Pete Hegseth: “Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops.”

It’s not about artificial enhancement,” Hegseth said in his video. “It’s about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain the fight.

You — you don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a long-term plan to actually win this war. Win the war! The men and women are going to be able to do it, but they need leadership. When will you show leadership?

The amount of neglect, the amount of stale thinking and bureaucracy; it was staggering when we took over.

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