A soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier issued a verbal reprimand to a group of advisers and staffers with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
Video shows Hegseth taking photos on the empty steps in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser Tami Radabaugh.
As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier guarding the tomb shouted that “all visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”
Anyone thinking that a single individual in this administration gives the slightest fuck about our military personnel has had their entire head firmly up their own asshole for a long, long time.
I have personally never witnessed an administration disrespect our military this frequently.
To do this on Veteran’s Day of all days. What absolute fucking buffoons.
The guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier are well known for this. There’s videos of them yelling at people all over YouTube if anyone wanted to see.
Their entire job is to maintain the peaceful and respectful atmosphere in the cemetery, no matter who it may be disrupting that.
The real story here is that the Secretary of the god-damned Military and his entourage don’t know that and had to be reminded to mind their manners at arguably the most important US military memorial in the world. That the headline is putting the focus not on the transgression, but on the soldier who called it out is disingenuous.
You don’t even need to “know” anything, just have the common sense of being respectful at a memorial tomb
Arlington National Cemetery is striking and solemn on its own. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is deeply moving. I’ve been twice. Even the first as a 13 year; old you can just feel how you should be behaving. Making noise and acting a damn fool is obviously not welcome.
The real story here is that the Secretary of the god-gamned Military and his entourage don’t know that and had to be reminded to mind their manners at arguably the most important US military memorial in the world.
On Veteran’s Day, no less.
I think they knew and didn’t care.
Good man.
Kegsbreath will probably try to have him court martialed.
Eta: I stand corrected
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/politics/hegseth-awards-medal-soldier-reprimanded-him
The hero that the unknown soldier deserves
I also sort of expect this. But that would be a PR nightmare. Which is why it will likely happen…
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The official response is a weak-ass statement praising the sentinel but absolutely avoiding any mention of why the guy had to speak at all.
Yeah I was thinking they need to get him a medal before he gets shitcanned.
DUI hire Pete doing as DUI hire Pete does.
Obama, Hillary, Pete, Bernie … any of those guys did this and Fox News would put this on the news cycle for a long time back in the day …
This will be forgotten in another day or so.
they got scolded or do you mean just visited?
And especially so on Armistice Day.
Lazy antagonist writing. As in, he is so cartoonishly evil it feels he was written by a stressed out lazy writer.
What happens next would be a test of the armed forces leadership. If the guard stays, it means at least one person in the chain of command have a spine. Otherwise the entire US armed forces leadership have become spineless.
Surprised Hegseth wasn’t sloshed with a bottle of cheap liquor on top of the grave tbh
Jeez, even the people left on Xitter are excoriating him (Nitter link). Also, is that a woodland camo tie, flag belt buckle, and a god-damn zip-up fleece under his suit jacket? I’m no fashion maven, but WTAF?
Based and respect the actual people that literally fought for people’s freedoms pilled.
