Mercenary soldiers receive their pay directly. In the case of Trump he is showered with gifts, money , and corruption in exchange for American people’s defense force. It was very easy for Hegseth to become the Secretary of War. The work has already done for him.
The USA military is hijacked by a racketeer who would like everyone to believe his aggression is necessary for world peace.
Trump is do very wrong. What he is conducting is genocide and racism.
The USA, as many other nations, has a no assassinations policy. I don’t care the ignorant justification for any of Trump’s killings. Trump has used the USA military to assassinate Iranian leaders with bombs. That is murder.
The real insult to the American people is that Trump never paid taxes, but, yet he finds our military a convenient tool to his global racketeering.
Trump has no right to use our military for his private wars of vengeance.