The U.S. military is going through a culture change. While the last four years saw the adoption of

policies in line with DEI, that's diversity, equity, and inclusion, the new push is for the

American warrior. And not only is the focus on guns and warfighting, it's also now on physical

fitness. Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth recently declared a new agenda on this with a slogan, quote, fit, not fat. And also the military is experiencing a sudden boom in recruitment. This is a big change. Military recruitment over the last few years was so low it was looking like a crisis. Now suddenly it's booming.

I'm the Epic Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads.

The U.S. military is going through a big old culture change right now because look, while the

last four years saw the adoption of policies in line with DEI and environmentalism and save the

earth and so on, they even actually made a lot of the military heavily focused on climate change.

By the way, because it's military budget. A new culture is emerging and it's going

kind of in the direct opposite way. The Pentagon declared in a recent video that the focus

is no longer on diversity. They say diversity is not our strength. They say the strength of

America is a unified idea and the American warrior.

Trips are now being pushed to lose weight.

They're saying no more fat officers.

They're even talking about this.

They're making them become more fit, which is a little controversial.

Get into it.

And many recent videos from the official military accounts kind of look like they're out

of 80s action movies.

They're posting videos of guys just shooting automatic rifles and guns and tanks and everything else and explosions.

And they're demonstrating also some of the emerging capabilities of the military. Now, like,

first off, there's a new trend starting up again to really, you know, celebrate the U.S.

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