In case you're not keeping up on current events, when it comes to the US military and the newly-renamed War Department and Secretary of War, President Trump has picked an absolute winner! Secretary Pete Hegseth is just what our ailing, DEI-riddled, 'woke' military needed - a swift kick in the balls followed by a bunch of rules that are not new but were discarded over the past 4 years of the Biden administration.
The Biden administration and its woke Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, transformed the US military from a fighting force to a DEI-riddled, 'woke' bunch of fat, mentally ill, and unqualified pussies. The US military became the laughing stock of the world, hampered by useless regulations and restrictions on use of force during combat engagements and the unwillingness of the command leadership to stand up to Biden and his band of merry idiots. They were too busy worrying about their own careers instead of being worried about the fighting abilities of the Armed Forces because the Biden administration made it clear that if you wanted to keep your stars, you got on board with his pussified 'woke' agenda. This is how we ended up with a mentally ill Surgeon General who was also a Navy admiral - and yes, transgenderism is a mental illness. It's called 'gender dysphoria,' and before Biden took over it was an automatic disqualifier from military service.
But Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a former US Army officer and Iraq War veteran, is changing all that. He spoke at an unprecedented gathering of every general officer in the US military at Quantico, Virginia yesterday, and he laid the law down to everyone there. And from the reactions of the audience, 99% of them were elated to hear what he had to say.
Secretary Hegseth said that he was putting out a series of directives that would transform the US military from its current slovely state into a lean, mean, trim, trained, and motivated fighting machine, and that these directives were effective immediately. Some of them he mentioned were:
- Service members from all branches now must execute two annual fitness tests, with one being the already existing fitness test and the other being either a combat field test for combat arms personnel or a CFT or regular fitness test for non-combat arms personnel.
- Active-duty service members are to perform physical fitness training every duty day, and that National Guard and reserve component members must continue to take at least one fitness test annually.
- Warfighters in combat-related occupations must execute their fitness test at a gender-neutral male standard with a score of 70% or higher.
- Beards will be no longer authorized.
A memo on that topic released in conjunction with Hegseth’s speech explains that service members with facial hair-related medical exemptions will have one year to seek and execute a medical treatment plan to resolve the condition.
“Simply put, if you do not meet the male-level, physical standards for combat positions, cannot pass a PT test or don’t want to shave and look professional, it’s time for a new position or a new profession,” Hegseth said.
- The War Department will begin undertaking a full review of the definitions of “so-called ‘toxic leadership,’ bullying and hazing,” in order to re-empower leaders to enforce high standards without fear of reprisal.
- The implementation of a military equal opportunity and equal employment opportunity reform, also intended to re-empower leaders to pursue high standards without fear of potentially unjust reprisal.
- Making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel that will allow leaders with forgivable, earnest or minor infractions to not be encumbered by those infractions in perpetuity.
- He also said that promotions across the joint force should be based only on merit.
I hate to sound like one of those old-timers that sit back and say, "Well, back in MY day, we did it like this..." but unfortunately, back in my day we DID do it like this. All of the items I've just listed here were the norm for military service when I enlisted 50 years ago. The Secretary is taking a hard line on qualifications and training, stating that ALL combat jobs will have ONE set of training requirements that ALL trainees must meet, male or female. He said - and I agree with him - that if a female could meet the qualifications then she got the job; if not, she didn't, and that was that. The age of the double standards - one for men and one for women - are officially OVER. And this is LONG overdue!
Secretary Hegseth said that the US military should be a fighting force trained to do one thing - win wars, and that our enemies should be afraid of us. And he's right - thanks to Joe Biden and his bunch of woke pussies, nobody fears the US military anymore, especially after how Biden gave up Afghanistan. But now all that is going to change, and I predict that a year from now there are going to be a LOT of retired flag rank officers (generals and admirals) who retired rather than try to make the "new" old fitness standards. I also predict that the US military will once again be a lean, mean, fighting MILITARY machine instead of the bunch of woke pussies it is now.
And thank God for that!
