Release | Save America’s Military Coalition Offers Supporting ‘Fire’ For Pete Hegseth’s Nomination and Agenda

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PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release
January 13, 2025

CONTACT:
Dede Laugesen
at i[email protected]

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SAVE AMERICA’S MILITARY COALITION
OFFERS SUPPORTING ‘FIRE’ FOR PETE HEGSETH’S
NOMINATION AND AGENDA

Seventeen Military and Civilian Influencers
Weigh in with Senators

WASHINGTON, D.C.— On January 2nd, a coalition of national security practitioners, retired military leaders, subject matter experts and other patriots held a second, two-hour “Senate telethon” offering compelling arguments as to why President Trump’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense – combat veteran, author of The War on Warriors and television host Pete Hegseth – should be confirmed without delay. His nomination hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, November 14th.

In the course of a program entitled, “Save America’s Military Coalition Urges Senate to Confirm Pete Hegseth, Help Him Make America’s Military Great Again,” sixteen presenters and their moderator addressed: the various and escalating national security challenges currently facing the country – and other, ominous ones in prospect; the parlous condition of the U.S. armed forces to contend with, let alone defeat, those dangers; the damage done in intensifying the former and exacerbating the latter by the Obama and Biden administrations; the attendant need to rectify those legacies; and the qualities exhibited by Mr. Hegseth to date that make him a singularly apt choice to effect such changes.

In addition to posting the entire video of the telethon on its website, the telethon’s moderator, Frank Gaffney, is posting on X highlights of each of the following presenter’s comments, together with links to the full transcript of their remarks:

Click on the names to see a transcript of their remarks.

  • Lieutenant General Rod Bishop, U.S. Air Force (Ret.); former Air Commander Europe and Third Air Force Commander; Chairman, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS)
  • Rob Muise, Co-founder, the American Freedom Law Center
  • Colonel Rob Maness,U.S. Air Force  (Ret.); former Commanding Officer of a bomber squadron; former Vice Commander of America’s largest Airborne Intelligence Wing; former Commander, Kirtland Air Force Base; and host, “The Rob Maness Show”
  • Major Drew Dix, U.S. Army (Ret.); Medal of Honor recipient; President, Congressional Medal of Honor Society
  • Elaine Donnelly, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness
  • Dr. Carol Swain, PhD, MSL, author of among other works, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House; former tenured professor, Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities; and former member, 1776 Commission
  • Ken Abramowitz, Founder, Save the West; Managing General Partner and co-founder of NGN Capital, a $450 million worldwide healthcare venture capital fund
  • Major General Joseph Arbuckle, USA (Ret.); Vice Chair, STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services); Co-founder, Flag Officers 4 America
  • Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD, Founder and President, The American Freedom Alliance; Founding Member, The Sovereignty Coalition
  • Colonel Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.); former Military Attaché in Embassy Tokyo; former Foreign Service Officer; Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy; author, When China Attacks: A Warning to America
  • Lt. Col. Matt Lohmeier, Former U.S. Space Force commander; Executive Vice President, STARRS; author of Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military
  • George Rasley, Former staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and Office of the Vice President; involved in over 300 political campaigns; Editor-in-Chief, Conservative HQ
  • Col./Dr. Ron Scott, PhD, Col, U.S. Air Force (Ret.); President and CEO, STARRS; Vice President and Director of Operations, American Constitution Foundation
  • Captain James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.); Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; co-author, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure
  • Vice Admiral Dean Lee, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.); former Commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area; Honorary Professor of Military Science at the Joint Forces Staff
  • Ron Armstrong, President, Stand Up Michigan; founding member of both the Sovereignty and Save America’s Military Coalitions; a leader in national conservative activism.

For more information about the work of the Save America’s Military Coalition and how you can help, join us at SaveAmericasMilitary.org and on Substack.

Take action with your senators here to help Pete Hegseth get confirmed promptly and Make America’s Military Great Again.

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CONTACT:  To interview representatives of the Save America’s Military Coalition, contact Dede Laugesen at Dede Laugesen at i[email protected]