West Point graduate Lucien K. Truscott IV gives Trump's bonehead defense secretary Pete Hegseth a much-needed history lesson

 

Headline:  National Memo, 6/26/2025

In history. Got that? 

Hegseth was standing there in the Pentagon where General George C. Marshall, working in conjunction with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General Bernard Montgomery and General Omar Bradley planned and executed the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944. 

That invasion involved a fleet from eight different navies of 6,939 vessels, including 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft, 289 escort vessels, 277 minesweepers, and 864 merchant craft. Beginning around midnight, 2,200 American, British and Canadian bombers attacked targets along the coast and inland German military positions. 

According to the Eisenhower Presidential Library, about 133,000 combat and support troops landed on French soil during the 24 hours of D-Day. 73,000 American troops, including the airborne troops who parachuted and flew on gliders behind enemy lines and Army Rangers who climbed the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, came ashore at Omaha and Utah beaches. Approximately 83,000 British and Canadian soldiers landed at Sword, Juno, and Gold beaches. 

There were at least 10,000 allied casualties on D-Day, with more than 4,000 soldiers confirmed killed. 

The Normandy landing on D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history involving one of the largest one-day bombing campaigns in history. 

The Secretary of Defense needs to go downstairs to the Pentagon’s department of military history, assuming it survived DOGE, and do some reading.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'bonehead', as in a stupid person : NUMBSKULL, occurred in 1903.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. attention span
2. ball boy
3. clone
4. creepage
5. community spread
6. game point
7. memory lane
8. overpromote
9. revisionism

 

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