When Pete Hegseth got the job as HMFIC (SECDEF), he was confronted with an incredible managerial problem. The Department of Defense has at last count 2.87 million employees. Most people cannot manage a company of fifty employees. No matter how good you are, managing an organization of that size and scope is daunting at the very least.
The Secretary of Defense has no choice but to rely on several layers of staff to properly manage the gargantuan Department of Defense (DoD). And that’s where his problems really can be found.
Even if Ivan the Terrible came in and began slashing and burning from day one, it would take a year to clean out all the DEI/WOKE shit he inherited. Then you’ll have to contend with left-leaning sleeper cells that hide in the shadows and who will stab you in the back at the first opportunity that comes their way.
SECDEF needs to first admit he’s got a problem of lingering DEI/WOKEIES. Then embark on a methodical campaign to rid the Pentagon of ALL employees who will continually undermine his plan to make DoD a lethal fighting force it needs to be.
He might want to also consider getting rid of fat people in uniform. Did you happen to notice how many people in the Army’s recent parade were overweight.
There is no way we can take on the Chinese or the Russians if our military members cannot walk up a flight of stairs without losing their breath. Most military units really don’t do physical training (PT) anymore, at least not like they used to.
One of our sources at Ft. Jackson said that instead of doing PT, they sit around surfing the web on their cell phones. Not going to burn many calories that way!
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS SES PERSONNEL
The biggest problem confronting SECDEF is attempting to manage Senior Executive Service (SES) members. Pete Hegseth is on a long over due mission of leaving that, “Woke Shit, behind!”
The following video is of SES Clothilda Taylor who was the architect of the “get rid of LTC Lamberth” campaign. Her clandestine schemes are a classic example of how some SES employees secretly work to rid themselves of people that could blow the lid off of chronic, ingrained fraud that has plagued the Pentagon for decades.
Any SECDEF can have his General Officers / Flag Officers (GOs/FOs) removed for cause upon or after their mandatory retirement date (MRD).
The U.S. Government’s Senior Executive Service (SES) was established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 to ensure that the executive management of the government is responsive to the nation’s needs and of high quality. Actually, it was to create a protected class and ensure they could not be fired.
The SES includes managerial, supervisory, and policy positions classified above General Schedule (GS) grade 15. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) oversees the SES, providing guidance and support to agencies in developing and managing their executive personnel.
SES members serve as a critical link between Presidential appointees and the federal workforce, overseeing nearly every government activity across approximately seventy-five (75) federal agencies. If there was ever a “deep state” that looks out for its own and commits fraud on a scale not imaginable, it is the SES system in the federal government.
As we said, the SES corps was designed to be a bridge between political appointees and career civil servants. It’s a fact that most of the SESs serving at the Department of Defense (DoD) have never served in uniform. Fact is, many don’t give a tinker’s damn about America’s warfighters.
They pay lip service to deceive everyone which serves their own greedy and selfish career interests. According to Lieutenant Colonel Lamberth, SES Clothilda Taylor forced subordinates to extort funds from DoD contractors.
Instead of investigating SES employees, the Pentagon chose to allow Taylor and others to weave a web around LTC Lamberth and ultimately remove him as a threat to a system of systemic contract fraud.
Many SESs are resentful and admonish veterans by calling people such as Lieutenant Colonel Rick Lamberth, USA (Ret.) by derogatory terms such as, “Double Dippers!” The things they say behind their backs is far worse, you can bet on it.
This distain for those who have served in uniform is a festering wound that never heals. The only way to remove the evil that lurks below the surface is to pull it out by the roots. But that cannot be done when there is the protected class of SES employees who view themselves as being above the law.
SES employees view themselves as being above the law because they are. No matter what they do or how much they steal, there is never any accountability of any kind. At the very least they should be fired and referred to the district attorney for prosecution.
WHAT HAPPENED TO
LIEUTENANT COLONEL RICK LAMBERTH?
After approximately 8.5 years of service in The Pentagon and 30+ years as an Army officer, LTC Rick Lamberth, USA(Ret.) discovered the DEI devotees and wicked Wokeies are deeply embedded in the bowels of bureaucratic cesspool of the SES corps within the Pentagon!
That is why the SES, Clothilda Taylor had veterans such as LTC Rick Lamberth, GS-15 Removed from his job at the Pentagon. This extraordinary man’s employment was summarily terminated because he refused to become a party to contract fraud.
Patriots like Lieutenant Colonel Lamberth are not afraid to blow the whistle on tyrannical fraud, waste, abuse, and extraordinary mis-management by self-centered bureaucrats who weave their little webs of fraud and deception at the expense of America’s warfighters and the American taxpayer!
Have you ever wondered why the DOGE team hasn’t uncovered massive fraud and waste in the Pentagon? It’s because the fraud, waste and abuse are at a scale that would dwarf all the other agencies combined and would require massive firings of many SES employees. Many would be referred to the DOJ for prosecution.
Generally, there isn’t a mandatory retirement age for most Federal Senior Executive Service (SES) employees. There is no mandatory retirement age for SES employees, meaning they are not forced to retire at a specific age. Their graft and corruption can go on until the cows come home.
LINK: OPM Policy Oversight Data on SES employees
Unlike DoD GOs/FOs, there is a mandatory retirement age for general and flag officers in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). They are required to retire on the first day of the month following the month in which they turn 64. However, there are exceptions that can allow for deferment of retirement.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown in accordance with 10 U.S. Code % 1253: (LINK: U.S. Code Text)
- Mandatory Retirement Age: General and flag officers must retire at age 64.
- Deferment: Officers in the O-9 and O-10 ranks (highest general and flag officer grades) may have their retirement deferred until age 66 by the Secretary of Defense, and potentially until age 68 by the President. They don’t want a general or admiral to have cognitive issues like our previous President.
- Exceptions: The Service Secretaries may defer the retirement of health professional officers and chaplains until age 68.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was established as a standalone agency in 1978 to oversee federal workforce management. OPM serves as the chief human resources agency and personnel policy manager for the U.S. Federal Government and is supposed to be apolitical. OPM’s roots date back to 1883, when the Civil Service Reform Act created the competitive civil service.
This law requires the federal government to hire public servants based on their skills, and not their political affiliations. A strong, merit-based civil service is critical to a functioning democracy. OPM generally breaks the work break down structure of the USG into the following categories and they are analogous to the DoD rank structure as follows:
OPM Pay Scale / Grade DoD Rank / Status
Senior Executive Service (SES) General Officers / Flag Officers
General Schedule (GS -1 to 15) Enlisted rank to Field Grade Officers (E-1 to O-6)
We here at MilitaryCorruption.com take our oath we took when on active duty very seriously! Just as we do, so do our military services and their respective academies. The services and academies are usually conduits for USG civilian employees upon completion of their military service.
They instill and reinforce a basic concept of integrity in order to ensure future military leaders and USG civilians act with ethical and professional conduct. If all of the people who took an oath adhered to that oath, there would be no need for whistleblowers.
WHAT YOUNG MILITARY OFFICERS
ARE BEING TAUGHT
Below are the oaths, codes, mottos, and statements of the U.S. military academies:
West Point (US Military Academy):
West Point’s Cadet Honor Code states, “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” The academy’s mission statement now includes the Army Values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage, while still keeping “Duty, Honor, Country” as its motto. The code is not just a set of rules but a foundation for character development.
Annapolis (US Naval Academy):
The Naval Academy’s honor concept emphasizes midshipmen as “persons of integrity” who stand for what is right and tell the truth. The Honor Treatise of the Brigade of Midshipmen outlines the common goals and ideals of the midshipmen.
John Paul Jones attempted to give the new fledgling American Navy a guide by saying, “It is by no means enough that an officer of the Navy should be a capable mariner. He must be that, of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor.”
Colorado Springs (US Air Force Academy):
The Air Force Academy’s Honor Code includes a pledge: “We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.” They also emphasize living honorably and doing one’s duty.
The uniformed officer corps is one problem. It’s still wrong to allow a general or admiral to retire to avoid prosecution and they do it all the time. If you really want to find billions of dollars in corruption, look no further than the governments SES system.
Just last week, A USAID official and three corporate executives, pleaded guilty in the scheme that spanned over a decade, involved fourteen (14) prime contracts worth more than $550 million in U.S. taxpayer funds, that were improperly awarded through manipulated procurement processes at USAID. Do we really think that SES employees were not involved in that major fraud?
The U.S. military academies use honor codes, mottos, and mission statements to instill and reinforce Integrity, ensuring that future leaders are prepared to act with ethical and professional conduct.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SECDEF
We respectfully submit recommendations for the SECDEF and whole of the U.S. Government (USG) to address this ingrained problem that is corroding the very fabric of the Department of Defense:
- The DoD should develop and implement an objective third-party contractor / NGO such as MilitaryCorruption.com to be nested underneath the D.O.G.E. or the Department of Justice (DoJ).
- Likewise, all other USG agencies should develop and implement their own respective unbiased whistleblower protective agency third-party contractor / NGO within D.O.G.E. or the DoJ.
- Hopefully, Pete Hegseth can fulfill his goal of, “Being done with that Woke Shit, and restoring the Warrior Ethos!” We are referring specifically to Pete’s keynote Address at the Special Operations Forces Week event in Tampa, Florida on May 6, 2025.
- In 1980, President Reagan’s administration established the “1-800 Fraud, Waste and Abuse Hotline.” Out the millions of phone calls that have been placed to the hotline number, not one investigation has been launched. Not one person has been charged or convicted over the past forty-five (45) years since the hotline was established. But hundreds of people have been either drummed out of the service or railroaded into Ft. Leavenworth. The hotline was established not to find fraud, waste and abuse, but to find the whistleblowers who were reporting the crimes. President Trump, if you really want to combat the waste, establish a new hotline number that goes directly to some organization that can be trusted. What that is, we don’t know. Is it the FBI? Is it the DOJ? Who can be trusted to really hold people accountable… especially the SES employees and flag-ranking officers of the military?
The major problem with ferreting out malfeasance that manifests itself into billions in fraud and waste is desire. To stop the fraud, waste and abuse, you first have to WANT TO STOP the fraud, waste and abuse. And that my dear friends is the crux of the problem.
Secretary Hegseth, make the first step by jumping into the awful dismissal of Lieutenant Colonel Rick Lamberth. Jump into it with both feet. Hell, call the man at home and he will tell you point blank what your rogue SES employees are up to. You have a chance her to right a wrong and we pray that you get in involved.
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