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Secretary of Defense Pete Hesthes said that he and President Donald Trump said he wanted to return the warrior culture to the Pentagon.
“He wants a pentagonal laser that focuses on combat, abilityism, standards, and preparations like me. In the first confirmation hearing this month, he said,” (U) current administration. Similarly, politics should not be involved in military issues. ”
HEGSETH was confirmed by the Senate on Friday evening, but it was only due to the narrowest margin that Vice President JD VANCE had to vote for 51-50 margins.
It is not unusual for military leaders to change their priority and the commander executes the mission built by the commander. However, so far, Pentagon seemed to prioritize the promise of major Trump elections. Despite the fact that the illegal intersection has fallen in recent months and a few years, it has cracked down on immigrants by moving the military and military aircraft to Mexico and the United States border.
The prominent cultural war in Trump campaigns is also focused on diversity, fairness, instructions related to inconvenience, and the main symbolic movements conducted in retaliation for General Mark Mirei. There is. He has been accused of “rebellious” since then. Within a few hours of Trump’s inauguration ceremony, Milly’s portrait was deleted from the corridor of a joint staff with portraits of his predecessor.
However, the priority of the immediate priority has been clarified. The Pentagon has been in a hurry for a week to increase the equipment and the army to the border following Trump’s declaration of state emergency. However, the first 1,500 active units developed on the border are far from “battle”, “support enhanced detection, monitoring and monitoring efforts, repair, and physical barriers.” I mentioned.
One lawyer said that Trump’s team seemed to be preparing for his agenda at a furious speed, and said that border development was a typical example. The administrative authorities seemed to have learned the lessons from the first term of Trump, and there were still some pauses for the bureaucracy and processes in the pentagon, but they helped to move. It seemed to consider the second and tertiary effects. Faster than before, Secretary of Defense said.
The CNN is expected to have thousands of active units in the next few weeks and months, and will be deployed based on the first transche of 1,500 soldiers and Marines. U.S. military officials said on Wednesday that the department had to decide where to withdraw from the country and global.
The second wave of the army is already planned. Soldiers in the 82nd Aviation Bureau, which train to respond to global threats as needed, may be sent to the border. The 82nd Sky BORNE is usually reserved for crisis around the world. The immediate response that could be deployed within a few hours was responding to the collapse of Afghanistan in 2021, increasing tension with Iran.
In addition to the ground units, four US military aircraft (two C-17 and two C-130) are expected to be used for expulsion of abroad. Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the White House, posted to X on Friday that the flight had already begun, shared photos of the lined up with handcuffs, and boarded a U.S. military aircraft.
Changes in priority to more political messages can even grow into social media activities of regular military units.
On Wednesday, an internal email from the Pentagon’s social media headed to the army to suspend posting all social media “excluding border posts”. The order has returned immediately to the Pentagon Public Relations Bureau. He told the team to continue posting as usual until more official guidance was issued.
The additional guidance came on Friday afternoon. Unless it is related to the border, it has issued a 10 -day suspension to almost all social media posted to the official Ministry of Defense. Secretary of Defense.
“This suspension is not applicable to social media communications on the current business of DOD, which protects the southern border. This is the top priority for the department,” Kasper states in a note.
The pause will be enforced on Saturday, and there are no posts related to “normal installation base operation and activity”, such as DOD school activities and recruitment -related posts. However, the policy emphasized that the Trump administration hoped to put Pentagon on a border. U.S. military units around the world have posted to social media with operational updates and emphasize the ranks in the rank. For example, the US Central Command regularly uses social media as a press release platform for missions for ISIS in the Middle East. Local partner.
Casper said on Friday that more social media guidance would be published “early next month”.
Policy, the Trump administration does not waste the time to instruct DEI -related activities and office closure and pause.
The memo on Wednesday, which is signed by the Army’s secretary, referring to the command from the Human Resources Management Bureau and ordered to defeat diversity, fairness, package, and accessibility (DEIA). By 5:00 pm on Thursday. The memo also immediately ordered a cancellation of “DEIA -related training”.
According to Pentagon officials who were asked about changes in policy, Pentagon said, “All orders overline in administrative orders issued by the president, and maximum professional professionalism, efficiency, and national security. He said that he would be implemented in cooperation with the goal.
