Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to guide the Pentagon, praised ladies within the navy as a number of the “greatest warriors” after critics took difficulty with feedback he made about ladies not being match to serve in fight roles.
“I also want an opportunity here to clarify comments that have been misconstrued, that I somehow don’t support women in the military, some of our greatest warriors, our best warriors out there are women,” he informed Fox Information’ Sean Hannity on Monday.
Feminine service members “love our nation, want to defend that flag, and they do it every single day around the globe. I’m not presuming anything,” he added.
“But after President Trump asked me to be his Secretary of Defense, should I get the opportunity to do that, I look forward to being a secretary for all our warriors, men and women, for the amazing contributions they make in our military.”
Secretary of Protection nominee Pete Hegseth joins Fox Information’ Sean Hannity. (Fox Information)
Hegseth will spend this week assembly with senators on Capitol Hill to courtroom the 50 votes he must safe the Cupboard degree place.
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In a November 7 episode of the Shawn Ryan podcast, which aired mere days earlier than Hegseth, a former Fox Information worker, was tapped to function Protection Secretary, the nominee mentioned: “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.”
Hegseth asserted that ladies serving in fight roles “hasn’t made us more effective, hasn’t made us more lethal” and “has made fighting more complicated.”
Hegseth famous that he was not essentially advocating for making the change proper now, commenting; “Imagine the demagoguery in Washington, D.C., if you were actually making the case for, you know, ‘We should scale back women in combat.’”
Hegseth is attending conferences on Capitol Hill with senators whose vote he must be confirmed (Anna Moneymaker)
“As the disclaimer for everybody out there,” he added, “we’ve all served with women and they’re great, it’s just our institutions don’t have to incentivize that in places where … over human history, men are more capable.”
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He mentioned, “I love women service members who contribute amazingly,” however asserted that “everything about women serving together makes the situation more complicated and complication in combat means casualties are worse.”
He additionally criticized the higher echelons of navy management for altering requirements and prioritizing filling variety quotas above fight effectiveness. He pointed to a 2015 examine by the Marine Corps that discovered that built-in male-female models did “drastically worse” when it comes to fight effectiveness than all-male models.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be protection secretary, left, joined by his spouse Jennifer Hegseth, attends a gathering with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the Senate Armed Companies Committee, on the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP )
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“Between bone density and lung capacity and muscle strength, men and women are just different,” he mentioned. “So, I’m ok with if you maintain the standards just where they are for everybody, and if there’s some, you know, hard-charging female that meets that standard, great, cool, join the infantry battalion. But that is not what’s happened. What has happened is the standards have lowered.”
