Mini-Post: Don Quixote

He is a nut job with a screw lose and doesn't qualify for the Cuckoo Award, Mister Anti-fat wants also to make over basic to bring back hazing to make men out of the troops! Remake the army into a new macho army.

Air and Space Force Magazine writes...

Hegseth Wants Basic to Go Old School. What Policies Must Change First?

Oct. 14, 2025

By Matthew Cox

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the military services to return to old-school discipline at basic training—with instructors “tossing bunks” and “putting their hands on recruits.” But first the services will have to rewrite the policies governing training instructors, which disallowed such practices over the past few decades.

Hegseth’s drive to “restore warrior ethos” across the U.S. military includes rewinding the clock on the kindler, gentler approaches that began in the 1990s and dialed back hardcore discipline in the years that followed. At an unprecedented all-call for general officers Sept. 30, Hegseth told hundreds of senior military leaders that the cultural changes he envisions must begin at Basic Military Training.

“We’re empowering drill sergeants to instill healthy fear in new recruits, ensuring that future warfighters are forged,” he said. “They can toss bunks, they can swear, and yes, they can put their hands on recruits. This does not mean they can be reckless or violate the law, but they can use tried and true methods to motivate new recruits, to make them the warriors they need to be.”

I think he has this vision of a White Christian Army defending the CHURCH! Kind of like the Crusaders.

Return to Old School

Hegseth told the generals he has two basic tests for whether policies should be reviewed: “The 1990 test and the E-6 test.” The first is simple, he said. “What were the military standards in 1990? And if they have changed, tell me why: Was it a necessary change based on the evolving landscape of combat, or was the change due to a softening, weakening, or gender-based pursuit of other priorities?” Hegseth, who was 10 years old in 1990, said “1990 seems to be as good a place to start as any.”

Steve Sargent, a retired Air Force command chief whose service spanned from 1979 to 2009, recalled that in his time as a military training instructor from 1981 to 1984 that he tossed his share of bunks, which he called “white tornados.” The aim was to teach trainees attention to detail, he said.

“We would go in and basically rip the dorm apart, empty the wall lockers, flip the bunks if there was just a minor infraction, like shoe alignment,” Sargent said in an interview. “It was all about enforcing the standards.”

The Republicans are caught up in a "Father Knows Best" romantic mindset! He is the Don Quixote of the army but it is a lot scarier because of his Christian nationalist beliefs!