No more ‘beardos’ or ‘dudes in dresses’, forces leaders have been told

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the country's military elite new reforms would weed political correctness from the U.S. armed forces.

Defence Secretary Hegseth challenges U.S. military leaders on race, gender quotas, hazing, and "woke" culture.

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President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admirals

The defense secretary railed against fat service members and hot yoga, while the president delivered his usual rambling nonsense.

Pentagon chief railed against diversity and fat-shamed the troops as he directed his generals to fall in line – or quit

Former Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling called the gathering “somewhat shocking” and “filled with mistruths,” and suspected “it’s not being taken well” by the troops.

Hegseth launched into a vulgar tirade against service members who don’t fit his specific vision of who should represent the U.S.

The Trump administration evidently seeks to transform the US military into a partisan tool of the president’s regime

No more ‘beardos’ or ‘dudes in dresses’, forces leaders have been told

Trump und Hegseth bringen die Streitkräfte auf Kurs. Bedenklich, sagt Reinhard Krumm von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Washington.

President and his defence chief took aim at the ‘fat generals’, but some doubted there was much substance to the swagger on show