{"id":96973,"date":"2026-03-12T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/simply-not-ready-us-says-its-military-cannot-escort-vessels-in-hormuz-right-now\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:36:15","slug":"simply-not-ready-us-says-its-military-cannot-escort-vessels-in-hormuz-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/simply-not-ready-us-says-its-military-cannot-escort-vessels-in-hormuz-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Simply not ready&#8217;: US says its military cannot escort vessels in Hormuz right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s military is currently unable to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated that military assets are focused on Iran&#8217;s offensive capabilities. Escort operations are expected soon, possibly by month&#8217;s end. US forces have eliminated Iranian vessels suspected of laying mines near the strait.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s military is currently unable to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated that military assets are focused on Iran&#8217;s offensive capabilities. Escort operations are expected soon, possibly by month&#8217;s end. US forces have eliminated Iranian vessels suspected of laying mines near the strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":96974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}