“A hit on him feels like a hit on many of us.”
By Lt. Colonel in the Army who has a popular account on X under the name @InfantryDort
The thing that people don’t seem to understand about the attacks on Hegseth is that they extend to many of us.
Congress and the media leverage attacks at the man directly for what he says more often than not.
They attack his faith.
Blunt language.
His demeanor.
Other more serious criticism includes calling him a war criminal.
What normal people don’t understand is that this hits different for the GWOT generation in particular.
It leaves many of us asking questions like: do they think I’m a war criminal too?
I talk like Hegseth. Am I a deeply unserious person too?
I pray to God and have invoked prayer before battle. Am I worthy of their scorn too?
So the attacks are more than partisan hit jobs.
In many ways, they are hits to us all. Because most of them are about his character and who he is as a person.
One could argue that it’s just politics. I argue it’s something else.
Because Hegseth is the living embodiment of our frustration as GWOT vets. What he is angry about; WE are angry about.
Many of us in the military have suffered under the jackboot of divisive policies and restrictive ROEs for far too long.
So a hit on him feels like a hit on many of us.
I hope that explains the visceral reaction you’re all seeing in support of the man.
We back him because we know exactly why he is the way he is.
The thing that people don’t seem to understand about the attacks on Hegseth is that they extend to many of us.
Congress and the media leverage attacks at the man directly for what he says more often than not. They attack his faith. Blunt language. His demeanor.
Other more serious criticism includes calling him a war criminal. What normal people don’t understand is that this hits different for the GWOT generation in particular.
It leaves many of us asking questions like: do they think I’m a war criminal too? I talk like Hegseth. Am I a deeply unserious person too? I pray to God and have invoked prayer before battle. Am I worthy of their scorn too?
So the attacks are more than partisan hit jobs. In many ways, they are hits to us all. Because most of them are about his character and who he is as a person.
One could argue that it’s just politics. I argue it’s something else. Because Hegseth is the living embodiment of our frustration as GWOT vets. What he is angry about; WE are angry about.
Many of us in the military have suffered under the jackboot of divisive policies and restrictive ROEs for far too long.
So a hit on him feels like a hit on many of us. I hope that explains the visceral reaction you’re all seeing in support of the man.
We back him because we know exactly why he is the way he is.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) November 6, 2026
Photo above: L-R: Cindy Kwitchoff, STARRS webmaster; Mike Rose, STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel (USAFA ’69); Secretary of War Pete Hegseth; retired Air Force Lt. General Rod Bishop (USAFA ’74), STARRS cofounder and Chairman of the Board Emeritus
STARRS with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon event in October where Air Force Brig. General Melissa Cunningham (USAFA ’96)—who was forced to resign for not taking the Covid vax—was reinstated by Hegseth who administered the oath of office to her.
Secretary Hegseth told her in opening remarks, “What a wonderful thing it is to be standing here right now with you, with the stance that you’ve taken. Not only did you take a private stand in a very principled way as a warrior of conscience, but you led the way for others … and you stood courageously beside your principles on your faith, which truly speaks to your character and is exactly, precisely, the kind of person we want to be bringing back.”
STARRS’ Mike Rose (USAFA ’69), who has been providing legal assistance to servicemembers negatively affected by the vax mandate, was her lawyer working on her case. She thanked him profusely.
During the Secretary’s remarks, he also recognized STARRS and said the information we kept providing to him while he was at Fox News about the CRT/DEI/Wokeness problems in the military led to him writing The War on Warriors: Uncovering The Cultural Chaos Threatening Our Military, which caught the attention of President Trump. The rest is history. Your support of our mission ended up restoring the military back to merit, warfighting and common sense, leading to record recruitment and moral.
It was a great honor to meet Secretary Hegseth, who is doing such an exceptional job. He is so aligned with our two missions of eliminating the divisive CRT/DEI/Woke agenda and ideology from the military and eliminating the Covid vax mandate/finding remedies for those negatively affected by the mandate. In October of last year:
SecWar @PeteHegseth gave THE absolute best speech in the history of Pentagon. It was so powerful and covered everything STARRS has been advocating for the past 4+ years regarding merit in the military and against the divisive woke DEI agenda. Thank you Pete! Your speech is music to our ears. Watch this video on repeat:
https://t.co/uVACmqAQhx
— STARRS (@STARRSmission) October 1, 2025
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