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What Do You Think Went Through The Minds Of Those 800 Generals Today?...With A Drunk Rapist And Racist Fox News Host Like Pete Hegseth Lecturing Them?

Queen Margo said:
It is about damn time things start shaping up. I mean what has happened to "standards" and I mean that in many industries besides the military. Happy they are getting the ball rolling.
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Says someone who has never served, and hasn’t a clue of what they’re talking about.
 
Common Sense 1 said:

Hegseth Announces War Department Reforms in Sweeping Speech to Top Military Brass​


Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced a series of new directives aimed at strengthening the War Department's people and culture during an in-person speech in Quantico, Virginia, to the U.S. military's most senior leaders.

"Good morning, and welcome to the War Department, because the Department of Defense is over," Hegseth said, noting the recent rebranding of the department emphasizes the military's requirement to ensure peace by preparing for war, and that the American people deserve a military that will win any war it chooses or that's thrust upon it.

"The topic today is about the nature of ourselves because no plan, no program, no reform [and] no formation will ultimately succeed unless we have the right people and the right culture at the Department of War," Hegseth told the group.

He added that, in his eight months on the job, he has learned the best way to take care of troops is to give them good leaders committed to the War Department's warfighting culture.
"Not perfect leaders [but] good leaders; competent, qualified, professional, agile, aggressive, innovative, risk-taking, apolitical [and] faithful to their oath and to the Constitution," Hegseth emphasized.

Stating that the military has been forced to focus on the wrong things by misguided politicians for too long, Hegseth said that he's made it his own mission to uproot the obvious distractions that have made the War Department less lethal in past years.

"The new War Department's golden rule is this: do unto your unit as you would have done unto your own child's unit. … Standards must be uniform, gender-neutral and high. If not, they aren't standards, they're just suggestions," Hegseth said.
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The scuttlebutt had already informed these officers what Trump is.
Retired four-star Marine General John Kelly is the general who confirmed that Donald Trump referred to U.S. service members killed in combat as "suckers" and "losers". Kelly, who served as Trump's White House Chief of Staff, corroborated the reporting of an anonymous 2020 article in The Atlantic.
 
Queen Margo said:
It is about damn time things start shaping up. I mean what has happened to "standards" and I mean that in many industries besides the military. Happy they are getting the ball rolling.
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Do you really think those generals and admirals, intelligent people with highly developed abilities to get to the nut of a situation, think Trump and Hegseth were talking to them?
Guess why there were video cameras there. T and H were performing for you.
 
Integrityrespec said:
They are warriors, soldiers, I bet they like most of it.
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They are professionals and I bet they spent the whole time trying not to laugh out loud.
Integrityrespec said:
No DEI, no reducing the standards, that's a good thing because it's their lives at risk.
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The standards are the same as they were in Desert Storm. You remember, that 4 day war that we lost because of transgenders and black people?
 
Fearandloathing said:
Why would they stand and fight?

It's not like the populace will support them. The left in the US is not known for its support of war mongering generals.
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Hello, it isn't 1972. And they don't have to stand and fight, they just have to stay in their positions.
 
Integrityrespec said:
They are warriors, soldiers, I bet they like most of it. No DEI, no reducing the standards, that's a good thing because it's their lives at risk.
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They are very senior officers, intelligent people who are well able to get to the core of a situation.
They know why there were TV cameras there.
 
Hamish Howl said:
I hope not. Any of them resigning or retiring would be replaced with stooges.
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I can't help but think of the state of the military readiness going forward with a clown show. Indeed, I hope they hang on, but I would understand it if they said eff this shit.

Hegs is talking about the wars we choose...just WTF?!
 
multivita-man said:
I can't help but think of the state of the military readiness going forward with a clown show. Indeed, I hope they hang on, but I would understand it if they said eff this shit.

Hegs is talking about the wars we choose...just WTF?!
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That's just the cocaine talking.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Ho in the **** would you draw that conclusion?
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Which conclusion. I am not quite sure what you mean.

Do you say they DO like him, or do you mean the idea that they do like him is absurd?
 
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