Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is operating under the heaviest personal security detail in modern Pentagon history, a reflection of the heightened threats against him and his family as the U.S. military braces for the possibility of global conflict.
“I’ve never seen this many security teams for one guy,” an unnamed official told The Washington Post. “Nobody has.”
Army Criminal Investigation Division agents, normally assigned to probe serious crimes such as fraud and assaults within the service, have been diverted in large numbers to provide round-the-clock protection for Hegseth, his wife Jennifer, and their children at residences in Washington, Minnesota, and Tennessee.
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