The largest aircraft carrier in the Pentagon USS Gerald R. FordIts strike group — more than 4,000 sailors and dozens of tactical aircraft — arrived in Latin America on Tuesday, according to the US Navy. On Tuesday, the Pentagon described the aircraft carrier as “the largest in the world” and noted that the arrival of the naval forces comes after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the aircraft carrier strike group to support US President Donald Trump’s directives to dismantle the alleged group. Transnational criminal organizations And combating alleged drug terrorism “in defense of the homeland.”
This deployment comes at the same time that the Trump administration is strengthening its military presence in the United States Southern Command (Southcom) region and Attacks on ships allegedly intended for drug trafficking On both sides of South America.
“The increased presence of U.S. forces in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility will enhance the United States’ ability to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit activities and actors that threaten the security and prosperity of the U.S. homeland and Our security “In the Western Hemisphere,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Tuesday.
Likewise, Parnell noted that these forces “will work to improve and expand their existing capabilities Disrupting drug smuggling “And to weaken and dismantle transnational criminal organizations.”
The USS Ford, whose escorts in the region include the USS Bainbridge, USS Mahan and USS Winston Churchill, will bolster American firepower. In the vicinity of VenezuelaThe Department of Defense has deployed eight warships, F-35 fighters, and at least one nuclear-powered submarine to the Caribbean.
US armed forces have been attacking ships allegedly involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. Performing 17 operations Which caused the death of at least 76 people, whom the government described as “narco-terrorists.”
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