In a first video, the head of the Pentagon appears as he is received by the crew, who give him a military salute. One of the uniformed men salutes him and the images are cut there, which are accompanied by the caption: “Welcome to the Gerald R. Ford, Secretary of War”.<\/p>\n\n\nIn another of the records, made inside the aircraft carrier whose exact location was not disclosed, Hegseth appears in the cabin and holds a megaphone with which he sends a message to the crew for Thanksgiving and tells them about the two national guardsmen injured during a shooting near the White House, in Washington, the day before.\n\nDuring his speech to the troops, Hegseth also spoke of the “courage” of the military “to do dangerous things on behalf of Americans”, whether in patrol work, in the hemisphere, “at sea intercepting cartels, defending Americans”.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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