US EditionAir Force Veteran Blasts Pete Hegseth’s ‘Chilling’ Message to Women in the Military
Hegseth criticized for opposing women in combat despite 21% of reserve forces being female, with veterans and lawmakers condemning his stance as divisive and harmful to military cohesion.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of top military officials to a hastily called meeting in Virginia and announced directives to return combat MOSs to the highest male standard.
- Recently, Hegseth has pushed a grievance-fueled `war fighter` agenda as a former Fox News personality overseeing roughly 3 million service members and opposing `woke` policies.
- Veterans organizations and media condemned the event as a waste of money, with Sara Haines asking `Do they know that the government might be shutting down tonight, and we are paying money to make it a mandatory meeting to hear from Pete Hegseth?` and noting the $6 million cost.
- Officials warned the speech could dent recruiting and retention, noting women service members have driven recent recruitment booms, while generals and senior defense officials expressed disgust and concern over operational chain of command risks.
- In context, the Pentagon opened combat roles to women in 2016, and women now make up roughly 17 percent of active-duty forces; veterans emphasized combat-specific standards apply equally, renewing criticism from Hegseth's nomination last year.
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Hegseth wants ‘male standard’ for combat roles. Female veterans say that’s already the case
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address Tuesday to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his confirmation early this year and helped elevate his voice as a Fox News commentator — the fitness of women to serve in combat.
Don’t always follow the leader: Trump and Hegseth’s blundering show for military brass
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wasted a lot of the military’s money and the valuable time of nearly 1,000 top offices of the armed forces who were ordered to leave their posts around the world and convene at a base in Virginia to hear two stupid and un-American speeches by Hegseth and Trump. The defense secretary, who never went beyond being an Army major and now holds his position exclusively because Trump found him to be a …
'Are people going to stay in?' Combat vet warns of 'ripple effects' of Hegseth's speech
A combat veteran had a sharp warning after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's comments about women in the military and suggested "ripple effects" would come after his big speech, asking, "Are people going to stay in?" Major Kyleanne, a retired combat veteran and CEO of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran...
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