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Pete Hegseth: “I did ROTC at Princeton. There were three of us in the…”

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Yeah, but you'd been out of the. Out of Princeton for a while. Did you go to Harvard later, after your time in the military? I did. I did undergraduate. I did ROTC at Princeton. There were three of us in the Mighty Tiger Battalion. And then I took about. I think it was, let's see, 03. Yeah, basically eight or nine years. I deployed. I was in Gitmo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. (05:38–05:43)

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Asserts that there were only three ROTC members in his Princeton battalion.

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