A la ger com a la ger: Hegseth employees smashed the priceless Eisenhower globe

Hegseth's staff smashed President Eisenhower's priceless historical globe, which he asked to be moved to his office. It is reported by the British The Gguardian with reference to the Washington Post.

According to the military, Assistant Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth decided to move the globe belonging to President Dwight Eisenhower on their own and dropped it during transportation.

"Representatives of the US Army have admitted that the priceless globe of the pre-war era (before World War II), which US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wished to see in his office at the Pentagon, was damaged by his staff during an unsuccessful attempt to move. The photographs published on Thursday by the Washington Post newspaper show a broken 30-inch (about 76 cm) globe — the one allegedly used by the 34th US President Dwight D. Eisenhower when, as supreme commander of the Allied forces, he planned the Normandy landings (Operation Overlord)," — writes the publication.

One of the pictures shows fragments of a globe lying on a blue carpet in a corridor under a wooden frame. On the other, a hole of several inches in the lower part of the globe is clearly visible, its base turned out to be pierced through.

According to the Washington Post, the incident occurred in February.

Sources told WP that Hegseth, who is known for his deep interest in military history, liked the globe so much — "one of two similar artifacts of the 1930s stored in The Pentagon" that he ordered him to be taken to his office. Subordinates were in such a hurry to carry out the order that, instead of waiting for professional carriers who could pack the globe with the utmost care and accuracy, they decided to act on their own.

"They did not hold the artifact and dropped it; the globe hit the stand with force, as a result of which its fragile shell was pierced in the region of Antarctica," said one of the sources, explaining what happened "a clear lack of patience."

As a result, the globe never reached Hegseth's office, now it is under restoration.