Watch Pete Hegseth screw in new sign at Pentagon: 'Deadly serious about the name change'

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00:00There we go.

00:09Thank you very much.

00:10So the previous sign, Department of Defense,

00:13and what I've told has been here for 76 years.

00:18And that's a long time.

00:2076 years is a long time.

00:22But when you think of the length of our republic,

00:25250 years, the original name of this department was the Department of War,

00:29George Washington saw it as the Department of War,

00:31all the way until World War II.

00:32And so when this building was built after World War II

00:34and the sign went up, it's the Department of Defense.

00:37It's the sign that I walked past on my first day,

00:39that foreign leaders walked past.

00:41It's the first thing you see.

00:42And we wanted to replace this because we want everyone

00:47that comes through this door to know that we're deadly serious

00:50about the name change of this organization.

00:52Yes, we love everything that the Department of Defense represented,

00:56but this is a new era of the Department of War

00:59that is focused on winning wars, not just perpetually defending,

01:03making sure we know exactly what the mission is

01:05and that the troops are sent there to succeed and win.

01:08So the Department of War has a new ethos.

01:11We're rebuilding it.

01:12We're reestablishing deterrence.

01:13It's based on America first and peace through strength and common sense.

01:17And now everyone that enters this building,

01:20whether it's generals or civilians or foreign leaders,

01:22is going to see, hey, this is not just on paper.

01:25This is not just the title.

01:26This is exactly who we are.

01:28And we urge Congress next year to make it permanent.

01:32And we think there are plenty of senators and congressmen out there

01:35that support the President's vision to make it permanently the Department of War,

01:39reestablishing it back to Henry Knox and George Washington

01:42and the founding of our nation that we will fight and win our nation's wars called upon.

01:47But, of course, the whole goal is to deter wars in the first place,

01:52to establish peace.

01:54So thank you for hooking us up.

01:58It means a lot to us.

01:59I'll look at it every time we come in.

02:01We hope our adversaries and allies alike look at it when they walk in this beautiful building as well.

02:06So, gentlemen, thanks a lot.

02:07Thank you, sir.

02:08Appreciate you.

02:10Thank you very much.

02:11All right.

02:12Beautiful.

02:13Nice.

02:19There we go.

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