"For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for the wrong reasons based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts, said Hegseth, who fired Gen CQ Brown, an African American, as chair of the joint chiefs of staff in February, and has dispensed with the services of several high-ranking female personnel. Hegseth boasted of remov[ing] the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department."
"He added: No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction or gender delusions, no more debris. Fat troops are tiring to look at, Hegseth said, as he ordered commanders to crack down on a lack of physical fitness. It's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops."
Gen CQ Brown, an African American, was fired as chair of the joint chiefs and several high-ranking female personnel were removed. Social justice programs, DEI offices, and identity-month observances were eliminated and labeled ideological garbage. Climate change initiatives and diversity-related activities were de-emphasized and characterized as distractions and delusions. Appearance and grooming standards were tightened, banning beards and long hair and enforcing a return to uniformity. Commanders received orders to crack down on physical fitness, with public criticism of overweight troops and insistence that promotions be based on merit and war-fighting performance.
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