Breitbart recently published an interview with Secretary of Defense Hegseth on the issue of firing 'woke generals' that President Trump made a central piece of his campaign strategy.

"How about we fire their asses..?", Trump famously said.

Hegseth says otherwise.

“I’m paying very close attention. There’s plenty of three- and four-star generals up for promotion or up for new positions, and there will already be a few folks that that we’ve identified who will have different jobs in due time,” the defense secretary said.

"I’m not here to declare anybody woke and they’re out.

"We’re watching the execution of culture change and willingness to support the president’s policies, lawful orders, and we’ll evaluate from there.

"I’ve never seen it as my job to walk in on day one and point at somebody and declare them a woke general and fire them. I actually think that would be the wrong way to go about doing it.

"However, over time, we get a very good sense of those that are willing to execute enthusiastically the lawful orders across that chain of command.

"And if people are not willing to, or they hedge on it, we’re paying attention.

"And I think it’s one of those things where you responsibly execute culture change. And a lot of that ultimately does come down to people.”

“From the beginning, we have focused on culture and culture development, the five and ten meter targets have been here are the executive orders. Here are the directives on woke on DEI, on CRT, on genderism, on trans service members, on COVID. You pick it, we we’re advancing it,” he said.

“And we’ve paid very close attention to how those lawful orders have been executed. We’ve got a professional uniformed military class who was following, whether we like them or not, lawful orders previously.

“Now they got a whole different set of orders. And so, as the refreshing part of this job thus far is to see and feel like most men and women in uniform feel liberated, more than confronted.

"They’re grateful for the new direction. It’s clarifying, it’s simplifying, and they want to execute it.

“Trust me, we’re paying very close attention to make sure that those orders are followed and followed swiftly, not just in the letter of the law, but in the spirit of the law, with the kind of enthusiasm that’s required to execute culture change.”

“And it’s only been like three weeks. We’ve done a lot in three weeks,” he said. “Look at the balance of the speed with which we’ve executed, including attacks on ISIS, including tragedies that have occurred, calling families, meeting with foreign leaders, the border.”

What are Cadet White Boy Number One, and Cadet White Boy Number Two supposed to think now that DEI pusher General CQ Brown is still the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff?

I'll tell you what they think - that the Trump team is not following through on all promises... (a source's comment not mine)

There are legal and there are illegal orders.

Was it legal to discriminate and send people to pilot training based on race?

There is such a thing as falling on your sword for principle.

Many of these 'woke generals' had their best interests at heart instead of those of the force.