Posted on 11/26/2024 9:13:57 AM PST by timza
I have searched using my limited ability to find the military education of Pete Hegseth. I cannot find anything except he attended Basic Training at Fort Benning, GA. That is very poor reporting. Officers do not attend Basic Training, they attend the Infantry Officers Basic Course. But I digress. What advanced military schooling has he attended? His actual military experience is quite limited. So I am curious of his capability. I like the guy, but I am curious as to how he would respond to the following questions asked off the cuff.
What is CMOC and how is it composed?
What are and explain the three levels of warfare.
What is the difference between mobile and area defense?
What are and explain the US principles of war. How are they applied?
What are the major training commands of each of the military services.
Distinguish between combined operations, joint operations, combined arms operations, and special operations.
What is a Joint Event Life Cycle?
The U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) comprises at least twenty-six agencies, each with specific roles and responsibilities. How does each agency report to the Secretary of Defense? What is the Chain of Command for the numerous DOD agencies? How are their functions synchronized to support the overall DOD mission?
He seems to have come up thru Harvard? He’s written several books, one on the subject of restoring the defense dept to how it should be.
His number one qualification? Total loyalty to Trump.
In my opinion he isn’t qualified. I like him, he seems like a good guy. I think he’d do a good job as director of the VA, but not SecDef.
I’m hoping he follows the path of Matt Gaetz.
Picking fly Sh$t out of pepper? How many SoD’s do you think could of answered those question going into the job. Very few.
Hegseth went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts in politics at Princeton University in 2003.[6][7] While there, he wrote for The Princeton Tory magazine[8] and played basketball for the Tigers under coach John Thompson III.[9][10] Their team made the NCAA tournament in 2001.[11][12]
In 2013, he received a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[13]
Military career
Early career
After graduating from Princeton in 2003, Hegseth joined Bear Stearns as an equity capital markets analyst and was also commissioned as an infantry officer in the Minnesota National Guard.[14] In 2004, his unit was called to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, under the operational control of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, where he served as an infantry platoon leader and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Shortly after returning from Cuba, Hegseth volunteered to serve in Baghdad and Samarra, Iraq, where he served first as an infantry platoon leader and later as civil-military operations officer. During his time in Iraq, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, and a second Army Commendation Medal.[15][citation needed]
Return to active duty
Hegseth returned to active duty in 2012 as a captain.[16] He deployed to Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard and acted as a senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul.[citation needed] In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of major and left active duty to be assigned to the Army Individual Ready Reserve.[17][18]
National guard service
In 2019, Hegseth rejoined the National Guard after five years in the Individual Ready Reserve.[18]
Biden inauguration controversy
Hegseth was one of 12 troops who were removed from the group of National Guardsmen providing security for the inauguration of Joe Biden after he was discovered to have a tattoo that has been associated with some white supremacist and nationalist groups.[19][20][21]
In 2020, he volunteered to be one of the up-to-25,000 Guard troops authorized by the Pentagon to be put on active duty to help safeguard the January 20, 2021, inauguration. On January 14, 2021, a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team sent an email to the unit’s leadership notifying them of a tattoo on Hegseth’s bicep reading “Deus Vult”, a phrase the security manager determined was associated with the Crusades and, in the 21st century, with white supremacists who use it to invoke the idea of a white Christian medieval past.[19] Shortly thereafter, Hegseth was told to stay home from the event.[19]
Hegseth has said that his National Guard superiors removed him because of his Jerusalem cross tattoo,[20] which they determined was connected to extremism but which he said is simply a Christian symbol.[22] He wrote in his book that this caused him to resign in disgust, and his last day in uniform was March 31, 2021.[18]
In January 2024, he officially separated from the National Guard’s Individual Ready Reserve, he said in his book.[23]
Princeton, then Master of Public Policy @ Harvard.
HENRY KNOX
Source: Founder of the Day"By age 20, Knox had opened his own bookstore in Boston. His establishment was frequented by British soldiers as well the local elite. His reading and conversation often turned to military tactics and history."
When Henry Knox joined the rebels outside Boston, General Artemus Ward ordered him to instruct the artillery units during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
When George Washington arrived he quickly developed a friendship with Knox that would last a lifetime. Washington put Knox in charge of artillery for the entire Continental Army.
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service 2003–2014, 2019–2021
Rank Major
Unit Minnesota Army National Guard
Battles/wars
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
Awards
Bronze Star Medal
Army Commendation Medal (2)
Combat Infantryman Badge
Please expand on your opinion why he is not qualified.
Not me. I want him to succeed. I want him to be the best SecDef we’ve ever had. I want our military brought back to high standards and prepared.
I don’t think he’s qualified either and his personal life is a trainwreck. His confirmation hearing is going to be Kavanaugh 2.0.
More importantly how in the hello is a lightweight like Hegseth going to clean out the Pentagon? They’ll eat him alive.
I hope Chris Miller is on deck.
“I’m hoping he follows the path of Matt Gaetz.”
Why is that exactly?
RE: In my opinion he isn’t qualified.
OK, how were guys like Donald Rumsfeld and Ash Carter qualified to be Secretaries of Defense compared to Pete Hegseth?
There’s not a chance in hell he would pull out of Afghanistan and leave a few billion dollars worth of weapons for China to reverse engineer.
Democrats woudl like him better if he put on a dress and demanded unqualified people be put in positions of authority based on skin color and sexual kink...
Liberals have brought us to the brink of World War III and they think WE should be like them? Are they nuts?
Given his problems with women, how can our allies and adversaries trust anything he says?
The marital infidelity is a trainwreck, and his experience seems light for being faced with taking such a huge undertaking as the Defense Dept.
So you’re saying he’s better than previous disasters. Is that good enough?
Some are understandably suggesting that Hegseth may be under qualified, and I admit to having mixed feelings, but Trump seems to be taking a very different tack during his second administration, he is putting loyalty at a higher premium than almost anything else. It will be interesting to see how this works out…I’m betting it goes better than last time.
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