At the conclusion of President Donald Trump's brief address to the nation Saturday night regarding the U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, he noted that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine would hold a Sunday morning press conference on the mission from the Pentagon.
Hegseth and Caine did just that bright and early Sunday, both speaking briefly before taking a few questions from assembled reporters.
Hegseth spoke first, praising the mission's success.
"This is a plan that took months and weeks of positioning and preparation, so that we could be ready when the President of the United States called. It took a great deal of precision. It involved misdirection and the highest of operational security. Our B-2s went in and out...of these nuclear sites — in and out and back — without the world knowing at all. In that way, it was historic — a strike that included the longest B-2 Spirit Bomber mission since 2001 and the first operational employment of the MOP, a Massive Ordinance Penetrator."
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From their remarks, we learned several key additional points:
By all accounts (save for Iranian propaganda and a handful of domestic naysayers), Operation Midnight Hammer was a rousing success.
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