{"id":895,"date":"2026-11-13T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2026-11-13T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:51:25","slug":"hegseth-awards-medal-soldier-chastised-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth awards medal to soldier who chastised him"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Pete Hegseth was publicly reprimanded by a sentinel for poor decorum at Arlington National Cemetery. The Secretary of Defense has since awarded that soldier a medal.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the sentinel called out Hegseth for his conduct at the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/11\/13\/nx-s1-6039845\/hegseth-awards-medal-to-soldier-who-chastised-him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR \u2014 Hegseth awards medal to soldier who chastised him<\/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, Arlington National Cemetery, military medals, Secretary of Defense, military decorum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth was publicly reprimanded by a sentinel for poor decorum at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/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":[600,716,1015,315,1016],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","category-politics","tag-arlington-national-cemetery","tag-military-decorum","tag-military-medals","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-secretary-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/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=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}