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Pete Hegseth: “Because we are a top down organization we which is part of…”

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Charlie Kirk and Pete Hegseth Discuss Military Recruitment and Leadership Under Trump

Published | Video Starts at 06:07

Right? Is that you've been able to remove a lot of the wokeness like very quickly. I mean we went Because we are a top down organization we which is part of the reason why they were able to insert a lot of the WOKE nonsense so quickly. because it was either comply follow lawful orders from a previous commander in chief on these woke, ideological gender stuff, DEI stuff, critical race theory stuff or you're out. (06:07–06:17)

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Asserts that the military's top-down structure allowed for the rapid implementation of what he describes as 'woke' policies.

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