The Pentagon is preparing for sweeping changes after President Trump nominates Pete Hegseth as secretary.

The Pentagon is preparing for sweeping policy changes under the incoming Trump administration that could jeopardize the careers of some senior officials.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran, to lead the Pentagon. This nomination is an iconoclast who has disrupted the defense industrial base.

With Hegseth in office, the Trump administration is expected to cancel diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and training within the military.

“If you want to hold a seminar on gender transition or social justice, you can do it somewhere else, but you won't do it in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force, or the United States.'' Sorry Marines, Trump said. The President spoke at an August 21 rally in Asheboro, North Carolina.

“The military leaders who led these absurd and insulting efforts will be removed as well and they will no longer be in command. They will be gone, gone too soon.”

President Trump nominates Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense

“Cleaner” for Department of Defense career personnel

Generals and senior officials who have served for many years in the Pentagon could have their jobs threatened, even though they are not normally eligible for political appointments.

“First of all, we have to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Hegseth said on the “Sean Ryan Show” podcast last week.

“The generals, admirals, admirals and whatever else was involved in DEI woke up and it's time to stop,” he added.

In his recent book, War with Warriors, Hegseth also writes: “Our generals are not ready for this moment in history. They are not even close. The next president of the United States needs to fundamentally overhaul the senior leadership of the Department of Defense to prepare us. Many people need to be laid off to protect our country and defeat our enemies. ”

“At the Pentagon, you can fire generals. Unlike the CIA or the Justice Department, for example, senior officials are protected, so it's difficult to fire senior bureaucrats,” said a former congressman who consults on government transitions. Chris Stewart said. Department of Defense Issues Team.

The transition team is considering a draft executive order that would create a “warrior commission” of senior military veterans with the authority to review three- and four-star officers and recommend the removal of those unfit for leadership. The Wall Street Journal reported. First reported.

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“FOX & Friends” host Pete Hegseth at the Fox News Channel studios on May 27, 2022 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

transgender ban

President Trump may soon gain support from social conservatives and defense hawks by rescinding an executive order signed by President Joe Biden lifting the ban on transgender military service.

Under an executive order from the Obama administration, transgender people were allowed to serve openly in the military in 2016. But in 2017, President Trump announced he would reimpose the ban.

At the time, President Trump said in a social media post: “Our military must focus on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot afford to be saddled with the significant medical costs and disruption caused by transgender people in our military.” said.

President Trump's ban ordered the release of people diagnosed with gender dysphoria and sparked a flurry of lawsuits.

A soldier in camouflage uniform aims a rifle and prepares to fire during a night operation. (St. Petersburg)

abortion trip

The Trump Pentagon is also expected to rescind a Biden-era policy that allows service members to obtain leave and compensation if they need to leave the state where they are stationed for an abortion.

The policy is rarely used, with just 12 people taking advantage of it in a six-month period from August to December 2023, according to a Pentagon study.

Conservatives have been pushing to block the policy since Biden adopted it after the Roe v. Wade reversal.

DEI clause

The Department of Defense has requested funding worth $114 million for the 2024 DEI initiative. The funds were to be used for “programs and initiatives designed to advance DEIA and embed DEIA's values, purpose, and considerations in the way we do business and accomplish our mission.” . ” It is expected that diversity efforts will be seriously undermined.

“DEI amplifies dissent, creates dissatisfaction, and eliminates those who won't bow to the cultural Marxist revolution sweeping the Pentagon. Forget about DEI. The acronym should be DIE or IED. This “It would destroy our military with more destructive power than any previous IED,” Hegseth writes in Chapter 8.

“The left is not only interested in purging Trump supporters; their ideology is based on alienating normality, because they believe that 'normality' is always oppressive. According to their logic, a strong man is just a man who goes to the gym. , that they are oppressing those around them,” he wrote.

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“The main reason training accidents are decreasing is because of decreased training. More time than ever is spent moralizing on social justice PowerPoints. And these metrics in today's military. “Meeting is the most important standard to meet,” he wrote. “Every unit knows that social justice, transgender, gender, and woke training is a top priority. If this training is not done or not done properly, commanders and junior leaders will be fired. The lack of actual on-site training becomes secondary.