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President Donald Trump wrapped up the week Friday signing an government order to alter the identify of the Division of Protection to the Division of Battle.
The manager order provides the inexperienced mild to make use of the identify “Division of Battle” as a secondary title for the Division of Protection, together with phrases like “secretary of battle” for Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, in keeping with a White Home truth sheet.
The order additionally requires Hegseth to suggest each legislative and government actions to completely cement the title because the U.S. Division of Battle.
Moreover, a White Home official advised Fox Information Digital that implementing the order would imply making alterations to public-facing web sites and workplace signage on the Pentagon. For instance, one change on the horizon is renaming the general public affairs briefing room the “Pentagon Battle Annex,” the official stated, noting different longer-term tasks additionally will emerge.
TRUMP TO RENAME PENTAGON, RESTORING HISTORIC ‘DEPARTMENT OF WAR’ IN LATEST MILITARY MOVE
President Donald Trump speaks to troops in North Carolina in June 2025. (Alex Brandon/The Related Press)
The U.S. beforehand used the Division of Battle title for its navy company till 1949, however modified it to the Division of Protection to align with a number of reforms included within the Nationwide Safety Act of 1947.
Trump signaled in late August the change would possibly occur.
“All people likes that we had an unbelievable historical past of victory when it was Division of Battle,” Trump advised reporters Aug. 25. “Then we modified it to Division of Protection.”
Right here’s what additionally occurred this week:
Battle on cartels
Trump additionally introduced that the U.S. navy strike in opposition to an alleged drug-laden Venezuelan boat within the southern Caribbean killed 11 suspected Tren de Aragua narco-terrorists Tuesday.
Trump shared a video on social media Tuesday depicting the strike in opposition to the Venezuelan vessel, simply days after he approved sending three U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers to boost the administration’s counternarcotics efforts within the area.
“You had huge quantities of medicine,” Trump advised reporters Wednesday in regards to the current strike. “We’ve got tapes of them talking. It was huge quantities of medicine coming into our nation to kill lots of people. And everyone absolutely understands that truth. You see it, you see the luggage of medicine everywhere in the boat and so they have been hit.”
MADURO CLAIMS US SEEKS ‘REGIME CHANGE THROUGH MILITARY THREAT’ AMID CARIBBEAN BUILDUP
Tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. proceed to escalate. The Pentagon stated Sept. 4, 2025, that two Venezuelan plane flew over a U.S. Navy vessel in worldwide waters. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool by way of Reuters; Brian Snyder/Reuters)
“Clearly, they will not be doing it once more. And I believe numerous different folks will not be doing it once more. After they watch that tape, they will say, ‘Let’s not do that.’ We’ve got to guard our nation, and we will. Venezuela has been a really unhealthy actor.”
After the deployment of the destroyers, Maduro stated Venezuela was prepared to answer any assaults and stated the ship’s presence within the area was “an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and completely felony and bloody menace.”
“Within the face of this most navy stress, we have now declared most preparedness for the protection of Venezuela,” Maduro stated throughout a Monday press convention.
In the meantime, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday that two Venezuelan plane buzzed a U.S. Navy vessel in worldwide waters.
“This extremely provocative transfer was designed to intrude with our counter narco-terror operations,” the Protection Division wrote in an announcement posted to X. “The cartel operating Venezuela is strongly suggested to not pursue any additional effort to hinder, deter or intrude with counter-narcotics and counter-terror operations carried out by the U.S. navy.”
House Command HQ transfer
Trump additionally unveiled plans Tuesday to maneuver House Command’s headquarters from Colorado to Alabama — placing an finish to the controversy about the place the command can be based mostly.
House Command has been working out of Peterson House Pressure Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, however Trump lengthy has backed shifting the command’s headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama. However in 2023, former President Joe Biden introduced that the command would stay based mostly in Colorado.
TRUMP PLANS TO MOVE SPACE COMMAND TO ALABAMA, COUNTERING BIDEN ORDER TO KEEP IT IN COLORADO
President Donald Trump reestablished House Command in 2019. (Getty/AP Newsroom)
“The U.S. House Command headquarters will transfer to the attractive locale of a spot known as Huntsville, Alabama, perpetually to be identified from this level ahead as Rocket Metropolis,” Trump advised reporters Tuesday.
