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Pete Hegseth: “Maximizing defensive capabilities mostly by moving as many…”

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The Deadliest Day for U.S. Forces so Far

Published | Video Starts at 02:57

I would say in talking to Admiral Cooper, the CENTCOM commander, before all of this was undertaken, Maximizing defensive capabilities mostly by moving as many people as possible off the X, which we did in historic fashion, moving almost 90% of Americans in theaters off of where they could be a target. First of all, bunkers that they would move into early warning for Choiba. I will quote from the Washington Post article of July 12th. This is a quote. (02:57–03:09)

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