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American military officer and government official (born 1980)
Coverage in the supplied documents shows multiple members of Congress publicly demanding resignations in 2025—primarily of Trump administration officials rather than President Trump himself—and at lea...
Pete Hegseth received two Bronze Star medals: one for his 2005–2006 Iraq deployment and a second for his 2012 Afghanistan tour . Multiple contemporary reports and document archives indicate his medals...
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...
The dataset presents conflicting and incomplete claims about which Fox News broadcast prompted Coco Gauff’s lawsuit: the most specific and dated claim points to an on-air attack by guest Karoline Leav...
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...
Public reporting documents repeated allegations and videos suggesting Pete Hegseth drank while working at Fox News and that senators questioned him about “heavy drinking” during his 14 January 2025 co...
Pete Hegseth has multiple tattoos that use Crusader-era imagery — notably a Jerusalem cross constellation on his chest and the phrase “Deus Vult” alongside a sword on his arm — symbols journalists and...
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 has been the subject of multiple public controversies since his rise from Fox commentator to Pentagon official, including a high-profile “Signalgate” leak of private chat messages, allega...
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’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’s military record, as reported by multiple public sources, lists two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Infantryman Badge and Expert Infantryman Badge, two Army Commendation Medals, and at le...
Across multiple episodes from 2017 through 2025, reporting and legal filings allege President Donald J. Trump disclosed sensitive national-security information: most prominently a May 2017 disclosure ...
Pete Hegseth’s departure from the D.C. National Guard is portrayed in the provided material primarily as a , and an attendant restriction from participating in Biden inaugural events . Other pieces in...
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...
Available reporting disputes the claim that Pete Hegseth was kicked out of the military for having white‑supremacist tattoos. Fact‑checking outlets (Snopes) say Hegseth’s tattoos “did not have any dir...
Allegations that Pete Hegseth ordered unlawful follow‑up strikes that killed survivors of an interdicted vessel have prompted calls from former military lawyers, members of Congress, and commentators ...