President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. (Getty Images / Fox News Digital)
"Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years. I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote Monday.
TRUMP DOD CREATES TASK FORCE TO ABOLISH DEI OFFICES THAT ‘PROMOTE SYSTEMIC RACISM’
Each of the academies declined to comment and deferred to the White House when contacted by Fox News Digital.
The move is the latest effort by Trump's administration to combat "woke" influences across the federal government. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed to dismantle DEI within the Pentagon and across America's armed forces.
Billionaire Elon Musk is leading the charge to gut spending across the federal government. ( Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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The former "Fox & Friends Weekend" host took the helm at the DOD last month after a deadlocked Senate confirmation vote ended with Vice President JD Vance's tiebreaker.
Since then, he has overseen overhauls of Biden-era policies, including DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives within the agency.
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
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