{"id":439638,"date":"2026-09-18T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439638\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:12:13","slug":"pete-hegseth-to-visit-texas-tech-hubs-address-texas-am-cadets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439638\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth to visit Texas tech hubs, address Texas A&#038;M cadets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Austin and College Station on Friday as part of his \u201cArsenal of Freedom\u201d and \u201cSend Me\u201d outreach tours, according to a Defense Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/Advisories\/Advisory\/Article\/4604012\/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-travels-to-texas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/Advisories\/Advisory\/Article\/4604012\/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-travels-to-texas\/\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Austin, Hegseth is scheduled to visit tech incubator Capital Factory and defense manufacturer Saronic Technologies to meet with corporate leadership and speak with workers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He will also administer the oath of enlistment to incoming military recruits at the Austin Armed Forces Reserve Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hegseth will then travel to College Station to tour the Veterans Resource Center and address the Texas A&amp;M University Corps of Cadets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During his visit, he is slated to attend the Texas A&amp;M football game against the University of Kentucky, where the university plans to recognize prisoners of war and service members missing in action.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Austin and College Station on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[69650,132,134,133,10732,3310,52552,152235,3042],"class_list":["post-439638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-arsenal-of-freedom","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-station","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-secretary-of-war","tag-send-me-tour","tag-texas-am"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}