War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced several new measures within the War Department to prioritize readiness and end its politicization.
The directives include implementing the “highest male standard,” fitness tests, appropriate grooming, an end to woke language, promotions based on merit, and an end to excessive mandatory training, among others.
“This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics,” Hegseth described. “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris.”
“The new War Department golden rule is this: Do unto your unit, as you would have done unto your own child’s unit,” he added. “Would you want him serving with fat or unfit or under-trained troops, or alongside people who can’t meet basic standards, or in a unit where standards were lowered so certain types of troops could make it in, in a unit where leaders were promoted for reasons other than merit, performance, and war-fighting?”
Discussing the implementation of male standards, Hegseth asserted, “This is not about preventing women from serving,” and went on to explain that “this is combat. This is life or death.
Addressing those who disapprove of the Pentagon’s overhaul, the war secretary said, “If the words I am speaking today are making your hearts sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.”
“The overwhelming majority of you feel the opposite,” he declared. “These words make your hearts full. You love the War Department because you love what you do, the profession of arms. You are hereby liberated to be an apolitical, hard-charging, no-nonsense constitutional leader that you joined the military to be.”
