U.S. Central Command
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U.S. Central Command
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The official account of U.S. Central Command.
🚫 CLAIM: Iranian media sources are claiming that Iran has attacked a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz. FALSE. ✅ TRUTH: No U.S. warships have been struck.
- 🚫 CLAIM: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. ✅ TRUTH: Commercial ships are continuing to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz tonight.
- U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.
- U.S. Army paratroopers conduct small arms training during a live-fire exercise in the Middle East.
- U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian
- U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit load onto a UH-1Y Venom aboard USS Tripoli (LHA 7) to conduct aerial sniper and close air support training while transiting regional waters.
- Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander, briefed the Defense subcommittee for the House Appropriations Committee today in Washington, D.C., on U.S. military operational priorities in the Middle East. Cooper will also brief the committee in the Senate tomorrow. These sessions follow
- Now in its second week, Exercise Regional Cooperation 26 continues at Fort Harrison, Montana. Over the past few days, military personnel from 10 countries participated in patrol training, hand-to-hand combat, defense against drones training, and a command and control exercise.
