Pete Hegseth: “We're not renaming the ship to anything political.”

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

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

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

Every dollar appropriated will be used to build the lethality of US military forces and reinforce peace through strength.