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Pete Hegseth's receipt of combat-related awards, including Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Infantryman Badge, during his deployments with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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 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 reporting and official biographical materials repeatedly state that Pete Hegseth was awarded two Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge (CIB), but the documents provided in the r...
Officially released service records and multiple public profiles show that Pete Hegseth deployed with the Army National Guard to Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan and received combat-related awards...
Pete Hegseth deployed with the Army National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan and has been awarded a Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge, honors that indicate service in a combat zone and exposu...
Pete Hegseth served as an officer in the U.S. Army National Guard (including service with the Minnesota and New Jersey Army National Guard units), rising to the rank of major and deploying repeatedly ...
Official, public-facing military biographies and congressional materials supplied in the reporting — notably a Defense Department biography hosted on war.gov and a congressional witness bio available ...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard with deployments to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, attaching to specific formations including a New Jersey Army Nation...
Pete Hegseth’s public and official biographies list multiple combat-related decorations—including two Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Infantryman Badge—earned during his deployments with the Army Na...