Hegseth: Every promotion purely based on performance, It is true I don’t have a similar biography

Pete Hegseth: “Every General or Flag Officer [will be] selected for leadership or promotion purely based on performance, readiness, and merit. Leaders at all levels will be held accountable. Warfighting and lethality and the readiness of the troops and their families will be our only focus.”

Pete Hegseth: “It is true that I don’t have a similar biography to Defense Secretaries of the last 30 years… we’ve repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly “the right credentials”—whether they are retired generals, academics, or defense contractor executives—and where has it gotten us?”

Sen. Roger Wicker: “This nomination is unconventional. The nominee is unconventional; just like that New York developer who rode the escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president. That may be what makes Mr. Hegseth an excellent choice.”

As Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth will:

— Restore the Warrior Ethos to the Pentagon and throughout our fighting force.

— Rebuild our Military, always matching threats to capabilities.

— Re-establish Deterrence.

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Hegseth: Every promotion purely based on performance, It is true I don’t have a similar biography

Key Points

Pete Hegseth: “Every General or Flag Officer [will be] selected for leadership or promotion purely based on performance, readiness, and merit

• Leaders at all levels will be held accountable
• Warfighting and lethality and the readiness of the troops and their families will be our only focus”

Pete Hegseth: “It is true that I don’t have a similar biography to Defense Secretaries of the last 30 years

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• We need to make sure every warrior is fully qualified on their assigned weapon system, every pilot is fully qualified and current on the aircraft they are flying, and every general or flag officer is selected for leadership or promotion purely based on performance, readiness, and merit
• Leaders at all levels will be held accountable, and warfighting and lethality and the readiness of the troops and their families will be our only focus
• He believes, and I humbly agree, that it’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm
• A change agent, someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives
• My only special interest is the warfighter
• Deterring wars and if called upon winning wars by ensuring our warriors never enter a fair fight
• Like many of my generation, I’ve been there
• I’ve pulled a trigger down range, heard bullets whiz by, flex cuffed insurgents called in close air support, led medivacs, dodged IEDs, pulled out dead bodies, and knelt before a battlefield cross
• Today’s Department of Defense is no longer prepared for great power competition
• It is not a national defense institution ready to achieve and sustain technological supremacy across the range of operations

Full transcript: 547 words transcribed via Whisper AI.