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Some soldiers are already seeking to escape an event Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to put on full public display.

At least six service members plan to seek religious exemptions to stay off the firing squad that will execute Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, an execution Hegseth has promised to livestream, the head of a military religious liberty group told The Washington Sun for an article on Friday.

Hasan killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at the Texas base. An order signed Monday by Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle set his execution for December 3....

The Pentagon's billionaire second-in-command has sent a fortune in taxpayer money to a company that's tied to his old business.

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg's department has paid $300 million to Alvarez & Marsal, a corporate turnaround consultancy and longtime partner of Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm Feinberg co-founded and ran, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The payments, which come on top of work already done by government employees, were described in documents reviewed by The Journal and by people familiar with the matter. They are part of Feinberg's sweeping push to overhaul how the military builds and buys weapons....

The Pentagon revealed exactly how the public will be able to witness an upcoming military execution, and critics were horrified.

The Defense Department said in a statement on Thursday that the December 3 firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, will be livestreamed, The Washington Post reported.

The announcement came hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview with Jack Posobiec on Real America's Voice that he wanted people to be able to watch Hasan's death....

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken action to have Greenland declared part of the "U.S. homeland" to be defended by American forces, according to a report in Military Times.

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it was shifting responsibility for Greenland from U.S. European Command to U.S. Northern Command, with the Department of Defense framing "the revision as part of a broader review of its Unified Command Plan, which divides the world into separate military units and outlines the roles and responsibilities of U.S. combatant commands," Military Times reported.

The U.S.-run Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland "is one of the most strategically important military sites in the world," according to The New York Times....

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was accused Tuesday of throwing his former, hand-picked Pentagon colleagues "under the bus" in an attempt to shift blame over "Signalgate 2.0."

The New York Times reported Sunday that Hegseth used an unsecured Signal app to share highly sensitive information about a Houthi airstrike with is wife, brother, and lawyer. This was the second time Hegseth was pegged for using the phone app to transmit attack plans.

Hegseth appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, where he continued to blame the ousted officials for leaking information about his chats. ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knows he "failed" in his duties by using an unsecured Signal phone app to share attack plans with family members, according to former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis.

The New York Times reported Sunday of a "previously unreported existence of a second Signal chat in which Mr. Hegseth shared highly sensitive military information" regarding the March 15 attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

CNN's Boris Sanchez asked Admiral Stavridis, "Is there a legitimate reason that you could see why Secretary Hegseth would not only use his personal device for these communications, but also share these details with his loved ones and his attorney?"...