Pete Hegseth: “Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is…”

Training right now and training in the future that would have to be curtailed if we do not get our budget needs met, and met urgently.

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.

The Iranian defense industrial base is effectively gone, but they do have underground facilities because they're the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and they've spent 47 years trying to hide their missiles under mountains, just…

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