US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday travelled to Normandy to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.
But after making a speech at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, he conspicuously skipped afternoon’s main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the Allied landings, which helped herald the end of World War II.
His presence was not missed by some residents of the village hosting the ceremony, Langrune-sur-Mer, who said the US official was not welcome there.
“He has very warlike views and it seems to us that this man does not share our democratic values,” Sylvie Lamy Thepaut, a member of the municipal association Langrune en commun, told BFM TV.
Someone pointed out he doesn’t call soldiers soldiers. He calls them war fighters. He’s on a crusade and sees them as fighters for his cause.
He’s not. He’s cosplaying. That’s all.
Warfighter is a US military term.
I believe the original intention was to avoid differentiating between a sailor, soldier, marine or airman. I think it was supposed to be a generic term.
But he for sure thinks of them as crusaders in his fucking lunatic holy war.
Weird considering we haven’t declared “war” since 1942.
It wasn’t until 1.5 years ago
Simply not true.
Document from 2002 used it 26 times.
https://media.defense.gov/2002/Jun/14/2001712445/-1/-1/1/02-107.pdf
2006
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/131623/jdam-continues-to-be-warfighters-weapon-of-choice/
31 times
https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/20002001/base budget/it/itexh.pdf#%3A~%3Atext=WARFIGHTER+SIMULATION+2000+345+Page+5+DEPARTMENT%2Cevolves+into+the+Army+XXI+(2010)+and
9 times
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-106hrpt644/html/CRPT-106hrpt644.htm#%3A~%3Atext=House+Report+106-644+-+DEPARTMENT+OF+DEFENSE+APPROPRIATIONS+BILL%2C+2001.
I remember hearing the term when I was serving in the late 90s. It’s not a recent thing.
They can’t even invent their own buzzwords.
Thanks for the research
The generic term is “service member”
A service member covers everyone, a warfighter is in particular supposed to be for combat roles.
Combat arms is a perfectly fine term that doesn’t ooze with larper pretentiousness.
Apparently he has a “deus vult” tattoo.
God, if real, would have nothing to do with this asshole…
The abrahamic god is a legit asshole in some iterations. Just look at the book of Job