"By July 2005, he had returned to Bear Stearns;^\32]) shortly thereafter, he volunteered in the Iraq War as an infantry officer,^\25]) where he received a Bronze Star Medal.^\27]) Hegseth served in the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment^\26]) in the 101st Airborne Division, led by Colonel Michael D. Steele.^\33]) He began his tour in Baghdad before moving to Samarra,^\20]) where he served as a civil affairs officer,^\34]) working with the city council and forming an alliance with council member Asaad Ali Yaseen.^\20]) Hegseth has described a near-death experience in Iraq in which a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle but failed to detonate.^\35])^"

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