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Secretary Hegseth Details the Warrior Dividend for Service Members, Dec. 18, 2025

December 18, 2025 · Department of War · 0:01:33

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What happened

The Department of War published a short address on December 18, 2025, in which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth details the Warrior Dividend for service members, which the department’s description identifies as tax free. The upload is a direct department explainer from the Secretary, published the day after the Pentagon Christmas Worship Service he hosted.

Why it matters

The Warrior Dividend is a direct payment to service members — the Secretary’s own explainer is the department’s on-record account of what the force is receiving and on what terms, recorded here as published.

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The explainer is recorded here as the department’s stated account at the time, to be checked against the subsequent payment record.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Warrior Dividend,” December 18, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.