Well, a couple of weeks later, I get a call and he said, you've been denied. And in the writing of the book, I realized it's The Cuomo administration and their adjutant general at the top basically said, Pete Hegseth will not be in the New York National Guard. So I said, okay, well, I can't serve where I want to serve. So I guess I'll go down to Washington D.C. where I knew someone who there was a unit that would take me. (03:13–03:20)
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