Just months after calling for his ouster, incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was greeted at the Pentagon on Monday by Gen. CQ Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brown saluted Hegseth as his motorcade arrived,

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Brown met Hegseth outside the Pentagon’s river entrance for the secretary’s first official arrival to the building and briefly spoke to reporters.

Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Air Force had said earlier that it had removed training courses with videos of its Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders that remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the military and reinstate troops booted out for refusing coronavirus vaccines during the pandemic,

Since Trump’s inauguration on Jan 20, the Pentagon has sent 1,500 troops to the southwest border. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., who President Trump had threatened to fire once in power, on Monday said he plans to remain the country’s highest-ranking military

Every one of Hegseth’s predecessors emphasized unity and a diverse military as key to national progress and defense.

The new defense secretary’s goals run counter to the military’s apolitical tradition and efforts to build a force that mirrors America.