Amid his flurry of first-week actions, President Donald Trump issued orders that were intended to strengthen the U.S. military by narrowing its focus to what was most important, being dedicated and lethal defenders of the U.S. and the American way.

On Monday, Trump took another major step in that direction when he summarily fired all of the members of the advisory Boards of Visitors for the nation's four major military service academies, Breitbart reported.

In announcing the firings, the president implied that too many of the board members were "woke leftist ideologues" whose subversive influence over the service academies had been detrimental to the military's once unquestioned greatness and superiority.

Firings announced on social media

"Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years," President Trump declared Monday morning in a Truth Social post. "I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard."

"We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards," he added. "We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!"

The Hill reported that the four military service academies are each overseen by a 15-member advisory board that is tasked with addressing issues like "the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters relating to the schools."

Those 15-member boards are comprised of six members appointed by the president, four by the House speaker, three by the vice president, and one each by the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. There is no word yet on who will be appointed to replace the fired board members.

The outlet noted that the boards are supposed to be nonpartisan but have been increasingly politicized over the years, especially when former President Joe Biden fired all or most of Trump's appointees from his first term as soon as he took office in 2021, despite many of those appointees being nowhere near the end of their three-year terms.

Defense secretary on board with Trump's orders

Breitbart further reported that President Trump's termination of the Boards of Visitors for the four military service academies was supported by Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth, who shared the announcement on his X account without any additional comment.

Hegseth had previously made it clear that he fully backed Trump's initial executive actions to strengthen the military, including one aimed at "Restoring America's Fighting Force" by ending "diversity, equity, and inclusion" policies and replacing "race-based and sex-based discrimination" in the Armed Forces with "meritocracy."

Trump also issued an order on "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness" that took aim at "radical gender ideology" in the service branches and demanded the establishment of "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity."

Hegseth already working to restore the military's "warrior ethos"

In fact, just one day before President Trump announced that he'd fired all of the board members overseeing the four military service academies, Sec. Hegseth revealed that he'd recently met with the leadership of those academies and set them straight on how things would be going forward, at least for the duration of the current administration.

"My message was simple: stick to leadership, standards, excellence, war fighting, and readiness. These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities," Hegseth wrote. "I was impressed by the changes already underway and look forward to visiting each institution."

"Social Justice and DEI are OUT; History, Engineering, and War Studies are IN," the secretary added. "We must restore the warrior ethos to the @deptofdefense -- and it starts with our future leaders."