Sen. Mark Kelly (L) and Secretary Pete Hegseth (R). Courtesy photos Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that Sen. Mark Kelly, a sitting United States Senator who is also a retired U.S. Navy Captain; an officer with a distinguished career of military and civilian service to the United States, is to be punished; publicly, by demotion, by attachment of a censure to his military record and a resulting reduction in his well-deserved military pension. Why?