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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.

🎁 Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List
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Mr. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused.

Earlier this month, Mr. Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so. The list is currently being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to send it to the Senate for final approval. A few female and Black officers remain on the list, military officials said.…”
 
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Mr. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused.

Earlier this month, Mr. Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so. The list is currently being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to send it to the Senate for final approval. A few female and Black officers remain on the list, military officials said.…”
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“… In his 2024 book, “The War on Warriors,” Mr. Hegseth disparaged many of the senior officers who rose up under Mr. Austin’s tenure as “cowards hiding under stars” and “whores to wokesters.”

“The Left captured the military quickly, and we must reclaim it at a faster pace,” he wrote. “We must wage a frontal assault. A swift counterattack, in broad daylight.”

Since taking office, Mr. Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two-dozen generals and admirals, including General Brown and Admiral Franchetti.

Currently, the chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all five service chiefs and nine of the military’s 10 combatant commanders are white men, a return to the status quo that existed for decades.…”
 
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“… In his 2024 book, “The War on Warriors,” Mr. Hegseth disparaged many of the senior officers who rose up under Mr. Austin’s tenure as “cowards hiding under stars” and “whores to wokesters.”

“The Left captured the military quickly, and we must reclaim it at a faster pace,” he wrote. “We must wage a frontal assault. A swift counterattack, in broad daylight.”

Since taking office, Mr. Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two-dozen generals and admirals, including General Brown and Admiral Franchetti.

Currently, the chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all five service chiefs and nine of the military’s 10 combatant commanders are white men, a return to the status quo that existed for decades.…”
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“… A fifth officer on the list, Col. Dave Butler, was the spokesman for Gen. Mark Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom Mr. Trump loathes and has accused of disloyalty. Mr. Hegseth had repeatedly asked Mr. Driscoll to fire Colonel Butler. The Army officer resigned in February in the hope that his departure would convince Mr. Hegseth to send the list to the White House, military officials said. Colonel Butler is a white man.

Senior officials in Mr. Hegseth’s office have been debating for months whether Mr. Hegseth has the legal authority to strike names from a one-star list before he sends it to the White House, military officials said.

In his role as defense secretary, Mr. Hegseth is supposed to review and approve the list. But to protect the military’s officer corps from being politicized, he has only two options under military regulations, officials said. He can reject or accept the entire list.…”
 
Calheel said:
Of all the stupid Trump branding, this is one that is the least objectionable. Dollars have a relatively short circulation life and if the Treasury secretary can sign the bills, so can the president.

If we give him this, can we get the Kennedy center back?
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Wait til you see how big his signature is going to be!
 
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the Iran war began, prayed Wednesday to have "every round find its mark."

"Every month it is fitting to be right here," he told the gathered civilian employees and uniformed military personnel. "All the more fitting this month, at this moment, given what tens of thousands of Americans are doing right now."

He read a prayer he said was first given by a military chaplain to the troops who captured then-President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.

"Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation," Hegseth prayed during the livestreamed service. "Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy."

… "I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed," he read from the Psalms on Wednesday….”
 
Mulberry Heel said:
He might as well just go ahead and build a giant statue to himself that's taller than the Washington Monument. If he thought he could get away with it he'd do it in a heartbeat, and his adoring MAGA cult would find some excuse to support it, especially because it would royally piss off the libs. We're living in insane times, folks. The great American experiment, for the first time since the Civil War, has just run off the track and is hurtling into unknown, very dangerous territory. And there's nobody driving this train, including Trump himself.
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And all because we elected a black president. Twice.
 
"A Turkish proverb says, 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus,"

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