Hegseth Walks Back Trump Commitment To Fire DEI Pusher Generals - Why?

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Opinion
Hegseth Walks Back Trump Commitment To Fire DEI Pusher Generals - Why?
By L Todd Wood
February 17, 2025
 
Breitbart recently published an interview with Secretary of Defense Hegseth on the issue of firing 'woke generals' that President Trump made a central piece of his campaign strategy. "How about we fire their asses..?", Trump famously said. Hegseth says otherwise. “I’m paying very close attention. There’s plenty of three- and four-star generals up for promotion or up for new positions, and there will already be a few folks that that we’ve identified who will have different jobs in due time,” the defense secretary said. "I’m not here to declare anybody woke and they’re out.
"We’re watching the execution of culture change and willingness to support the president’s policies, lawful orders, and we’ll evaluate from there.

https://armedforces.press/hegseth-walks-back-trump-commitment-to-fire-dei-pusher-generals-why/

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Not all the "woke" generals are actually woke. Ambitious, yes. They saw that promotion was impossible without advocating certain policies, and so they followed the direction of the Commander in Chief. Now that there is a new CIC, do you really want to eliminate the most ambitious leaders in the ranks? I think Hegseth will be more surgical in his approach.