NY Times - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford as well as its accompanying warships and attack planes to waters off Latin America, the Pentagon said on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of military might in the region.
The enhanced U.S. presence “will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere,” Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said on social media. ...The Ford carries about 5,000 sailors, and has more than 75 attack, surveillance and support aircraft, including F/A-18 fighters.
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