U.S. Marines with Force Reconnaissance Platoon, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) attached to the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, conduct a simulated reconnaissance and surveillance mission part of a simulated amphibious assault at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, March 24, 2026.

In addition to U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also removing and forcing the retirement of Gen. David M. Hodne, a Former Army Ranger who leads the Army Transformation and Training Command (T2COM), and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the Chief of the Army’s Chaplain Corps, as Hegseth and his team escalate their long-running feud with Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll, who reports indicate may soon be departing the Trump Administration.

Iranian state-run media has posted several images of wreckage from an American fighter jet that was allegedly downed today over Iran, with the images appearing to show the rear stabilizer and other parts of an F-15E Strike Eagle with U.S. Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron (494th FS), based out of RAF Lakenheath, which was deployed in recent months to the Middle East in the buildup to Operation Epic Fury.

Video footage filmed by residents in Southern Iran appears to show a U.S. Air Force HC-130J “Combat King II” Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) Aircraft flying low this morning over Southern Iran, with operations likely underway to find and extract the crew of an American F-15E that crashed earlier today in Iran.