Pete Hegseth

Their fearless response represents the pinnacle of combat heroism. Simply put, valor.

I honored the Iowa soldiers killed in Kuwait, while saying the U.S.-Iran conflict was necessary to keep Americans safe.

We hope it doesn't have to go in that direction.

It is a day and night difference. Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department. Colorblind, gender-neutral, merit-based. That’s it.

There is a cost to doing very difficult things, to going out and defending your country, and ensuring radical Islamist crazies don’t get a nuclear weapon.

President Trump needs the type of leaders who understand why a $1.5 trillion dollar budget, a one-time generational investment, is what is necessary to ensure that my kids and your kids, that your grandkids and my grandkids, live in a free…

At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies.

Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department.

What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls — it's incredible.

Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.

We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.