infantry

Born in Tel Aviv but raised in New Jersey, Alexander served in an elite infantry unit on the border with Gaza when he was captured by Hamas militants during the 7 October attack.

Drafted into the Army after graduation, Chamberlain spent 16 months as an infantry company clerk in South Korea.

"We were not toughies and they made us toughies – I became a trained infantry man," he said.

“Commanders do not have to have a quota for women in the infantry. That does not exist,” Gillibrand said.

A graduate of Princeton and Harvard universities, Hegseth was an infantry platoon leader in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.