Pete Hegseth is the author of the highly-acclaimed new book—IN THE ARENA—as well as a FOX NEWS CHANNEL contributor, appearing regularly as a correspondent and guest co-host for the network's morning show, FOX & FRIENDS. He also appears frequently on THE KELLY FILE, OUTNUMBERED, AMERICA'S NEWSROOM, and HAPPENING NOW. Pete is also a frequent contributor on FoxNews.com and National Review Online. Pete is an Army veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was also a guard at Guantanamo Bay. He holds two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman’s Badge for his time in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2012, Captain Hegseth deployed to Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard where he was the senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul. Before that, First Lieutenant Hegseth deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division for their 2005-2006 tour, serving as an Infantry Platoon Leader in Baghdad in 2005, and as a Civil-Military Operations officer in Samarra in 2006. A year before that, Second Lieutenant Hegseth served in Guantanamo Bay (JTF-GTMO) with his New Jersey Army National Guard unit from 2004-2005. Pete was recently promoted to the rank of Major, and is currently in the Individual Ready Reserve. Pete graduated from Princeton University in 2003 with an undergraduate degree in Politics. While at Princeton, Pete was also a member of the varsity basketball team, an Army ROTC cadet, and the publisher of the campus conservative publication—The Princeton Tory. A decade later, Pete completed a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, graduating in 2013. Pete and his wife Samantha live in Minnesota and have three young sons—Gunner, Boone, and Rex. They attend Eagle Brook Church and proudly send their kids to Liberty Classical Academy.