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Hegseth fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, but his rank—a major in the Army National Guard—wasn’t exactly a leadership slot.

“We rank No. 1 in the state for avocados and sadly avocados have been hardest hit in this fire so far,” Bell said in a Monday night news conference.

Homan’s work won him the Presidential Rank Award, the highest civil service recognition.

Frederick Douglass, too, was described by his friend James McCune Smith — the first African American to earn a medical degree — as having “passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul everything that is American.”

Eddy said the guards questioned his father about why he was wearing the uniform, later taking him to a station, where he was "severely, brutally interrogated, but he was a big, strong and fit young man, he would only give his name, rank and number".