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American Warriors concerned with woke military leadership: ‘Destroying the fabric’ of why soldiers fight
Pete Hegseth rails against the 'upside-down priorities' coming from the Pentagon
By Jeff Field | Fox News
More often than not, serving in the United States military leaves an indelible mark of pride on the men and women who join that fraternity, yet today many are worried military leaders are more concerned with ideology than they are with developing a lethal force to defend the nation.
Fox News spoke with three such veterans in Phoenix during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, all of whom addressed the four-day event.
"The Pentagon has been infected with wokeism the same way so many other institutions have," said Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who served as a U.S. Army platoon leader. Hegseth said under the Obama presidency certain generals were chosen "based on their political points of view, not based on their pedigree for killing the enemy" because they would comply with "new priorities."
That sentiment was shared by former Army Ranger and founder of the Warrior Poet Society, John Lovell. "The military has a very specific and strategic job, and that's to keep our country safe," Lovell said. "And when you thrust them in to be the front line of a sociological experiment which has a pernicious ideology that makes people hate the United States, a soldier can very quickly start to despise the very thing he's supposed to be protecting."
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