Forest Lake native Pete Hegseth, executive director of Vets for Freedom, a national group that supports the U.S. military mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, is taking the fight back overseas. He is deploying to Afghanistan, or, as he put it Tuesday in an email to supporters, "moving out to draw fire." Hegseth, an Army captain who morphed from infantry platoon leader to a national spokesman for the Bush administration's surge in Iraq, is trading in the microphone for a gun. "I will soon go on active duty in preparation for a combat deployment to Afghanistan later this year," he announced. "It will be an honor to serve overseas again." As a result, he's stepping down as executive director of Vets for Freedom, a group that takes credit for helping send six "pro-victory Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to Congress – our new voices in Washington."