The bureaucratic behemoth awaiting Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon

Published November 17, 2024 7:00am ET



Pete Hegseth may have been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to weed the woke out of the Department of Defense, but he has a far bigger bureaucratic task on his hands than just scrubbing the Pentagon of DEI.

Hegseth, a Princeton and Harvard graduate, served for about two decades in the U.S. Army Reserve and the National Guard in New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia from May 2001 to March 2021. He deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and then Afghanistan in that order, according to a spokesperson with the National Guard Bureau.

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