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President Trump has made it known that he supports the troops. To that end, Breitbart News<\/a> reported last week that Trump met with a class of Green Beret candidates and brought them inside the Oval Office for the first time in the course’s history.<\/p>\n

When the 18 Army officers were scheduled to visit the National Security Council in February to hear an address from Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, an audible was made and they team was invited to the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House.<\/p>\n

But the tour didn’t stop there, to the team’s great surprise, Trump invited them into the Oval Office to take pictures with the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalfway through the discussion, [Trump] said, \u2018Hey \u2014 we\u2019re not supposed to do this, but follow me,\u2019 and he brought them all into the Oval Office, took a group photograph around the Resolute desk, and then \u2014 throwing the schedules into a bit of a tizzy, said, \u2018OK that\u2019s not good enough,’\u201d Gorka told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Everybody stand in the corner.\u2019 They all stood in the corner, and one-by-one we took photographs they can take home to their family with each future Green Beret next to the president at the Oval Office desk,\u201d Gorka said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how much he loves our soldiers \u2014 our warriors,\u201d he said.\u00a0Under Obama, he continued, they \u201cwouldn\u2019t have even gotten into the West Wing.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the looks of things, Trump is setting himself up as the most military friendly President in history. And, when I say that, I’m including Grant and Eisenhower.<\/p>\n

Trump taking the\u00a0time to\u00a0meet and greet a gaggle of Special Forces candidates shows a deep appreciation for the military. It is a far cry from the contempt of the Obama years or the outright hostility on tap last time a Clinton ran the White House (Enjoying retirement?).<\/p>\n

Trump is proving to be a man of his word and I can\u2019t wait to see him rebuild the military after the cluster of the last eight years. It feels like we spent more time worrying about transgender troops than we did killing ISIS. News stories like this one reaffirm my belief that the military helm is in good hands.<\/p>\n

About the author: <\/strong>Clay Martin\u00a0served in two branches of service, the <\/em>USMC and the Army. In Mother Corps, he was in the infantry, a Scout\/ Sniper, and a Recon Marine.\u00a0In the Army, he was a Green Beret with the 3rd Special Forces Group.\u00a0He retired in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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