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About 140 U.S. service members have been injured since the start of Operation Epic Fury, according to the Pentagon.
- Most injuries have been minor and 108 of the service members have returned to duty, a spokesperson told The Associated Press in an email.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a press conference this morning that today would be the “most intense day of strikes inside Iran.” He declined to give an update on the previously stated timeline of four to five weeks.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright briefly sent oil prices sliding when he posted — and then quickly deleted — on X that the U.S. Navy escorted an oil tanker across the Strait of Hormuz. Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a press conference this afternoon that such an escort never happened.