The DOD is pressuring staff to watch or read SECDEF Pete Hegseth's boring Quantico military address " or else. In recent days, senior officials at the Pentagon have actively monitored staffers, pressing them to confirm whether they had seen the screed Hegseth forced hundreds of top military officials to listen to last month. Senior officials asked for proof that underlings had actually watched it, and made clear that there would be reprimands " if staff were caught lying or ridiculing the former Fox News host's inane address. We have other things we need to work on," a DOD staffer said. "When they told us we were required to watch the Hegseth speech, I did not realize they were going to throw this kind of manpower at enforcing the mandatory viewing of a Trumpf rally." Another DOD staffer detailed similar experiences in the past several days and described it as "being forced to watch that MAGA garbage."