{"id":69548,"date":"2026-03-20T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/father-of-killed-us-military-member-disputes-hegseths-claim-he-said-to-finish-the-job-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:55:11","slug":"father-of-killed-us-military-member-disputes-hegseths-claim-he-said-to-finish-the-job-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/father-of-killed-us-military-member-disputes-hegseths-claim-he-said-to-finish-the-job-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of killed US military member disputes Hegseth\u2019s claim he said to \u2018finish\u2019 the job in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary had said relatives of service members killed in refueling tanker crash told him \u2018do not stop until the job is done\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The father of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a> member killed in the Iran war has contradicted Pete Hegseth\u2019s claim that bereaved families urged him to \u201cfinish\u201d the job in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, the defense secretary and a former weekend Fox News host, told reporters at a Pentagon briefing on Thursday that he had spoken with relatives of all six service members killed in last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/us-military-aircraft-iraq-crash\">refueling tanker crash<\/a> during a \u201cdignified transfer\u201d of their remains at Delaware\u2019s Dover air force station the night before.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/iran-war-military-father-pete-hegseth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary had said relatives of service members killed in refueling tanker crash told him \u2018do not stop until the job is done\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The father of a US military member killed in the Iran war has contradicted Pete Hegseth\u2019s claim &#8230; <a title=\"Father of killed US military member disputes Hegseth\u2019s claim he said to \u2018finish\u2019 the job in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/father-of-killed-us-military-member-disputes-hegseths-claim-he-said-to-finish-the-job-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Father of killed US military member disputes Hegseth\u2019s claim he said to \u2018finish\u2019 the job in Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}