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Hegseth and Caine Hold a Pentagon Press Briefing on Operation Epic Fury, Apr. 24, 2026

April 24, 2026 · Department of War · 0:32:20

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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 24, 2026, published by the Department of War as a briefing on Operation Epic Fury. The briefing followed the Secretary’s April 8, 2026 media briefing at the Pentagon on the operation and preceded the pair’s May 5, 2026 Epic Fury briefing.

Why it matters

This is the middle entry in the War Department’s spring 2026 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 - 04/24/2026,” April 24, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.