Anchorage Daily News reported that the soldiers were from the 11th Airborne Division, and that the exercise had been a "land navigation training event" near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
A shooting in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district left six dead, including a hostage, after a Russian-born man opened fire on passersby before barricading himself in a supermarket, where police killed him.
The potential US military action comes as Iran tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, including attacking several ships earlier on Saturday.
Trump said on Friday that he may end the ceasefire with Iran unless a long-term deal to end the war is agreed upon by Wednesday.
Another five tankers, loaded with approximately 9 million barrels of oil, were spotted in the Gulf of Oman earlier this week and are no longer visible in the images.
"We had some pretty good news 20 minutes ago, but it seems to be going very well in the Middle East with Iran," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Arizona.
This is the second time the group has attempted to access such documents, with their first attempt having been discontinued shortly after it was launched in November of 2023, ACIJ stated.
The Pentagon has investigated reports of UFOs in recent years, with Trump directing US agencies in February to begin releasing government files on UFOs.
Explosive Media had initially been suspended on March 27, with US media outlets reporting on Wednesday that the group's account had been removed from Instagram.
"In Hormuz, there are security challenges that cannot be addressed by political decisions alone," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Hegseth's comments follow a similar incident in 2019, when then-Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg compared Mike Pence to the Pharisees.
