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Speaker 2: We've promoted too many uniform leaders for the wrong reasons,

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Speaker 2: We've pretended that combat arms and non combat arms are

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Speaker 2: under the guise of double blind psychology assessments, promoting risk

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Speaker 1: You name it. The department did it.

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Speaker 2: Foolish and reckless political leaders set.

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Speaker 3: That is absolutely accurate. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good

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Speaker 3: to be with you. This is a Secretary of War,

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Speaker 3: Pete Haig says speech earlier today at Quantico to the

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Speaker 3: assembled generals and admirals. What was this big speech about?

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Speaker 3: Why was he gathering all these people? Is that a

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Speaker 3: smart thing to do? I saw somebody put out a tweet.

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Speaker 3: This could have been in an email, maybe not maybe,

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Speaker 3: but the speech was given. And I'll let people who

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Speaker 3: just want to be negative be negative. I don't have

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Speaker 3: want you to hear what heg Seth said. The idea

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Speaker 3: the warrior ethos in the United States and recognizing the

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Speaker 3: mistakes that we made in engaging these policies that didn't

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Speaker 1: On who was best for the job. This was pete Hegseth.

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Speaker 1: We became the Woke Department, but not anymore.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm looking out at a sea of Americans

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Speaker 2: for freedom and the Constitution. You made a choice to

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Speaker 1: You are truly the best of America.

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Speaker 2: But this does not mean, and this goes for all

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Speaker 1: We want them to be.

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Speaker 1: We just have to be honest.

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Speaker 2: This administration has done a great deal from day one

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Speaker 2: No more identity months, dei offices, dudes in dresses, no

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Speaker 2: The New War Department Golden rule is this, do onto

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Speaker 2: This means at the war department first and foremost, we

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Speaker 1: Must be upheld.

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Speaker 2: I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are

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Speaker 2: When it comes to combat arms units, and there are

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Speaker 2: Either you can meet the standard, either you can do

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Speaker 1: Only because this job is life or death. Standards must

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Speaker 2: We should seek to exceed the standard, to push the envelope,

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Speaker 2: Today, at my direction, we are also adding a combat

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Speaker 1: Combat Fitness Test.

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Speaker 2: I'm also directing that warfighters in combat jobs execute their

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Speaker 2: fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of War can do

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Speaker 1: Member of our Joint Force.

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Speaker 2: Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or

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Speaker 1: A four star general.

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Speaker 2: You need to meet the height and weight standards and

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Speaker 1: And as the Chairman said, yes, there is no PT.

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Speaker 2: Test, but today, at my direction, every member of the

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Speaker 2: PT test twice a year, as well as meet height

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Speaker 2: Also today, at my direction, every warrior across our joint

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Speaker 2: Force is required to do pt every duty day.

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Speaker 1: Should be common SATs.

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Speaker 2: I mean most units do that already, but we're codifying

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Speaker 2: and we're not talking like.

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Speaker 1: Hot yoga and stretching real hard PTE.

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Speaker 2: There's either as a unit or as an individual at

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Speaker 2: every level, from the Joint chiefs to everyone in this

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Speaker 2: room to the youngest private leaders set the standard and

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Speaker 2: so many of you this this already active guard and reserve.

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Speaker 3: Of standard that has to be upheld all the way

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Speaker 3: across the entirety of the military.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this is what I voted for.

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Speaker 3: I think you did too. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz.

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Speaker 3: This is Tony Katz today,