Pete Hegseth: “This is a tragedy. Young kids won’t have the opportunity to learn these skills, but more importantly, the values. And…”

I honored the Iowa soldiers killed in Kuwait, while saying the U.S.-Iran conflict was necessary to keep Americans safe.

You — you don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a long-term plan to actually win this war. Win the war! The men and women are going to be able to do it, but they need leadership. When will you show leadership?

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

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