Pete Hegseth is fighting to get confirmed by Senate Republicans.
The establishment is getting weak knees over the smear campaign against him.
And a combat veteran had one message about Pete Hegseth that silenced the establishment.
Veterans who served with Pete Hegseth vouch for his character
The media has tried to assassinate the character of former Fox & Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to be his Secretary of Defense.
Hegseth earned two Bronze Stars when he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as an officer in the Army National Guard.
Some of the men who served with him are coming to his defense as he faces relentless attacks on his character in the media.
Sergeant Major Eric Geressy met Hegseth when the military was trying to put down the insurgency in Iraq in 2005.
Hegseth volunteered to deploy to Iraq with an infantry unit.
“I had never heard of anybody — before or since then — volunteering to serve as an infantryman, especially as a platoon leader, going to Iraq in like 2005,” Geressy told the New York Post.
Hegseth left behind a career in finance after graduating from Princeton to serve his country.
“I was rough on him,” Geressy said. “He was very good. He took everybody’s input immediately . . . very eager to learn, listen, open-minded and a very critical thinker.”
Geressy revealed that Hegseth didn’t hesitate to put himself in harm’s way in Iraq.
Hegseth would go on to win a Bronze Star, a Combat Infantryman Badge, and an Army Commendation Medal for his service in Iraq.
Pete Hegseth is the right man to lead the Pentagon
Geressy admitted that he was surprised when Trump nominated Hegseth to be Defense Secretary but said that it was a “great selection.”
“He breathes the military. That’s all he talks about,” Geressy explained. “Pete’s extremely smart. He’s very articulate, he’s a critical thinker, and he’s going to learn from the experts and get a lot of good information from folks.”
“100% he’s going to get confirmed,” Geressy predicted.
Army Colonel Chip Rankin served with Hegseth in 2011 during a deployment to Afghanistan.
He said that Hegseth was a “lifelong learner” who was well prepared for any job that he was given.
Rankin recalled when the Defense Secretary nominee volunteered for a dangerous mission in the countryside of Afghanistan after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated.
“He was going through a vehicle that got blown up, and there were dead people, people that were fighting through our lives. And Pete went right into that situation, and performed admirably in a very, very challenging situation,” Rankin recalled. “He could have been killed, and he never hesitated.”
Geressy dismissed the reports coming from the media about Hegseth’s character.
“I’ve known this guy since 2005,” Geressy stated. “That’s not the guy that we know. So I think it’s just stuff that’s being thrown out there.”
Rankin thought that reports based on anonymous sources that Hegseth had a drinking problem were baseless mud-slinging.
“In my experience, Pete’s never been overly intoxicated,” Rankin stated. “I think for certain people that are scared, because that might represent some kind of change in policy or change in viewpoint, maybe people are fearful of that, and so then they sometimes throw mud.”
Pete Hegseth has the support of the men who served with him against the media’s smear campaign.
