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Veterans See Costs and Risks in Hegseth’s Military Rewind to 1990
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 2, 2025 | Updated 5:12 p.m. ET | Dave Philipps

Posted on 10/02/2025 4:39:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 10/02/2025 4:39:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Hey, it’s the New York Times. They’re still upset that Slow Joe Biden didn’t make this guy/gal a Fleet Admiral.

(My apologies to FReepers with weak stomachs.)

2 posted on 10/02/2025 4:45:18 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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...But former military officers took issue with Mr. Hegseth’s list of policy changes...
3 posted on 10/02/2025 4:46:44 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I loved every line of his speech. I’ve only been without some color of military ID card for six of my nearly 68 years. What he described is what I knew until the last two years of my military service.

Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)


4 posted on 10/02/2025 4:47:56 PM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Being well trained, physically fit, and efficient saves money and reduces risks. What moron doesn’t understand that.


5 posted on 10/02/2025 4:49:36 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Leaning Right

ugh. Helen Thomas is easier on the eyes then that freak.


6 posted on 10/02/2025 4:51:14 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (A sinner saved by Jesus)
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But former military officers took issue with Mr. Hegseth’s list of policy changes,

Weren't these guys part of the problem?

7 posted on 10/02/2025 4:51:31 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. John 8:32. These retromingent, evil bastards are not interested in truth. We have an agenda and how dare you challenge us!
When there are no absolutes to govern society, society becomes absolute.
The NY Slime is a case in point. Hope they repaid the loan from Carlos Slim.


8 posted on 10/02/2025 4:54:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Leaning Right

This is what serious mental illness looks like.


9 posted on 10/02/2025 4:59:12 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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They get a lawyer in the Chair Force to try to argue that DEI, Woke crap and a lack of physical fitness weren’t real problems? uhh....last I checked lawyers in the military are not warfighters. What the hell would he know?


10 posted on 10/02/2025 5:05:34 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Don’t they mean War Secretary?


11 posted on 10/02/2025 5:09:54 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE


12 posted on 10/02/2025 5:10:08 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mr. Christensen was part of the problem that Hegseth wants to fix. Hegseth only wants to go back to 1990? Ok, but I’d prefer 1985 or earlier, before the first Gulf War which began the slide.


13 posted on 10/02/2025 5:16:51 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Our military needs to return to POTUS Ronald Reagan standards meaning pre-1989. 1990 puts it in the Def Sec Dork Cheney era whom with Clinton’s Def Sec gutted our military.


14 posted on 10/02/2025 5:24:28 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: ComputerGuy

All 2 of them were upset with the changes.


15 posted on 10/02/2025 5:30:37 PM PDT by bort
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NEW YORK SLIMES is a filthy liberal rag.


16 posted on 10/02/2025 5:31:42 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Leaning Right

As an enlisted Navy veteran, that always pissed me off. Why would that dude want to dress in dress blues for a woman?

And, he wasn’t in the military, which is even more nuts.

Should have been sent to medical, and got the Klinger discharge. LOL


17 posted on 10/02/2025 5:32:07 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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Physically fit military personnel? Oh the Hugh Manatee.


18 posted on 10/02/2025 5:34:30 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Retromingent= LMFAO...


19 posted on 10/02/2025 5:43:53 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gas light BS. I loved what Hegseth said and the direction the military is headed.


20 posted on 10/02/2025 5:45:27 PM PDT by Hunterb
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