Pete Hegseth's 'warrior ethos' speech is now mandatory viewing for the entire US military

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made his recent speech to top military leaders on the "warrior ethos" mandatory for all American military personnel, according to a recently issued Department of Defense memo.

Hegseth's speech, delivered to hundreds of generals and admirals at a massive gathering late last month at Marine Corps Base Quantico, highlighted major cultural shifts in the Pentagon, including updated fitness and grooming standards.

"Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the woke department. But not anymore," he said, outlining his expectations ahead of an address from President Donald Trump that touched on a wide range of topics, including "ugly" ships and the possible return of the battleship.

According to an October 6 memo, which surfaced online and a Pentagon official indicated is real, Hegseth has ordered that "leaders at every level will ensure all personnel will either watch the full recording or read the official transcript of the speech" and review the policy changes for the department no later than October 31.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseths-warrior-ethos-speech-213915079.html

Sounds like a lot of false bravado.

[sakabatou]

1. Fucking hell, media, do your job and call it what it is: PROPAGANDA

[Walleye]

3. We will be waiting a long time to hear that. It took them over four years to use the word lies.

[Walleye]

2. Now, I'm thinking of Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's restaurant"

Where he’s talking to the draft officer and telling him “I want to kill“ I want to eat dead burnt bodies and veins in my teeth. Sergeant pinned a medal on him and “you’re our man.”

[UTUSN]

4. Too rough for t. paper.

[surfered]

5. This

[Bluetus]

6. I once worked in a company where we had a guy

who was sent in by corporate to take over a division that had about 100 employees. The first few weeks were awkward, but we just assumed it was part of the orientation period as he learned about our operation. We just kept our heads down and carried on as well as we could, and tried to accommodate any request or changes he asked for.

Then one day, he ordered everyone to be onsite, and pull their chairs into the largest common space we had. What ensued was 90 minutes of speech. At first, it sounded like it would be "Now that I've been here a few weeks and we have gotten to know each other a little, I'd like to share my observations about how we are doing and what changes might like ahead." OK, fine, that's what anybody would expect.

But that tone lasted about 5-10 minutes. With each passing minute, the speech got stranger and stranger. I should mention that we later learned he had been working with one of the secretaries to prepare this speech, which was all typed and bound, a magnum opus, as it were. We were primarily an IT operation, but by the 10 minute mark there was no discussions whatsoever about our mission, our duties, our goals, our relationships or anything else related to why we came there every day. By then he was talking about another division that produces cellophane. And then another division that produced some kind of food additive that was indigestible. I don't remember what they called this substance or why anybody thought it was a good thing , but his payoff line was "you eat a pound of XXX XXX, and you shit a pound of XXX XXX."

By that time, an eerie quiet was present in the room because we realized we were witnessing what was casually referred to as a "mental breakdown". Nobody knew what to do. If a person falls and hits their head, or if a person is bleeding, you stop what you are doing and rush to their aid. But mental problems are different. We all just sat their waiting for it to end. Eventually he got to the end of the speech and dismissed us. A couple of days later, he was gone, and I heard he was hospitalized in a mental institution.

My point is that we have been seeing Trump's mental breakdown for 15 years. And like my colleagues from years ago, our natural tendency with mental breakdowns is to freeze and hope it just goes away. But Trump doesn't go away. Undoubtedly that's what Mitch McConnell thought when he blocked the second impeachment. Wrong.

[Aristus]

7. Why are these assholes so gung-ho about bringing back the battleship?

Do they think that makes them seem tough and strong?

Because it reveals them as totally unencumbered by knowledge of history, and of military logistics and funding. Battleships were determined to be obsolete for naval warfare eighty years ago. They are money-sucking black holes of combat uselessness.

Reagan tried to bring back the Iowa-class battleships, at huge expense, and they were retired (again) less than nine years later.

I know these brain-dead creeps are incapable of learning lessons. But they could at least look at a budget statement once in a while...

[Maeve]

8. I have been told by a reliable source that it is being ridiculed across the board

The most common failures in the military are those of leadership. Hogsbreath personifies that

[Norrrm]

9. warrior ethos