Pete Hegseth

It's been about the Republic.

And that's all been...

all been put into question in everyone's mind.

So there's a chance to course correct it, but it would take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.

How would they correct it?

Well, first of all, you got to fire, you know, you got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and you got to fire this, I mean, obviously you're going to bring in a new secretary of defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke shit has got to go.

Either you're in for war fighting and that's it, and that's the only litmus test we care about.

You got to get DEI and CRT out of military academies so you're not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking.

And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were, say, in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those the standards.

And as far as recruiting, to hire the guy that, you know, did Top Gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people to want to serve.

And there's lots of other ways in which you could identify who gets promoted and what, but there's an ethos change.

I mean, there's a reason people don't want to serve because they don't trust that their senior leaders are going to have their best interest in mind in combat.

I know there were mistakes made on our tours all over the place, but I at least, for the most part, had a sense that my senior leaders were committed to

to the completion of the mission for the right reasons.

And maybe there were strategic differences and all that other stuff, and it wasn't always perfect, and that trust is broken, and you have to reestablish that trust by putting in no-nonsense war fighters in those positions who aren't gonna cater to the socially correct garbage.

I think right now it's a top... My assessment based on talking to... I mean, is that it's a top-down, bottom-up problem.

Is that you've got top-down political generals who've gained rank by playing by all the wrong rules that cater to the ideologues in Washington, D.C.

And so they'll do any social justice, gender, climate, extremism crap because it gets them checked to the next level and gets them closer to the political appointees who...

don't know anything about the military, really, other than they want a new first here and a new first there, and can we get the first trans this or whatever, just nonsense.

And then now you have a junior corps, which, listen, their incentive structure, whether it was in university or at service academies or just coming through college, is belief in these things.