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Who is Hegseth and why is he generating so many questions?
Well, howdy there, internet people it's Belle again. So today we're going to talk about Hagseth, Metals, Warriors, and a random civilian. So We've gotten a lot of questions about a couple of different things dealing with hexets. We're just going to go over all of them together so we don't have a massive amount of Heg Seth news. The three items involve a social media post of his, old medals of honor, and of course, more questions about his meeting with all of the generals. First is quote. Why is the highest ranking military officer in the US quote tweeting random civilians, talking about the meeting and comparing it to World War two? This has to do with Hegseth reposting a post about German generals being called in in 1935.
And being told their old oath was invalid. And they needed to take a new one to the leader. With the comment of cool story. Okay. So first, Hegseth is not the highest ranking military officer.
Why did the highest‑ranking US officer quote‑tweet a random civilian about WWII comparisons?
Secretary of Defense is a civilian position. Second, and you have no reason to know this unless you were in the military. That's not a random civilian. I know he just goes by Ben on his social media. But that's retired General Ben Hodges. To get an idea of his influence, Hodges is an incredibly common last name. If you type General Hodges into Google, it defaults to him. He joined in nineteen eighty and left in twenty eighteen. So the interaction isn't that strange. I'm pretty sure Hegseth was being dismissive of any comparison between his upcoming meeting with US generals and the one in the thirties. Now. On to the Medal of Honor story. And I went over this on the Rhodes episode on the second channel. But just to get a bit about it out here too.
Hegseth announced soldiers who were awarded the Medal of Honor for Wounded Knee would keep it. First, if you don't know the history of wounded knee, look it up to understand the controversy. You really need to understand how horrible it was, to understand why people object to soldiers being awarded medals for it. But beyond that, it's the Medal of Honor aspect that makes it more controversial. Today, the Medal of Honor is the highest decoration awarded by the military. But back then it was a catch all award. The Medal of Honor was awarded to one soldier for quote. While the Indians were concealed in a ravine, assisted men on the skirmish line. Directing their fire, etc. And using every effort to dislodge the enemy.
That's the actual reason for one of the metals in question. This would not rate a medal of honor today. But because it is a medal of honor, and that carries a lot of respect today. It adds further insult to the events of wounded knee. I'll put a link below and you can look up the date of december twenty ninth, eighteen ninety to see what they were awarded for. Then finally, the latest rumor about Hegseth's meeting with the generals and senior enlisted is that he will be talking about the warrior ethos. To a group of people who realistically have centuries of combat deployments between them. I'm sure that'll be received well. Anyway, it's just a thought y'all have a good day.
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