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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of U.S. subject dependents from locations crossed the Middle East, a large determination arsenic tensions spike crossed the region.
A U.S. defence authoritative told Fox News connected Wednesday: "The information and information of our work members and their families remains our highest precedence and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is monitoring the processing hostility successful the Middle East. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of subject dependents from locations crossed the CENTCOM AOR."
The authorization affects U.S. bases passim the CENTCOM country of responsibility, which includes cardinal flashpoints similar Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
While the Department of Defense (DOD) has not cited a circumstantial threat, the determination comes arsenic Iran-backed militias summation enactment and determination instability grows.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of U.S. subject dependents from crossed the Middle East. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)
"CENTCOM is moving successful adjacent coordination with our Department of State counterparts, arsenic good arsenic our Allies and partners successful the portion to support a changeless authorities of readiness to enactment immoderate fig of missions astir the satellite astatine immoderate time," the authoritative added.
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While voluntary departures aren’t rare, they typically footwear successful erstwhile a information situation worsens. U.S. doctrine, such arsenic JP 3‑68, explicitly provides for the voluntary departure of command-sponsored dependents astatine authorities disbursal whenever threats rise.
"Voluntary departure of command‑sponsored subject dependents, nonessential DOD civilian employees and their families, families of indispensable DOD civilian employees, and DOD dependents schools’ unit and module to an announced harmless haven is encouraged and authorized astatine authorities expense, with instrumentality besides astatine authorities expense," reads JP 3-68.
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The Department of Defense did not instantly respond to an further petition for remark from Fox News Digital.
Jasmine is simply a writer astatine Fox News Digital and a subject spouse based successful New Orleans. Stories tin beryllium sent to jasmine.baehr@fox.com
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