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Lawmaker outlines steps to protect U.S. bases after reported Iranian drone strikes
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Summary
In an exchange about overseas base safety, an unnamed questioner described forward facilities as trailers and shipping containers and asked what can be done. A lawmaker said the United States is shooting down incoming ordnance and targeting launchers and caches, naming systems such as Patriot and tactical high-altitude area-defence systems.
A lawmaker responding to questions about the vulnerability of U.S. military facilities overseas said the United States is using air-defense systems and targeting enemy launchers and caches to protect service members.
An unnamed questioner opened the exchange by citing recent news reports and asking why many overseas bases are made of temporary structures such as trailers and shipping containers, saying, according to the transcript, “our military bases in the Middle East are not the safest places to be,” and asking, “What can be done to just make these bases safer?” The questioner also referenced Corey Hicks and a cargo container in which a comrade was killed.
The lawmaker replied that the United States treats that as an urgent operational priority. He distinguished permanent domestic bases — citing Fort Bragg and Fort Benning as examples of facilities built from concrete or brick — from forward sites overseas that often use containerized or temporary structures and therefore face different vulnerabilities. He said the U.S. response includes two main lines of effort: shooting down incoming ordnance where possible and seeking and destroying the launchers and caches that enable such strikes.
“Number 1, shooting out every piece of ordinance that they can find that is flying into the air,” the lawmaker said. He named allied and U.S. systems being used to intercept threats, including Patriot batteries and tactical high-altitude area-defence systems (THAAD). He added that forces are “looking to shoot down everyone along with our allies” and that operations also focus on locating and destroying mobile and fixed launchers, caches in caves or buildings, and other nodes that can reach U.S. forces.
The lawmaker summarized the mission as aiming to “destroy every single piece of Iranian military hardware that has reached out and touched Americans in the past or can still reach out and touch an American today.” The transcript does not record any new legislation, funding decision, or formal vote tied to the remarks.
No formal action or vote is recorded in the provided transcript excerpt; the exchange in the record is a question-and-answer about operational measures and base vulnerability.
