The Pentagon is preparing for sweeping policy changes under the incoming Trump administration, and the careers of some top officers could be in danger of being destroyed.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to head the Department of Defense, an iconoclast whose selection has upended the defense industrial base.

With Hegseth, the Trump administration is expected to rescind diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) regulations and training within the military.

“If you want to hold a gender reassignment or social justice seminar, you can do it somewhere else, but you won’t do it in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force, or U.S. Marines. .I’m sorry,” Trump said at a rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, on Aug. 21.

“The military brass who spearheaded these absurd and humiliating initiatives will likewise be dismissed and will no longer be in command. They will disappear very quickly.”

TRUMP NOMINATES PETE HEGSETH AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

The Pentagon is preparing for sweeping policy changes under the incoming Trump administration, and the careers of some top officers could be in danger of being destroyed. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Cleaning the house’ of career Ministry of Defense officials

Long-serving generals and senior officers at the Pentagon, even those who are not usually political appointees, may find their jobs under threat.

“Well, first of all you have to shoot, you know, fire the Chief of Staff,” said Hegseth “Shawn Ryan’s Show” podcast last week.

“Any general involved in any of the DEI incidents — general, admiral, whatever — wakes up, he needs to go,” he added.

Hegseth also wrote in his latest book, “The War on the Warriors,” “Our generals are not ready for this moment in history. Not even close. The next President of the United States will need to radically overhaul the Pentagon’s senior leadership to get us ready.” He has to go through it.” “Defend our nation and defeat our enemies, too many people need to be driven out.”

“You can fire generals in the Pentagon, unlike, say, the CIA or the Justice Department, where it’s hard to fire senior officials because they’re protected,” said former Rep. Chris Stewart, who oversaw the transition. Team on Department of Defense matters.

The transition team is considering a draft executive order creating a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel who would have the authority to review three- and four-star officers and recommend the removal of those unfit to lead, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

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Catch Pete Hegseth during “FOX & Friends” at Fox News Channel Studios in New York City on May 27, 2022. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

transgender ban

Trump could quickly gain favor with social conservatives and defense hawks by reversing an executive order signed by President Joe Biden that lifted a ban on transgender people serving in the military.

Transgender people were allowed to begin serving openly in the military in 2016 by executive order from the Obama administration. However, in 2017, Trump announced that he would reimpose this ban.

“Our military must focus on a decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot face the enormous medical costs and disruptions that transgender people in the military will cause,” Trump said in a social media post at the time.

Trump’s ban ordered the firing of anyone diagnosed with gender dysphoria and sparked a flurry of lawsuits.

Soldiers in camouflage uniforms ready their rifles to fire during a military night operation. (iStock)

abortion travel

The Trump Pentagon is also expected to reverse a Biden-era policy that allowed soldiers to receive leave and reimbursement if they had to leave their assigned state for an abortion.

This policy is rarely utilized; The Department of Defense found that only 12 people used the policy over the six months from August to December 2023.

Conservatives have been pushing to block the policy since Biden adopted it following his ouster Roe v. wade.

DEI provisions

The Pentagon requested $114 million in funding for DEI initiatives in 2024. This money would be used for “programs and initiatives aimed at advancing DEIA and incorporating DEIA values, goals, and the way we do business and carry out our missions.” “We expect diversity initiatives to be largely rolled back.

“DEI reinforces differences, creates grievances, and excludes anyone who does not submit to the cultural Marxist revolution sweeping the Pentagon. Forget DEI; its acronym should be DIE or IED. It will kill our military worse than any IED,” Hegseth writes in Chapter 8 wrote.

“The left isn’t just interested in purging Trump supporters. Their ideology is based on marginalizing what’s normal because they think ‘normal’ is always oppressive. By their logic, the military uses the most normal and oppressive thing: strong men. Just being a guy who goes to the gym is a big deal to everyone around you.” “It means you are putting pressure on me,” he wrote.

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“A big reason for fewer training accidents is less training. More time than ever is being spent on social justice PowerPoint ethics training, and in today’s military meeting these benchmarks is the most important standard to meet,” he wrote. “Every unit knows that social justice, trans, gender and awakening training is a top priority. Failing to do this training or not doing it properly will result in a commander or non-commissioned officer being fired. Not doing actual field training becomes secondary.”