Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hails military for beating back Irans retaliatory strike at US air base in Qatar: Largest single Patriot engagement in US military history

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lt.Gen.

Dan Caine, revealed that the military beat back Iran’s retaliatory strikes on America’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar with “a minimum force posture.”Having anticipated retaliation from Iran over President Trump’s weekend strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the US moved personnel out of Al Udeid, the largest US base in the Middle East.“We assumed a minimum force posture.Most folks had moved off the base to extend the security perimeter out away from what we assessed might be a target zone,” Caine said during a Thursday press briefing.“The oldest soldier was a 28-year-old captain.

The youngest was a 21-year-old private who’d been in the military for less than two years,” he said of the soldiers who remained on the base.Caine called the defense by the US and Qatar the “Largest single Patriot engagement in US military history.”“They absolutely crushed it,” he continued....