Hung Cao, a former Virginia Republican Senate candidate, was nominated by President Donald Trump on Thursday as under secretary of the U.S. Navy. Cao, who Trump described as the “embodiment of the American Dream,” will have to be approved by the Senate to assume the role, New York Post reported Friday.

The former congressional candidate has called for a military of alpha males and females willing “to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.”