Hey, if you’re a National Guard soldier stationed in Chicago and ethically disagree with it, just hit up the city’s delicious Italian beef, hot dog and pizza stands as often as possible.
Over the weekend, Task & Purpose — a news website focused on the U.S. military community — reported that the Texas Military Department replaced “a small group” of National Guard members sent to Illinois this past week for not meeting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s new fitness standards.
Late last month, Hegseth and Trump gathered every top U.S. general and admiral from around the world in Virginia to essentially declare that they didn’t want any fat people in the military anymore.
Task & Purpose noted that the decision seems to have been made after a Reddit post riddled with fatphobic jokes brutally mocked a handful of Texas soldiers deployed to Chicago who were featured in a photo shot by the Associated Press.
Hegseth was so thrilled about the removal of these soldiers that he tweeted Take & Force’s article Monday, along with a pretty braggy caption:
