youtu.be/0ruBLgDuWkU?...

Every other boat targeted had 2-3 people aboard. The obvious answer as to why 11 is that this boat was *entirely* unrelated to drugs.

Yeah that's the other thing. What fight. These aren't combatants in the first place. They pose exactly zero threat to U.S. forces. What are they gonna do? Fire a handgun at a DDG?

This is probably it. Due to the counter missile/drone mission to help Israel.

Isn't the Truman usually in the Med anyway?

This is what I've been wondering. At first I thought a range issue, but we have plenty of other assets in the region to offset that. I'm also not very knowledgeable on Carrier Ops.

Hegseth's "fog of war" claim is nonsense, if this account of what video shows is correct: The two men obviously were visible.

Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky:

newrepublic.com/article/2039...

They know. They're just trolling Americans at every possible chance.

I want full powder blues with the blue and white helmets.