Pete Hegseth: “The battlefield does not grade on a curve, and you can’t throw your pronouns at the enemy.”

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

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.

I mean the Biden administration ignored hypersonics. They just decided to pretend like that technology didn’t exist and we shouldn’t invest in it.