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PENTAGON, (April 18, 2025): Recognizing the success the United States has had against ISIS, including its 2019 territorial defeat under President Trump, today the Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of U.S. forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve to select locations in Syria.
This consolidation reflects the significant steps we have made toward degrading ISIS' appeal and operational capability regionally and globally. This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the U.S. footprint in Syria down to less than a thousand U.S. forces in the coming months.
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Soldiers assigned to 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, conduct a dismounted squad patrol along the southern border outside of Sierra Blanca, Texas, March 31, 2025. Photo by Army Pfc. Malik Waddy-Fiffee
PENTAGON, (April 16, 2025): On April 11, 2025, a national security presidential memorandum directed the Defense Department to accept jurisdiction of certain federal lands along the southern border from other agencies.
"Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats," President Donald J. Trump said in the memorandum. "The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past."
Read more: INTERAGENCY LAND AGREEMENT STRENGTHENS MILITARY BORDER MISSION
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PENTAGON, (March 3, 2025): Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum today directing Fort Moore, Georgia, to be renamed Fort Benning.
The installation will now be renamed in honor of Army Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who "served with extraordinary heroism during World War I with the United States Army, and in recognition of the installation's storied history of service to the United States of America," the memo reads.
Originally established and named Camp Benning in October 1918 after Civil War-era Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, the installation kept Benning's name until being renamed Fort Moore — after Army Lt. Gen Hal Moore and his wife, Julia Compton Moore — in May 2023.
Read more: RESTORING FORT MOORE TO FORT BENNING IN HONOR OF WWI SOLDIER
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meets with sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Hudner during his visit to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Feb. 25, 2025. Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander C. Kubitza, DOD
PENTAGON, (Feb, 26, 2025): Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, yesterday, where he took time to speak to service members who are currently supporting the illegal alien holding operations being led by the Department of Homeland Security.
This wasn't Hegseth's first visit to Cuba, as then-Army 2nd Lt. Hegseth was deployed to Guantanamo Bay from 2004 to 2005 with the New Jersey National Guard.
Read more: HEGSETH VISITS GUANTANAMO BAY, ENGAGES WITH TROOPS