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YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Kamikaze dolphins? Inside the military's Marine Mammal Program | Unreported w/ Casual Geographic

Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On "Unreported," Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the unexplained through the eyes and experiences of you, the viewers. You send the mystery, we investigate. In this episode, Meagan sits down with Mamadou, host of "Casual Geographic," to unpack what's really behind Pete Hegseth's jaw-dropping press conference admission: that he can't confirm or deny whether the U.S. military has kamikaze dolphins. The story goes much deeper than the headline. From the U.S. Navy's active Marine Mammal Program to a Cold War-era government-funded experiment that tried to teach dolphins to speak English, Meagan and Mamadou trace how dolphins went from cute and cuddly to full-blown military assets. They also…

YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Hegseth: 'Can't confirm or deny' US use of 'kamikaze dolphins'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied Tuesday that Iran has “kamikaze dolphins.” But Hegseth did not rule out that the U.S. military has them. The U.S. Navy, in fact, does have a Marine Mammal Program that trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to “detect, locate, mark and recover objects” in harbors, coastal areas and at depth in the open sea. The Navy has trained dolphins and sea lions since 1959, with the Marine Mammal Program homeported at Naval Base Point Loma since the 1960s. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Reconnaissance and Interdiction Division manages the program. #straitofhormuz #hegseth #iran