A year after his Quantico address to generals, the Secretary of War told sergeants and junior officers that the woke department is gone – and rolled out six new initiatives.

Secretary of War Hegseth’s Sept. 30 State of the Force speech was refreshingly blunt, but it was also extremely informative. On the blunt side of things, Hegseth let the sergeants, chiefs, and junior officers know that the U.S. military was done with the woke mindset that had been destroying its fighting power: “We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors. Just tough, ready, committed troops.”

“Do unto your unit as you would have done unto your own child’s unit. Would you want them serving in a unit where standards were lowered to meet quotas? Or a unit where leaders were promoted for reasons other than merit, performance, or war fighting? The answer is not just no. The answer is hell no.”

But along with his emphasis on rooting out the corrosive DEI/woke mindset that was seriously damaging America’s fighting ability, Hegseth made a whole bunch of announcements and claims, including:

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