President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are continuing their war “wokeness" in the military. On Oct. 28, Trump bragged to Navy personnel aboard the U.S.S. George Washington that the military was no longer “politically correct.” Hegseth, the man charged with making this happen, made his views clear about what the task entailed during a Sept. 30 address at Marine Corps Base Quantico. “An entire generation of generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, 'our diversity is our strength,’” he mocked .
“For too long, we’ve promoted too many uniformed leaders for the wrong reasons, based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts.… We became the woke department, but not anymore,” he vowed. Trump and Hegseth a

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