‘It’s Bonkers’: Jennifer Hegseth’s Hands-On Role in Her Husband’s Pentagon

After an 18-year career at Fox News, she is now her husband’s most influential adviser and de facto producer, shaping the job like no Pentagon spouse has before.

There has never been a Pentagon spouse quite like Jennifer Hegseth.

In May she was in camouflage shorts and a sweat-drenched T-shirt that said “This Is War” working out with sailors, Marines and her husband, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on the deck of the U.S.S. Boxer in Singapore. In June she and six of the couple’s seven children accompanied Mr. Hegseth to the D-Day commemoration in Normandy, where a Defense Department promotional video with a swelling, cinematic soundtrack captured husband and wife walking arm in arm on Omaha Beach. The imagery seemed to cast her as the first lady of the Pentagon.