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Hegseth never went above being a Major or field officer. His place in the military machine was focusing on a small specific spot in operations.
To over simplify things, Hegseth was in charge of making French fries at a store, but later was really good at kissing ass while exaggerating how smart he is. Now he's the CEO and has no idea what the fuck he's even saying. Extra level of fuckery is he has fired anyone who has questioned his leadership or has unfortunately been born anything but white and male. Also I imagine ugly people aren't getting promoted either.
Also just to add on. The US military has what I believe is an invite only "war college" that Whiskey tango never attended. All top officers and administrators from around the world have taken classes from it... except Hegseth.
https://nwc.ndu.edu/
Oh, interesting, I thought this was going to be about the one in Carlisle, PA.
https://www.armywarcollege.edu/
My brother was commissioned through there and Dickinson. We don't talk these days but before that I occasionally joked he had taken the "back door Westpoint" path. Last I knew he was assigned to the Pentagon which likely tanked his career.
Not really relevant but my family on my father's side (he was a veteran along with my grand father) has a confirmed millennium long military service heritage where closer to me, some of my ancestors were German mercenaries while another branch of my family were with General Washington at the battle of Trenton. That must been really awkward later. Maybe not as bad as when another generation later my ancestors murdered the fuck out of each other during the civil war, extra awkward is that we have our own graveyard where they're all buried together.