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  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Cleans House: Fires All Pentagon Advisory Committees, Including Seat Held by Obama Crony Susan Rice

    04/25/2025 2:40:51 PM PDT · by george76 · 101 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | Apr. 25, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has formally terminated the service of every member sitting on the Department of Defense’s advisory committees. Based on the information available on the website as of Thursday, the now-defunct panels included several well-known Democrats and Bush-era Republicans. Janine Davidson (Chair) – Former Under Secretary of the Navy under Obama. A staunch Democrat and longtime proponent of Obama-era military reforms, now steering Pentagon policy advice. Michèle Flournoy – Held major Pentagon roles under Clinton and Obama; often discussed as a potential Secretary of Defense under Hillary Clinton or Biden. Colin Kahl – National Security Advisor to...
  • Pentagon to restart gender-affirming care for transgender service members

    04/25/2025 10:29:59 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 38 replies
    The Hill ^ | 4/24/25 | Ellen Mitchell
    The Defense Department will resume providing gender-affirming care for service members, a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate transgender individuals from the U.S. military. A Pentagon memo dated Monday and revealed Thursday states the department will restore surgical procedures and cross-sex hormone therapy to individuals, including dependents of troops, as first reported by Politico. “Service members and all other covered beneficiaries 19 years of age or older may receive appropriate care for their diagnosis of [gender dysphoria], including mental health care and counseling and newly initiated or ongoing cross-sex hormone therapy,” according to the memo, signed by Stephen...
  • BREAKING: Department of Defense Branch Chief Caught on Undercover Video Calling President Trump “Illegitimate” RESIGNS

    04/24/2025 5:36:22 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 65 replies
    X.com ^ | 7:03 PM · Apr 24, 2025 | The Gateway Pundit✓ @gatewaypundit
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-department-defense-branch-chief-caught-undercover-video/Nicolas Turza, the Department of Defense Branch Chief who was caught on undercover video calling President Trump “illegitimate” has resigned. The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a Defense Department Branch Chief attacking President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Nicolas Turza, a Department of Defense Branch Chief, called President Trump “illegitimate” and vowed to “resist him, everything he does.” Turza also attacked Hegseth and said the 44-year-old is “insanely young” and unfit to lead. “The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship. He’s illegitimate....
  • "We all know that the previous administration issued unlawful orders on mandatory "vaccines" on an experimental basis "vaccine" Covid-19. You know it. We know it!" --Pete Hegseth, United States Secretary of Defense

    04/23/2025 5:49:54 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    X.com ^ | Ivan Raiklin✓ @IvanRaiklin
    To: 🔥 🚨 Everyone in DOD that coerced another into an experimental jab Subject: Lawyer up for Nuremberg 2.0! Texas Tom✓ @TomTX_RSVM I approve of @PeteHegseth using the military to round up all the crooked politicians, DAs, heads of NGOs, and Judges that have destroyed our country. Try them all for treason! Why the hell is no one being tried for Treason anymore???
  • BREAKING: Department of Defense Branch Chief Calls President Trump “Illegitimate,” Vows to Resist Him – Attacks Hegseth as “Unfit to Lead” (VIDEO)

    04/23/2025 5:22:45 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 158 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 23, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a Defense Department Branch Chief attacking President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Nicolas Turza, a Department of Defense Branch Chief, called President Trump “illegitimate” and vowed to “resist him, everything he does.” Turza also attacked Hegseth and said the 44-year-old is “insanely young” and unfit to lead. “The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship. He’s illegitimate. He’s terribly immoral, breaking every norm. We’re going to resist him. Everything he does,” Turza said about Trump.
  • EXC: SecDef Hegseth Announces Plans to Reopen Elite, Cold War-Era Military ‘Jungle School’ in Panama.

    04/08/2025 1:48:51 PM PDT · by DFG · 25 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | 04/08/2025 | Jack Montgomery
    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said he intends to partially reopen the “Jungle School,” where up to 9,000 troops a year trained in jungle warfare from the 1950s to 1999 in the former Panama Canal Zone. Secretary Hegseth made the announcement to U.S. troops in Panama amid an ongoing trip to the Central American country, where he will attend the Central American Security Conference (CENTSEC). Thanking the troops for their service, Hegseth said, “We will have your back; President Trump has asked me to share that with all the groups of troops I talk to,” stressing the importance of...
  • Second Hegseth Aide Escorted From the Pentagon As Leak Probe Widens

    04/15/2025 9:03:57 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/15/2025 | Streiff
    A second member of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's inner circle has been placed on leave after an investigation into leaks of potentially sensitive information. Darin Selnick, the Defense Department's deputy chief of staff, was suspended from duty and escorted out of the building. This came on the heels of another Hegseth aide, Dan Caldwell, being escorted out of the Pentagon; see Hegseth Advisor Who Was Included in Leaked Signal Text Chain Escorted From Pentagon, Placed on Leave – RedState.Selnick is a retired Air Force officer and, like Caldwell, was part of a group Hegseth brought with him from Concerned...
  • Second Defense Official Under Pete Hegseth Reportedly Placed on Leave

    04/15/2025 7:19:11 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 14 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 4/15/25 | Newsweek
    Two Department of Defense (DOD) officials are now reportedly on administrative leave Tuesday night amid investigations of internal leaks within the agency. According to Politico, citing a defense official, Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick was escorted out of the Pentagon and placed on administrative leave. Selnick is a retired Air Force officer with a previous career in Veterans Affairs, per his DOD bio.
  • TRUMP ADMIN VETTING CRISIS CONTINUED

    04/08/2025 6:07:35 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 46 replies
    X ^ | 4/8/25 | Laura Loomer
    EXCLUSIVE: How the Department of Defense under @PeteHegseth is at risk of possibly being subverted and obstructed by Earl Matthews @EarlMat55106636, the nominee for General Counsel of the DOD @DeptofDefense As the general counsel for the National Guard, Earl Matthews was the lawyer involved in dismissing Pete Hegseth from the DC national guard over false accusations that Hegseth has a “white supremacist” tattoo. Now, Earl Matthews has been nominated to be Hegseth’s top lawyer at the Pentagon, which is another vetting failure. Today, April 08, 2025, Earl Matthews, who is essentially John Bolton and Mark Milley’s errand boy, faced the...
  • Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays

    03/26/2025 8:34:57 AM PDT · by cgbg · 44 replies
    The Register ^ | March 24, 2025 | Brandon Vigliarolo
    After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems. Like many government projects before it, the US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) promised big things when it was kicked off nearly a decade ago. According to a memo [PDF] signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth late last week, the program was intended to streamline a large portion of the DoD's legacy HR IT systems, but it's being axed after officials concluded pouring more funds into it would be "throwing more...
  • Hegseth Floats Name Change For The Department Of Defense

    03/23/2025 12:53:27 PM PDT · by Signalman · 66 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 03/22/2025 | Cullen McCue
    President George Washington’s original cabinet contained just four departments and department heads: Department of State, which was led by inaugural Secretary Thomas Jefferson, Department of the Treasury, which was conceived and headed up by Alexander Hamilton, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, and the Department of War, which was first led by distinguished Continental Army General Henry Knox. The War Department existed until 1947, when it was initially split into the Department of the Army, the Department of the Air Force, and the Department of the Navy. Congress had previously established a Department of the Navy in 1798, which was under the...
  • Pete Hegseth Has a 'Modest Proposal' for the Activist Judge Fighting the Pentagon's Transgender Ban

    03/22/2025 6:13:56 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    Red State ^ | 03/22/25 | streiff
    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has some advice for the federal judge who is preventing the imminently sensible Defense Department policy based on President Trump's Executive Order 14183 (Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness – The White House) that the military can no longer recruit transgenders and that transgenders are not eligible for retention in the military. Maybe, mused Hegesth on the X social media platform, "Since 'Judge' Reyes is now a top military planner, she/they can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids…after that," he continued, "Commander Reyes...
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is announcing the termination of $580,000,000.00 in DoD Contracts and Grants

    03/20/2025 11:48:47 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 74 replies
    X ^ | 3/20/25 | Pete Hegseth
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is announcing the termination of $580,000,000.00 in DoD Contracts and Grants
  • BREAKING: U.S. Airstrikes ELIMINATE Houthi Leaders; Hezbollah & Syrian Forces Clash | TBN Israel (VIDEO)

    03/18/2025 4:16:37 AM PDT · by SaveFerris · 22 replies
    TBN Israel YouTube Channel ^ | Premiered 13 hours ago as of this posting 3/17/2025 | TBN Israel
    TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War and rising Houthi tensions. Pinto reports that the U.S. has escalated attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, eliminating at least 53, including senior leaders. Meanwhile, Hezbollah is under pressure from both Israel and new clashes in Syria. In Gaza, Hamas continues to violate ceasefire talks while the IDF strikes terrorist targets. Plus, Israeli forces uncover a weapons depot with UNRWA equipment in northern Samaria. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
  • DOD closes think tank arm marred by 'inefficiency' and criticized by GOP for ties to Trump-Russia probe

    03/14/2025 7:40:12 PM PDT · by Libloather · 1 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3/14/25 | Morgan Phillips
    The Department of Defense has dissolved its Office of Net Acquisition – a think tank-like arm of the Pentagon that Republicans have claimed was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation. Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said civilian employees within the office would be "reassigned to mission-critical roles" as the DOD established a plan to rebuild the office "in alignment with the Department’s strategic priorities." The office is meant to provide long-term strategic analysis within DOD, but it has become a target of Republicans who claim it has engaged in "projects unrelated to its mission." "Praise the Lord. This wise move saves...
  • America Turns to Ukraine to Build Better Drones

    03/12/2025 5:31:57 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    Wall Street Journal MSN News ^ | 3/11/2025 | Heather Somerville
    With America’s drone technology a disappointment on the battlefield, defense startups have joined forces with Ukrainian manufacturers to build better, war-proven aircraft for the U.S. military. U.S. startups have spent billions of venture-capital dollars in hopes of developing the small drones that the Pentagon says it needs for future conflicts, but many have produced only expensive aircraft that don’t fly very well. Ukrainian drone makers, meanwhile, have mastered mass-producing drones despite limited resources and are looking for new customers and capital. Now, the two sides are coming together, and the unlikely pairing is getting attention from the Defense Department. Southern...
  • Secretary Hegseth says the DOD does not do 'climate change crap'

    03/10/2025 2:33:20 AM PDT · by Libloather · 50 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3/09/25 | Greg Wehner
    U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that his department "does not do climate change crap," but instead focuses on things like warfighting and training. The secretary was responding to a post from CNN’s Haley Britzky, who shared a story about the DOD and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutting programs in the Pentagon that deal with climate change. "The DOD and DOGE have said they plan to cut climate programs in the Pentagon – but officials & experts are warning that climate efforts at DOD are directly linked to military readiness, and say cuts could put...
  • 40 AI-Driven Censorship Techniques to Control Narratives and Suppress Dissent

    03/09/2025 12:54:54 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    Ionosphere Capital Research ^ | 8 Mar, 2025 | Vaughn Cordle
    Major AI service providers continue to deploy content moderation algorithms designed to suppress and manipulate viewpoints, actively enforcing censorship under the guise of moderation. From Foreign PsyOps to Domestic Thought Control The censorship and content manipulation we see today did not emerge organically—it was the result of government-directed psychological operations (PsyOps) repurposed for domestic control. What was once used in foreign influence campaigns to destabilize adversarial regimes or control narratives abroad was turned inward—against the American people. The Twitter Files, exposed by investigative journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, provided irrefutable evidence that U.S. government agencies used taxpayer dollars to...
  • Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, Prioritizes Fiscal Responsibility and Technologies for Future Battlefield

    03/08/2025 2:56:23 PM PST · by ransomnote · 3 replies
    Defense.gov ^ | Battlefield March 7, 2025 | Defense.gov
    Cost savings of more than $30 million in first year through discontinuation of 91 studiesThe Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) is scrapping its social science research portfolio as part of a broader effort to ensure fiscal responsibility and prioritize mission-critical activities. This initiative involves focusing resources on technologies essential for maintaining a strong national defense, aligning with the Administration's commitment to efficient government and ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. The Department recognizes the value of academic research but – in response to President Trump's Executive Orders and Secretary Hegseth's priorities in his January...
  • Defense Department Bureaucrats Use 'Malicious Compliance' to Make Hegseth's DEI Rules Look Stupid

    Pentagon bureaucrats fighting a rear guard action in favor of DEI are again engaged in "malicious compliance" to make Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to root out the racist and sexist DEI policies of Lloyd Austin look ridiculous. References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The...