Military personnel told last month to stop calling Iran conflict "Operation Epic Fury"
Pentagon public affairs told leaders to use broader language for Iran missions after the administration said the named operation had ended, officials said.
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Pentagon orders US military officials to cease referring to Iran conflict as Op. Epic Fury
According to the email, sent on August 7, military leaders were instructed to refer to the conflict as "overseas operations in the CENTCOM AOR [US Central Command Area of Responsibility]."
While the US military operation against Iran continues, the Pentagon has dropped the name "Operation Epic Fury" from its official literature; a change that, after Donald Trump claimed to have ended the operation in May, has now raised questions about how the war with Iran is narrated and recorded in the US military structure.
An internal U.S. Air Force e-mail release window that the Pentagon Department of War directed the military to stop using the name "Operation Emotional Anger" when talking about ongoing military operations against Iran, three months after the U.S. administration officially announced the end of the operation...
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