Pete Hegseth Made A MAJOR Change To Our Military

0:00There are politics by faith. This is where we take the news of the day. We bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. But at least he has to say something new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Today's episode, I would love insight from our veterans and active duty service members and their families on this one. The story of the day today. The Hegseths, new military focus or folk eye. The plural. I think so. Pete Hegseth gave a state of the force address at Quantico the other day. And I think it's really important and worth taking some time to go over. This is one of those things that I don't know anyone could be a kent's to it. So the media is not covering it because they don't want to give credit to Trump for anything at all in any way. So here's an objectively good thing that everyone will be in support of.

1:02So they're just total radio silence on it entirely. Sort of like America.gov. Have you heard anything? Well, have you heard anything bad about America.gov? Have you heard anything about America? At all. America.gov, the federal government took 28 led by the founder of Airbnb took 28,000 government websites, 800 million government web pages put them all into one. So you can go to America.gov, one website and you can ask it anything like, how do I send them for Medicare or I have a new job and I need this type of form or something or I need to renew my passport or I'm going camping at Yosemite and I want to permit for this date. And one website and it'll do it for you. It'll tell you what to do or what you need to do or in some cases, you'll just do it all right there in one spot. It is brilliant and perfect and no one can say anything bad about it.

2:02Therefore the media refuses to talk about it. They cannot have any Trump wins this close to the midterm. And another Trump win has been Pete Hickseth. I will admit, I wasn't against Pete Hickseth, a Secretary of War. But when he was announced as the choice, I will admit my first thought was really like I just thought that's not my first thought was wow. I think my hesitation was I was concerned that he didn't have any experience running the largest bureauc or any experience running bureaucracies that would then lead him to be qualified to run the largest bureaucracy in the world. That was my hesitation. And then I quickly realized no one's had experience to manage the largest bureaucracy in the world. And second, maybe that's a great asset actually. And he has done an incredible job.

3:03Look at our military operations since he's been Secretary of War just near flawless, as flawless as they can get. Even the rescue operation in Iran with the two pilots, just incredible. Not to mention living up to the standard of never leaving the man behind, but Venezuela, I mean, like, of Venezuela has objectively been or is after they, I've generally was one of the most perfect military operations ever to take it out the drug boats and really the military side of Iran. I don't know if there's been a Secretary of War who has been so effective in lethal with such few setbacks as Pete Hickseth. I'd love to hear if anyone has any other suggestions. He gave a speech the other day and actually I mentioned Iran. So let me speak of Iran. He said, allow me to lay it out for the anti-American losers in our media. These Americans right here in their peers have destroyed Iran's navy, destroyed Iran's Air Force, destroyed its air defense systems, its leadership and its military industrial

4:07capacity, its entire defense base. Iran's conventional shield has been crippled, by the way, China's nuclear ambitions laid bare for the world. Courageous and historic operations that every red blood in America should be proud of. We can talk about the straight or whatever or the wisdom to go to war, but when the order was given by the Commander-in-Chief, a flawless execution by our Secretary of War. So Pete Hickseth gave this big address. You remember he did one last year too? They brought in all the generals from around the world and everyone was like, what's it going to be? And he told them, you can't be fat anymore. He said, your job now is to fight and win wars. No more losers. Well, he summarized it. This comment is the day he summarized what he did last year. He said, the only focus in your formation should be training readiness, accountability, discipline, lethality. No more social engineering, no more weaponized IG policies. The complainers, ideologues, poor performers are no longer in the driver's seat. No more silly PowerPoint trainings or drag queen shows. No more diversity quotas, no more gender pronouns, no more identity months.

5:10Only the warrior ethos. He said, no faddies, no trainees, no beardos, no weirdos, no whims, no radicals, just warrior. Just warrior. It's just tough, ready, committed troops. He said, I want central casting. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength. How awesome is that? We cannot overstate how amazing it is that we have a cabinet secretary, particularly in the military. The exact opposite of what has been the mantra from the left, therefore for our country, for the last 30 years, diversity is our strength. No, it's not. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength. That was him recapping what was done last year. Here he is now setting a vision for what's next. That was setting the stage, setting the standards. Now it's about a vision. He ran through six things that the military is going to do. I want to go through these first five fasts. We'll spend some more time on. On the radio, we spend a lot of time on the fourth point. Today I want to spend time on the sixth point, more relevant to this podcast.

6:11So, thing number one, announcement number one, auto war comm. The creation of autonomous warfare command. So, he said, it's going to be a new four-star combatant command with service-like authorities built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force and the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history. One warfare supercharged by AI enabled targeting is the biggest battlefield revolution in generations. So, we wanted a great detail about the efforts that have been taken to just get a ton of drones out there, like a billion drones. We need the big weapon systems, of course, and we're still going to be doing that. But we also need a billion drones to flood the battlefield and whatever that might look like in the future, which leads to his second announcement, Project Meridian. He said, the effort here is to bring the best minds together to talk about the future of warfare. What is the future of warfare? What does it look like to be fighting in space?

7:12What does it look like to be fighting on the moon? What weapons are we going to need? How can our grandchildren be properly equipped for the wars to come? Love that. All right, number three. He said, we built the most powerful military in the world. Actually, let me say this. I love this word, fortress. We never use the word fortress anymore. The only time I think of a fortress, I like made evil times. Why not, though? Why don't we have the word fortress used? He said, we built the most powerful military in the world and then we quietly, regrettably, made it dependent. Dependent on foreign minds for rare earths, overseas factories for microchips, forward supply chains for weapons and a civilian power grid to keep the lights on at the base. He said, that ends today. Today, in my direction, we're launching fortress America. It stands for federal operations, for resilience, troop resources, energy supply and survivability. He said, every military installation in America is going to generate its own power independent

8:17of the civilian grid. If an adversary takes down the grid by cyber attack, sabotage, or any other means, our bases stay lit. This is one of those things that this administration is going to do and never get any credit for. We talked about a lot of these on the radio last week. Things this administration has done that they'll never get credit for because they prevented bad things from happening, but they won't get credit because the bad thing never happened. We had 10,000 illegal aliens coming at the border every day, coming to the border every single day. The president stopped that. How many lake and riles are still alive today because there would be murderer is still in Venezuela. They'll never get credit for saving those lives. Trump will never get credit if I ran, they're not going to get a nuclear weapon now. Trump will never get credit for the lives in the entire world that was saved if he did. If I ran, did get nuclear weapons. Same thing here. If there was ever a sabotage on our transformers or a cyber attack in, say, San Diego and camp Pendleton, the lights turned off and nothing can operate a camp Pendleton.

9:22Like that, we predict everyone with like, what are you talking about? How could you have let that happen? How could we have a power grid that's dependent on the civilian? It's ridiculous. But now Pete hex said, we're not going to do that anymore. And he'll never get credit. They'll never get credit for making this strong, for making it stronger in this way. They'll never get credit for preventing a terrible thing from happening because they prevented the terrible thing from happening. So that's why I wanted to highlight here. He says our aircraft can keep flying. Our command centers will never go dark. We're bringing our critical supply chains home rare earths, specialty metals, semiconductors and propellants, mined in America, refined in America, built in America by American workers. We're building long overdue strategic reserves deep enough to fight through disruption, munitions, fuel, medicine, blood deep enough that if the world supply lines break and in a real war, they're going to break. America keeps fighting anyway. Not amazing. Instead, we're securing the high ground in the airwaves, our satellites, our spectrum,

10:22our ability to see, navigate, communicate. Previous administrations may have traded away our resilience, one job, one factory, one town, one base at a time, but fortress America is how we get it back. So tremendous. Uh, JD Vance was in Brownsville. I think it was in Brownsville, Texas, the day, uh, building a new, they just broke ground on a new shipbuilding facility. We get all of our ships from Korea. That's ridiculous. If we're ever in a war with China, we will be getting no more ships from Korea. So we can't be dependent on Korea for our ships. Fourth point, this is what we spent a lot of time on the radio, but a new military base. How about that? I accept said Trump's a builder. And this project's about doing something bold, beautiful in the world class for the great Americans who wear our nation's uniform. We're calling on every governor in the country across this great republic to step up to the plate and bring us their best sales pitch.

11:24If your state wants the honor of hosting 15 to 25,000 of our greatest troops, America's greatest troops, show us why and how you are going to do it. Cutting through the red tape, offering up the land, rolling out the red car before our military family. Isn't that awesome? Now, this is the part I love so much. He said, this is not going to be a soulless government installation. We will plan and chart out a dynamic, self-sustaining power projection platform. We're taking hundreds of thousands of acres with organic power generation, modern air defenses, cutting edge technology, think a fortress. And just as importantly, we are restoring pride and standards to how our troops live. In line with the president's executive order on beautiful civic architecture, the base will be a proud fortress of our republic, built with timeless classical arcades to architecture. Oh, I love it. Our soldiers, Sarah Loves, Airmen, Marines, and Guardians will have clean first class barracks, world class training facilities, and thriving communities with top tier housing,

12:25schools, childcare, and healthcare for families. We owe our warriors nothing less than the gold standard. Absolutely, love it. Absolutely, love it. I remember years ago, a couple years ago, two years ago, maybe in the beginning of the administration, I remember someone called in and talked about this was one of the things they wanted to see out of the administration was better, military housing. And here, we're going to have it. This is not the question I want to ask our service members of veterans, the real question I'll ask later, but just for fun, what is the worst base to be located in? I don't know. I don't know all the bases, but I've always heard 29 palms. I don't know anything about it. Nerman there. But anytime I'm with military guys and they mentioned 29 palms, every other military guy in the room goes, oh, oh man, sorry. That's brutal. So let's build beautiful military bases again. And I can't wait to see the pitches from all the states. What state should get our next military base? What do you think? Leave that in the comments too. We got a lot of questions in the comments. I haven't even gotten to the main one. Question number one, what's the worst base in the country?

13:27Question number two, what state should get the next one and why? Fifth announcement from AgSeth. He said, I don't need to give a sermon about the failings of higher education. I would have booked about it. From the I have released to our most liberal arts colleges, our colleges, universities that become anti-American, DEI worshiping, woke factories. Qualities I grit and courage have been replaced with political correctness and social justice. God and country have been traded for Che Guevara and critical theory. We need students of Western civilization and the pillars of our republic. Members who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of Athens, the power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia from 1776. We need officers of the republic proud of our country, proud of our heritage, proud of our history, proud of those who serve it. Amazing. Hexath announced the new core of cadets. So we got our military academies. There's a new Space Force Academy, the president announced where we're going to put that one. We stoked to solve that problem.

14:28Excited for that too. Bernie Moreno made the case for Ohio. My first thought was Ohio. But then he made the argument for Ohio. It's like, oh, that's pretty good. It's where the right brothers are from. So that sounds pretty good. A lot of astronauts are from there too. We made a pretty good argument. So we got all the military academies. Then we have our senior military colleges, Texas A&M, Norwich University, VMI, the Citadel, Virginia Tech, and North Georgia College. So now we're adding to that Louisiana State University, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University, and Hillsdale College. Pretty good. We're going to reach out to, we are reaching out from some of the Hillsdale to explain what that exactly means for them and what that'll look like and the importance of it and all that. I look forward to learning more about that. But here's number six. This is what I wanted to focus on here for this podcast. This is because Pete Higgseth is a big, big, bad, mean Christian nationals. He said, when you look at the numbers, less than 5% of our force identify as non-religious,

15:34less than 5%, meaning 95% of our force recognizes an Almighty God. Which means we still have to cater. We have been catering to the 5%. It's amazing. Accordingly, our department has a sacred duty. First class, religious support, wherever we send our warriors. For far too long, we did not prioritize that duty at all. It was an afterthought. Political correctness and secular humanism got a vote. Chaplains did not. Budgets were cut, resourcing and manpower needs were exorred, based chaples fell apart. Decisions about faith and religion were made by secular careerists and cubicles and lawyers running around with red tape. The people who actually practiced faith and religion are chaplains were buried echelons deep, waiting for permission. We asked chaplains to serve and sacrifice and then sideline them with paperwork and process. That ends now. Today, in my direction, I'm established in the Office of Religious Affairs, starting today. And for secretaries of war, after me, the Office of Religious Affairs will report

16:37straight to the top. No staff filters, no bureaucratic delusion, a direct line to the secretary. Let me play this clip right here of the president, secretary of war, making this argument here. Psalm 3312 extols us. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. 250 years ago, we rejected an earthly king, an ocean away, appealing instead to a heavenly king above. George Washington made sure that the Continental Army had chaplains back at the beginning, back in 1775. That force appealed to heaven, and we still do today. Our national motto is, after all, in God we trust. Today, we reaffirm that trust.

17:40Replacing spiritual health at the same level as physical health. Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God. Because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual. Not as good, evil is not, and America's military must understand the difference. To our incredible chaplains and religious support teams, live your calling, stand firm, preach truth, minister to the flock, fear no man. Or as the psalmist put it, the Lord is on my side. I will not fear. What can man do on to me? Amen to that. My first real question to our service members and veterans is how important is the chaplain's office? Not in that specific. I'm sorry, those two specific. How important is your faith when serving? I want to keep it there.

18:42And then the extension of that is, how important is the chaplain's office to that end? Thanks Beth went on to say, each of you sworn oaths to the Constitution ending with so help me God. And he said, we share a sacred covenant up to an including send me, send me to fight the red coat, send me to fight the communist, send me to fight the islamists, send me. This is where we talk in the podcast about what's broken. Here in Athens, broken. It's a wonderful story. It's broken because we've been catering to the 5% for too long, the 5% in our military who are atheist or whatever. But we always do. We always do in this country lately. We've been catering to the people who hate this country, the people who hate God, the people who just want to destroy everything they see. We've been catering to them as if they could ever be satisfied with anything. As opposed to praying for them and ignoring them or praying for them and then we focus on excellence. We got a job to do. I don't know what's happened to the chaplain's office.

19:45But if it's 10% of what's happened at Divinity schools across this country, are you with me? I'm going to decide into the wokeness of the chaplain's office. I want to ask you, anyone who's served. But if it's just a fraction of what's happened at Divinity schools across the country, then it's a horror show. There was maybe 10 years ago, there was like a five minute period where I thought it might be interesting to go to the Yale Divinity school. So I went to their website. It was in five. It's like three minutes because I went to the website and the denominations that they like allow or whatever are the African Methodist Episcopal. That's AMA. Black church studies. These are their focuses. The Episcopal church. Evangelical Lutheran church in America. That's Tallahuretos church. Remember the Reverend we talked about the other day who said Jesus isn't real and God's non-binary and trans kids and all that stuff. That's that you can go major at that at Yale Divinity school. And then unitarian universalism. That's not even Christian.

20:46I mean, the other ones aren't either. This one is like explicitly not Christian. And that's from the Yale Divinity school, which is a branch off of Yale University, which started as a seminary. The Divinity school was founded by one of the leaders of the second great awakening, Nathaniel Taylor, what's his name? I don't want to share this quote from Taylor. I thought it tied in nicely with war. It's about affliction. Actually, this ties a nice into the special way to the other day about evil and suffering. The word he uses is affliction, pain, distress, grief, all that. This is what is the founder of the Yale Divinity school. He said the afflictions of this world are also plainly benevolent in their intentional and actual influence on those who suffer. No means have probably a more frequent or efficacious influence in reforming wicked men than afflictions. Rock bottom. And he says prosperity, which one would expect to see, draw them to obedience as a

21:46court of love, not only fails in this effect, but appears to harden their hearts in sin and security, right? So you would think prosperity comes at people who would be like, Oh, God, thank you. And they get closer to God, but they don't. He said fullness of bread was one of the great sources of corruption to Sodom and Gomorrah. When just, just your run, that's Israel, waxed fat, he forgot that God, if he forgot the God that made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation, the more we possess of worldly enjoyments, the stronger do our attachments to the world become. And the weaker are disposition to think of our duty, like our Christian duty. Affliction's only seem to break down this attachment and to awaken the attention of the soul to virtue and to God. Isn't that beautiful? Affliction is good. These are things that you get in the military.

22:46So that's what's going on at Yale Divinity School. I don't know what's going on at the Chaplin service or what it's become, but if it's a fraction of what's of the corruption and wickedness and blasphemy of many of our Divinity schools across the country, we did it. Actually, we did it. I should say I mean the day on Vanderbilt's Divinity School, remember it's a total joke. It's LGBTQ everything. If it's that bad, the Chaplin's office that's bad and Exet's doing an amazing thing. So I look forward to seeing the fruit of a more robust and Christian chaplain corps. Sorry, I did a long intro here. I got a, this is the point of the podcast of the Bible and I'm running out of time. You know, CS Lewis talked a lot about this because he was riding during World War II. And he talked about a Christian's role during war. He said a Christian may be called to fight, to defend neighbors in a country and innocent people from, from grave evil. That's, that's good and it's noble. And CS Lewis talked about someone should fight reluctantly within moral limits without hatred. And by reluctant, it's more like, oh, man, like not blood thirsty.

23:51And also CS Lewis talked about fighting for your country without giving your ultimate allegiance to the state because God is the most important always even in the military. Nothing is above God. So it's twenty, verse three says you shall have no other gods before me that includes the government, includes the state includes even this nation we love and this flag we love. Seek first the kingdom of God. And the first I'd like to end with is to always understand there's an unseen realm around us, even in war, especially in war. Maybe I shouldn't say that, even in war because we're all in a spiritual war wherever we are. Deuteronomy twenty verse one says when you go out to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them for the Lord your God is with you. That doesn't mean your guarantee to win. It doesn't mean you won't die or you won't get hurt.

24:52The means that God hasn't abandoned you. Hebrews 13.5 says I will never leave you no forsake you. That's true all the time. That's when you serve in the military. I hope we can have more Bible believing God fearing Christians in our military and Bible believe in God fearing Christians serving as chaplains to minister to not only the physical health but the spiritual health of our service members. And this is my real question for you. If you've served in the military currently or veteran, what do you think of this idea, this action from pdexeth? Do you have you seen the need for a stronger chaplain corps? I'd love to hear either good stories or things that have not been great, but that you're excited now to see improve. I'd love your comments. You can leave it on YouTube if you're watching on youtube.com slash at politics by faith or you can send me an email slater at brightparts.com is a good way to get touched on your

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