President-elect Trump on Tuesday announced he was choosing Pete Hegseth, an Army veteran and a Fox News host, to serve as Defense secretary. Hegseth served as an infantry captain in the Army National Guard and did tours in Afghanistan and Iraq,

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army veteran, to serve as his secretary of defense.

President-elect continues his trend of placing loyalists in key positions by naming Pete Hegseth as his choice for secretary of defense and a hawkish former House lawmaker to lead the CIA.