Trump’s Secretary of Defense has been firing high-ranking military leaders and often gives little reason why. This removes quality experience and makes it seems like if officers want to get promoted, they have to fit in with Trump politically.
Secretary of Defense Hegseth has been firing top military people based on whether he thinks their politics align with his. And, he is firing well respected people with great experience.
The first day of the war the US slaughtered Iranian girls in a girls school. This was hopefully a legitimate mistake, but, the US has the obligation to acknowledge what happened and explain it to the public. Instead, Hegseth and Trump refuse to talk about it.
Hegseth may have done his job well when he was in the military, but he did not have the experience to be Secretary of Defense. He also doesn’t have the personality to be Secretary of Defense. He had problems with alcohol, with his own finances, and regularly publicly spoke like a biased reactionary partisan hack who buys into many falsehoods and exaggerations often told by Trump and his supporters.
Shortly after the Trump administration removes the requirement for military personnel to get the flu shot, there is a flu outbreak among recruits.
Vaccines are a part of having the most proficient fighting force. A force vulnerable to a virus is a weaker force compared to one that is less vulnerable.
Flu outbreaks disrupt and weaken training when a large number of recruits are sick.
Trump officials like to show how masculine they are by performing physical feats, but A: performing physical feats is not a substitute for character or competency, and B: they often perform their feats with fake reps where they don’t go all the way and are not actually working the muscle properly the way the exercise is designed.
So, not only do they emphasize the less important traits, they do so poorly.
Secretary of Defense Hegseth is inviting US military men and women to commit war crimes. “no matter what” he and Trump will have their back. No matter what? Part of being a professional in any profession is that you have ethics and rules, and if you act unethically, your leadership expects you to be punished or/and removed from your profession.
Was the navy secretary fired because he wasn’t hard enough on Senator Mark Kelly for stating what is the basic policy of the military on obeying illegal orders?