The award was presented by the 29th Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Pete Hegseth. Hegseth had recently heard of Brooks’ heroism from another Soldier and wanted to personally recognize him.

A flurry of military-focused executive orders from the White House on Monday meant newly-confirmed Defense Secretary Pete ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testify before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders that remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the ...

Some presidents will have a standing lunch with their Cabinet ... have a meeting at least once a week that involves their secretary of defense. There’s a lot going on in the world, and most ...

Fort Bliss officials confirmed that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was visiting the Borderland on Monday. His visit includes stops along the border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, where ...

A string of sit-down meetings with Republican senators helped stabilize Hegseth’s standing. Trump continued to back him ... But in 1989, the Senate rejected President George H.W. Bush’s defense ...

Some presidents will have a standing lunch with their Cabinet ... have a meeting at least once a week that involves their secretary of defense. There’s a lot going on in the world, and most ...

The security detail for former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, which was provided by the Defense Department, was revoked Tuesday night, a U.S. official and a Defense Department official told CBS ...

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has become the latest ex-official from President Trump’s first term to lose their security detail, according to a report. The Pentagon revoked Esper’s ...

Some presidents will have a standing lunch with their Cabinet ... have a meeting at least once a week that involves their secretary of defense. There’s a lot going on in the world, and most ...