Posted on 09/30/2025 9:32:39 AM PDT by TheRef
Today, Secretary Hegseth delivered a historic speech to America's generals and admirals. To describe this as a game changer is perhaps an understatement. Timestamps to the major points in the speech follow. The President also spoke. A separate article detailing his speech will follow later.
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loved it when he said no more “men in skirts”...that’s going to leave a mark...
Gonna leave a skirt mark.
Or fat generals. Also, combat arms positions will have to pass fitness tests based on the male standard. Winning!!!
Hegseth is a long overdue civilian general.
LOL, and no more “beardos.”
Not bad, good summary.
How many are on team Davos vs. team USA?
Loved how owned the “we’re done with that sh*t” declaration. Very Patton like.
Fixing ‘decades of decay’
Promoted too many leaders based on race, gender, so-called firsts. ‘We became the Woke Department, but no more’
We are removing the ideological garbage. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, climate change worship. ‘We are done with that shit.’
Standards must be uniform, gender-neutral and high. Meet the standard or you are out. Every combat job returns to the highest male standard only.
If the Sec. of War can do regular hard PT, so can every member. It’s tiring to see fat troops, generals and admirals.
No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. If you let the small stuff go, the big stuff goes.
Demanding high standards is not toxic leadership.
Undertaking a full review of so-called toxic leadership.
Neither war, the weight of your rucksack or the enemy care if you’re a man or a woman. We want women to serve, but physical demands of certain jobs are no longer negotiable.
Eliminating the walking on eggshells culture.
Merit will be the sole basis for promotion.
I fired a number of senior officers because they created the Woke Department
If my words today are making your heart sink, you should resign.
Is know that most of you feel the opposite, this makes your hearts full.
We have entire departments dedicated to diplomacy, but we do the military side. Focus just on that.
Anonymous online complaining by troops is cowardice.
There is no world in which high-intesity war exists without pain, agony and human tragedy. But we are done losing warriors because they weren’t properly trained.
Defense is something you do all the time. War is something you do sparingly. We are preparing warriors.
Pete Hegseth gave an outstanding speech and the top brass got the message loud and clear.
Now we can hope that the WOKE ones either resign or are fired.
Amazing video. Went to one link, thinking I’d skip around, and was so compelled I couldn’t leave the speech to look at others in the timeline. I’ve never seen such a silent room so full of people.
War stinks. Unfortunately it is sometimes a necessary foul odor for which we should be prepared beforehand. Whining after defeat isn’t pretty or useful.
Hegseth may be a civilian, but he is the PATTON OF OUR TIME!
I was sceptical at first of Pres. Trump’s pick of Pete Hegseth. Today our new Secretary of war confirmed I was wrong. He spoke from the heart and it did not appear he was using a teleprompter. Along with the destruction of Iran’s nuke facilities I believe he is one for the books. You da man, Pete!
His speech today was the modern equivalent of the Patton speech at the beginning of that movie!
I wonder how many no longer have a job after today
I’m hoping that the warriors will no longer be unarmed while on the military bases...
Only one thing was missing: there should have been a split screen -- and the other screen should have been focused on the audience. There are too many woke flag officers, and they need to be made famous.
LIKE CHARLIE KIRK——THIS IS A LEADER————
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