At least 10 articles about the Navajo code talkers, enlisted by the Marine Corps to help with operations in World War II, have been removed from Department of Defense websites over President Donald Trump’s executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Axios reported Monday.

The broken URLs are now labeled “DEI,” according to the report.

“As Secretary [Pete] Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department,” Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot told Axios in a statement.

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