{"id":795,"date":"2026-11-12T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2026-11-12T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:26:39","slug":"hegseth-awards-medal-soldier-reprimanded-his-party-arlington-s-scared-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded his party at Arlington&#x27;s scared tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><!-- AVision: picture 1 left out \u2014 the site answered HTTP 500 to POST \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media with no explanation \u2014 the SERVER failed on the request: a PHP fa --><\/figure>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented Specialist Thomas Iglesias with the Joint Service Commendation Medal. The honor came after Iglesias reprimanded a group that included Hegseth for how they were behaving at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, located in Arlington National Cemetery, during Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/hegseth-awards-medal-to-soldier-who-reprimanded-his-party-at-arlingtons-scared-tomb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News \u2014 Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded his party at Arlington&#x27;s scared tomb<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-11-12\/hegseth-awards-soldier-who-scolded-him-his-aides-at-tomb-of-unknown-soldier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latimes.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hegseth-medal-reprimand-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/6216510-hegseth-awards-sentinel-medal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thehill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pete Hegseth, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, Veterans Day, Thomas Iglesias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented Specialist Thomas Iglesias with the Joint Service Commendation Medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[600,315,875,714,601],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","category-politics","tag-arlington-national-cemetery","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-thomas-iglesias","tag-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}