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Author: PucksFool ✧✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: "No Tab Pete"
Date: 09/05/26 10:28 AM
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That is the nickname the officers at the Pentagon have given to the Sec. of Defense.

charlotteclymer.substack.com - Pete hegseths ruthless pentagon nickname

Today, I read an article in The Daily Beast—written by Michael Daly—that some military brass within the Pentagon have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spat my drink out.

While Mr. Daly offers some good context in the article, it doesn’t quite capture the ruthlessness and humiliation of this nickname, which I believe cuts into the hollowness of Hegseth’s ongoing and cringey search for masculine validation more than anything else I’ve heard or read.

In the U.S. Army, there are skill tabs for elite military courses — little, canopy-shaped patches that go on your uniform shoulder and indicate you’ve graduated from that course.

There are four such tabs: Special Forces, Ranger, Sapper, and—the newest tab—Jungle.

The only context y’all need here is about the Special Forces and Ranger tabs.

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And yet, when these Army generals and their staffs refer to him as "No Tab Pete," they're calling out his performative masculinity.

They're saying he's a little bitch. He didn't have the guts to attend these courses.

He's weak. He's not a warrior.

No Tab Pete. Delicious.
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