Hostin: Why Would Hegseth Want To ‘Toughen' Military Physical Standards?

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that there would be stricter physical standards in the U.S. military going forward. He said soldiers of both sexes would be held to the highest “male-level” standard.

This really confused 'The View's' Sonny Hostin.

Hostin said, “Also (Hegseth) said he was going to return to the highest male standard for combat positions because troops were fat. I don’t understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting message for our military."

Uplifting? It appears Hegseth simply wants the U.S. military to be the toughest it can be.

As militaries should be.

Hostin continued. “It was really a bizarre thing, he started talking about woke DEI policies. By the way, there are no gender quotas in the military."

Hegseth already ditched DEI in the military. Good.

Next Hostin implied that Hegseth was somehow racist or misogynistic.

'The View' co-host said, "By the way, he fired more than a dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women. He fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Brown Jr., who is African American. He fired the first woman to command the Navy, Admiral Lisa Franchetti."

Hostin added, "I just don’t understand the sort of hypocrisy of firing these people, having all these people meet together and then denigrating them.”

Hegseth also said, "No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction or gender delusion, no more debris."

"I’ve said before and will say again, we are done with that s***," the secretary added.

What Hegseth said to the military on Tuesday was pretty straightforward. He wants to strengthen America's fighting forces across the board.

The military is for, as the the late Rush Limbaugh liked to say, to kill people and break things.

If you believe the military should instead be a laboratory for woke experiments, maybe this offends you.

Which means it's a good thing Sonny Hostin and her friends are not in charge of the U.S. military or anything else, for that matter.