Fred knows exactly what he is talking about regarding the YHF lies and cover up. So... But in the meantime, if you want to read up on what Fred thinks about the YHF lies and cover up, a lot of his thoughts can be found here, https://www.yarnellhillfirerevelations.com/ I am an anecdotal storyteller and even though I try to keep the embellishments down to a bare minimum for historical accuracy, some people still say my stories get better every time I tell them whereas Fred is the real deal. I haven’t been on the fire line since 1984 or in the greater wildland firefighting community since 1988. Fred has never left the fire line, but people like Judas NUTTALL are doing their best to force him off it and that will be a bad thing for wildland firefighters everywhere since wildland firefighting safety is Fred’s special expertise and passion. ... My dear former competitor (not friend, we were never friends, and we still aren't as I haven't seen him or communicated with him other than by email since the early 1980's on the fire line although we haven't lived very far apart for the last year) Fred's expertise and passions also extend to Fire Behavior Analysis, Meteorology and Fire Weather Forecasting as a well-rounded brainiac and Warrior Nerd. I would have made the effort to go see “The Professor”, but the way I remember it, talking to Fred was what I imagine talking to Spock from Star Trek would be like. And to even make the situation more uncomfortable, Fred doesn’t have a sense of humor since the U.S. Forest Service didn't issue him one because they didn't think he would need it as a Hot Shot Crew Boss. On the other end of the spectrum, we have professional lackey, flunky, sycophant, yes-man and management li'l bitch (non-gender specific) U.S. Forest Service Southwestern Region (R3) Director of Fire and Aviation Management, Fire Staff Officer Jake “Judas” NUTTALL. ... But heads up just in case you decide to go in Fred's place, he always climbed up to where the Hot Shots worked on the mountains to break their balls etc. (but you know…in a gentle and caring way) about following all of the safety rules and guidelines all of the time, which is something I can't say about very many other Safety Officers since I never saw one (or at least very many) of them outside of fire camp where they spent most of their time huggin’ the salamanders, sippin’ hot coffee and bullsh*ttin’. And just FYI, breakin’ Hot Shot's balls etc., even in a gentle and caring way can be a risky business. Me? I have to go see a man about some horses, but I will be back. ... Oh...and one more thing. Fred and I are on the right side of history when it comes to the Yarnell Hill Fire Disaster of 2013 and the subsequent cover up. Jake “Judas” NUTTAL and his ilk are on the wrong side of history about that God forsaken wildfire and a lot of other issues. And time will tell the truth as only it can. So... God Bless America and all of our wildland firefighters but especially our Hot Shots because that’s all I ever was or wanted to be on the fire line."

This author draws from the well documented paper by the following renowned researchers and scientists Sidney Dekker, Mark Layson, and David Woods because of the notable parallels in their attempt to reveal the same adverse dynamics (e.g. moral injury, betrayal, the tension between humility and hubris, ambiguity, uncertain judgements, and more) facing the US Hot Shots in general, and the SWA Hot Shots in particular. And also the theme of this post. Their paper is titled Repentance as Rebuke: Betrayal and Moral Injury in Safety Engineering (Sci Eng Ethics. 2022; 28(6): 56) Relevant excerpts follow below Figure 16.

"Following other contributions about the MAX accidents to this journal, this paper explores the role of betrayal and moral injury in safety engineering related to the U.S. federal regulator’s role in approving the Boeing 737MAX - a plane involved in two crashes that together killed 346 people. It discusses the tension between humility and hubris when engineers are faced with complex systems that create ambiguity, uncertain judgements, and equivocal test results from unstructured situations. It considers the relationship between moral injury, principled outrage and rebuke when the technology ends up involved in disasters. It examines the corporate backdrop against which calls for enhanced employee voice are typically made, and argues that when engineers need to rely on various protections and moral inducements to ‘speak up,’ then the ethical essence of engineering—skepticism, testing, checking, and questioning—has already failed. ... One of the key calls is the fostering of moral courage: the courage to act on one’s moral convictions including adherence to codes of ethics ... the immense difficulty and ethical challenges for engineers in the face of organizational malfeasance. ... if an engineer needs ‘moral courage’ simply to do their job, then there is a major moral and systemic (or, as Herkert and colleagues say: ‘macroethical’) failure whose remedies cannot sustainably or reliably come from front-line moral heroism ... Early in 2021, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety engineer based in Seattle, publicly denounced the federal regulator’s role in approving the Boeing 737MAX—a plane involved in two crashes that together killed 346 people. What drove him to speak out while still employed was his renewed faith, deeply intertwined with an active repentance for his role in failing to prevent the disasters (Gates, 2021). ..."

"While the safety engineer’s exclusion may have acted to mitigate feelings of remorse and guilt, he was the most experienced engineer in the regulator’s Seattle office. He admitted afterward that he “felt a strong conviction that I should help with healing the families of the 737 MAX crashes” (Gates, 2021, p. 13). He indicated how his regret arose from his failure to deploy the responsibilities of his role and expert knowledge. Sharpe (2004) reminds us ... [that] it is a reminder of forward-looking accountability, linked to goal-setting and moral deliberation which themselves are embedded in particular roles that people occupy. Prospective responsibility, or forward-looking accountability, is oriented toward deliberative and practical processes involved in setting and meeting goals. In the case of safety regulation, the overriding goal of the entire system is avoiding harm to other people. A failure of forward-looking accountability, then, can be seen here as not deploying the system’s role or knowledge in the service of risk reduction and harm avoidance."

"The Moral Injury - ‘Moral injury’ is increasingly recognized as one consequence when one’s ethical framework is broadsided or even broken by the actions of others or oneself. The term was first used by Shay in the mid 1990s to describe the “betrayal of what is right by someone in legitimate authority in a high stakes situation” (Shay, 2014, p. 181). Moral injury can be triggered by a self-accusation that is caused by something one did or failed to do. But things can also be done to someone, who suffers moral injury as a result. This means that a betrayal by those in authority within manufacturer or regulator would have been but one aspect of the moral injury. Moral injury also arises when one transgresses one’s own moral compass—leaving what Litz et al. (2009, p. 697) describe as “the lasting psychological, biological, spiritual, behavioral and social impact of perpetrating, failing to prevent, or bearing witness to acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations.” The safety engineer’s would in that case have been a double moral wound.

Consider now some of former Santa Fe HS and self-acclaimed author of the first YH Fire and GMHS book, Kyle Dickman's informative and instructive, lengthy Outside online (October 10, 2018) article as he ostensibly takes on the controversial underground "Honor the Fallen Group." It was titled: What We Learned from the Yarnell Hill Fire Deaths. The article's subtitle went even further - One of the worst tragedies in the history of firefighting prompted little change to a culture that regularly puts young lives at risk. A few seasoned veterans are working to fix that." ["Underground" is variously defined as "a group or movement organized secretlyto work against an existing regime." Exactly what they're doing]

Dickman: "In January 2014, 11 veteran firefighters from the nation’s biggest fire agencies—the vanguard of fire, as they were described to me—met in Yarnell. They hiked along the route the hotshots had likely taken from the ridge into the canyon where the 19 died seven months earlier. They arrived at a startling conclusion.“We could see ourselves making the same decision they’d made,” said Travis Dotson, a member of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (WLF LLC), a federally funded organization that helps firefighters improve their performance. Around the time of the field trip, Dotson and others formed an underground group called Honor the Fallen. Included in its couple dozen members were some of the highest-ranking firefighters from the various agencies in the wildland fire business: the [USFS, BLM, and NPS.] Their goal was to make sure Yarnell Hill, the most publicized event in wildland firefighting history, forced some much-needed changes to the job’s outdated culture. Three years later, they tried to spark “an age of enlightenment” in wildland fire. As [former aerial-delivered WF] Dotson distilled the shift in mindset, “Before Yarnell, it was about getting better at fighting fire. After, it’s been about getting better at accepting death.” [Dotson's next statement is actually quite accurate because people continue to do stupid stuff, things break, etc. All we can really do is reduce those incidence numbers based on "complete lessons learned" from honest, truthful investigations.] “Making it through a fire season without a death is a statistical impossibility.” Dobson goes on to falsely conclude: "Over time, the relationship between tragedy and rulemaking sewed into the culture the belief that firefighters die only when they break rules." [On the contrary, "the rules" as you call them, have worked just fine for many years. And to the best of this author's knowledge, there has NEVER been a wildfire where they did everything right and killed anyone, especially 19 PFD GMHS. NEVER! In addition, this offer still stands. Name me one wildland fire where the FFs or WFs did everything right and yet someone died or was killed by someone. There are none! Although Naysayers claim the YH Fire as an example because of the SAIT-SAIR conclusion. And there are those that strongly believe that Marsh, at a minimum, along with Steed, because Steed was in charge of the GMHS at the time, were both culpable for their deaths, and Marsh should have been charged with manslaughter. (Investigative Media) Moreover, there are many more of us retired HS Supts and other WF Supervisors that believe that Marsh committed suicide once he realized that his bad decisions were going to get him and all his men killed. So, he played the Captain going down with his ship" card to make him appear as the hero. This author alleges that his widow would have the audacity to label him the "National Hero." However, for all intents-and-purposes it has disappeared from the Internet].

Consider our July 2023 YHFR post titled "Was the Prescott Way Prescott FD "hero" and "sacrifice" rhetoric a causal factor of the June 30, 2013, YH Fire and GMHS fatalities?"

Notwithstanding Dobson's alleged bold brown-nosing f*ckless assertion attempting to justify what the GMHS did above, this author holds that it is an accurate statement to conclude otherwise, i.e following the tried-and-trued Rules of Engagement (ROE) works every single time! It was the June 2013, YH Fire and GMHS debacle, and Federally-funded Serious Accident Investigation Team (SAIT) Report (SAIR) "conclusion" that bastardized the ROE and validated Dobson's assertions about the YH Fire and GMHS tragedy. This author alleges that the SW Area, former Heber Hot Shot, Regional Fire Director "Judas" Jake Nuttall turned Quisling, so he must go along to get along and toe the Party Line to curry favor with his supervisors. This author also alleges that Nuttal uses the "Divide and Conquer"method of control to ensure others will see that "speaking " is dangerous and will not be tolerated. This is contrary to the Radical Candor article (link) that encourages and promotes "creating an environment where people feel empowered to speak truth to power. This kind of culture can only be achieved when managers understand that it is authentic relationships and not power that drive them forward."

"But in writing that book I became aware of employing a new and unprecedented way of thinking". The German philosopher Georg Hegel famously said, “The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” So the, we continue to make the same mistakes. "Not to be outdone in the Orwellian project of reconstructing the past to promote nefarious objectives in the present." (American Civil War student)

"It is often said that history is a story told by the winners. It might be more accurate to say that those who tell their story as history and get others to believe it thereby make themselves the winners." It is the notion that the LI and SWA RFD are promoting. Consider (The Holocaust Explained)

"Then 2015 happened. That year, more acres burned than at any point in recorded history, and the [USFS] lost seven firefighters. That agency is one of many in today’s ballooning wildland fire business, but as the oldest and largest, it sets the industry’s culture. The chief at the time, Tom Tidwell, responded as tradition dictated. “I don’t want another fire season like 2015” says John Phipps, director of the (USFS’s) Rocky Mountain Research Station. Tidwell had called him at home in Colorado late one November night and said, “I’m directing you and the leadership team of the [USFS] to come up with a way that we don’t have that kind of a season ever again.” He gave Phipps’s team six months to come up with a way to stop [FFs] from dying on the line. “We have 10,000 firefighters,” Phipps remembers thinking. “Well, gee, what can we do in five to six months, get it deployed, and have it make a difference so that everybody goes home in 2016?” [Three separate links are provided immediately below in the three separate Life Fire Initiative (LFI) words"] It focused on “reducing the amount of unnecessary risk” to firefighters’ lives. Tidwell’s directive reinforced that the [USFS] “accepted no loss of life”and suggested 11 more rules. (A couple examples: “Under no circ*mstances will mop-up be allowed under snags or fire-weakened trees ... Firefighters are prohibited from working alone without radio communications or easy access to emergency medical skills.”) It provided firefighters no tools to assess risk or determine how much of it was necessary."

How a grad student uncovered the largest known slave auction in the U.S. Jennifer Berry Clawes "The silence of the archives is deafening on this ... What does that silence tell you? It reinforces how routine this was.” Bernard Powers, founding director of the College of Charleston Center for the Study of Slavery. (ProPublica - The Current)

"The team’s reaction to Mayhew’s investigation was particularly strong. He thinks that’s because their investigation did what few others have before. They acknowledged that firefighting is high risk and people sometimes die doing it. In the final report, they didn’t cast blame, which made it harder to learn from the deaths and angered many people. [There is a CA Municipal Fire Captain qualified Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN) that refused the offer to be the YH Fire SAIT FBAN because of their misplaced stance blaming the fire weather (a tertiary causal factor) for the GMHS deaths instead of his confidently held, more accurate, well-documented Friendly Fire operations along the Sesame Street and Shrine corridors in and around Yarnell based on several YHFR posts and human factors conferences and websites. Listed at least twice in our YHFR website, Academia.edu, Research Gate, this author's Google Scholar account, several in InvestigativeMEDIA, Google Books, and many more]

"The uncertainty behind what drove those men, in view of that terrifying fire, to drop into a wickedly steep box canyon has generated the conspiracies that still haunt wildland firefighting today. Whatever it was that pulled them of the ridge, after years of making necessarily risky decisions on the fire [GMHS] missed something on [the] Yarnell Hill [Fire]" [How about standing up to the alleged odious GMHS Supt. Marsh who was threatening Steed on their discreet Crew Net channel?] In hindsight, it’s a hard decision to fathom. For his part, Mayhew tries to stay out of the swirling theories. [They are by legal definition, truly conspiracies, i.e. "an agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, along with an intent to achieve the agreement's goal. "because of your alleged cover-up of what really happened and why. And no longer a theory ecause they actually occurred]. On this point, he’s bullish.“They were trying to save lives,” Mayhew says. “They knew people were threatened down there. That must have weighed on them. Whatever it was that pulled them of the ridge, after years of making necessarily risky decisions on the fire [GMHS] missed something on [the] Yarnell Hill [Fire]" ”[These statements virtually match what PFD BC Willis stated in his July 24, 2013, YH Fire GMHS Deployment Site News Conference video].

This author's legal Declaration "Under penalty of perjury" follows: Informal EEO complaint regarding alleged illegal, disparate, and unethical treatment of Fred J. Schoeffler by the SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall, regarding the February 22 and 23, 2023, USDA USFS 2023 Southwest Area (SWA) IHC Workshop at the Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center, 11550 W. Glendale Ave, Glendale, AZ Declaration of Fred J. Schoeffler re: the above decisions and actions of SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall. I, Fred John Schoeffler, make the following declaration in lieu of an affidavit as permitted by 16 A.R.S. Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 80. Being a former USFS employee and former SWA Hot Shot Steering Committee Chairman, I am aware that this declaration may be filed with the US District Court of Arizona; and that it is the legal equivalent of a statement under oath. 1. I submit this declaration on behalf of myself based on my personal knowledge of the various 2023 decisions and actions by SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall. 2. I relied in good faith on my interpretation of the emails and conversations with SWA HS employees regarding the above from mid-January to mid- to late-February. I was asked to provide a copy of my PowerPoint presentation which I did in a PDF format. 3. I made motel reservations at the Aloft Glendale at Westgate, 6920 N 93rd Ave, Glendale, AZ (602-883-3500) as directed in email correspondence. 4. However, during a brief phone conversation on February 21, 2023, to me at my residence in Pine, AZ initiated by the SWA HS Steering Committee Chairman Mark Adams - acting as SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall’s go-between advised me of the SWA Regional Fire Director’s decision to prohibit my attendance and ability to make my presentation at the 2023 Southwest IHC Workshop scheduled for February 22-23, 2023, at the Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center at 11550 W. Glendale Ave in Glendale, AZ. My date and time were designated as February 22, 2023, between 1600-1700 on their agenda, along with Rich Dolphin, the retired Smokey Bear HS Supt. However, Dolphin would be allowed to attend the meeting and make his presentation while I was prohibited. 5. This February 21, 2023, phone conversation with the SWA IHC Chairman ... consisted of him informing me that (paraphrasing): ‘they said … you are prohibited from attending because of all your lawsuits against the USFS, all your FOIA Requests, and your persistent speaking truth to power attitude.’ I asked [him] who “they” was, and he replied that it was “Jake Nuttall.” I asked [him] if he pushed or responded back to him, and he told me: ‘we all have supervisors and bosses we work for and we need these guys to get what we need to do our jobs.’ 6. And then, between February 22-23, 2023 - based on comments made to Fred J. Schoeffler by the SWA IHC Chairman ... the SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall; Director, Southwestern Region 3 Fire & Aviation Management (FAM) took the following action(s) to illegally prohibit me from attending and delivering my SWA IHC-approved PowerPoint presentation (in a PDF format) at the 2023 Southwest IHC Workshop scheduled for February 22-23, 2023, at the Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center in Glendale, AZ, a Homeland Security facility. 7. However, former USFS employee and Smokey Bear HS Supt. Dolphin was allowed to attend the meeting and make his presentation on many of the same areas of concern contained in my presentation. 8. Schoeffler stayed at the same motel as the SWA IHC Workshop participants and rented their Conference Room to present to approximately 15 out of the 40-50 SWA IHC participants my Power Presentation in a PDF format titled: “Has It Always Been This Way? When Was It That Everything Profoundly Changed in Wildland Fire? Are you the new generation willing and able to answer those questions? And then actually do something about it to effect worthwhile change? Or just leave it be and lose all that we have worked for?” 9. SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall; Director, Southwestern Region 3 FAM knows full-well that Fred J. Schoeffler is an outspoken critic of the fatal June 30, 2013, Yarnell Hill (YH) Fire and Granite Mountain HS (GMHS) Crew fatality, researching, writing, publishing, and presenting about this predictable and preventable tragedy in various national and international forums since 2018, including several RT-130 Refresher presentations at the same Glendale Regional Training Facility at issue. 10. And that SWA Regional Fire Director Jake Nuttall; Director, Southwestern Region 3 FAM knows full-well that Fred J. Schoeffler is boldly Christian, utilizing numerous Bible quotes in his various forums and postings dedicated to reducing the number of wildland fire fatalities due to all manner of human and psychological factors by providing research and education to wildland fire agencies, educators, firefighters, and the general public. 11. These various forums and postings include Google Scholar and those listed below in 11. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WeaMSJkAAAAJ&hl=en ) 12. Research Gate, Academia.edu, annual Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) International Conferences, Yarnell Hill Fire Revelations website, and Project 10 & 18 International website, and other forums. 13. In the event this goes to trial, I retained the PierceColeman Law Firm at 7730 E. Greenway Road Suite 105 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 and 2812 N. Norwalk Suite 107, Mesa, AZ 85215. (602) 772-5506; Please refrain from contacting them. (jon@piercecoleman.com). I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed in Pine, Arizona on this 5th day of April 2023 with an electronic signature. Fred John Schoeffler - Project 10 & 18 International President I certify that on April 6, 2023, I submitted the above by email to both Diedre Smith at Deidre.smith@usda.gov, and Nancy Foster at Nancy.foster@usda.gov. Fred John Schoeffler Signed: Fred John Schoeffler [End of Schoeffler declaration]

Author and researcher James Coe Jr. writes (Hamilton Place): I'm going to expose disparate treatment gone wild inside a federal agency. I'll expose how the feds violated my earned veteran's rights.I'll reveal how during the administrative appeals process the federal government failed to show just cause. Discover the dirty little word that will land you on the NSA watch list. What happens if the feds breaks the law and you stand your ground will shock you."

(https://nela.ced.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Book-Summary-%E2%80%93-The-21-Irrefutable.pdf)

An initial internet search for the phrase "defending yourself against false accusations" revealed several hits. This author chose the Cohen Law Office (linked) one titled: Steps to Take When a Person Makes False Accusations Against You. This author truncated some key points below.

Clearly, this author boldly chose them all - clearly the "remain calm" one based on Fire Order #6, subscribing to this unknown author's quote: "And to stand his ground and defend himself, lessen the impact the accusations have on your overall life and well-being, challenge the credibility of the individual who made the accusations, hire an attorney, challenge the credibility of the individual who made the accusations, expose both of his accuser’s history of lies or other facts, find his own witnesses who could testify on the witness stand in support of his version of events, develop a defense strategy and assert the proper defenses, and turn the charges around."

Figure 24. Oath of office Source: 5 U.S. Code § 3331 - Oath of office