President Donald Trump speaks alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he signs an executive order for the Department of Defense to be renamed the Department of War in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday. Photo by Francis Chung/UPI | License Photo
PARIS, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- April Fool's Day has come early. Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
Why? Good question. Both answer this query by saying that this is one way of bringing the "warfighter" ethos back to the Pentagon.
Warfighter? Trump missed Vietnam for crippling bone spurs that obviously have not prevented him from playing golf.
Hegseth joined the National Guard and served for 11 months in Guantanamo Bay and briefly in Iraq and Afghanistan. While he received a Bronze Star and an Oak Leaf cluster, he was barred from serving in the Guard by the Biden administration on grounds of extremist views based on his various tattoos.
