Fox News Pentagon reporter Jennifer Griffin fact checked Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for his comment at a Pentagon press briefing Sunday morning in which he said of the the B-2 pilots who successfully bombed Iran’s nuclear sites on Saturday, “Our boys in those bombers are on their way home right now.”
Hegseth’s remarks were first highlighted by Eric Daugherty, “Pete Hegseth: “Iran is calculating the reality that planes flew from the middle of America in MISSOURI over night, completely undetected, over 3 of their most highly sensitive sites. And we were able to destroy nuclear capabilities, and our boys in those bombers are on their way home right now.”…”We believe that’ll have a clear psychological impact on how they view the future.”
Just WOW…
Pete Hegseth: “Iran is calculating the reality that planes flew from the middle of America in MISSOURI over night, completely undetected, over 3 of their most highly sensitive sites. And we were able to destroy nuclear capabilities, and our boys in those bombers… pic.twitter.com/cAB5WfjYOn
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 22, 2025
After the briefing, Griffin posted, “Defense Secretary Hegseth: “We were able to destroy nuclear capabilities. And OUR BOYS in those bombers are on their way home right now.” Fox News has learned that at least one of the B2 pilots who took part in the Iran mission was female.”
Before Griffin fact checked Hegseth, New York Times reporter John Ismay was called out by the Daily Wire’s Kassy Akiva for his similarly lame fact check posted at the Times’ live blog, “In the briefing, Hegseth referred to B-2 pilots as ‘our boys on those bombers,’ yet both men and women have been trained to fly them.”
The NYT is insufferable pic.twitter.com/L1fx9oKBWA
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) June 22, 2025
A post by Chief Nerd on the day Hegseth was sworn in as SecDef almost six months ago shows that he is in the habit of collectively referring to all members of the military as “our boys”:
“We don’t want to fight wars. We want to deter them, and we want to end them responsibly. But if we need to fight them, we’re going to bring overwhelming and decisive force to close with and destroy the enemy and bring our boys home.”
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“We don’t want to fight wars. We want to deter them, and we want to end them responsibly. But if we need to fight them, we’re going to bring overwhelming and decisive force to close with and destroy the enemy and bring our boys… pic.twitter.com/rmTI8dI4sJ
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 25, 2025
