Hesgeth Welcomes Back ‘Heroes’ Who Refused COVID Vaccine During US Army War College Speech

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth welcomed back unvaccinated service members the US military during a wide-ranging speech at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning.

The secretary’s helicopter touched down around 9 a.m. Half an hour later, he spoke to students, family and faculty at the college about DEI, gender-neutral standards, and the “heroic” soldiers who refused the experimental COVID vaccine and were mistreated under the Biden administration.

“More than 8,700 service members were involuntarily separated for not taking an experimental COVID-19 vaccine,” said Hesgeth.

“Others were more informally pushed our or decided to get out. We are welcoming actively back those warriors. We have sent letters out, we are seeking them out, we want them back. They never should have been forced.

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“Personnel department is working in real time to make that process more and more efficient, more and more direct, every single day,” said Hesgeth.

Hesgeth also drew a line under the woke era, declaring that the military will now focus on raising its standards around issues of national defense, rather than DEI and transgender activism.

“We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind and refocusing on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards and readiness,” he said.

Hegseth also shared what President Donald Trump told him when he asked him to be secretary of defense.

“The president said to me, ‘I want you to restore the warrior ethos of our military. Full stop.’ And so, that is exactly what I have set out to do all 100 (first) days. Fighting for you is the privilege of a lifetime, a deployment of a lifetime. And from day one, and each of those 100 days, our overriding objectives have been clear, restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military and re-establishing deterrence,” he said.