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Hegseth Calls For An End To ‘Woke’ Military, Citing DEI and LGBTQ Issues

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The Washington Blade reports that while giving a televised speech to U.S. military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Tuesday, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, denounced past military leadership for being too “woke,” citing DEI and LGBTQ groups in the Department of Defense.

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