The Pentagon is bracing for sweeping coverage adjustments beneath the incoming Trump administration, and a few high-level officers may discover their careers on the chopping block.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth, a former Fox Information host and veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to guide the Protection Division – an iconoclast whose choose roiled the protection industrial base.
With Hegseth, the Trump administration is anticipated to undo variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) lodging and coaching throughout the army.
“If you wish to have a intercourse change or a social justice seminar, then you are able to do it elsewhere, however you’re not going to do it within the Military, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Drive, Area Drive or the US Marines. Sorry,” Trump stated at an Aug. 21 rally in Asheboro, North Carolina.
“The army brass that led these absurd and insulting initiatives will likewise be eliminated, and they’ll now not be in command. They’re going to be gone, gone so quick.”
TRUMP NOMINATES PETE HEGSETH TO SERVE AS DEFENSE SECRETARY
The Pentagon is bracing for sweeping coverage adjustments beneath the incoming Trump administration, and a few high-level officers may discover their careers on the chopping block. (Daniel Slim/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
‘Cleansing home’ of profession DoD officers
Longtime generals and high-level officers on the Pentagon may discover their jobs beneath menace – even those that don’t sometimes qualify as political appointees.
“Effectively, initially, you bought to fireside, , you bought to fireside the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” Hegseth stated on the “Shawn Ryan Present” podcast final week.
“Any normal that was concerned – normal, admiral, no matter – that was concerned in any of the DEI woke s**t, it’s bought to go,” he added.
Hegseth additionally wrote in his latest e-book, “The Warfare on Warriors”: “Our generals are usually not prepared for this second in historical past. Not even shut. The following President of the US must radically overhaul Pentagon senior management to make us able to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Numerous folks have to be fired.”
“On the Pentagon, you possibly can hearth generals. In contrast to, say, the CIA or the Division of Justice, the place it’s exhausting to fireside senior officers, as a result of they’re protected,” stated former Rep. Chris Stewart, who has been consulting the transition staff on Division of Protection issues.
The transition staff is contemplating a draft govt order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior army personnel who would have the ability to evaluate three- and four-star officers and suggest elimination of any who’re unfit for management, the Wall Avenue Journal first reported.
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Host Pete Hegseth throughout “FOX & Mates” at Fox Information Channel Studios on Might 27, 2022, in New York Metropolis. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Photos)
Transgender ban
Trump might rapidly rating favor with social conservatives and protection hawks by rolling again an govt order President Joe Biden signed that lifted a ban on transgender folks from serving within the army.
Transgender folks have been allowed to start brazenly serving within the army in 2016 beneath an govt order of the Obama administration. However in 2017, Trump introduced he would reimpose that ban.
“Our army should be targeted on decisive and overwhelming victory and can’t be burdened with the super medical prices and disruption that transgender within the army would entail,” Trump stated in a social media put up on the time.
Trump’s ban ordered the discharge of anybody recognized with gender dysphoria, and prompted a flurry of lawsuits.
Troopers in camouflage uniforms aiming their rifles prepared to fireside throughout army night time operation. (iStock)
Abortion journey
The Trump Pentagon can also be anticipated to roll again a Biden-era coverage permitting troops to acquire go away and reimbursement if they should go away the state the place they’re stationed to hunt an abortion.
The coverage isn’t ever taken benefit of – the Division of Protection discovered that solely 12 folks used it over the course of six months from August to December 2023.
Conservatives have pushed to dam the coverage since Biden adopted it after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
DEI provisions
The Pentagon requested funding to the tune of $114 million for DEI initiatives in 2024. That cash was for use for “packages and initiatives geared toward furthering DEIA, and incorporating DEIA values, goals, and issues in how we do enterprise and execute our missions.” Anticipate a serious undoing of variety initiatives.
“DEI amplifies variations, creates grievances, and excludes anybody who gained’t bow right down to the cultural Marxist revolution ripping by the Pentagon. Neglect DEI — the acronym needs to be DIE or IED. It is going to kill our army worse than any IED ever may,” Hegseth wrote in Chapter 8.
“The Left isn’t simply desirous about purging Trump supporters. Their ideology relies on marginalizing no matter’s regular, as a result of they assume ‘regular’ is at all times oppressive. By their logic, the army runs on probably the most regular and most oppressive factor of all: robust males. Simply being a man who hits the health club means you’re oppressing everybody round you,” he wrote.
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“An enormous purpose for fewer coaching accidents is – much less coaching. Extra time than ever is being spent on social justice PowerPoint moralizing – and assembly these metrics in as we speak’s army is an important normal to satisfy,” he wrote. “Each unit is aware of that social justice, trans, gender, woke coaching is the highest precedence. Not doing this coaching, or not doing it correctly, will get a commander or junior chief fired. Not doing actual area coaching turns into secondary.”
