KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called hundreds of Generals and Admirals from duty stations around the world to Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia to announce changes to the department.

Hegseth told hundreds of military commanders that there would be new directives to ensure that the requirement for every position in combat “returns to the highest male standard.”

He said that “if that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.”

“From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: war fighting,” Hegseth told the military leaders.

“Preparing for war and preparing to win. Unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit,” the secretary of war added.

Hegseth also said it was “tiring to see fat troops and generals

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