Defense Secretary Pete Hegses spent Friday morning working in the snow with the US military in Poland.
Arrived in Warsaw on Thursday for his first official overseas trip, Hegses shared a photo of himself jogging and doing pre-Dawn push-ups with members of the US and Polish forces working with them.
“Tough, disciplined and ready to fight,” he said. Posted on x.
“Preparation starts with physical and mental toughness. There are no excuses,” he wrote along with a video clip of him jogging with the army.
Hegses' personal show seen in the latest recruiting ads for the military is in stark contrast to the topic of awakening for many released during the Biden administration.
One of the latest online videos from the US Army – It has been seen almost 7 million times By Friday at X – shows special forces soldiers with aggressively trained tattoos in the dark gym.
After deadlifting an impressive 500 pound, the muscular man turns to the camera and says, “Stronger people are hard to kill.”
The tough stance compared to the controversial Army recruitment video released under the Biden administration in 2021.
That animated ad tells the story of Army officer Emma Maronnerod, raised by a lesbian couple in San Francisco and inspired to serve a country that protects gay rights.
In the ad, she boasts, “I marched for equality… I like to think I'm advocating for freedom from a young age.” Masu.
The Army ads are part of a series called “The Calling,” telling true stories of “emotional” soldiers to “smash” military stereotypes. time.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was particularly troubled with an ad portraying the “awakening” US military. He even said that American soldiers made them look like “pansies.”
Cruz made an undesirable comparison with a Russian military ad in which a muscle-bound man was shot with a rifle.
After Trump's election victory in November, the US Army said nearly 350 soldiers enlisted per day in December 2024, the most productive December of 15 years. It has announced that it has broken the recruitment record for the company.
The surge in recruitment comes after a lack of recruitment targets for the second year in a row
