Pete Hegseth receives a list of senior military officers to purge

| December 6, 2024

The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) sent a letter to Pete Hegseth. This letter consisted of names of admirals and generals in the military who were big on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). The AAF pointed to increased global challenges, including a belligerent Russia, China’s military buildup in the Indo-Pacific region, Iran’s actions, etc., to stress the importance of not having this kind of distraction.

From New York Post:

The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) sent a letter to the former “Fox & Friends” weekend co-host outlining 20 names of leaders across the military whom it deems excessively focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), as well as similar left-wing initiatives, and, therefore, an impediment to national security.

“The woke takeover of the military is a major threat to our national security,” AAF President Thomas Jones wrote in a letter to Hegseth dated Tuesday and obtained by The Post.

“As global tensions rise, with Iran on the march, Russia at war, and China in midst of a massive military buildup, we cannot afford to have a military distracted and demoralized by leftist ideology,” he added. “Those who were responsible for these policies being instituted in the first place must be dismissed.”

Prior to getting selected by President-elect Donald Trump, Hegseth, 44, had publicly clamored against wokeness in the military — going as far as to publish a book on the subject earlier this year — and proclaimed on a podcast that any “General, Admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke sh– has got to go.”

Should Hegseth, an Army veteran who saw combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan, take the American Accountability Foundation’s suggestions, he wouldn’t be the only Trump pick to express interest in a purge list.

Additional Reading:

King, R. (2024, December 4). Conservative watchdog compiles list of ‘woke ideologues’ in military for Pete Hegseth to purge. New York Post. Link.

Category: DEI, Military issues

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2banana

And then prosecution for all officers that forced the experimental clot jab.

Forest Bondurant

They also need to look into shit canning those who didn’t resign in protest after Benghazi, the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, or for lowering enlistment or training standards, the failing dining facilities and substandard housing/barracks, and those who failed to approve waivers for religious grounds and for the administrative separations because of the jab.

Skippy

I’m praying they are able to clean it up

26Limabeans

Prayer is racist and has no place in todays military.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

You forgot the (/s) tag.

Lurker Curt

I don’t think he was being sarcastic

tom reynolds

No atheists in fox holes.

Hack Stone

We need senior leadership interested in understanding DEI rage.

AW1Ed

That word they use. I don’t think it means what they think it means.

purge
HT3

With the swearing in of DJT and Hegseth as SECDEF, I think this will become a self-correcting issue. Those 20 flag officers know who they are, and see the writing on the wall. They are at this moment arranging for their golden parachutes. I can’t imagine any will be left for Hegseth to actually fire.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

By “purge”, I presume they DON’T mean a Communist era style mass killing of said officers.
BUT….when said “orificers” are removed from the armed forces, are they retired, with full rank, pay, & bennies?
Or are they Dishonorably Discharged, kicked to the curb, with NO rank, NO retirement pay, NO bennies?
(save a LOT of money, and act as a warning to others on “How Not To Behave”)

I vote for the “Dishonorably Discharged” option. Can I vote repeatedly, or is that only for (D)emon-rats?

26Limabeans

“Dishonorably Discharged”

Does not seem to carry the same level of shame it did
when I was a kid.

With ranked choice voting you can vote until your choice wins.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

They don’t care about “shame”, and neither do I.
I only care about the physical results at the end.
Do these “orificers” get to keep rank, or not?
Do they get to keep retirement pay, or not?
Do they get to keep bennies, or not?
Shame, or lack thereof, ain’t my problem.

STSC(SW/SS)

I would like to see them busted to E-1 and mess cooking forever.

Odie

Bust them down to their last effective rank. That would be boot camp, wouldn’t it? Even then, I’m sure some were private Pyle types being told to get off the obstacles.

MarineDad61

What is the currently probability / odds on Hegseth getting the Senate votes?
There are alternatives, and 1 of them has already been floated by Team Trump.

Here is local news from Miami, FL.

rgr769

My sister lives in Florida and she fervently wants to keep her governor in office. She says DeSantis is the best thing to happen to her state in the past forty years.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

I’m in Florida and having the Gov go to dc is bad because he most likely may align himself with the shit bird pentagon peeps because he may not have the balls to tell them like it is. I don’t think that Pete is going to make it because of the rhinos and others that may have stock in the munition industry and love to keep wars going. I hope I’m wrong on what I just commented on. If Pete gets in, he should watch his six and while awaiting, he should do the same.

KoB

The Sewer Rats will protect their own. Watch

Forest Bondurant

They most certainly will, but they will also be reminded that they serve at the leisure of the President and be sent home packing.

George V

In light of the meme in this post, I’d also like to see a purge of those who make these horrible videos, such as in uniform with a dog mask, or the drag queen videos, or gay men complaining that they can’t wear makeup. Charge them under Article 133 or 134, court-martial, and general discharge.

Prior Service (RET)

Funny (and by funny, I mean not surprising) that the partial list at the link is all USAF and USN. I need to see the whole list though.

RGR 4-78

I want to see Epstein’s client list. I don’t think it will ever happen though.

Deckie

Of course it won’t.

That’d be the surest way to drain the swamp and, by extension, most of Hollywood.

Slow Joe

Any Republican who opposes Hegseth should be kicked out of the party. Is there a mechanism for kicking out Senators and calling out a new election for the seat?
Can Governors fire Senators?
After all, they represent the state.
Can we revert the 17th Amendment and have Senators elected by the State Legislature?

jeff LPH 3 63-66

As Dan Bongino says, Most republicans are really demoRats who vote alongside the above and all DemoRats are not republicans. In other words, they stick together like shit. And I wonder how many have stocks in the arms industry.