Hegseth stumbles his way through drone video with Metallica track playing in the background

Hegseth stumbles his way through drone video with Metallica playing in the backgroundSource: Department of Defense

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00:00You know what? We know why we were put here. We were brought here to rebuild the military,

00:05match capabilities to the threats of today. So while our adversaries have produced millions of

00:12cheap drones, before us, we were mired in bureaucratic red tape. Not anymore. In June,

00:19President Trump issued an executive order unleashing American drone dominance to bolster

00:26our drone industry and arm our warfighters, because that's what we're all about. So today,

00:31I'm rescinding restrictive policies that stifle production, and this will unleash American

00:36manufacturing and the ingenuity of our warfighters by doing three key things. First, we're going to

00:44bolster the U.S. drone manufacturing base by producing thousands of American-made products,

00:50prioritizing by Americans. We'll arm combat units with a variety of low-cost,

00:55American-crafted drones, leveraging our world-leading engineers and AI experts. And third,

01:03we're going to train as we expect to fight. Senior officers, well, I'll grab this because it's the

01:10memo. Senior officers must overcome bureaucratic risk aversion in budgeting, weaponing, weapon-eering,

01:18and training. So here's the memo we're signing today delivered via drones

01:22the U.S., here on the front lawn of the Pentagon, with some of our great warfighters flying them.

01:29This is the future. We're in the fight. We're in the fight to win it. I'm never going to back down.

01:37We'll be right back down.

01:49Yeah.

01:50Yeah.

01:53Yeah.