Couey got a job at CHD because of the video he did with Rixey, but Rixey's main claim to fame is that he got Major Joseph Murphy to give the DEFUSE proposal to DRASTIC. After Major Murphy leaked the DEFUSE proposal, he didn't lose his career, but he instead got a job in naval intelligence at the Office of Naval Research, which is the same agency that Couey's ex-boss has worked for in various capacities. In 2025 Major Murphy became the COO of the ONR's Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
Couey's first livestreams were videos he did with George Webb's protege Addy Adds, George Webb's biology teacher Paul Cottrell, and Kevin McCairn.
McCairn's leading memetic warrior on Twitter is a cat lady called RexesRule, who used to work for a unit of naval intelligence called NAVSECGRU, which later became the Information Operations Directorate of Naval Network Warfare Command. Paul Cottrell had a show on a radio network that was operated by a guy from DC who worked in naval intelligence. Addy Adds lived on naval bases in Guam and Okinawa, because his mother worked on the naval bases, and in a book Addy wrote where he profiled his champions of "public intelligence" who had been guests on his show, one of the people he wrote about was the marine intelligence officer Matt Agorist: https://sars2.net/clot3.html#Kevin_McCairns_connection_to_Cottrell_Couey_Kulacz_and_Webb.
