Remarks by Major Drew Dix at the Save America’s Military Telethon 2.0

The Save America’s Military Coalition Senate Video Telethon 2.0: Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Services

Thursday, Jan 2, 2025
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[00:25:25] Drew Dix: I’m really proud to be here and sit alongside of all the brilliant [00:25:30] individuals that bring their experience to trying to right this ship. Now I look at myself as being more of in the trenches. And seeing how it was years ago and how it’s gradually changed. I, I think we need to first of all, get back and realize that the mission of the Department of Defense is a very simple mission. It’s [00:26:00] to defend this country with the men and women that we have available to do that work. We have to use the greatest amount of resources to do that. We have to have the strongest, most capable people to be called warriors. We just can’t have someone say they’re a warrior because they raise their right hand and demand to be a part of it. You know, when I look back at the times [00:26:30] when I led a combat company rifle company in Vietnam, the average age was just under 19. We were diverse, but that’s because we drafted people from the farms and ranches, welders, construction people that had skills. We didn’t create a diversity that had some false sense of making ourselves more lethal. What was really discouraging [00:27:00] recently, and I’ve been involved in the military right up until just a couple of years ago.

[00:27:06] Drew Dix: So I’m not just talking about how it was 30, 40 years ago. I’ve seen a gradual degradation and the ethos of the warrior. We’re getting where we’re over supervised by this vast number of colonels and generals and flag officers that are making [00:27:30] without the with the lack of leadership, they’re coming up with weird ideas. What gives a purpose to the military? And that’s this dangerous diversity die that we’ve come across? I mean, where do you think that it’s important to have a coed fighting vessel, a submarine? What does that do for anybody? What is the cost of that in lethality or in just the cost of development? [00:28:00] Where do all those females that are expecting to go to that ship and the ship is lost in a war. Where do they go? Do they have to hot bunk it in another submarine? We got to face the facts, and I think Pete Hegseth is one of those that can do it. He’s going to have a struggle because there’s a vast number of retired flag officers in positions of responsibility in the DoD industrial complex that you [00:28:30] would think have the integrity and or believable. And I just had a conversation with a very respected general officer that I respected, and I asked him a simple question about what he thought of Dei.

[00:28:44] Drew Dix: This was in an email, and it took 2 or 3 days for him to answer me, which was unusual three pages of justification. Why some of these individuals are making the military better. [00:29:00] That tells you right there that we got a big problem. Pete Headsets is a guy that’s going to see through this. And I just hope and I pray that he’s able to see through the challenges that’s going to be faced. He’s going to be faced with what military would prescribe hormone changing drugs to reduce [00:29:30] muscle mass and strength. Can you imagine that? It ought to be the other way around. So I’m very pleased that we’re looking at this at a practical sense and not it’s not complicated. Department of defense has the clearest mission there is. Let’s get somebody in charge of it to bring us back to where we need to be to win our nation’s war and build a military that’s so strong that nobody will mess with us. I want to thank [00:30:00] you, and I look forward to Were hearing from the rest of the participants and the members of the Senate. Stick with this. This make the decisions based on what you see is right, not what you want it to be. A cultural experiment.