Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out"

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday touted his efforts to remove "woke" policies and personnel from the Pentagon, including eliminating 1 in 5 generals and admirals since taking over the department at the start of the second Trump administration. "We've ended the poisonous culture of risk aversion and empowered leaders at every single level to simply enforce standards. The only focus, as you know, in your formations should be training, readiness, accountability, discipline, and lethality," he said in his "State of the Force" address in Quantico, Virginia. "And when you pursue those things, you don't have to walk on eggshells. No more social engineering, no more weaponized IG policies. The complainers, the ideologues and the poor performers are no longer in the driver's seat." Secretary Hegseth said the changes mean the Pentagon is no longer "the woke department or the weak department." "Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimp