President-elect Donald Trump made headlines last month when he nominated Fox News host and decorated veteran Pete Hegseth to head the Department of Defense.

While Hegseth's nomination has been met with opposition, one senator recently said that he will vote to confirm.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville: "He's got a great work ethic"

"I've known him for a while," ABC News quoted Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville as telling reporters on Monday. "Pete's the type of guy that he's going to work. He's got a great work ethic. He's very, very smart. He understands the business side as well as the military side."

Following his meeting Monday with Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville told reporters Hegseth would be "great" for the position. https://t.co/NYk4ZEEFZZ

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"He's actually fought in wars. He is a good age too. Somebody that can relate to the young men and women that we need to recruit in the military," Tuberville insisted.

"I'm gonna leave the personal stuff between y'all and him whenever he has an opportunity to sit down with you and explain, you know, the allegations that you're all pushing out," Tuberville added.

Article accused Hegseth of "being repeatedly intoxicated"

Tuberville's comments came the same day that The New Yorker magazine published an article which accused Hegseth of heavy drinking and other inappropriate behavior during his time as head of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).

The publication pointed to a CVA whistleblower who claimed to have witnessed Hegseth "being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity."

Hegseth's intoxication was said to have been so severe that he had "to be carried out of the organization's events." The allegation appears in a seven-page internal CVA report which also included testimony from others who were employed by the organization.

However, Breitbart noted that Hegseth was defended in a statement by Army veteran Sam Rogers, who worked for CVA as an employee and a volunteer.

Hegseth helped bring "most significant veteran healthcare reforms in my lifetime"

"When you do grassroots advocacy work you meet people where they are, sometimes it’s a church, sometimes it's a bar, sometimes it’s a hospital," Rogers pointed out.

"When I reached out to my VA hospital from my third Afghanistan tour and asked for a counseling appointment over mid-tour leave, I was told they were scheduling 6-9 months out and that I should call back after my deployment," he complained.

"Pete Hegseth led the organization that ultimately secured the most significant veteran healthcare reforms in my lifetime that kept many veterans from suffering similar — though Joe Biden has aggressively undone some of that work on behalf of the VA’s labor union," Rogers continued.

The veteran went on to say that Hegseth "has far more in common with the shared experiences of regular troops than the retired generals sitting on defense boards making money off of the broken systems they perpetuated."