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Hegseth and Caine Hold a Pentagon Press Briefing on Operation Epic Fury, Apr. 16, 2026

April 16, 2026 · Department of War · 1:10:30

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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 April 16, 2026, published by the Department of War as a briefing on Operation Epic Fury. It sits in the pair’s spring 2026 briefing series on the operation, between their March 31 and April 24, 2026 briefings, both paged on this site.

Why it matters

This is one entry in the War Department’s running series of Pentagon briefings on Operation Epic Fury — the department’s own account of the operation, delivered by the Secretary and the Chairman together and recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub.

Scoreboard watch

Briefings on an ongoing operation are recorded here as the department’s stated account at the time, to be checked against the operation’s subsequent record.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary Hegseth and Chairman Caine hold a press briefing on Operation Epic Fury - 04/16/2026,” April 16, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.