W.Minh Tuan
President Trump is nominating Fox television journalist Pete Hegseth to be the US Secretary of Defense. Mr. Pete is said to have served in the US Navy SEALs, then moved to become a reporter for Fox, a television station that is sympathetic to President Trump.
But now there is information that Mr. Pete was rejected from joining the US military, it is not known whether it is true or not.
In the world, from being a journalist to becoming a high-ranking leader of the State, even becoming a head of state is not uncommon.
In Vietnam, General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong has been a journalist for more than half of his life. Comrade Trong was a reporter for the Communist Magazine, then the Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine, working as a journalist for more than 30 years. At the age of over 40, he was transferred to work at the Party’s Theoretical Research Committee, then the Party Congress Document Drafting Committee, then became Secretary of Hanoi, then Chairman of the National Assembly, and then General Secretary and President, the two highest positions in Vietnam.
In the United States, President Ronald Reagan was a movie actor. And now President Trump was, and is, the owner of a hotel, golf course, and office rental business.
More than 100 years ago, in 1898, the famous American journalist John Wilkie of the Chicago Times was appointed by the US Secretary of the Treasury as Director of the Secret Service, citing the need to change the way the Secret Service operates, and the need for a talented journalist, capable of writing famous investigative reports, to lead the weak Secret Service, to reform the Secret Service to do the job of protecting the Presidents, and to fight counterfeit money more effectively.
And journalist John Wilkie is the most famous and talented Director of the US Secret Service in the history of the US Secret Service to date.
Therefore, if President Trump nominates American journalist Pete Hegseth as the US Secretary of Defense, we should not be too surprised. The Minister of Defense of Vietnam is General Vo Nguyen Giap, the most talented general in the modern history of Vietnam, and one of the most talented generals of all time in the entire history of mankind, from Alexander the Great, to Caesar, then to Napoleon, and to today. And the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap originally came from a history teacher at Thang Long High School, Hanoi, during the French colonial period, without going through any military training.
So what is the background of Presidents Trump’s nominees is not important. What is important is what that person can do afterwards, is he capable of taking on the position, the job assigned to him by the State and the people?
As for the nominee for the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the problem is not because he is just a journalist, then he is nominated to be the US Secretary of Defense?
That is not the problem.
The problem is that Mr. Pete Hegseth is making a wrong and stupid argument, that women cannot join the fighting army, cannot be a direct fighting force on the battlefield.
Mr. Pete Hegseth’s argument is that women are weaker than men, women cannot train like men, cannot carry 100 kg cross-country like men, cannot roll, crawl, climb, overcome obstacles like men, cannot carry wounded soldiers to the rear like men, and if fighting hand-to-hand with men, women cannot win against men.
Mr. Pete’s supporters immediately responded, both civilian men, and male soldiers, both civilian women, and female soldiers, both Americans and British, French, German, Israelis, etc.
Many people who support Mr. Pete Hegseth believe that female soldiers cannot participate in fighting on the battlefield, they only do service work in the rear, in logistics.
Many people who support Mr. Pete Hegseth also posted videos on YouTube and Tiktok of fights between male and female MMA fighters, and the female fighter lost by knockout.
Yes, women are weaker than men, and if they fight hand-to-hand, one-on-one, women will definitely lose.
Yes, women cannot run far, run fast, or carry heavy loads like men.
Yes, women cannot carry wounded soldiers to the rear like male soldiers.
Yes, the US military’s training method is very wrong, requiring female soldiers to train like male soldiers, to carry loads, run, jump over hurdles, and crawl like men, equally, without distinction of gender.
That is a wrong and stupid training method, and has been practiced in the US military for decades.
Women soldiers must be trained in a different, gentler way, requiring less physical strength and muscle, because the natural structure created by God, the female body is structured differently from that of men. God created the body and spirit of women to perform the sacred task of giving birth, creating a race to maintain the human race, which men cannot do.
Women must have big breasts to breastfeed, and those breasts prevent women from running, jumping, rolling, crawling, fighting, and carrying heavy loads.
Women’s bodies require them to have 1 week of rest each month during their menstrual period, in order to be able to conceive and give birth, while men do not need that rest period each month.
And because all functions in a woman’s body must be devoted to pregnancy and raising children, a woman’s body cannot be as healthy and leisurely as a man’s. A man’s body only uses its strength to work, play, drink beer, party, gamble, trumping, fighting, and arguing, men body not need to bear and raise babies.
Men do not have to spend energy and strength on pregnancy and childbirth, do not have to raise children, so men can focus their strength on fighting, playing, hunting, and doing harder work than women.
But just because humans are inherently aggressive, and mainly men cause wars, and men kill each other too much, without mercy, without compassion, so male warriors become scarce, so women must be mobilized to become female warriors, to participate in fighting, to satisfy men’s arrogance and belligerence.
However, if there is a gun in hand, women’s fighting ability is not inferior to men, if not to say, sometimes even better than men.
With a gun in hand, women do not need to use as much strength as when competing in boxing, MMA fighting, but mainly use ingenuity, intelligence, courage, alertness, then women are not inferior to men at all.
Even a talented female sniper can take down dozens of male soldiers of the opponent without much difficulty.
During World War II, the Russian army had many female snipers, each of whom shot dozens of Nazi soldiers, such as Russian sniper Tanya Baramzina who shot dead 36 Nazi soldiers, Nadezhda Kolesnikova who shot dead 19 Nazi soldiers, Tanya Chernova who shot dead 24 Nazi soldiers.
In Vietnam, Ms. Nguyen Thi Chien was a female soldier during the war against France, she once rushed out alone herself to grab the gun of a French officer, capturing him alive. Ms. Chien was born in 1930, and passed away in 2016, a living witness of women being able to fight like men, not using as much muscle strength as men, but using their ingenuity, courage, and intelligence to fight the enemy, and win.
The French Army in Vietnam also had a very famous female soldier in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, that was nurse Genevieve De Galard-Terraube. She was the only female soldier among more than 12,000 French soldiers in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, and she was taken prisoner by the Vietnamese Army after the battle of Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh on May 8, 1954.
And then 2 weeks later, she was ordered by President Ho Chi Minh to be returned to the French side, along with more than 1,000 other seriously wounded French soldiers, because the Viet Minh did not have enough medical conditions to treat and care for these seriously wounded French prisoners. Six months later, the Viet Minh also returned all of the nearly 10,000 prisoners of France army of Dien bien phu, including more than 3,000 French prisoners, who were returned directly to France, and African prisoners, such as Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, etc., who were returned through the International Red Cross, to be returned to those countries, and more than 2,000 Vietnamese prisoners who had served for France were returned directly to their hometowns in Vietnam.
Upon returning to France, Ms. Genevieve De Galard-Terraube was invited to the United States, and President Eisenhower awarded the Medal of Freedom to nurse Genevieve De Galard-Terraube, at a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 29, 1954 in Washington, DC.
In Vietnam, the three most famous women in Vietnamese history are Hai Ba Trung – two sisters Trung Trac and Trung Nhi who led the first uprising in Vietnamese history against the domination of the Northern Han Dynasty, in 40-43 AD. After that, the third woman who fought against the Han army was Ba Trieu, in 248 AD.
Since then, there have been countless Vietnamese female warriors, although they do not have the physical strength to carry heavy loads like men, but their fighting ability and achievements are not inferior to men.
In the Vietnam War against the US, the 10 girls of Dong Loc-Thanh Hoa are the clearest evidence of girls with weak legs and soft hands, but with patriotism, bravery, optimism, love of life, gentleness, innocence, the 10 Dong Loc girls have done jobs that even men find difficult to do.
They were 10 girls in the Youth Volunteer Force, whose mission was to fill bomb craters, repair roads, direct traffic for trucks carrying goods and weapons along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to support the battlefield in the South.
Without these 10 girls, and 16,000 other youth volunteers, mostly women, young girls under 20 years old, the Vietnamese army in the battlefield in South Vietnam would not have had logistical supplies, such as weapons, ammunition, clothes, food, medicine, etc., and there would probably not have been a victory day on April 30, 1975.
But on the day 24 July, 1968, all 10 girls of Dong Loc Crossroads were killed when American bombs hit the bunker where they were hiding.
The sacrifice of the 10 girls of Dong Loc Crossroads was as glorious and heroic as any other sacrifice of male soldiers, anywhere else during the Vietnam War.
And what about Israel army IDF now? There are tens of thousands of beautiful, healthy Israeli female soldiers, of course not as healthy as men, but they are fighting very effectively, using guns very skillfully, good at sniping, even driving tanks, flying planes, controlling drones, and are contributing very effectively to the war against terrorism in Gaza.
The same is true in the US military. Certainly, the Americans also have many very heroic women. Although their physical health is worse than that of men, they also have very glorious achievements that are not inferior to men.
But it is clear that the training methods of the US military need to change. American female soldiers must be trained in a lighter, shorter, less muscular regimen than men.
And the American military made mistakes in military training, focusing mainly on training in techniques, discipline, and personal strength.
The US training was too brutal, creating hatred between soldiers and trainers, and commanders.
Any American soldier who made even a small mistake in folding the blanket in the morning when waking up, or a small mistake in dressing, wearing a uniform, or coming late to join training, was disciplined, subjected to CIRCUIT TRAINING – such as doing 100 push-ups, lying on the beach in the sea all day, which was both physically and mentally tortured, very brutal, very inhumane, and completely useless in combat, but created hatred between American soldiers and American trainers and superiors.
During the Vietnam War, there were more than 2,000 cases of American soldiers shooting their superiors to death, all because of hatred between soldiers and commanders during training, and then, during the commanding process when fighting, it was too rigid, commanding, lacking humanity, lacking comradeship, lacking brotherhood.
And there was another crazy American training, which was that on the last days of the training period, all the soldiers had to go through 2 days of training while being captured by the enemy, beaten, tortured, starved, drowned in water, and subjected to real abuse, to train real endurance. !!!.
This was the craziest, most stupid, most ineffective training method, and on the contrary, only created hatred between American soldiers, and between soldiers and commanders and trainers.
How come the American soldiers who were comrades in arms, playing cards, and playing soccer with each other every day, but then on that crazy training day, had to act as two sides, A and B, and if one side A was captured by side B, those friendly comrades had to act as enemies, torture the other side, drown the other soldier, insult, curse, strip, even female soldiers were stripped, so many corrupt trainers took advantage of this to touch the bodies and squeeze the breasts of female American soldiers.
These last 2 days of training created the deepest hatred between American soldiers with each other, and between soldiers and commanders and trainers.
There have been many American films about these brutal training methods of the US military, highlighting the hatred between American soldiers and commanders due to that crazy training method.
But the US Defense Ministers do not understand, do not change, and that has been going on for hundreds of years in the US military.
The 1987 American film Full Metal Jacket directed by Stanley Kubric talks about American soldiers in the Vietnam War, and talks about the brutal training of the US military that caused an American soldier to shoot and kill his superior-trainer of the unit, then commit suicide.
And until now, in 2024, 2025, the US military still maintains that wrong and brutal training method.
Americans are proud that the US military is the most powerful in the world.
No. Wrong.
The US military has the most powerful weapons in the world, but not human being, not soldiers.
The American soldier with the above wrong and brutal training method only creates hatred between soldiers and commanders, and weakens the strength of the US military.
The Vietnamese army has a different way of training, focusing on technical training, discipline, and personal strength of soldiers, while creating camaraderie, love, mutual protection, mutual help, and collective strength, improving human being relationship.
The trainers and superiors are brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and subordinates are young brother, young sister, children, grandchildren.
The Vietnamese army units are home, family, and brotherhoods.
When fighting, Vietnamese soldiers help each other, protect each other, unite, and love each other.
There is no such thing as a subordinate shooting a superior in the back like in the US army.
Solidarity, love, and comradeship create the unparalleled strength of the Vietnamese army, not just techniques, muscle strength, and iron discipline lacking humanity like the US army.
So Mr. Pete Hegseth, please try fighting an American girl, not with bare hands, MMA, but with 2 guns, you with 1 gun, and the American girl 1 gun, only use fake bullets, and the two of you go into an abandoned house, and try to find each other, and shoot each other to see who wins, who loses, the bullets are just paper bullets, red – yours, and white, the American girl’s.
If you get hit by more white bullets, you will lose. And then, Mr. Pete Hegseth, please change your opinion about the role of fighting female soldiers in the US army.///