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Pete Hegseth

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

I mean... Oh, no, you see it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

Because almost everyone I talk to, I said, oh, yeah, our unit's got, you know, this person is the tramp.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

And so we have to do this additional training all the time, and there's all this...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

Everyone has to be really careful about what they say.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

And in many cases, they're sort of like the DEI director inside, their equity director inside the unit, which you've basically taken the DEI concept inside a lot of these military units, and I don't know exactly what level it's at, if it's at the battalion or the brigade level, but you've inserted that concept

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

decision-making, kind of an HR process, which undermines the commander also because the DEI advisor, you know, can do no wrong.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

And so the assessments of the units, diversity and capabilities, it's just, and then transgenders.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

I mean, the idea that, do you remember, I don't know, if you go through your MOAB station to deploy, if you had a Cat 4 dental,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

they pulled your tooth because you can't be out in the field with a major dental emergency where there's no dentist.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

And so I deployed with a lot of guys who were like, because they just had a tooth pulled and they had to.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

Yet we're now allowing people who used to be men or women join

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

And then after that, we pay for medical or physical transitions to another gender, which by definition makes them non-deployable and non-trainable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

Same thing with asthma medication or inhalers.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

When you're in basic training, you can't have an inhaler

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

when you're doing your exercises because you can't count on having an inhaler in a combat situation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

Well, if you're medically dependent on drugs to maintain your gender or a particular balance of chemicals inside your body, you're by definition non-deployable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

And so they'd have soldiers who can't train, can't deploy, have been on the books, and yet everyone has to be careful about what pronoun you use with them.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

That has nothing to do with how effective a unit's gonna be.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

So something like that should be banned on day one in a Trump administration.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#143 Pete Hegseth - Secretary of Defense Nominee

We're not doing the treaty, and he did that.