U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was at Tampa\u2019s MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday to get updates on the Iran war from Central Command, which oversees the U.S. military in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Hegseth said the U.S. is solely controlling the timeline of activities in Iran and will do so \u201cas long as it takes to ensure the United States of America achieves\u201d its objectives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe set the tempo,\u201d he said. \u201cWe set the timeline led by the commander on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hegseth also paid tribute to six soldiers who died on the second day of the campaign by a retaliatory drone at a Kuwait base. That includes Capt. Cody Khork, a 17-year veteran from Winter Haven.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remember and honor our fallen \u2014 those six that we will soon welcome at Dover who gave everything for their country and this mission,\u201d Hegseth said.<\/p>\n
Hegseth this week said the war could go as long as eight weeks, the longest timeline given by the Trump administration thus far.<\/p>\n
Talking about U.S. weapons stockpiles, Hegseth said \u201cour munitions are full up and our will is ironclad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cYou see, there’s no shortage of American will here.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you think you\u2019ve seen something, just wait. The amount of combat power that\u2019s still flowing, that\u2019s still coming, that will be able to project over Iran is multiples of what it currently is right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was at Tampa\u2019s MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday to get updates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-180689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}