Austin urges calm as Trump vows to remake ‘woke’ military into bad-ass fighting machine
By
Jamie McIntyre
November 8, 2024 7:15 am
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TRUMP: ‘THEY’RE NOT GOING TO BE WOKE. DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT’: President-elect Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the current leadership at the Pentagon — both the civilians and some of the senior military officers. On the campaign trail, Trump touted his vision of what the American military should return to by showing a short video at his rallies featuring clips from the classic 1987 Vietnam War film “Full Metal Jacket.”
“You will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day, you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth,” barks R. Lee Ermey in the role of Marine Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, in a profane rebuke of new recruits after he punches one in the stomach.
That Hollywood portrayal of Marine boot camp was juxtaposed with a clip of Dr. Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender four-star officer to serve in uniform as an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service. “Happy pride. Happy Pride Month,” Levine says. “And actually, let’s declare it a summer of pride.”
One of the first things Trump promised to do as commander in chief was to fire the generals and admirals he saw as too woke. “Don’t worry about the military. They’re not woke,” Trump said at a Michigan rally in the campaign’s closing days. “Only those people on the top are a little ‘woke.’ They’ll be gone fast.”
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