Pete Hegseth: “This is a deadly, serious mission for us and it won't stop with just this strike.”

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.

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

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.

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