According to The Dialy Wire, more than 120 retired U.S. generals and admirals signed on to a letter released on Monday expressing their support for Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth has faced intense scrutiny in the media after several hit pieces were released using anonymous sources.

The following are excerpts from the letter, titled An Open Letter of Support for Peter Hegseth’s Nomination for U.S. Secretary of Defense:

He understands combat from the grass roots level and will take that much needed perspective with him as the next SECDEF. He has studied and experienced the disastrous effects Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has on our military and he is committed to expunging it from our armed forces. His focus is solely on warfighting readiness so that our military is prepared to fulfill its mission—to fight and win our Nation’s wars.

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President Trump has the right and responsibility to select key people who are capable of fulfilling his promises to the American people. Prominent in that mandate was making our military strong and lethal, to include removing what is called “wokeness” in the form of (DEI) from our armed forces.

During a press conference on Monday, Trump once again voiced his support for Hegseth.

“He’s going to be great,” Trump said. “Look, he went to Princeton. He went to Harvard. He was a great student there. But he really was, from the first day I met him, all he wanted to talk about was military. He’s just a military guy. I think it’s a natural.”

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