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Pete Hegseth: “Today there are over 6,000 US special operations…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth's Address on Special Operations and National Defense at SOF Week in Tampa

Published | Video Starts at 24:33

That is mostly, especially on the leading edge, a product of sof. The level of cooperation between US SOF and our allies and partners is unprecedented in scale and invaluable from what we gain from it. Today there are over 6,000 US special operations professionals at work outside the US in over 80 countries. Representatives from 60 of those countries are with us here at SOF Week, and we welcome all of them. We also have international partners from 28 nations stationed right here at SOCOM. (24:33–24:41)

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Asserts the current deployment of US special operations forces globally.

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