Hegseth's Message to Military Families Military service is inherently dangerous. I knew that when I married a soldier 22 years ago. With 17 of those years spent with him on active duty ...

"They won't stop with Pete. It's not him they're after. It's your values. We won't back down," Rauchet Hegseth wrote on Instagram. Hegseth married his first wife, Meredith Schwarz, in 2004.