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Indiana’s Camp Atterbury to be used to house detained migrants

Indiana’s Camp Atterbury and New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will be temporarily used to detain immigrants lacking permanent legal status, according to a directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth announced the decision in a Tuesday letter to Rep. Herb Conaway (D-N.J.), the House Committee on Armed Services and other members of Congress outlining that both locations would be for “temporary use by …

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GOP’s Bacon calls Hegseth’s base name changes ‘stupid as hell’

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks “stupid as hell” for trying to rename military bases and resurrect honorifics for Confederate officers by using other soldiers as eponymous stand-ins. The Pentagon announced in February it would partially restore the names of two military sites that were given new monikers during the Biden administration by honoring decorated veterans …

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In Other News

Branch out with a different read from The Hill:

Greene knocks Republicans, Democrats after all her defense funding amendments fail

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted her Republican and Democratic colleagues early Friday after all six of her amendments to the House’s defense appropriations bill failed. The lower chamber advanced the legislation, which allocates about $832 billion in funding for Department of Defense programs for fiscal 2026 in a vote overnight. Greene’s amendment to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program — an agreement …

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On Our Radar

Upcoming things we’re watching in and around the defense world:

The Center for Strategic and International Studies will discuss “Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security,” on Monday at 2 p.m.:
The Council on Foreign Relations will have a conversation on “The Democratic vision for the future of U.S. foreign policy,” with Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), on Monday at 6:30 p.m.

What We’re Reading

News we’ve flagged from other outlets:

Additional military bases in New Jersey, Indiana set to host migrant detention camps (Military.com)
Army Special Operations warns retired members of terror threat (The New York Times)