Part of the speech given by SecWar Pete Hegseth today talking about the changes in military culture:
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TRANSCRIPT:
“I’d like to think last year’s Quantico speech was liberation day for leaders, for you to be the apolitical, hard charging, common sense, no-nonsense, constitutional leaders that you joined the military to be.
This stuff, it’s not rocket science, but it is a revival. The power is back in the hands of commanders and NCOs, not lawyers and HR reps.
Telling someone to get in shape or shave or fix their uniform or start busting their ass, that’s not discrimination. That’s leadership.
We’ve ended the poisonous culture of risk aversion and empowered leaders at every single level to simply enforce standards.
The only focus, as you know, in your formations should be training, readiness, accountability, discipline, and lethality. And when you pursue those things, you don’t have to walk on eggshells.
No more social engineering, no more weaponized IG policies.
The complainers, the ideologues, and the poor performers are no longer in the driver’s seat.
No more silly PowerPoint trainings or drag queen shows.
No more diversity quotas.
No more gender pronouns, no more identity months.
Only the warrior ethos.
And I know you feel it because I’ve been to your units and met with your troops. It has transformed entire formations as it was intended to do.
But it’s worth saying again so that the fake news understands it: We are no longer the woke department or the weak department.
Simple translation of that: No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.
Just warriors. Just tough, ready, committed troops.
The War Department, as you know, is colorblind, gender-neutral, and merit-based.
Or, as the president likes to say to me, “Pete, central casting. I want central casting.”
The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.
Diversity is NOT our strength. Unity is our strength. Because that’s all that really matters when the missiles are flying.
You see, the delusional media will downplay all of the progress of the past year.
But this group right here knows how real and how important cultural change is and has been.”
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