When Sheridan-based Navy veteran Gail Symons sat down to watch a recording of U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s address to an assembly of military leaders last week, she couldn’t believe what she heard.

Hegseth had traveled to Quantico, Virginia where he delivered remarks on the department’s goals amid what he called a growing “moment of urgency” for the United States. That urgency came from what he described as a need to redefine the “nature” of the Department of Defense after being made into the “woke department” by Washington D.C. political leaders.

“The topic today is about the nature of ourselves, because no plan, no program, no reform, no formation will ultimately succeed unless we have the right people and the right culture at the War Department,” a Department of Defense tr

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