New Secretary of Defense Shocks Host w/ His Brutally Honest Answer That Is Guaranteed to Offend (video with partial transcript - Hegseth is just the nominee of course)

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 14:23:05 | Updated at 2024-11-22 13:42:37 1 week ago

New Secretary of Defense Shocks Host w/ His Brutally Honest Answer That Is Guaranteed to Offend (video with partial transcript - Hegseth is just the nominee of course)
y - The Rubin Report ^ | Dave Rubin, Pete Hegseth, Shawn Ryan

Posted on 11/14/2024 6:22:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Here's the transcript of that part of the video where Hegseth is speaking:

[Hegseth speaking about fixing the military] There's a chance to course correct, but it would take a new Trump administration going after it really hard.

Shawn Ryan: How would they correct it?

Hegseth: Well, first of all, you've got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and you've got to bring in a new Secretary of Defense. Any general or admiral involved in any of the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) or "woke" initiatives has to go. Either you're in for warfighting and that's it, and that’s the only litmus test we care about. You've got to get DEI and CRT (Critical Race Theory) out of military academies, so you're not training young officers to be indoctrinated in this type of thinking.

Then, set the combat standards back to what they were—say, in 1995. Just make those the standards. As for recruiting, hire the guy who did Top Gun: Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people who want to serve.

There are lots of other ways to identify who gets promoted and why, but there's a need for an ethos change. People don’t want to serve because they don’t trust that their senior leaders have their best interests in mind in combat. I know mistakes were made on our tours, all over the place, but at least I had a sense that my senior leaders were committed to completing the mission for the right reasons. Maybe there were strategic differences and other issues, but that trust was still there.

Now, that trust is broken, and you have to re-establish it by putting no-nonsense warfighters in those positions—people who aren’t going to cater to socially correct garbage.

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1 posted on 11/14/2024 6:22:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux

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