Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden has a message for critics of Trump's Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth

Donald Trump's prime of Fox News big Pete Hegseth to pb the Department of Defense volition nary uncertainty shingle up the Pentagon accidental troops.

The heavy tattooed 44-year-old deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and won 2 Bronze Stars, past unsuccessfully ran for Senate successful Minnesota in 2012 earlier joining Fox News.

Hegseth's assignment came arsenic a astonishment to many since he's a non-establishment prime with nary erstwhile authorities acquisition who volition be leading the nation's largest national bureau with a $800 cardinal budget.

But existent and erstwhile work members archer DailyMail.com that a shake-up astatine the apical of the Pentagon totem rod is necessary. 

Robert O'Neill, the erstwhile Navy SEAL who killed violent Osama bin Laden successful 2011, told DailyMail.com that Hegseth is simply a 'fantastic choice.'

And 1 main crushed wherefore is due to the fact that he's ne'er been dragged into the D.C. governmental 'swamp.' 

'He is simply a mid-level serviceman who has been to Afghanistan and Iraq connected combat tours, worked with the National Guard successful DC and played hoops astatine Princeton,' said O'Neill. 

'He knows the soldiers and however a squad works and truly knows however to propulsion himself. He is not portion of the good-old-boy web and has ne'er been portion of the swamp.'

Other work members stock the aforesaid presumption that Hegseth volition bring a caller position to the agency.

Current U.S. Navy Commander Robert A. Green Jr. said he's 'excited for the caller approach' that Hegseth volition bring to the position.

'The Joint Force deserves a determination shaper who volition prioritize law principles implicit contractor profits,' helium told DailyMail.com. 

'There is besides a heavy seat of precocious retired blimpish Admirals and Generals who are anxious to enactment and advise. The aboriginal looks precise agleam for the US subject nether Pete Hegseth.'

An progressive work combatant aviator said he's astir thrilled about Hegseth's committedness to 'shrinking the bureaucratic instrumentality down to thing overmuch much manageable.'

The aviator says the 'overwhelming and cumbersome bureaucracy' makes his occupation hard connected a regular basis.

'The Air Force and DoD astatine ample has felt much similar a DMV than a warfighting enactment and that’s causing a batch of guys successful the flying assemblage to extremity up disillusioned and anxious to get out,' helium told DailyMail.com.

He warned that he's lone cautiously optimistic due to the fact that of Hegseth's deficiency of authorities prowess.

'I bash wonderment if helium has the governmental savvy to navigate the labyrinth of the pentagon instrumentality and tame it effectively,' helium continued.

Air Force seasoned Jordan Karr told DailyMail.com that she was 'shocked successful a bully way' regarding Hegseth's nomination. 

Another retried Air Force Col. John McAfee said that he's hopeful Hegseth volition 'create a way' to bring backmost spiritual work members who were terminated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

The mandate enacted successful August 2021 led to the forced firing of implicit 8,000 work members who refused the changeable connected spiritual oregon aesculapian grounds.

But for Pentagon vocation employees, Hegseth's announcement came arsenic rather a shock.

One defence authoritative told DailyMail.com that it was 'like a morgue' wrong the Pentagon aft Trump's announcement.

They said the vocation unit were 'apoplectic' aft proceeding Hegseth, who has nary authorities oregon absorption experience, would beryllium taking implicit medication of the largest associated warring forces successful the world.  

'The libs seemed truthful depressed,' according to a connection obtained by DailyMail.com.

And galore are particularly acrophobic astir Trump's reported program to make a 'warrior board' of retired ex-military unit to weed retired 'woke generals' deemed unfit for leadership. 

A root wrong the section says that ever since the announcement, the temper has been 'dark' among employees. 

'No 1 has been joking,' the insider told DailyMail.com. There are besides worries that the U.S. could suffer its brushed powerfulness and spot of allies. 

But that seems to beryllium the nonstop extremity of Trump with his defence shake-up and incoming question of firings.

And different authoritative says alteration is 'welcome' and that employees privation a defence caput that volition 'engage with unit more' aft existent Sec. Lloyd Austin's distance.

'No 1 truly knows his hobbies oregon what helium likes to do,' the authoritative says astir Austin. 'His unit has ever kept him hidden and helium doesn't look to person overmuch involvement successful pretending that helium is funny successful staff.'

Hegseth could alteration that up successful the section and beryllium much accessible to employees - a perk successful the eyes of many.

A Pentagon authoritative told DailyMail.com that there’s immoderate 'disappointment' that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown Jr., who replaced Gen. Mark Milley, volition beryllium the main people of the warrior committee purge.

Employees consciousness he’s a 'good feline that keeps his caput down and doesn’t marque news,' they explained. 

The main contented that Trump has with Brown is his enactment to grow the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) effort wrong the agency. 

But the authoritative said helium was 'kind of forced' into DEI aft the decease of George Floyd. 

'There was immoderate anticipation astatine archetypal that Trump mightiness support Brown, which would beryllium viewed arsenic affirmative successful the building, but that is looking bleak now.'

There are vocation officials who are welcoming Trump's warrior committee due to the fact that immoderate Milley loyalists are inactive around.

But it's a 'mixed container of emotions' successful the section due to the fact that present immoderate who volition beryllium fired are 'scrambling' to find caller occupation options.

'Then again, determination was a wide knowing that due to the fact that the Biden and Harris teams didn’t look to similar each other, that she would person done a monolithic expanse arsenic good to enactment successful radical she viewed arsenic loyal to her.'

Hegseth's assignment comes arsenic Trump has made different daze nominations including former Democratic congresswoman and Tulsi Gabbard for the manager of nationalist quality and embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz for lawyer general. 

In a flurry of announcements, Trump said helium had chosen former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee arsenic ambassador to Israel and his longtime person Steven Witkoff to beryllium a peculiar envoy to the Middle East. 

Trump besides said helium would nominate South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to tally the Department of Homeland Security and named Bill McGinley, his Cabinet caput successful his archetypal administration, arsenic his White House counsel.

'With Pete astatine the helm, America's enemies are connected announcement - Our Military volition beryllium Great Again, and America volition Never Back Down,' Trump said successful the connection announcing Hegseth. 

'Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete volition beryllium a courageous and patriotic champion of our `Peace done Strength´ policy.'

'Pete Hegseth has been an exceptional big connected FOX & Friends and FOX Nation and a best-selling writer for FOX News Books for astir a decade,' a spokesperson for Fox News Media told DailyMail.com successful a statement.

'His insights and investigation particularly astir the subject resonated profoundly with our viewers and made the programme the large occurrence that it is today. We are highly arrogant of his enactment astatine FOX News Media and privation him the champion of luck successful Washington.' 

Trump is rolling retired a dependable watercourse of appointees and nominees for his upcoming administration, moving frankincense acold astatine a faster gait and without arsenic overmuch play arsenic his archetypal modulation pursuing his 2016 victory.

Hegseth, 44, is simply a co-host of Fox News Channel´s 'Fox & Friends Weekend' and has been a contributor with the web since 2014, wherever helium developed a relationship with Trump, who made regular appearances connected the show. 

He is besides the writer of 'The War connected Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.'

The book, according to its promo, combines 'his ain warfare experiences, tales of outrage, and an incisive look astatine however the concatenation of bid got truthful kinked,' and bills itself arsenic 'the cardinal to redeeming our warriors - and winning aboriginal wars.'

While the Pentagon is considered a cardinal coveted station successful immoderate administration, the defence caput was a tumultuous station during Trump´s archetypal term. 

Five men held the occupation during his 4 years lone to resign, beryllium fired oregon service concisely arsenic a stopgap. Just 2 of them were really confirmed by the Senate.

Trump's narration with his civilian and subject leaders during those years was fraught with tension, disorder and frustration, arsenic they struggled to temper oregon adjacent simply construe statesmanlike tweets and pronouncements that blindsided them with abrupt argumentation decisions they weren´t prepared to explicate oregon defend.

Many of the generals who worked successful his archetypal medication - some connected progressive work and retired - person slammed him arsenic unfit to service successful the Oval Office and helium has condemned them successful return.

Hegseth was an infantry skipper successful the Army National Guard and served overseas successful Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

He was formerly caput of the Concerned Veterans for America, a radical backed by blimpish billionaires Charles and David Koch.

If confirmed by the Senate, helium would inherit the apical occupation during a bid of planetary crises - ranging from Russia´s warfare successful Ukraine and the ongoing attacks successful the Middle East by Iranian proxies to the propulsion for a cease-fire betwixt Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah and escalating worries astir the increasing confederation betwixt Russia and North Korea. 

On a caller quality connected Fox News, helium made it wide that helium felt Joe Biden's White House - tally by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin - was tally by 'pro-Palestinian millennials.'

'What Israel is astir to bash is bring Hell down connected Hamas. Israel is astir to bash existent war. Israel volition beryllium stacking bodies due to the fact that Netanyahu isn’t messing around,' helium said. 

Hegseth has 'an fantabulous inheritance arsenic a inferior serviceman but does not person the elder nationalist information acquisition that secretaries need,' said Mark Cancian, a elder advisor astatine the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 

'I deliberation Trump was bushed of warring with his secretaries of defence and picked 1 who would beryllium loyal to him.' Cancian said the deficiency of acquisition mightiness marque it much hard for Hegseth to get done Senate confirmation.