Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth on Israel-US bond

Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth on Israel-US unbreakable bond.
Hegseth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Brian, a basketball coach, and Penny Hegseth. He was raised in nearby Forest Lake and is of Norwegian descent on both sides of the family. He attended Forest Lake Area High School, where he played football and basketball, graduating in 1999 as valedictorian of his class.
Hegseth went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts in politics at Princeton University in 2003.
In 2013, he received a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Following graduation 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. In 2004 his unit was called to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, where he served as an infantry platoon leader with the Minnesota Army National Guard.
Shortly after returning from Cuba, Hegseth volunteered to serve in Baghdad and Samarra, where he held the position of infantry platoon leader and, later in Samarra, 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.
He returned to active duty in 2012 as a captain. He deployed to Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard and acted as a senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul.
By 2015 or 2016, Hegseth had been promoted to the rank of major, and was assigned to the Army Individual Ready Reserve.
In 2012, Hegseth formed the political action committee MN PAC.
Hegseth was the executive director for Concerned Veterans for America, an advocacy group.
Hegseth joined Fox News as a contributor in 2014.