Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given a top award to the service member who scolded him at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given a top award to the service member who scolded him and his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

The defense secretary honored the Army sentinel who forcefully scolded members of his entourage for laughing and talking near Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day.

Pete Hegseth awarded Specialist Thomas Iglesias a medal after the sentinel corrected his group at Arlington. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is among the most revered military memorials in the US.

So Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, already widely disliked and transparently unqualified, was part of a group that spent Veterans Day being yelled at by a U.S. Army sentinel guarding the sacred Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.