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Speaker 1: Lie from Baal Hartlier and the Crossroads of America.

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Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today. Many of you may.

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Speaker 1: Have missed the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaking to

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Speaker 1: this assembled group of generals and admirals. And yes, I

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Speaker 1: thought the meeting was kind of weird. And what is

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Speaker 1: going to happen? What's going on? And do you put

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Speaker 1: all of these military leaders in one spot? Tony Katz,

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today, so good to be.

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Speaker 2: With You find everything at Tony Katz dot com.

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Speaker 1: Is there a normal level of operations that takes place here?

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Speaker 1: You do this, you don't do this? How in the

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Speaker 1: world does it work? Is there a problem?

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Speaker 2: Security wise? This we all I think legitimate questions.

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Speaker 1: But they gathered at Quantico, Virginia, and it was the

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Speaker 1: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, raising Kane, who then introduced

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Speaker 1: Pete Heseth, and then President Trump spoke.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to focus for this on.

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Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth because I think his conversation is so unbelievably

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Speaker 1: important and such a departure from the leftist military that

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Speaker 1: we have seen. We have seen the growth of this

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Speaker 1: failure of leadership, this failure of capacity, and this unwillingness

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Speaker 1: to state we have a standard, and the standard must hold.

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Speaker 1: The standard must hold. We do things a certain way,

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Speaker 1: and we do them for a purpose. I am a believer,

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Speaker 1: as I've stated long before Pete Hegsath came on the

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Speaker 1: scene in as Secretary of War, that the job of

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Speaker 1: the military is to kill people and break things.

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Speaker 2: That I do want a lethal force.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that anybody like Secretary of Hegseth

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Speaker 1: wasn't already in this camp from the days of Fox News.

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Speaker 1: I've never had this conversation with him. But we should

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Speaker 1: agree that the job of our military is not to

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Speaker 1: be an instrument of social change. It is to be

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Speaker 1: the instrument of pure, blunt, raw force. And then after

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Speaker 1: that force has been enacted and whatever the objective is

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Speaker 1: that has been achieved, then we could be as good

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Speaker 1: and as caring as we are as Americans because we are.

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Speaker 2: The Secretary seem to have that very much in mind.

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Speaker 1: And instead of going in front of or behind the podium,

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Speaker 1: he was in front of it.

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Speaker 2: And he spoke to the generals and the admirals and.

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Speaker 1: Was speaking to the country, and it was a recognition

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Speaker 1: that the old way is over. This is how we

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Speaker 1: do things, and anybody doesn't like it, well, that's just

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Speaker 1: too bad. Let's start from where it starts.

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Speaker 3: Well, mister Chairman, the Joint Chiefs, Generals, admirals, commanders, officers,

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Speaker 3: senior list, NCOs, enlisted in, every member of our American military,

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Speaker 3: good morning, good morning, and welcome to the War Department.

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Speaker 3: Because the era of the Department of Defense is over.

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Speaker 4: You see, the motto of my first platoon was those

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Speaker 4: who longed for peace must prepare for war. This is,

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Speaker 4: of course, not a new idea. This crowd knows.

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Speaker 3: That the origin dates to the fourth century Rome and

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Speaker 3: has been repeated ever since, including by our first Commander

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Speaker 3: in Chief, George Washington.

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Speaker 4: The first leader of the War Department.

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Speaker 3: It captures a simple yet profound truth. To ensure peace,

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Speaker 3: we must prepare for war. From this moment forward, the

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Speaker 3: only mission of the newly restored Department of War is

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Speaker 3: this war, fighting, preparing for war, and preparing to win.

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Speaker 2: And that is what I voted for. I don't know

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Speaker 2: about you.

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Speaker 1: No wait, hold on, I do know about you, and

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Speaker 1: that's what you voted for too, No nonsense. Our job

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Speaker 1: is to win the fight in front of us, not

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Speaker 1: to fight every fight in front of us.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we're there's some things we decide that's not our fight.

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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. But if we're gonna fight.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not

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Speaker 3: because we want war, No one here wants war.

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Speaker 4: But it's because we love peace. We love peace for

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Speaker 4: our fellow citizens.

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Speaker 3: They deserve peace and they rightfully expect us to deliver it.

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Speaker 3: Our number one job, of course, is to be strong

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Speaker 3: so that we can prevent war in the first place.

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Speaker 3: The President talks about it all the time. It's called

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Speaker 3: peace through strength, And as history teaches us, the only

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Speaker 3: people who actually deserve peace are those who are willing

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Speaker 3: to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is

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Speaker 4: Either you protect your people.

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Speaker 3: And your sovereignty or you will be subservient to something

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Speaker 1: Is there anybody who disagrees with that, anybody who doesn't

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Speaker 1: about Israeli genocide, et cetera, et cetera. None of them

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Speaker 1: can accept the fact that Hamas started the fight.

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Speaker 2: None of them are willing.

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Speaker 1: To state this is because this is the state of

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Speaker 1: war that Hamas created. And yes, people are going to die,

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Speaker 1: and of course it's awful. No, there's no debate that

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Speaker 1: it's awful. But it only ends when it ends, and

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Speaker 1: it can't end without ending in a way where the

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Speaker 2: I think that's the way. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I know that's the way the Israeli see it. But

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Speaker 1: you look at all these Americans who don't see it

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Speaker 1: that way. They don't see it for us as well.

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Speaker 1: They don't see the idea that there is the people

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Speaker 1: up with that. We're going to show you what we're

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Speaker 1: made of, and you are going to regret this all

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Speaker 1: the days of your life.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Pete Hegseth gets into.

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Speaker 3: That, it's truth as old as time. Waging war is

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Speaker 3: so costly in blood and treasure. We owe our republic

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Speaker 3: a military that will win any war we choose, or

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Speaker 3: any war that is thrust upon us. Should our enemies

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Speaker 4: And ferocity of the War Department.

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Speaker 3: In other words, to our enemies, fa foh.

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Speaker 4: If necessary, our troops can translate that for you.

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Speaker 2: And that is where it's at.

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Speaker 1: It's at that moment, by the way, he's not even

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, all right.

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Speaker 1: That's what they said. They were like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: what is this, Oh, I know what this is. This

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Speaker 1: is correct. We're not interested in the feelings of our enemies.

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Speaker 1: We're not interested in what they claim about who's getting hurt.

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Speaker 2: They shouldn't have started the fight. Now, the fight's.

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Speaker 1: Gonna end on our terms, and they're gonna regret it

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Speaker 1: all the days of their lives. I ask you right now,

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Speaker 1: why should there be a different way of doing this?

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Speaker 1: Does the different way work? Have we seen that work?

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Speaker 1: Have we seen the idea of appeasement work? Have we

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Speaker 1: seen the idea of being loving and above the fray work?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I agree that we shouldn't be dragged

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Speaker 1: into every conflict, but if we're going to fight, we

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Speaker 2: The enemy until the enemy is quite literally dead, and.

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Speaker 1: The people there beg us to stop, and they don't

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Speaker 1: forget it for one hundred years. You can't get anybody

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Speaker 1: to remember anything for forever. They don't learn their lessons

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Speaker 1: for forever, because eventually some people come aroun the new

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Speaker 1: generations come and they think that they're impervious. They think

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Speaker 1: they're you know, built differently, or somehow smarter. How do

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Speaker 1: you think communism keeps coming back? A whole new generation thinks, well,

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Speaker 1: the other people they did it wrong, but we're smarter,

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Speaker 1: we know how to do it.

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Speaker 2: Bunch of fools, bunch of fools.

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Speaker 1: So yes, I can appreciate the FAFO thought process of

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Speaker 4: Another way to.

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Speaker 3: Put it is peace through strength brought to you by

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Speaker 3: the warrior ethos, and we are restoring both. As President

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Speaker 3: Trump has said, and he's right. We have the strongest,

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Speaker 3: most powerful, most lethal, and most prepared military on the planet.

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Speaker 3: That is true, full stop. Nobody can touch us. It's

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Speaker 3: not even close. This is true largely because of the

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Speaker 3: historic investments that he made in his first term.

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Speaker 4: And we will continue in this term.

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Speaker 1: Which better include building a whole bunch of ships. We

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Speaker 1: will continue with Pete hegg Seth's speech in front of

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Speaker 1: the generals and the.

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Speaker 2: Admirals, I've got more coming up. Keep it here.

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Speaker 1: This is Tony Kats today, Pete Hegseth continued, Tony Katz,

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today, good to be with you, the Secretary

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Speaker 1: of War. This big address to the generals and to

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Speaker 1: the admirals, and what's this going to be? It was

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Speaker 1: a hey, guys, the ways of doing things in the

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Speaker 1: past are over. We're here to kill the enemy when

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Speaker 1: the moment calls for it, and we better be ready.

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Speaker 2: And not only did.

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Speaker 1: He discuss here's our focus, but he got into a

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Speaker 3: But it's also true because of the leaders in this

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Speaker 3: a vote.

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Speaker 4: You feel it, I feel it.

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Speaker 3: This is a moment of urgency mounting urgency, enemies gather,

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Speaker 3: be prepared. If we're going to prevent and avoid war,

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Speaker 3: we must prepare now. We are the strength part of

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Speaker 3: peace through strength, and either we're ready to win or

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Speaker 3: we are not. You see this urgent moment, of course,

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Speaker 3: requires more troops, more munitions, more drones, more patriots, more submarines,

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Speaker 4: It requires more.

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Speaker 3: Innovation, more AI in everything and ahead of the curve,

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Speaker 3: more cyber effects, more counter uas, more space, more speed.

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Speaker 3: America is the strongest, but we need to get stronger

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Speaker 3: and quickly.

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Speaker 4: The time is now and the cause is urgent.

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Speaker 2: Could not agree. More has to start with the navy.

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Speaker 1: More ships, more aircraft carriers, more destroyers, more ships at sea.

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Speaker 1: All war a one because of a navy. You've got

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Speaker 1: to point B. Drones will only do you so much. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: you need somebody carrying the bayonet or the bowie knife.

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Speaker 2: That's what you need. You have to be able to

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Speaker 2: control the navigable seas. Therefore, Navy back to the Secretary.

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Speaker 3: The moment requires restoring and refocusing our devents, industrial base,

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Speaker 3: our shipbuilding industry, and on shoring all critical components. It requires,

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Speaker 3: as President Trump has done, getting our allies and partners

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Speaker 3: to step up and share the burden.

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Speaker 4: America cannot do everything.

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Speaker 3: The free world requires allies with real hard power, real

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Speaker 3: military leadership, and real military capabilities. The War Department is

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Speaker 3: tackling and prioritizing all of these things, and I'll be

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Speaker 3: giving a speech next month that will showcase the speed,

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Speaker 3: innovation and generational acquisition reforms we are undertaking urgently. Likewise,

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Speaker 3: the nature of the threats we face in our hemisphere

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Speaker 3: and in deterring China is another speech for another day

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Speaker 3: coming soon. This speech today, as I drink my coffee,

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Speaker 2: If I've learned.

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Speaker 4: For too long we have simply not done that. The

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Speaker 3: By foolish and reckless politicians to focus on the wrong things.

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Speaker 4: You might say, we're ending the war on warriors.

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Speaker 1: This speech is about giving back that focus, bringing back

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Speaker 2: That's coming up. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz. This

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Speaker 3: For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for

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Speaker 3: We've weeded out so called toxic leaders under the guise

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely accurate. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good

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Speaker 2: On who was best for the job. This was Pete Hegseth.

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Speaker 4: We became the woke Department, but not anymore.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I'm looking out at a sea of Americans

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Speaker 4: You made a choice to serve.

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Speaker 4: You are truly the best of America.

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Speaker 3: But this does not mean, and this goes for all

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Speaker 4: We just have to be honest.

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Speaker 4: That's what leaders must do.

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Speaker 3: We cannot go another day without directly addressing the plank

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Speaker 4: To rip out the politics.

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Speaker 3: No more identity months, dei offices, dudes.

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Speaker 4: In dresses, no more climate change worship.

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Speaker 3: No more division distraction or gender delusions, no more debris.

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Speaker 4: As I've said before, and we'll say again, we are

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Speaker 2: This stuff is ridiculous. What are we doing.

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Speaker 1: This is no way to run a military, This is

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Speaker 2: To have a say. This has to end.

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Speaker 1: The very idea that you know, well, we can try this,

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Speaker 2: And the Left never stops. There's always one more, and

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Speaker 3: Made up my mission to uproot the obvious distractions that

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Speaker 4: It's pretty simple.

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Speaker 3: What I want my eldest son, who is fifteen years old,

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Speaker 3: He is no more important than your son, all precious

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Speaker 3: souls made in the image and likeness of God. Every

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Speaker 3: parent deserves to know that their son or their daughter

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Speaker 3: that joins our ranks is entering exactly the kind of

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Speaker 3: unit that the Secretary of War would want his son

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Speaker 3: to join.

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Speaker 4: Think of it as the Golden rule test.

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Speaker 3: Jesus said, do unto others, that's which you would have

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Speaker 3: done unto yourself. It's the ultimate simplifying test of truth.

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Speaker 3: The new War Department golden rule is this, do onto

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Speaker 3: your unit as you would have done onto your own

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Speaker 3: child's unit. Would you want him serving with fat or

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Speaker 3: unfit or undertrained troops, or alongside people who can't meet

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Speaker 3: basic standards, or in a unit where standing were lowered

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Speaker 3: so certain types of troops could make it in in

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Speaker 3: a unit where leaders were promoted for reasons other than

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Speaker 3: merit performance and war fighting.

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Speaker 4: The answer is not just no, it's hell tho.

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Speaker 3: This means at the War Department, first and foremost, we

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Speaker 3: must restore a ruthless, dispassionate, and common sense application of standards.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely this you have said on the barstool on your

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Speaker 1: couch to your friends. We have to have a rule.

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Speaker 1: We don't make it different for this group. We don't

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Speaker 1: make it different for women. We don't make it different

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Speaker 1: for men. We don't make it different for gay. We

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Speaker 1: don't make it different for Muslim or Christian, or Jewish

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Speaker 1: or anything else.

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Speaker 2: We've got a standard, and the standard must be upheld.

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Speaker 1: And to that conversation, Pete Hegset, the Secretary of War

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Speaker 1: addresses it directly.

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Speaker 3: I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are

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Speaker 3: out of shape in combat unit, with females who can't

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Speaker 3: meet the same combat arms physical standards as men, or

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Speaker 3: troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons,

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Speaker 3: platform or task, or under a leader who was the

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Speaker 3: first but not the best. Standards must be uniform, gender neutral,

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Speaker 3: and high.

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Speaker 4: If not, they're not standards.

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Speaker 3: They're just suggestions, suggestions that get our sons and daughters

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Speaker 3: killed when it comes to combat arms units, and there

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Speaker 3: are many different stripes across our joint force. The era

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Speaker 3: of politically correct overly sensitive don't hurt anyone's feelings.

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Speaker 4: Leadership ends right now at every level.

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Speaker 3: Either you can meet the standard, either you can do

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Speaker 3: the job. Either you are disciplined, fit and trained, or

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Speaker 3: you are out and That's why today, at my direction,

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Speaker 3: and this is the first of ten Department of War

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Speaker 3: directives that are arriving at your commands as we speak

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Speaker 3: and in your inbox today, at my direction, each service

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Speaker 3: will ensure that every requirement for every combat MOS, for

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Speaker 3: every designated combat arms position returns to the highest mail standard.

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Speaker 4: Only because this job is life or death.

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Speaker 3: Standards must be met and not just met. At every level.

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Speaker 3: We should seek to exceed the standard, to push the envelope,

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Speaker 3: to compete its common sense and core to who we

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Speaker 3: are and what we do.

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Speaker 4: It should be in our DNA.

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Speaker 3: Today at my direction, we are also adding a combat

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Speaker 3: field test for combat arms.

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Speaker 4: Units that must be executable.

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Speaker 3: In any environment, at any time and with combat equipment.

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Speaker 4: These tests they'll look familiar.

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Speaker 3: They'll resemble the Army Expert Physical Fitness Assessment or the

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Speaker 3: Marine Corps Combat Fitness Test. I'm also directing that warfighters

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Speaker 3: in combat jobs execute their Service Fitness test at a

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Speaker 3: gender neutral age normed male standard scored above seventy percent.

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Speaker 3: It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the

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Speaker 3: Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so can

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Speaker 3: every member of our joint force.

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Speaker 4: Frankly, it's tiring.

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Speaker 3: To look out at combat formations or really any formation

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Speaker 3: and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see

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Speaker 3: fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon

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Speaker 3: and leading commands around the country in the world.

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Speaker 4: It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not

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Speaker 4: who we are.

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Speaker 3: So, whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborne ranger,

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Speaker 3: a brand new private or a four star general, you

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Speaker 3: need to meet the height and weight standards and pass

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Speaker 3: for PT test.

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Speaker 4: And as the Chairman said, yes there is no.

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Speaker 3: PT test, but today, at my direction, every member of

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Speaker 3: the Joint Force at every rank is required to take

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Speaker 3: a PT test twice a year, as well as meet

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Speaker 3: height and weight requirements twice a year every year of service. Also, today,

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Speaker 3: at my direction, every warrior across our Joint Force is

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Speaker 3: required to do PT every duty day.

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Speaker 4: Should be common SATs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, most units do that already, but we're codifying,

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Speaker 3: and we're not talking like hot yoga instretching.

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Speaker 4: Real hard PTE. There's either as a unit or as

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Speaker 4: an individual.

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Speaker 3: At every level, from the Joint chiefs to everyone in

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Speaker 3: this room to the youngest private leaders set the standard

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Speaker 3: and so many.

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Speaker 5: Of you do this already, active guard and reserve a

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Speaker 5: standard that has to be upheld all the way across

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Speaker 5: the entirety of the military.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is what I voted for. I think

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Speaker 2: you did too. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz. This

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Speaker 2: is Tony Katz today.

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Speaker 1: As I said, the speech from the Secretary of War

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Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth today sets the standard. Hey, everything we were

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Speaker 1: doing with all this nonsense, wokeness, garbage, touchy feely crap,

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Speaker 1: it's over.

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Speaker 2: We're a fighting force and this is how we do it.

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Speaker 1: And now everybody knows there is only one way this

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Speaker 1: is done, and it is done this way because no

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Speaker 1: other way actually works. No other way is going to

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Speaker 1: have you fully prepared. No other way could possibly put

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Speaker 1: you in a spot to be able to deal with

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Speaker 1: the enemy. No, no, no, no, we can't have that.

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Speaker 1: We need to be able to deal with the enemy

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Speaker 1: wherever the enemy is, wherever the enemy shows himself.

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Speaker 2: So let's do that.

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Speaker 1: So this speech today was really a knockout, and he

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Speaker 1: wasn't done just yet.

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Speaker 4: This also means grooming standards. No more beards, long.

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Speaker 3: Hair, superficial individual expression. We're gonna cut our hair shave

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Speaker 3: our beards and adhere to standards, because it's like the

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Speaker 3: broken windows theory of policing.

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Speaker 4: It's like when you let the small.

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Speaker 3: Stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes, so you have

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Speaker 3: to address the small stuff.

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Speaker 4: This is on duty in the field and in the rear.

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Speaker 3: If you want a beard, you can join special forces.

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Speaker 3: If not, then shaf We don't have a military full

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Speaker 3: of Nordic pagans, but unfortunately we have had leaders we

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Speaker 3: either refuse to call bs and enforce standards or leaders

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Speaker 3: who felt like they were.

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Speaker 4: Not allowed to enforce standards. Both are unacceptable.

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Speaker 3: And that's why today, at my direction, the era of

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Speaker 3: unprofessional appearance is over. No more beardoze. The era of

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Speaker 3: rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done. Simply put, if

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Speaker 3: you do not meet the male level physical standards for

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Speaker 3: combat positions, cannot pass a PT test, or don't want

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Speaker 3: to shave and look professional, it's time for a new

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Speaker 3: position or a new profession. I sincerely appreciate the proactive

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Speaker 3: efforts the secretaries have already taken in some of those areas.

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Speaker 3: Service secretaries, and these directives are intended to simply accelerate

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Speaker 3: those efforts on the topic of standards. Allow me a

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Speaker 3: few words to talk about toxic leaders Upholding and demanding

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Speaker 3: high standards is not toxic. Enforcing high standards not toxic.

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Speaker 4: Leadership.

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Speaker 3: Leading warfighters toward the goals of high, gender neutral, and

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Speaker 3: uncompromising standards in order to forge a cohesive, formidable, and

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Speaker 3: lethal Department of.

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Speaker 4: War is not toxic.

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Speaker 3: It is our duty consistent with our constitutional oath. Real

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Speaker 3: toxic leadership is endangering subordinates with low standards. Real toxic

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Speaker 3: leadership is promoting people based on immutable characteristics or quotas

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Speaker 3: instead of based on merit.

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Speaker 4: Real toxic leadership is.

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Speaker 3: Promoting destructive ideologies that are an anathema to the Constitution

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Speaker 3: and the laws of nature and Nature's God. As Thomas

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Speaker 3: Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the definition of

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Speaker 3: toxic has been turned upside down, and we're correcting that.

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Speaker 3: That's why today, at my direction, we're undertaking a full

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Speaker 3: review of the Department's definitions of so called toxic leadership.

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Speaker 1: And with that, he goes into even more that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna love, I will share it, I will.

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Speaker 2: Get to it. There's a lot in this speech to

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Speaker 2: break find everything at Tony Katz dot com. I'll catch

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Speaker 2: it tomorrow. Everyone take care,