But the next thing he said to me was, Pete, I need you to restore the warrior ethos. I need you to get the military back to basics. We were distracted absolutely. Our military under previous administrations, especially Obama, but then Joe Biden more recently, were distracted by experiments effectively in ideology and social justice, in social engineering, in climate change, and take dei, crt, genderism. you name it, influences were pushed into our formations in ways that made doing our job that much more complicated and difficult. So from day one, we have declared that DEI is dead at dod. (05:14–05:33)
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