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Secretary Hegseth and General Caine Brief the Press at the Pentagon, Mar. 19, 2026

March 19, 2026 · Department of War · 0:37:49

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What happened

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, held a press briefing at the Pentagon on March 19, 2026, published in full by the Department of War. The briefing was carried live by Action News Jax as an update on the Iran war; that broadcast carry is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source for this page. The March 19 briefing belongs to the pair’s recurring Pentagon briefing series during Operation Epic Fury — their April 2026 Epic Fury briefings are paged separately on this site, and further March briefings remain in the catalog queue.

Why it matters

The Hegseth-Caine briefings are the department’s standing public account of the Iran campaign: the Secretary and the Chairman together, on camera, on the operational record. This March 19 session is the fullest official upload of that day’s briefing.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “SecWar Pete Hegseth and CJCS Gen. Dan Caine, Hold a Press Briefing at the Pentagon,” March 19, 2026 (official upload, embedded above); Action News Jax (CBS47 & FOX30), live carry of the same briefing, March 19, 2026 (alternate source, recorded in the index). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.