He's naming them quicker than I can keep track, but just about the time I heard the SecDef pick, I found this comment.
Thomas says:
Pete Hegseth as SecDef! Exactly the kind of fire-breathing shot in the arm that's needed to clean house and start rebuilding it the way it needs to be.
I concur. Were it me, the first meeting I'd have would require every flag officer in the Pentagon to meet me at a PT Field in gym uniform. Those officers would take the PT test that they require basic trainees to pass. Any that failed the test would be handed retirement papers and told to report to whichever office conducts out-processing. That would send a message that basic standards must be enforced and that leadership is top-down.
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Agreed!!!
The problem with that is, what you can physically do at 18 is not what you can physically do at 45. By the time you are 45, hopefully you have developed enough wisdom and life experience to get the job done without killing everyone. The older men my dad served with in WWII were a fountain of information for that bunch of 18-20 year-olds trying to build a base for the invasion of Japan on Guam.
I concur. After a certain point you just can't keep up with 18 year olds.
IIRC,
SecDef Casper Weinberger took and passed the Army PT test for 18-21 yr olds in the early 1980s, and as a result the minimum standards were increased. I think he was in his 50s at the time.
There needs to be a physical test for command officers. It doesn't need to be the same as for 18yo enlisted men, but it needs to be reasonable.
They should also be given a test on major historical strategy.
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