NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. War Secretary Pete Hegseth opened a Pentagon news conference Tuesday detailing a covert visit to troops fighting in Operation Epic Fury, noting America’s service men and women are ramping up “wartime speed” and the only thing they need to see from U.S. leadership is “more bombs.”. “To a man and to a woman on the ground, in the air, on the flight line, and in the TOC [technical operations center] I heard, ‘We want everything faster, higher up-tempo, wartime, speed,’” Hegseth said, detailing how the U.S. leadership “walked up at sunset with the chill in the air on the flight line.”. Hegseth recounted his “firsthand” visits with American troops in live action “theater” at CENTCOM in the Middle East, hailing the “American warrior unleashed” behind President Donald Trump’s objective to ensure Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon.”. “I spoke to all ranks and all services, none of whom knew we were coming,” he said. “It was not rehearsed or scripted. Sometimes we just wandered. What I witnessed was motivation. It was sheer mission focus. It was the American warrior unleashed.”. MORNING GLORY: PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ON THE CUSP OF A HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT. Hegseth ticked off more observations of “urgency” – both “to finish the job” and “to achieve mission success.”. “I witnessed lethality,” he added. “I met a junior airman, as the sun was going down and a chill was setting on the tarmac, who, when asked what they needed, she simply looked up at me with a sly smile on her face and said, ‘more bombs, sir, and bigger bombs.’. “We will happily oblige her.”. MORNING GLORY: TRUMP HAS RESTORED THE GOP AS THE PARTY OF DEFENSE AND DETERRENCE. The speed left Hegseth marveling, but the resolve left him proud, he said.. “‘Please thank the president from us’: I heard that time and time again,” Hegseth said. “I asked each young American, ‘What do you need?’ And nobody said better equipment. Nobody said more comfortable living conditions. Nobody said, ‘Send me home.’”. “Well, of course, eventually we want all those things; they do too,” Hegseth acknowledged. “But what those Americans said to me, young and old, officer and NCO, male and female, Black and White, was: ‘Let’s finish the mission. Get us even more bombs. Bigger bombs, more targets. Let us finish this.'”. MEDIA UNDER FIRE: JOURNALISTS KEEP QUESTIONING IRAN WAR AS HEGSETH CALLS THEM ‘UNPATRIOTIC’ AND ‘ANTI-TRUMP’. Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine spoke to just that, hailing the speed of “these great Americans” feeding the “national industrial base.”. “Today, I want to recognize a group of Americans who live at the beginning of our nation’s combat power, the Americans who actually make our weapons both inside our defense industrial base, but even more broadly inside our national industrial base,” Caine said in his opening remarks at the news conference.. “In every military option, we could not and cannot do our jobs wi
