Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, is known for wearing Tennessee orange and cheering on the Vols.

PETE HEGSETH: I'm okay with the idea that you maintain the standards where they are for everybody. And if there's some, you know, hard charging female that meets that standard, great. Cool. Join the infantry battalion. But that is not what's happened. SHAWN RYAN: Yeah.

Trump's pick of Hegseth to become defense secretary caught Washington by surprise. Hegseth, who appears frequently on conservative media, has expressed disdain for so-called "woke" policies of Pentagon leaders, opposed women in combat roles, and questioned whether the top American general, who is Black, was in his role because of his skin color.