War Secretary Pete Hegseth Visiting CENTCOM in Tampa, Doral

US-IRAN-CONFLICT-DEFENSE — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference on US military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2026. The United States hit hundreds of targets across Iran, and Israel expanded its bombing to Lebanon on Monday as President Donald Trump vowed to avenge the first US deaths in the war he launched to topple Tehran's ruling clerics. Iranian forces fired missiles and drones across the Middle East, killing people in Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in retaliation for the conflict that began February 28 with the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty Images

(Tampa, FL) - Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, is visiting the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Thursday.

He will meet with the head of CENTCOM, Adm. Brad Cooper, for updates on the military operation "Epic Fury" being orchestrated from Tampa against Iran.

“U.S. forces have decimated the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile capabilities and are sinking their naval vessels to the bottom of the sea,” according to the CENTCOM news release.

Hegseth is also set to host a first-ever conference on battling drug cartels, at U.S. Southern Command in Doral.

Defense and security leaders from the Caribbean, Central America and South America are expected to attend.

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