Texas Republican Congressman Wesley Hunt (USMA ’04) joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share his thoughts on Army Secretary Christine Wormuth saying Republican criticism of woke initiatives in the military is partially to blame for the recruiting crisis the U.S. Army is currently experiencing.
“So whenever you have an 18-year old young man or woman that wants to dedicate their life to this country, the spirit of that person does not care about pronouns. They don’t care about wokeness. They care about potentially giving their lives to defend freedom and to defend this country. That’s what they want to do.
So you stop appealing to those types of people when you are more concerned with changing names or buildings, pronouns and woke ideology. And you cannot deny that. This has happened over the course of the past few years.
And I’m going to tell you, when I was at West Point back in 2000, when I served this country from 2004 to 2012, when I was in flight school learning how to fly the Apache helicopter, at no point in time were we talking about pronouns. We were talking about deploying and fighting our nation’s wars. We’ve got to get back to that.”
Plus, Rep. Hunt pushes back on the Biden administration’s attempts to pander to different minority groups. Fox Radio
Wesley Hunt was born and raised in Houston, TX in a military family and is a proud alumnus of St. John’s School. Upon graduation from St. John’s, Wesley accepted an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
In 2004, he received his commission in the U.S. Army and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Leadership and Management with a Field of Study in Mechanical Engineering. After West Point, Wesley spent eight years in the Army as an Aviation Branch Officer and AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter pilot.
Wesley’s service included one combat deployment to Iraq, and two deployments to Saudi Arabia where he served as a Diplomatic Liaison Officer. While in Saudi Arabia, Wesley served as a liaison officer representing the U.S. Government in missions involving the Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Corps.
Upon completion of his military service and honorable discharge as a Captain, Wesley attended Cornell University and earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) and a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (M.I.L.R.).
Wesley is a lifelong conservative and is an active member of the community who has dedicated his time in military service and volunteer work to protect our country and improve the Houston area. He and his wife Emily have three children, Victoria, Olivia and Willie Parish Hunt II.
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