"In the days before Pete Hegseth stepped onstage to address the hundreds of generals and admirals he summoned for a mysterious meeting outside Washington, D.C., officials at the Pentagon joked that the defense secretary could have saved a lot of time and money by making his remarks via email instead. As it turns out, what Hegseth delivered at Marine Corps Base Quantico could very well have been a copy of his 2024 book, The War on Warriors,"
""Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading, and we lost our way. We became the 'Woke Department,'" Hegseth told an auditorium packed with senior brass. "Not anymore." "No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate-change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before and will say again, we are done with that shit," Hegseth told the officers."
Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to Marine Corps Base Quantico, obliging costly travel at taxpayer expense. He delivered a forceful address that rejected diversity initiatives, DEI offices, identity months, accommodations for women, and climate-change programs. He criticized senior officers and promised to end policies he labeled as "woke," including measures to hold "toxic" commanders accountable. He denounced punishment for minor mistakes and vowed broad reversals to align the Department of Defense with MAGA priorities. The speech marked an aggressive push to remake military culture and policy under his directives.
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