Pete Hegseth: “If you are a narco-terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda. Day or NIGHT…”

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

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

This request is an urgent, necessary injection of resources to address the immediate needs of our department.

Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions, and sustain vital operations without disruption.