Hegseth Says Wounded Knee Soldiers Will Keep Their Medals of Honor
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening. Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 […]
Alabama Military Base Redesignation Ceremony Set for This Week After Hegseth Orders Renaming
Fort Rucker is making its name change official Thursday – its second in two years’ time. An installation redesignation ceremony is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the U.S. Army Aviation Museum at the newly-renamed Fort Rucker in Dale County. Only this time, the installation takes its name not from a Confederate figure but a World […]
Hegseth, Democrats Tangle over Troop Deployments to Los Angeles
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democratic lawmakers Tuesday over the Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of National Guardsmen and hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles against state and local officials’ wishes to respond to anti-immigration enforcement protests. Amid the back-and-forth between Hegseth and Democrats at a House Appropriations Committee defense subpanel hearing, the Pentagon’s […]
Hegseth Suggests LA-Style Troop Deployments Could Happen Anywhere in US 'if Necessary'
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested Wednesday that the Trump administration could send troops to any city in America over the objections of state and local officials, as it is doing now in Los Angeles. During a Senate Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, asked Hegseth about the fact that the order […]
Hegseth Won't Say He'd Follow Court Order on LA Troop Deployment
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to say Thursday whether he would follow a federal district court order if it rules that the Trump administration’s troop deployments to Los Angeles are illegal. “What I can say is that we should not have local judges determining foreign policy or national security policy for the country,” Hegseth said […]
Hegseth Orders End to Race Consideration in Admissions at Military Service Academies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for admissions, according to a memo released Friday. The move appears to not only effectively end affirmative action efforts at the three military service academies, which were spared from a Supreme Court ruling on race-based admissions two […]
Military's 4-Star Officers to Be Reduced by 20% or More Under New Order by Hegseth
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to cut the number of their highest-ranking officers — four-star generals and admirals — by at least 20%. In a memo released Monday, Hegseth argued that senior leaders should be “unencumbered by unnecessary bureaucratic layers that hinder their growth and effectiveness” and “a critical step in this […]
Hegseth Orders Army to Cut Costs by Merging Some Commands and Slashing Jobs
WASHINGTON — The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 headquarters staff in the Pentagon and shift personnel to units in the field, according to a new memo and U.S. officials familiar with the changes. In a memo released Thursday, […]
Hegseth Ban on Travel Forces Closures, Reduced Hours at Military Entrance Exam Sites
Locations set up across the country to give military entrance exams to potential recruits have been forced to close or reduce hours due to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth halting the use of government travel for civilians, according to a notice and email reviewed by Military.com. The Military Entrance Processing Command, which is part of the […]
Hegseth Scraps Fort Moore Name in Latest Move to Undo Congress' Base Renamings
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced that he is renaming Fort Moore — the name chosen to honor decorated Vietnam Army commander Hal Moore and his wife Julia — less than two years after the base was scrubbed of its previous name honoring a Confederate general. The Army will return the famed Georgia base […]