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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. It's great to have you with us on this beautiful day in America.

An interesting morning, start to the morning, I should say, for Pete Hague-Seth and President

Trump.

Pete Higseth gathered some of the top members of the U.S. military to the Marine Base in

Quantico, Virginia, joined by President Trump, where he addressed the new vision going

forward for the U.S. military and all of the top ranking officials,

and boy was it a barn burner.

Speech.

Today is about people and it's about culture.

The topic today is about the nature of ourselves.

Because no plan, no program, no reform, no formation will ultimately succeed

unless we have the right people and the right culture at the war department. If I've

learned one core lesson in my eight months in this job, it's that personnel is policy. Personnel is policy. The best way to take care of troops

is to give them good leaders committed to the warfighting culture of the department.

Not perfect leaders, good leaders, competent, qualified, professional, agile, aggressive, innovative, risk-taking, apolitical,

faithful to their oath and to the Constitution.

Eugene Sledge in his World War II memoir wrote, quote,

"...war is brutish, inglorious and a terrible waste.

Combat leaves an indelible mark on those who are

forced to endure it. The only redeeming factors are my comrades' incredible bravery and their

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