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Pete Hegseth’s basic service in the Army National Guard and his status as a commissioned infantry officer are corroborated by an official Department of Defense biography and by reference works such as...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard after graduating Princeton in 2003 and served in multiple deployments; reporting and official biographies indicate he ro...
Multiple contemporary biographical and news sources consistently report that Pete Hegseth earned two Bronze Star Medals, two Army Commendation Medals, the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Expert Infan...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer via Princeton’s ROTC in 2003 and served in the Army National Guard with active-duty deployments to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan; he rose to...
Judy Byington’s “Restored Republic” updates, published on American Media Group (AMG) and republished widely, repeatedly claim mass arrests, military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), lists of high‑...
Pete Hegseth’s service record in the post-9/11 wars shows three overseas deployments: security duties at Guantánamo Bay, infantry leadership in Iraq (platoon leader and later civil‑military operations...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard and reached the rank of major; during his Iraq tour he served as an infantry platoon leader with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airbo...
Pete Hegseth served in the U.S. Army National Guard and rose to the rank of major; his public biographies and reference outlets record multiple deployments to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan and ...
Pete Hegseth served in the Army National Guard and deployed three times after 9/11: to Guantánamo Bay (Cuba), to Iraq (including Baghdad and Samarra with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne), and to Afgha...
Pete Hegseth’s public biographies and news coverage consistently list multiple combat and service awards: most sources name two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Expert/Expert I...
Pete Hegseth’s public biography and interviews present him as an Army National Guard infantry officer who served in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, rose to the rank of major, and received combat...
Under Obama, average daily ICE detention generally ran between about 30,000 and 40,000 people and his administration formally removed roughly 3 million non‑citizens over two terms . Later administrati...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard, deployed to Guantánamo Bay (2004–05), to Baghdad with the 3rd Brigade/101st Airborne (2005–06) as an infantry platoon leader...
The sources present two competing tallies: a cluster of 2024–2025 summaries that count and a different set that reports a much larger footprint of . Both portrayals are current to mid-2025 but rely on...
Pete Hegseth served three overseas deployments: a 2004–05 security platoon assignment at Guantánamo Bay, an infantry platoon leader tour in Baghdad in 2005 followed by civil‑military operations work i...
Pete Hegseth served in the U.S. Army National Guard from roughly 2002–2021 and was deployed three times: to Guantánamo Bay (security role), to Iraq as an infantry platoon leader and civil‑military ope...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard with three overseas deployments: to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan, performing a mix of security, infantry leadership, civi...
Pete Hegseth served in the U.S. Army National Guard from roughly 2002 to 2021 and was commissioned as an infantry officer; multiple profiles and official bios say he deployed to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq a...
The available analyses converge on a central point: the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) generally bars the Army and Air Force from executing domestic law, but . Sources disagree about extraterritorial appli...
Pete Hegseth deployed overseas multiple times during his Army National Guard service, with reporting across encyclopedic and military sources consistently identifying deployments to Guantánamo Bay, Ir...