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Austin on Hegseth Proposing Firing Joint Chiefs Head over DEI: People Must ‘See Themselves’ in Leaders, Brown’s Strong
Breitbart ^ | 11/21/2024 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 11/21/2024 7:52:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview with NBC News aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded to Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth calling for the firing of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. over his support of diversity initiatives by stating that “I think it’s important that young officers, young soldiers, young sergeants, be able to see themselves in our senior leadership.” And stating that Brown is “one of the most competent officers I’ve ever worked with.”

NBC News National Security and Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube asked, “Your likely successor has also said recently, the U.S. has to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs because of his support of diversity initiatives. How would Captain Lloyd Austin have felt about a statement like that out of the incoming secretary of defense?”

Austin answered, “Captain Lloyd Austin would be very concerned. Courtney, I think it’s important that young officers, young soldiers, young sergeants, be able to see themselves in our senior leadership. This is the third time that I’ve served with Gen. Brown directly. He’s one of the most competent officers I’ve ever worked with.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: austin; browns; dei; firing; hegseth; jointchefs; leaders; strong
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Go away already
1 posted on 11/21/2024 7:52:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Austin gets to join the unemployment line. With CNN and MSNBC going T. U., that line is getting longer . . .


2 posted on 11/21/2024 7:54:25 AM PST by MCSETots ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Idiot Austin will be fired and held accountable.


3 posted on 11/21/2024 7:55:31 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Secretary of DEI Lloyd Austin


4 posted on 11/21/2024 7:56:19 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Austin lacks credibility. He isn’t competent; I don’t trust his judgment as to Brown’s competence.

DEI promotions and participation trophies for the likes of these have clouded their minds. Away with them all.


5 posted on 11/21/2024 7:57:02 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MCSETots

It should be DIE...because that’s what it is doing to America.

And now DEI needs to die.


6 posted on 11/21/2024 7:57:04 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He really needs to quit now. Nobody will miss him.


7 posted on 11/21/2024 7:57:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ “I think it’s important that young officers, young soldiers, young sergeants, be able to see themselves in our senior leadership.” Austin

No. That’s not true. What’s important is defending and protecting the constitution and anything involved in achieving that

Austin thinks…. There’s the problem. I’m sure he took effort to not say he ‘feels’. Which is all this really is. There’s no room for these opinions of his.

Out.


8 posted on 11/21/2024 7:57:17 AM PST by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He’s one of the most competent officers I’ve ever worked with.”

Coming from the ultra-incompetent Lloyd Austin, that statement rings kinda hollow.

9 posted on 11/21/2024 7:58:39 AM PST by Migraine ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“be able to see themselves in our senior leadership”

************

Total BS. Wonder what consultant sold him that drivel? Its no wonder the military is such a mess.

Leadership is about motivating people to do things, not appealing to their personal feelings and emotions.


10 posted on 11/21/2024 7:59:13 AM PST by Starboard
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To: tennmountainman

REMF traitors
Just like the ones running Viet Nam


11 posted on 11/21/2024 8:01:23 AM PST by TStro (Come and take it!)
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To: Starboard

How’s that recruitment working out for him?

EC


12 posted on 11/21/2024 8:01:41 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Austin’s remark is flat out racist on the face of it. Plus it assumes racism in all others.


13 posted on 11/21/2024 8:02:14 AM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: 1Old Pro

We’re talking about a sec Def that disappeared for days and nobody knew where he was and nothing happened.....he won’t quit.....he will stay until the very last minute to do as much damage as absolutely possible.


14 posted on 11/21/2024 8:03:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Starboard

A lot of the white ones are DEI too, along with most of the black ones.


15 posted on 11/21/2024 8:04:20 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Nervous Tick

“Austin lacks credibility.”

************

He certainly didn’t set a good example of accountability with his little disappearance stunt. He’s simply not a leader.


16 posted on 11/21/2024 8:05:16 AM PST by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s lying about everything. These are the most incompetent and evil people....Our foreign policies are de facto sabotage on America...We’re 35 trillion in debt, our lawless border are now a national security timebomb...

Everyone charged with protecting/securing our country should be FIRED!


17 posted on 11/21/2024 8:06:45 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The sad thing is, Brown was a very competent officer. But he gave into race resentment and homosexuality. If not for that he would have been a competent choice.

But whatever Austin, himself a DEI hire, thinks, the incoming President gets to choose his own people who support his direction.


18 posted on 11/21/2024 8:07:06 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Blah, blah, blah! 🙄


19 posted on 11/21/2024 8:09:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How can anyone interview this clown when he’s wearing three masks?


20 posted on 11/21/2024 8:12:07 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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