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Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced
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Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced

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Nov 12, 2024, 7:16 PM
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Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced

This is a Steal of the Draft !!!!


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Re: Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced


Nov 12, 2024, 7:36 PM
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CIB and Screaming Eagle

homerun

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Yay! A green light for war crimes!***

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Nov 12, 2024, 7:56 PM
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Yay! a foxnews talking head and


Nov 12, 2024, 8:19 PM
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Trump pekker likker, too. Which cab seat does Kid Rock get?

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Re: Yay! a foxnews talking head and

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:21 PM
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TDS is real on here

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Typical.***


Nov 12, 2024, 8:29 PM
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We see what's on your mind... or in your mouth.***


Nov 13, 2024, 7:22 AM
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weird***


Nov 13, 2024, 8:45 AM
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Re: Yay! a foxnews talking head and

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:22 PM [ in reply to Yay! a foxnews talking head and ]
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has 2 bronze stars

what do you have

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2 bronze stars does not qualify you to be SecDef. Being a media member should


Nov 12, 2024, 8:32 PM
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be a disqualified, especially all the Donny butt kissin he does. You think he’d be loyal to the US, the Constitution, or Dumb Donny first?

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Luckily those 3 are synonymous.***

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:34 PM
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They are most definitely not.***


Nov 12, 2024, 8:36 PM
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Compare that dudes resume to our current SecDef and youll


Nov 12, 2024, 8:35 PM [ in reply to Re: Yay! a foxnews talking head and ]
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get a good idea of the qualifications.

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Re: Compare that dudes resume to our current SecDef and youll


Nov 13, 2024, 10:41 AM
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get a good idea of the qualifications.


Is our present Secretary of Defense in the hospital without the President knowing or still planning how to flub up the Afghanistan retreat?

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They seem like a great match

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:27 PM
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I don’t watch Foxnews so I didn’t know anything about him after a brief search: so he divorced his first wife in 2009, married his second wife in 2010 (seems kinda quick), while still marrried to the 2nd woman in 2017 fathered a child with a third woman who was a producer at Foxnews, divorced the 2nd woman, and is now married to the third. Remember when the Republican Party was about family values?

P.S. does anyone know what the UCMJ says about adultery?

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Re: They seem like a great match


Nov 12, 2024, 8:33 PM
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three wives



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But I'm sure he's a great person lmao***


Nov 13, 2024, 8:46 AM
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The UCMJ only applies when hes on orders.


Nov 12, 2024, 8:49 PM [ in reply to They seem like a great match ]
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Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

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Sooooooooo; all good then we dont have a problem putting the live of our

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Nov 12, 2024, 9:13 PM
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Soldiers in the hands of a guy with very limited command experience and a suspect moral compass.

P.S.

You’re wrong as usual. The three elements are clear.

https://www.army.mil/article/61709/legal_separation_adultery_and_the_ucmj

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Ill give you a few min to retract that before I push your ### back in.***


Nov 12, 2024, 9:19 PM
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Give me all the time you want loser youre an idiot and nothing you say matters


Nov 12, 2024, 9:30 PM
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Nether of us are legal or military expert and whether or not his adultery is technically a military crime isn’t even the point. He’s clearly a sack o chit who was appointed by another sack o chit for a role that he’s unworthy of. There are standards of conduct in the military even if they aren’t law and Donny is appointing someone who can’t meet those standards to be over the entire military simply because he says nice things about him on TV.

P.S. this isn’t me back pedaling or saying you’re right cause you’re not.

P.S.S. Did those trannies ever make it to your bachelor party?

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Re: Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:30 PM
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Seems kind of an odd pick in some ways, but maybe he is a good one. He went to Harvard and Princeton. He fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was an officer. You never know. Might be a good one.

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Still no trannies? I am so mad.***

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:33 PM
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Is that what you said at your bachelor party?***

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Nov 12, 2024, 8:36 PM
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Wait, so the Lamestream media is good now?***


Nov 12, 2024, 8:34 PM
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Nov 12, 2024, 9:24 PM
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The risks of picking Peter Hegseth to head the Pentagon are too great.

I mean, we could end up with spy balloons flying over the country, disastrous pull-outs from warzones, Russia invading Europe, Iran expanding, and a recruitment crisis.

Best go with another DoD insider.

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Don't really know that much about Hegseth.

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Nov 12, 2024, 9:55 PM
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Maybe I'll pick up his book "The War on Warriors" to see what he is about. The Hegseth pick is decidedly NOT a typical SECDEF pick and not who I would expect. He was a field grade Infantry Officer with multiple combat tours which I count as a plus. I don't know of him having any ties or connections to the Military Industrial Complex, the Pentagon mafia, or The Club (community of active/retired senior flag officers) - all of which is another plus in my book.

He's Ivy League educated so he is probably not a dummy. Does he have the ability to lead a large, bureaucratic organization like the DoD?? Does he have the ability to stare down senior officers who are going to be less than pleased that a former Major and DoD outsider is now their boss?? Does he have a mind for actual strategic military policy and not just battlefield and operational level activities?? I don't know and it must be said that there is great risk with this pick.

IMO we need a SECDEF that will return our military to an absolute apolitical organization where everything, from equipping, training, and manning is solely focused on warfighting. We need a SECDEF that will ensure ALL Pentagon policy decisions are based on increasing the forces lethality. Furthermore, we need a SECDEF who has the will to gut those bureaucratic policies that do nothing but detract from warfighting and force lethality.

Most importantly, we need a SECDEF who will state that the military is NOT a social justice petri dish. The military must rip DEI and it's divisive roots from every nook and cranny from which it grows. The force must return to a state where equal opportunity is ruthlessly enforced so that only one's competence, leadership ability, and performance are the determining factors in military advancement and selection for command.

Can Hegseth do all this?? I don't know but one thing is for sure... Had Trump selected a former General Officer, DoD Senior Service civilian, or politico/MIC Corporate shill - the chances of the DoD remaining a politicized center for DEI studies with a warfighting function would probably be very great.

Maybe Hegseth will be the proverbial bull in the DoD china shop that is needed to get us back to a Pre-GW Bush/Rumsfeld military that doesn't do politics and whose sole focus is on warfighting. Hope springs eternal....

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Nov 13, 2024, 5:21 AM
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He's going to be a Trump ball licker and that is all. Nice try. 😆

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^^^ Another expressing his preferred tastes ^^^***

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Nov 13, 2024, 7:50 AM [ in reply to Don't really know that much about Hegseth. ]
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His biggest accomplishment is getting Cheeto Jesus to pardon Eddie Gallagher. Puts him clearly into ######### territory.

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I agree with that. But Shirley there was a 4-star General lying around who


Nov 13, 2024, 7:53 AM [ in reply to Don't really know that much about Hegseth. ]
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could accomplish all of the things you mentioned. I know that is not a prerequisite for this job...

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Certainly no currently serving 4 Star


Nov 13, 2024, 8:25 AM
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The only 4 Star I would trust at this point is GEN Jack Keane but he is over 80 years old and at this stage of life is probably not wanting to take on the tremendous fight to return the DoD to a warrior centric organization.

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Just found this long format intereview with Hegseth from Shawn Ryan


Nov 13, 2024, 5:42 AM
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Haven't watched it yet but maybe it will give some indication of his history and thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoN5ovwB8s4

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Re: Just found this long format intereview with Hegseth from Shawn Ryan


Nov 13, 2024, 7:51 AM
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Gullible idiots everywhere. When did you all get so ####### stupid?

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Nov 13, 2024, 7:02 AM
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I’m just really hoping he doesn’t nominate Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. He is basically the Republican version of Hillary Clinton. War monger and pro Israel.
My main criticism of Trump has been his pro Israel stance. I’m hoping he just floated Rubio to find leaks in the team. Or to hire him and then fire him so Desantis gets to pick a new Florida senator.

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Nov 13, 2024, 10:50 PM
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We got a winner here. That’s my theory: old orange shit-bag doesn’t actually forgive and forget if you apologize and buy him a Russian hooker. Rubio is getting the nomination to get him out of the senate; a few months later he will be fired and ruined like Jeff Sessions.

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Nov 13, 2024, 8:01 AM
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If Pete wore a dress to work every day he would receive zero criticism from the kooks on the left. And let's not pretend like the current administration made a great choices for this position. If Pete doesn't actually disappear for a few days at some point over the next few years that would be an improvement over Bidens choice, not to mention all the other disasters the "best defense secretary pick evaarr" has presided over the last four years.

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Nov 13, 2024, 8:12 AM
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It’s definitely an unusual choice. It could turn out to be a very bad choice or be the change that is needed.

This is a reason recess appointments aren’t wise.

Hegseth needs vetting.

Hopefully this young Pete will be more hands on than Mayor Pete and I suspect this Pete is more in tune with Defense than than Transportation Pete has been with Transportation.

This is indeed an unusual hire, sort of a Dabo hire.

May it turn out as well.

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Nov 13, 2024, 8:29 AM
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It's bothersome for a few reasons. I know the man is intelligent and I know he's a decorated veteran. Great.

But...

-He mainly got the job because he's been a Fox News loyalist to Trump. That's about it.
-He pushed Trump to release war criminals who have no business being released; that brings question into the kind of policies he'll permit in our military.
-He supports torture, which was a proven failure at Gitmo.
-He's much younger and more inexperienced than the generals and admirals in the Pentagon. That makes me wonder about the relationship he'll have with them.

But the biggest thing:

-The ultimate determination as to whether or not everyone worried about this admin is correct or just overreacting will be what happens to current Pentagon leadership. If it remains intact, we were probably overreacting. If Trump and Hegseth clean house, then this is the start of everything that all of us have been warning about.

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Re: Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced

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Nov 13, 2024, 8:36 AM
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Again, he like every cabinet or executive level WH official needs to publicly face questioning before the Senate.


Some of the concerns you posed need to be addressed. We need apolitical generals and admirals, not loyalists.

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Agree 100 percent. Let me also add


Nov 13, 2024, 8:40 AM
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Apparently he doesn't think women should serve in combat roles in the military.

I don't see how that helps us at all.

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Nov 13, 2024, 10:19 AM [ in reply to Re: Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced ]
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not if they are acting positions, as in the case when someone resigns and the president puts in an acting director until the senate can get a confirmation. Scott will never call the hearings, and these will be acting government officials, but permenant.

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Nov 13, 2024, 10:23 AM [ in reply to Re: Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary ! Just announced ]
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"The ultimate determination as to whether or not everyone worried about this admin is correct or just overreacting will be what happens to current Pentagon leadership. If it remains intact, we were probably overreacting. If Trump and Hegseth clean house, then this is the start of everything that all of us have been warning about."

I can't possibly disagree more. Continuing down the same Pentagon path we have been on will doom our military to mediocrity. The Pentagon and military leadership - including the CJCS - are in dire need of a thorough house cleaning and a refocusing on war fighting.

We have had 20+ years of military and Pentagon leadership whose focus on political and social agendas have run the military woefully off course. I know - I lived it when it crept into the military under the GW Bush and the Obama Administrations.

Whoever eventually becomes the SECDEF (I'm somewhat ambivalent towards Hegseth) must re-establish the primacy of war fighting over all other concerns while instilling a warrior ethos as the spirit and creed of the military. That will require quick sweeping changes to a LOT of the current senior DoD leaders (military and civilian) as they have spent years creating and thriving from this misguided focus towards the political and social agendas.

Instead of repeating my full reasons you can read it here:
https://www.tigernet.com/clemson-forum/message/i-served-in-the-reagan-bush-the-elder-clinton-gw-bush-and-the-obama-military-35826536#35826536

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I'm about to post an OP that addresses this...


Nov 13, 2024, 10:39 AM
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Looks like Trump is already planning to do what I'm warning about.

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And think of all those K Street, NOVA MIC think tanks that are losing funding...


Nov 13, 2024, 10:48 AM
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Somebody man the doors at the Pentagon. Preserving those papers are as important as Congress preserving the DOJ obfuscations...

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Nov 13, 2024, 10:17 AM
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This is like making a dental hygienist the surgeon general. Let's all celebrate.

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