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‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth lays out his military vision

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gathered hundreds of junior officers and enlisted troops at a base in Virginia on Wednesday to extol the virtues of basing Pentagon policy on culture-war issues and to complain about the news media.

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  1. The New Republic

    “No Beardos, No Weirdos”: Hegseth Goes on Bizarre Rant to Silent Crowd (opens The New Republic)

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    Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address Wednesday was a bizarre journey in which he rehashed or remixed his most common talking points in Ted Talk fashion. Hegseth got to the culture war stuff early on in his address, bragging about firing a slew of longtime military leaders at the beginning of …

  2. Hawaiitribune Herald

    ‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth lays out his military vision (opens Hawaiitribune Herald)

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    WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gathered hundreds of junior officers and enlisted troops at a base in Virginia on Wednesday to extol the virtues of basing Pentagon policy on culture-war issues and to complain about the news media.

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