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From firing generals to limiting women in combat, Hegseth hints at possible Pentagon shakeup
Breaking Defense ^ | November 13, 2024 at 3:25 PM | Ashley Roque

Posted on 11/14/2024 5:50:40 AM PST by Fish Speaker

WASHINGTON — “Going sideways” is how Fox News host and National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth, announced last night as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, recently dubbed the state of the Pentagon.

The pick of Hegseth, who lacks extensive experience in the defense or foreign policy sector, caught many off guard, prompting a slew of questions about how he might approach the job overseeing the military and its over $800 billion budget.

While a host of questions remain, Hegseth recently filmed an episode of the Shawn Ryan Show that dropped just five days ago. There, while promoting his new book, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free,” he offered a peek at possible priorities in the Pentagon’s top civilian post.

Here are five key takeaways, in the prospective Pentagon chief’s own words.

(Excerpt) Read more at breakingdefense.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ashleyroque; dei; hegseth; petehegseth; secdef
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Can they successfully accomplish their mission parameters?

Your liberal slip is showing.....

21 posted on 11/14/2024 7:03:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Fish Speaker

It seems that there may be some reservations.

The guilty of wrong things are the first to scream no fair.

Frogs in the pot


22 posted on 11/14/2024 7:17:57 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Fish Speaker
It seems that there may be some reservations about Hegseth for SecDef at the Pentagon.

Yea, they all work either in the pentagon or in the pro-war lobby.

23 posted on 11/14/2024 7:20:22 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Fish Speaker
Women have only been allowed to serve in all military capacities since the start of 2016. However, they are required to pass the same physical requirement as their counterparts.

That's a LIE.

24 posted on 11/14/2024 7:37:57 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Repeat Offender; All

If you go nudge nudge wink wink they meet the same standards as men.


25 posted on 11/14/2024 7:40:16 AM PST by Reily ( )
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To: lurk
These are not radical moves. Recall that Truman told MacArthur he was done, and Lincoln had to drop some generals. Trump was preceded 64 years ago in reassessing active duty Generals.Gen. George C. Marshall Eliminates the “Dead Wood”=The Army Chief of Staff and His “Plucking Committee”

He established what was called the “plucking board” or “plucking committee.” It was composed of six retired officers headed by his immediate predecessor and former boss, Gen. Malin Craig. Its task was to review the efficiency ratings of the older officers – particularly colonels in their sixties and near retirement who could not withstand the rigors of combat command – and weed out the worst to make room for younger, more fit officers.

26 posted on 11/14/2024 7:50:56 AM PST by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: Petrosius

When I was in I was posted at Ft’s Dix, Ord, Benning, and Bragg. I honestly do not recall ever seeing a female at any of those posts except for some nurses. Now I see woman DI’s screaming at male recruits and screeching cadence on a PT run [ where everyone is wearing sneakers or running shoes , no boots] . Not exactly the training we recieved back in the 60’s 70’s, and certainly not our fathers in the 40’s and 50’s..


27 posted on 11/14/2024 8:06:22 AM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: RoosterRedux

You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what has gone wrong with the military. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together could see it. The military leadership of today has totally lost the plan and forsaken their primary mission.


28 posted on 11/14/2024 8:34:30 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: Fish Speaker
There are a whole bunch of really good people who have suffered the last many years in humiliated silence to hold on to what little they have left. They need to be found and preserved and promoted. They have earned recognition. They are the people who have persevered to preserve what war fighting capabilities we have in spite of their so-called leadership.

You can easily identify most of them by the smile on their faces that they have in anticipation that retribution and revival is at hand.

29 posted on 11/14/2024 8:34:46 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: Fish Speaker

After April 1975 the Chair Borne Rangers in the Pentagon no longer needed war fighters and firmly planted their butts in power and are highly skilled in office politics. Pete is going to have a fight on his hands.


30 posted on 11/14/2024 8:43:27 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: central_va

“Your liberal slip is showing.....”

I want only the best people for the job. If you can successfully do the job, I don’t care who or what you are. What I do care about is flaunting your differences and forcing other people to accept it, or else. Then I’m not too kind or friendly.

The military is about discipline, honor and respect. If you cannot do that, then you do not belong in the military. So, if you want to be a tranny, go ahead. But you perform according to your birth sex and not your feelings and need to dress like a woman to feel loved.

Yes, I do have a liberal slip and granted, sometimes it shows. If you are going to act like a soldier, dress like a soldier and fulfill your obligations, when you go home at night, you want to put on a bra and sing Madonna songs, have at it. But when it is time to work, you do just that.

One last thing, gender altering surgery is not something the military or the government should even remotely entertain. You want to cut off your johnson, and play little girl do it on your own time with your own resources.


31 posted on 11/14/2024 9:06:49 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
So, if you want to be a tranny, go ahead.

No one wants to live, eat, sleep shower and deploy with them. No one.

32 posted on 11/14/2024 9:10:22 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: EandH Dad

Pete Hegseth vs Courtney Massingale... I know from experience who I will support. We need to play “whack-a-mole” with the “perfumed princes of the Pentagon”.


33 posted on 11/14/2024 10:02:15 AM PST by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction? )
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To: Fish Speaker

I don’t think this is a “hint” at all. He got a mandate from the man we mandated to shake it up. (Admirals in dresses, c’mon man!) Read Pete’s book if you want to see what he is going to do, it gets pretty obvious in just the introduction.


34 posted on 11/14/2024 11:20:58 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: Vaduz

“The guilty of wrong things are the first to scream no fair.”

TRUTH.


35 posted on 11/14/2024 1:01:57 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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