In a statement to The Independent, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell defended the department's respect for service members and acknowledged the guard's intervention.

“The Secretary and the entire Department have always honored — and will always honor — the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep America safe,” Parnell said. “While commemorating this solemn day, a soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum.”

The monument, which marks the final resting place of an unidentified World War I service member, is one of the most sacred war memorials in the U.S. and has been guarded continuously by the 3rd Infantry Regiment since 1948.

It remains unclear if those involved will face repercussions.

The cemetery incident comes during a tumultuous week for the defense secretary, who narrowly escaped an impeachment vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night.

The articles of impeachment, introduced by outgoing GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, accused Hegseth of executing unlawful orders — including waging war in Iran without congressional authorization, ignoring civilian casualty laws and directing extrajudicial killings. Hegseth dismissed the charges at a Tuesday press conference as a "policy dispute," while Trump vowed to continue supporting him.

The effort to advance articles of impeachment over unapproved military actions in Iran and the Caribbean was defeated 211–204 after 11 House Democrats failed to cast their votes due to a Washington traffic jam.

The missed vote drew criticism from fellow Democrats and progressive commentators toward the absent members and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

"This is a major Hakeem Jeffries fail," wrote political commentator Krystal Ball on social media. "You could have impeached the war criminal Pete Hegseth, but Dems didn't show up to vote."

Progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan added, "Please pick a different Speaker, Dems. Please," while Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed criticized his colleagues on CNN, saying, "You should show up and do your job."

Several absent lawmakers defended their attendance record by citing severe gridlock near the Capitol complex. A spokesperson for Representative Melanie Stansbury said the congresswoman "was blocked from entering the Capitol to vote due to a traffic incident and a police escort of a bus during the vote."

Representative Marilyn Strickland’s chief of staff, Andrew Noh, said the lawmaker was "stuck behind a motorcade and missed the vote by 1 minute."

Despite the setback, Jeffries maintained that the push against Hegseth would continue.

“I haven't had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hegseth resolution, but this is not the end of it,” Jeffries said. “It's just the beginning.”

The incident follows a broader threat to Hegseth's position after Republicans suffered significant losses in the midterm elections. Trump had reportedly begun asking advisers whether Hegseth should remain in his cabinet as voters rejected the administration's military agenda, particularly the ongoing war in Iran.

"The reason we lost is the war," Vice President JD Vance posted on social media after the election.

In addition to opposition from Democrats, key Republicans have signaled that Hegseth's presence is stalling critical legislation. Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina called his confirmation vote "the biggest regret" of his career and warned that Hegseth faced "a reckoning," citing his role in blocking a $70 billion defense funding request.

Jesus farking Christ...

The vote yesterday wasn't to impeach Hegseth. It was to send the articles to committee for deliberation. He was either going to not get impeached that way or not get impeached in the full House. The result was him not getting impeached in the republican-controlled committee.

He didn't avoid impeachment yesterday. He was never going to be impeached by this Congress because it's still controlled by MAGA lunatics until January.

hopefully this guy drinks himself to death and chokes on his own vomit before january so we don't have to wait to be rid of him

>>1547796
>"The reason we lost is the war," Vice President JD Vance posted on social media after the election.

Vance is a traitor. His onoly job is to support the President and his policies. He has literally no other job unless the Senate ends in a tie vote.
Trump supports the war. Vance is a traitor.

>>1547811
Only fucking idiots support this war

>>1547813
Yes. Trump supports the war.

>>1547814
>Trump
>Idiot

He's a multi billionaire. Let's see your bank account.

>>1547816
Do you defend George Soros and Bill Gates with such fervor?

>>1547816
It's well known that if he had simply invested all the known money he received from his father in a general stock spread, even now after years of abusing his office for personal enrichment he still would have been wealthier than he is today.

If anything, it's embarrassing how little he'll sell his favor for, that he can't even be corrupt competently.

>>1547816
>He's a multi billionaire.
If you think dumb people can't be rich, especially if they inherit hundreds of millions of dollars, you are even dumber than they are.

>>1547819
Are "billionaires bad", or just Trump?

>>1547835
it's crazy how often you prove you can't read

>>1547836
This guy asked
>Do you defend George Soros and Bill Gates with such fervor?
As though no, he does not. Because those are left wing billionaires. I wonder if George Soros, Bill Gates and Donald Trump are all geniuses because of their networth. Or did that guy bring up Bill Gates and George Soros but still hates billionaires because he is a democrat

>>1547838
It's more funny how they blindly defend Elon Musk who openly tried to rig the midterms by spending half a billion dollars

>>1547844
https://abc7news.com/post/mark-zuckerberg-donation-election-facebook-priscilla-chan/7001578/
Mark Zuckerberg knew how to spend a dollar, he rigged the 2020 election for only 400 million

>>1547794
Just saying if a democratic SecDef had this happen to them, the conservatively biased media would be raising endless hell demanding they resign.
Instead they're sweeping it under the rug.

>>1547848
>trump was so hated for how badly he botched the trump vrius response that Zuckerberg was able to get every other republican elected, but him
Zuckerberg would have burned his money like Musk did in the blue tsunami.

>>1547816
>Rich people can't be dumb!
MAGA, ladies and gentlemen. What a bunch of fucking sheep.

>>1547816
The same billionaire that bankrupted several casinos

>>1547835
Yes billionaires for the large part are bad. Trump in large part is worse because he can't even do his job worth a damn.

>>1547861
His job to anger the traitors of the US so they reveal themselves to the rest of the world.

>>1547835
Billionaires, who pay their fair share of taxes and don't take money out of the economy and hide it overseas, are not bad at all. They are rare tho.

tRump:"suckers and losers"
nothing happens

Hegseth:"old soldiers don't die, they just fade away.….. into the ground".
laughter ensues

calls for impeachment


The Democratic allied armies can't go after tRump as P.O.T.U.S. is and has been the highest position in the history of any Nation on Earth. higher than the chancellor of Germany higher than any tyrant throughout history.

when I say go after I mean jailed not to impeached.

and since Hair Müller has been the real power behind the throne, and all tRump was interested in it was making money and gilding everything with gold, they're going to go after Müller and his lackies

The only traitor here is Pete Kegsbreath

>>1547794
lmao I love the double standards here on /news/. This soldier had the balls to correct his boss and Hegseth rewarded him for his courage, only so you fags can talk shit. Yet you had no problem with Biden snubbing those Gold Star families of the 13 soldiers he killed in Afghanistan with the ISIS bomber he let out of jail.

If Hegseth wasn't Republican, you'd be sucking his cock the same way you did for that traitor Milley.

>>1547885
>Massie, a republican, files 8 articles of impeachment against hegseth
>Who cares, I can't fucking read, the dems are impeaching him for telling jokes and making people laugh.
It's tasteless and makes you a douchebag to go into giggle-fits around the graves of dead soldiers when you used to be a drunk person in the military.
It isn't something you can be impeached over you fucking retarded faggot, that's why they tried to impeach him over war crimes instead.
>>1548002
>DeMoCrAtS!
>JoE bIdEn
>Whataboutism as I fantasize about sucking cock like the closeted faggot I am.
Again you fucking water-headed dipshit, Massie tried to impeach him for war crimes, like blowing up fishing boats and murdering the survivors, violating international law. If you wanted to impeach biden from living rent free in your head as a better president when he was senile, maybe you should have done that during the two years you had a supermajority you fucking loser.

>>1548003
>It's tasteless and makes you a douchebag to go into giggle-fits around the graves of dead soldiers when you used to be a drunk person in the military.
>YOU MUST BE SOMBER AT ALL TIMES.
You're retarded and you enjoyed your daily rageporn.

>>1548004
Crying "Whataboutism!" is an attempt to escape from a negative history.
Democrats have never once been on the right side of history. What makes you think this decade is special?

>>1548004
Miss me with your fake outrage. Dems have never cared about military, not then and not now. This is only /news/ because Hegseth is Republican.

>>1548008
Truth. Democrats wipe their asses with the US flag and it's a blurb.
Someone has the horrendous idea to have a good time in the country soldiers died for and they fucking explode in faux rage.

>>1548020
stop talking to yourself and get in the trench

>>1548021
What's this trench you're obsessed with BTW?
I keep seeing this used and it doesn't make any sense.

>>1548021
Oh yeah, and you don't talk to esls.
Thanks for the chat again, hypocrite.

>>1548026
I'm not equal to you. I am better than you.
Thanks again for chatting.

>>1548026
No one asked why you shitpost here, but since you've admitted to trolling, yet again, you might as well get a re-up on your ban.

>>1548027
>>1548029
you are better than me at defending pedophiles, i'll give you that. calling you scum for doing so isn't trolling though

>>1548030
>Projecting Epstein on to Trump
>Avoiding the myriad of Dem politicians tied to him
Actually, you have me beat there. By that metric you are far better than I.
Thanks again for chatting.

hopefully esl shill hurries to that trench so he can have an eternal chat with satan

>>1548032
Schizo posting? On 4chan? ORIGINAL!!!
Why even post here?

esl shill responded to his name again, i have trained him well

>>1548031
Are you not aware that Trump was Epstein's best friend? How are you avoiding this fact? Trump was mentioned more times in the Epstein files than Jesus in the Bible.

Unbelievable absolutely unbelievable.

>>1548008>>1548020
I'm not the one who cares you stupid faggot, the one exploding with rage was literally a soldier in the video.
I'm just here on the sidelines laughing at what a fucking hypocrite you are, and how you pretend the articles of impeachment are over this and not his literal war crimes, because you can't argue substance. How you're sitting here literally attacking the us military's reaction and pretending it's one of your dem strawmen because you're so deranged you stand for nothing and don't even know who you're fighting.

>>1548041
They're paid for your replies. Do what you want with that information, but at least remember that their only goal is those nickels and dimes

>>1548020
Yeah! Who does that hysterical libshit troon who was standing guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier think he is!?
If the Secretary of WAR wants to walk up, crack open his 11th beer of the afternoon, and take a shit on the memorial, that's his RIGHT and no fucking antifa faggot guard is going to tell him otherwise!

>>1548051
>If only Biden did that with those 13 families
Topical fact: earlier at the same event where Hegseth and his team got scolded like the spoiled disrespectful children they are, Trump gave a Veteran's Day speech and brought up the American soldiers he's killed with his stupid Iran war.
Unfortunately, Trump cares so little about the lives of American troops that he couldn't even be bothered to get the current number of fatalities confirmed by his own DoD (23), and kept babbling about the "18 beautiful souls" that had been lost in this awful war that simply couldn't have been avoided or handled in a less half assed, incompetent way and he's won 48 times now
I guess those other 5 can eat shit

>>1548041
>I'm not the one who cares you stupid faggot, the one exploding with rage was literally a soldier in the video.
Not really. But it looks like I won't be visiting since a stray laugh with friends might get me yelled at.

>>1548041
Huh... I wonder why my post got deleted.

>>1548057
25 not 18? Fag chequed like a mf'er.
More things to be faux outraged over.
That does it! I'm never voting for Trump for president again!
Jeez, once Trump is gone, the incessant dRumpf complaining party might just need to stand on it's policies, which are shit.
I'm more worried about the broken souls whose first foray into politics was gRumpf griping. After a decade their politics still haven't matured past acting (being) huge fucking literal faggots.

>>1548041
I guess the mods here got upset for reminding everyone that Biden got 13 soldiers killed, let in over 100k Afghans unvetted, let them walk off base without any agency detaining them, while hundreds of Americans were still stuck in Afghanistan after his royal fuckup of an evacuation.

Go ahead and ban me faggots. I know the truth really hurts you.

>>1548068
>Dead soldiers are like the national debt and states rights, we only pretend to care about them when there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. When there's a Republican in office we can't even pretend to care enough to get the right number of dead
When did the American right become soulless ghouls who fully embrace nihilism?

>>1548080
I don't know any politician who answers hard questions while in office.
I don't remember ever seeing a journalist asking Joe Biden about the Epstein files. He avoided lying by saying "I will release the Epstein files" or a bad news cycle by saying "I will not release the Epstein files" by simply never answering the question

>>1548073
Fucking kek. MAGA brain worms prevails again. Trump is the one who negotiated the deal of that pull out. He's the one who settled on a withdrawal date without including the ANA in the talks. He's the one who promised land and facilities to be given to the Taliban without even telling the Afghan government first. As always, your cult leader is responsible for the shit you're pretending to be mad about but you don't give a shit because trannies in bathrooms or something.

>>1548105
>Trump is the one who negotiated the deal of that pull out.
And we had zero KIA after that. Repeat: ZERO... well until Biden took over, that is.

>He's the one who settled on a withdrawal date
That Biden didn't follow.

>without including the ANA in the talks.
I'm not going to post 20 quotes of Ghani telling everyone he wanted the Americans gone like I did last thread.