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Pete Hegseth served as a commissioned infantry officer in the Army National Guard and deployed to Afghanistan; military evaluations and reporting characterize him as a junior infantry officer with “ba...
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...
Contemporary reporting and institutional biographies consistently identify Pete Hegseth as having reached the rank of major in the Army National Guard (Britannica; UANI; The Atlantic) . Official Defen...
Available reporting shows Pete Hegseth served in the Army National Guard and later became a civilian senior official; contemporary sources do not report that he was administratively discharged from th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Public, detailed personnel files for former or current service members are not freely posted online; reporters and researchers typically rely on official Pentagon bios, media reporting, FOIA/Privacy A...
Pete Hegseth reached the rank of major in the Army National Guard and was placed in the Individual Ready Reserve after that promotion; multiple profiles say he was promoted to major around 2014–2015 (...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard and was deployed three times: to Guantánamo Bay (2004–2005), to Iraq with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division as an infantry ...
Public records and reporting list multiple awards and combat qualifications for Pete Hegseth from his Army National Guard service — most consistently cited are two Bronze Star Medals and both the Comb...