EAST CAMDEN — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised Arkansas’ munitions industry Friday during the final stop on his Arsenal of Freedom speaking tour at the L3Harris arms manufacturing campus.
Speaking before hundreds of L3Harris employees, Hegseth called the workers “patriots” and said the U.S. military “must unleash our warfighters with the lethal tools only you can build.”
“You are the proof that the promise of globalism is a lie,” Hegseth said. “Each day you prove that when this nation unleashes industry, when we at last unleash the raw, competitive and patriotic spirit, the United States of America always wins.”…