Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to service-members at Yokosuka Air Base in Japan.
“. . . Now, for too long, in a previous administration or iterations of administrations, there was a phrase, it’s the dumbest phrase in military history, and that phrase is, “Our diversity is our strength.”
You see, I look out at this crowd and I see a lot of diverse faces. A lot of faces, black, brown, white, and otherwise. From small towns, from big cities, rich, poor. I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. But I don’t look at you and see who you are based on the color of your skin. I look at you as a fellow American who bleeds red.
Our strength is not our diversity.
Our strength is our common purpose.
Our strength is our unity.
Our strength is our mission.
Our strength is our oath to the Constitution that we will defend each other.
That’s our strength.
That’s what the world sees. That’s what I saw inside my platoon.
That’s what I see across this beautiful ship. Incredible Americans. The real 1%.
Forget about the elites and the 1% and Hollywood and Wall Street and all that.
The real 1% are the Americans who are willing to put the uniform on and fight for something greater than themselves in the prime of their life.
You could do anything else. Yet here you are serving your country. . . .”
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