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Coldwater

(463 posts) Tue Oct 14, 2025, 12:19 AM Oct 14

Posting images of overweight Texas National Guard troops

deployed to Chicago, apparently caught the attention of Pete Hegseth

Hegseth replaces overweight National Guard troops deployed to Chicago

Link

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hegseth-replaces-overweight-national-guard-201930494.html

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Posting images of overweight Texas National Guard troops (Original Post) Coldwater Oct 14 OP

suddenly, every texas national guard member... ret5hd Oct 14 #1

Hegseth should have focused on the troops with his overweight comments. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 14 #2

Exactly Coldwater Oct 14 #3

So let me get this straight. tanyev Oct 14 #4

ret5hd

(21,898 posts)

1. suddenly, every texas national guard member...

Reply to Coldwater (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 12:21 AM

Oct 14

was very very hungry.

OAITW r.2.0

(30,836 posts)

2. Hegseth should have focused on the troops with his overweight comments.

Reply to Coldwater (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 12:31 AM

Oct 14

I don't think most people care what a General's BMI is when he's making important military decisions.

Coldwater

(463 posts)

3. Exactly

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 12:57 AM

Oct 14

It's not the amount of fat around a general’s belly – it's what's between a general’s ears.

tanyev

(48,155 posts)

4. So let me get this straight.

Reply to Coldwater (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 08:45 AM

Oct 14

Hegseth doesn’t want gay men in the military, but his ideal manly warrior is a man who’s perfectly fit, with no facial hair and whose skin has a golden glow as if from a tanning bed.

Is he sure he doesn’t want gay men in the military?

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