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The Pentagon is pushing back hard against an NBC News report alleging military leaders were weighing a new recruitment drive connected to the legacy of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk .

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Fox News Digital the report was "100% wrong," blasting NBC for "publishing false claims based on anonymous sources."

"This is not happening, yet Fake News NBC published this report as if it were true using anonymous sources with no knowledge of what the recruitment task force at DOW is working on," Wilson said.

The Pentagon also released the original statement it gave NBC, in which chief spokesman Sean Parnell accused the media of inventing lies about recruitment efforts in an attem

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