Pentagon Public Affairs
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Pentagon Public Affairs is named as the bridge between military operations and media, slated to join the California trip and handle DoD press policy, thereby sharing responsibility for how Safe Haven is publicly presented.
Through implied delegation: C.J. directs tactical questions to them and notes their participation in the trip.
Acts as a subordinate communication arm providing technical clarification; wields power through credibility and control over military messaging.
Their involvement signals interagency coordination and the necessary partition between political rhetoric and military procedure.
Tension between DoD public affairs constraints and the White House's need for rapid, politically effective messaging.
Pentagon Public Affairs is invoked as the team being brought on the California trip and as the group responsible for military press policy; their presence is a practical consideration that complicates who speaks where and when over the weekend.
Through the planned inclusion of its officers on the California trip and through press-briefing coordination.
Acts with institutional authority over military messaging and constrains White House press options on defense subjects.
Requires integrated messaging plans for the trip, which complicates ad-hoc media moves in response to opposition bookings.
Must balance DoD's operational secrecy needs with political communications imperatives from the White House.
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