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A Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes aim with a .50 caliber rifle in a training exercise to knock out a fast boat engine without injuring the crew Pete Hegseth has strongly defended the current approach approach of stopping drug boats with lethal strikes ...
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Drug boats from Venezuela are mainly moving cocaine to Europe — not fentanyl to the U.S., experts say
President Donald Trump and his Pentagon chief say U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Latin America are saving lives by preventing narcotics from reaching America’s shores. But drug cartels operating vessels in the Caribbean ...
When President Donald Trump initially ordered military strikes purportedly on narcoterrorist “go-fast” boats from Venezuela speeding toward the U.S., I recalled my role as special adviser to the director of Joint Interagency Task Force South, which ...
Speedboats have always been tied up in guns, drugs, big money, and murder, so it’s no surprise that they were invented in South Florida. (Check out Thunder Man, the bio-pic of cigarette boat designer Don Aronow.) Well, go-fast boats aren’t just for ...
Coast Guard personnel have set procedures to follow when they're boarding suspected drug boats. Not every interdiction plays out the way they think it will, prompting changes in the moment. Weather, sea conditions, how smugglers react to being boarded, and ...
The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer Sampson seized an estimated 3,439 pounds of cocaine July 10, 2025. (U.S. Pacific Command via AP) An Arleigh-Burke class destroyer recently sent to the southern border to support U.S. Northern Command intercepted a ...
The French navy opened fire on a go-fast boat in the Atlantic to immobilise it, arrest its crew and seize 2.4 tonnes of cocaine on board worth $150 million, authorities said on Tuesday. The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A go-fast boat reportedly carrying a crew of four capsized on a Caribbean route used by drug traffickers and one survivor was found clinging to the boat's bow, which was jutting out of the water, U.S. authorities said Monday.
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