Hegseth Wants the Pentagon to Use Kirk to Recruit Personnel

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

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NEW: Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Sep 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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"Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors"

He never served, did he?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-18 02:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

They're really trying to milk this for all it's worth.

They've probably used up it's usefulness. I don't suspect these cynical ploys to do much.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-18 02:00 PM | Reply

Good God Gravy Marie. Canonizing a racist bigot is abhorrent. We're in free fall now.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-18 02:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"The Legend of Charlie Kirk".

Too funny.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-18 02:03 PM | Reply

Is this like, The Legend of Zelda?

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-18 02:05 PM | Reply

No, Legend of Zelda is GOOD.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-18 02:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Charlie Kirk was a man

Yes, a real man

And he vlogged for America to make all Americans free

From the coonskin hat on the top of Old Kirk

To the tip of his mighty boots

The rippen-est, roaren-est man

That MAGA ever knew".

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-18 03:47 PM | Reply

Charlie Kirk should be immortalied on Mount Rushmore, well maybe a 2: for 1: put Kirk and Trump together on one head but with both faces!

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-20 06:13 PM | Reply

I'm unsure how Kirk's musings about African Americans will help the US Armed Forces attract more dark skinned recruits. How about this banger:

"If I see a black pilot I'm like boy I hope he's qualified.'"

Yep, Drinky Pete will be filling the shortfall for recruits with all manner of the fat, the stupid and the weak white folks from Red America. And Uncle Vlad will scarcely contain his laughter ...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-09-20 06:20 PM | Reply

Good

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-20 07:21 PM | Reply

Republicans latched onto Kirk as their very own Horst Wessel 2.0 because they lack any actual, credible, heroic figures from whom to draw inspiration.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-21 05:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I'm quite sure we will all realize at some point--reguardless of ideological affiliation--that Kirk's untimely passing just might historically prove to be the moment which pushed this unhappy land right though the Looking Glass; as the right currently seems hell-bent to weaponize the termagant's unfortunate demise, the truth be damned.

#12 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-09-21 04:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Republicans latched onto Kirk as their very own Horst Wessel 2.0 because they lack any actual, credible, heroic figures from whom to draw inspiration.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

These bastards couldn't muster an original thought if their lives depended on it.

#13 | Posted by morris at 2025-09-21 05:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

GOP lawmaker shares clip of Charlie Kirk calling for release of Epstein files during his memorial

www.rawstory.com

That's gonna piss off stinky.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-21 06:09 PM | Reply

" No, Legend of Zelda is GOOD.

#6 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-09-18 02:31 PM | FLAG: "

----. 100%.

#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-21 08:38 PM | Reply

I checked our local recruiting office. There were no lines.

Sorry Pete, bad idea. On the bright side, there's still Happy Hour.

#16 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-09-22 01:31 AM | Reply

Gosh wonder why the pentagon would want to fill it's ranks with christofascist morons hungry for revenge...

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-22 08:12 PM | Reply

The military should be non-poltical, and obedientonly to the Constitution.

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-22 11:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hegseth wants nobody smarter than him in the building ...
Hello?
Anyone there?
Anyone?

#19 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-23 06:11 AM | Reply

Here is the product of the smart people in the Pentagon nowadays: archive.ph

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-23 07:19 AM | Reply

The military should be non-poltical, and obedientonly to the Constitution.

#18 | Posted by LampLighter

Trump proved an oath to defend the constitution is meaningless.

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-23 02:09 PM | Reply