Pete Hegseth Height, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some of the Lesser Known Facts About Pete Hegseth

• During his undergraduate days at Princeton University, he participated in conservative and Republican politics.

• In 2004, he joined the New Jersey National Guard as an infantry platoon leader (Joint Task Force-Guantanamo) in Cuba and worked until 2005.

• In 2004, he joined Bear Stearns Companies as an equity capital markets analyst and worked until 2006.

• In 2005, he joined the 101st Airborne Division in the U.S. Army in Iraq as an infantry platoon leader and civil-military operations officer and served until 2006.
  

  A still of Pete Hegseth during his duty in Iraq

• In 2007, he worked as a policy specialist at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

• In May 2007, he joined Vets for Freedom as an executive director and worked until June 2012.

• In 2008, he joined National Review as a contributor (NRO) and worked until 2016.

• In June 2011, he joined the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) in Kabul, Afghanistan as a senior counterinsurgency instructor and worked until March 2012.

• In 2011, he joined the Center of the American Experiment as a senior fellow and worked until 2015.

• In July 2012, he joined Concerned Veterans for America as a CEO and worked until December 2015.

• In 2012, he was nominated for the U.S. Senate seat from the Republican party.

• Thereafter, he appeared on various news channels as a TV presenter such as CNN and MSNBC.

• In August 2013, he joined The Blaze as a real news contributor in New York and worked until February 2013.

• In 2014, he joined Fox News as a contributor.

• On 14 June 2015, while filming a live TV segment in honour of Flag Day, he accidentally threw an axe at a West Point drummer. In 2018, the drummer filed a lawsuit against Pete and reported that his mind and body suffered severe injuries after the accident.
• In 2016, he stated in an interview that Israel was God’s chosen people.

• By 2016, he was promoted to the rank of major and was posted to the Army Individual Ready Reserve.

• Prior to the selection of David Shulkin in 2017, he was supposed to lead the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in the first administration of Donald Trump.

• In 2017, he started hosting the chat show Fox & Friends, which aired on Fox News.
  

  A still of Pete Hegseth from the chat show Fox & Friends Weekend (2023)

• In December 2018, he appeared as a co-host on the TV show All American New Year, which aired on Fox News.

• He appeared on the TV show Unfiltered with Dan Bongino (2021-2023) as a guest, which aired on Fox News.

• In 2016, he became a strong supporter and advisor of Donald Trump.
  

  Pete Hegseth with Donald Trump

• Before supporting Donald Trump, he backed Marco Rubio and later Ted Cruz during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries.

• In 2018, he started working as a public speaker at Premiere Speakers Bureau in Nashville, Tennessee.

• In August 2019, he stated that the nation’s youth were concerned about climate change.

• Thereafter, he criticized the universities for not teaching about Islamic extremism which he described as a “real threat.”

• In February 2020, he stated that the Democrats wanted the coronavirus to spread. In March, he stated that the Omicron variant was made up by Democrats to help them win the 2022 midterm elections.

• In 2020, he was part of one of the up-to-25,000 National Guard troops run by the Pentagon. Later, he was removed from the mission to protect the inauguration of President Joe Biden as he was found linked to right-wing militia groups and posted extremist views online. Thereafter, Hegseth claimed that he was removed from the mission for having a Jerusalem Cross tattoo.

• In 2020, he wrote in his book American Crusade regarding Islam where he expressed his concern about Islam being a threat to Western values.

• In 2020, he expressed strong support for Trump’s decision to kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. He also wanted to bomb the Iranian homeland and cultural sites to see if they were storing weapons.

• In 2021, after the United States Capitol attack, Pete defended the attackers by claiming them to be patriots. He also defended Jacob Chansley, who was a part of the attackers.

• In June 2022,  during a segment of the chat show Fox & Friends Weekend Pete crossed out Harvard on his diploma by writing in “Critical Theory” and then writing “RETURN TO SENDER” as a protest statement against Harvard University.

• Some of the books that he has written are American Crusade (2020), Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation (2022), and The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free (2024).
  

  Pete Hegseth holding his book American Crusade (2020)

• He knows horse riding.
  

  Pete Hegseth riding a horse with his family

• In November 2024, he was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as the Secretary of Defense.

• In November 2024, he quit his FOX News TV presenter job to become the Secretary of Defense.

• As of 2024, he is a part of the Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a church in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches outside Nashville, Tennessee.

• In 2024, he made a few controversial statements regarding the U.S. military condition. He stated that he wanted to fire General Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He criticized the U.S. military slogan ” our diversity is our strength” by calling it the dumbest phrase on planet Earth. He was also against the transgender troops in the military.