Monday Afternoon, December 29, 2025

MRFF PROMINENTLY FEATURED IN

MILITARY.COM “YEAR IN REWIND” ARTICLE —

FROM THE FIRING OF SENIOR OFFICERS TO

PENTAGON CHRISTIAN WORSHIP SERVICES

“There is no existence of unit cohesion, you know, good order, morale, discipline. ... They don't exist. And if you don't have that, you don't have lethality. And if you don't have lethality, you don't have an armed forces that's worth a s***. That's where we are.”

“But we're going to chronicle and expose it, and we're going to make sure we preserve it. … If we get back away from this madness,

we can come back against those that perpetrated it

under our U.S. Constitution and get justice.”

— MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein,

quoted by Military.com

Hegseth and Trump at Sept. 30 gathering of 800 generals and admirals at Quantico.

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Year In Rewind: Military Veterans Get Candid on Trump, Pentagon & Foreign Policy

By: Nick Mordowanec

Monday, December 29, 2025

Military.com devotes a significant section of this year-end article to MRFF’s navigation of the unprecedented “Trump 2.0” push to Christianize our military. The section, with the heading “Input from 100,000 Service Members,” a nod to MRFF’s reaching the milestone of 100,000 clients earlier this year, notes that the number of new MRFF clients tripled in 2025 compared to previous years.

Asked about the Hegseth Pentagon’s purging of mostly black and/or female high-ranking officers, including the firing of the TJAGs (the Air Force’s top lawyers), MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein told Military.com (emphasis added):

“Most of them did not fit the mold that Hegseth and Trump want, which is a straight, white, fundamentalist, Christian nationalist male. … Firing the top TJAGs was a shock,” Weinstein said, adding that his level of concern of the U.S. military previously was “at about 8.2 or 8.3” on a 10-point scale but now resides “around 16.”

Also covered are Hegseth’s duty day Christian worship services at the Pentagon (emphasis added):

“This [Hegseth] is the Secretary of Defense, who fancies himself the Secretary of War, conducting these praise services in uniform during duty hours in the largest auditorium in the Pentagon,” Weinstein said. “This sent shockwaves through the military. Most of our clients are Christians looking at us going, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

The article ends with Mikey telling Military.com that an increase in threats against himself and MRFF is not going to stop MRFF from chronicling and exposing the madness of Hegseth’s tenure as Secretary of Defense (emphasis added):

“Our windows have been shot out and we’ve had animals sacrificed in front of our house, and swastikas painted on our house,” he said. “Recently, we had our mailbox smeared with feces. We get threats by telephone every day. That's just regular for us. 

“It’s amped up because of the things that are going on. But we’re going to chronicle and expose it, and we’re going to make sure we preserve it. … If we get back away from this madness, we can come back against those that perpetrated it under our U.S. Constitution and get justice.”

Military.com Deputy Editor Nick Mordowanec was previously a national news and investigative reporter for Newsweek, focusing on U.S. and international politics, immigration, crime, social issues and features over a four-year period. Other coverage has included education, economics, military/defense, and wars in Ukraine and Gaza. His reporting on the opioid epidemic garnered a statewide Michigan Press Association award.

One of the many acts of vandalism on Mikey Weinstein’s home mentioned in the above Military.com article

Mikey Weinstein on the repulsive, repugnant, and completely unconstitutional proselytizing Christmas messages from Trump’s cabinet secretaries

MRFF RECOMMENDED READING

THE HILL

Trump, allies lean into religious

messaging on Christmas

By: Sudiksha Kochi

Friday, December 26, 2025

The Hill runs through the flurry of repulsive, repugnant, and completely unconstitutional cabinet-level proselytizing Christmas messages, including the Department of Homeland Security’s “Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior” and Pete Hegseth’s “Merry Christmas to all. Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

MRFF’s 2025 coverage of SECDEF Pete Hegseth’s Christian nationalist, misogynistic, and racist crusade for an all white, all male, all Christian military

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