Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made no secret of his disdain for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the military. Before President Donald Trump nominated him to lead the Defense Department,

They are part of a series of unrelated DEI photos that have been incorrectly identified, including images from a California Army Corps of Engineers mining project, supposedly beca

References to the aircraft—which dropped the first war-time atomic bomb—were flagged for removal from Pentagon photos and online posts as part of a DEI purge, presumably because of the word “gay.”