Pete Hegseth

So that's not a question I'm going to answer or the president has said definitively.

We have our own goals and guidance and things were military objectives that we're moving toward and things that we look at.

And as he's articulated, he said four to six weeks, six to eight weeks, three weeks.

It could be any particular number, but we would never reveal precisely what it is because our goal is to finish those objectives.

And we're well on our way.

And the chairman and I look at this every single day.

It will be the president's determination and the president's determination alone when those objectives are complete and when it serves the interest of the American people to cut that deal, to make sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear capability and ultimately that our objectives or our interests are advanced.

I don't know if you want to add anything.

The pilots.

the logisticians, the intel analysts, the targeters, the sustainers, the flight crews, the air defenders, the base security, those maintainers who we walked up at sunset with the chill in the air on the flight line.

May God watch over all of them each day and each night.

May his almighty and eternal arms of providence stretch over them and protect them and bring them peace.

In the name of Jesus Christ and amen.

Okay.

How do you know that?

What does history tell us about these types of exits?

I did the same with his boss, a colonel with a heart the size of Texas.

and a beautiful deployment mustache to match.

I witnessed lethality.

I met a junior airman as the sun was going down and a chill was setting on the tarmac who, when asked what they needed, she simply looked up at me with a sly smile on her face and said, more bombs, sir, and bigger bombs.