Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to end more than a century of ties between the U.S. military and Scouting America because it isn’t macho enough, according to a report.

A draft memo to Congress, seen by NPR, shows Hegseth lashing out at the group formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America for becoming “genderless,” promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and turning into an organization designed to “attack boy-friendly spaces.”

Hegseth’s memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees will also argue that the Scouts—who began allowing girls to join in 2018—have strayed from their original mission to “cultivate masculine values.”

As part of the crackdown on Scouting America, the Pentagon is preparing to announce it will no longer support the National Jamboree,

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