The directive “feels like propaganda being forced down our throats,” said an enlisted person serving on active duty.

US military personnel have until the end of the month to either watch the speech or read the transcript of the defense secretary's comments.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the incident on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and noted that Pete Hegseth “is safe” following his plane's emergency landing in the U.K.

Standards are back,” the defense secretary boasted after a few National Guard troops were removed from service for their physical appearance.

A plane carrying DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth back to the United States from a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium had to make an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom due to a crack in the aircraft’s windshield.

Before he became Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth lauded efforts to close racial achievement gaps in a Harvard thesis.

A plane carrying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was forced to make an unexpected landing Wednesday while traveling back to the United States from Belgium.

An American government plane carrying Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of war, was forced to land in Britain because of a crack in one of the windows.

Before he became a top Trump administration attack dog on all things DEI, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was a Harvard University master’s degree candidate who described closing racial achievement gaps as a “laudable goal,” backed “equality, diversity, and accessibility,” and saw the necessity of working with Democrats.