{"id":302804,"date":"2026-06-10T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302804\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:18:46","slug":"secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-to-engage-with-troops-at-centcom-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302804\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to engage with troops at CENTCOM in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is scheduled to be in Tampa on Wednesday, June 10, according to the U.S. Department of War.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary is scheduled to head to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Tampa on June 10 to engage with troops at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (GTMO) and  U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of his planned arrival comes after President Donald Trump directed the U.S. to start <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/us-news\/iran-war\/us-begins-new-self-defense-strikes-against-iran-in-response-to-apache-helicopter-incident\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new &#8220;self-defense strikes&#8221; on Iran on June 9<\/a>, in response to Trump saying Iran downed a U.S. helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Central Command posted on social media on June 9, &#8220;The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 reporter Chad Mills covered <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/defense-secretary-hegseth-to-visit-centcom-in-tampa-for-iran-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sec. Hegseth&#8217;s prior visit to Tampa on March 5<\/a>, when the secretary held a briefing at CENTCOM headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, where military leaders are overseeing many U.S. operations in Iran and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ERIK.WAXLER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pasco mother asks county to keep roadside memorial honoring son killed in crash<\/p>\n<p>A Pasco County mother is asking county leaders not to remove a roadside memorial honoring her 4-year-old son, who was killed in a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Pasco mother asks county to keep roadside memorial honoring son killed in crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is scheduled to be in Tampa on Wednesday, June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,16706,127037,127038,92111,18341,127039,5741,38981,116413,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-302804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-centcom","tag-gtmo","tag-guantanamo-bay-naval-base","tag-iran-conflict","tag-macdill-air-force-base","tag-middle-east-war","tag-national-news","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-secretary-of-war","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302804","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=302804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}