{"id":259778,"date":"2025-10-30T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259778\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:00:21","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-u-s-military-carried-out-another-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-in-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259778\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth says U.S. military carried out another strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-d46648\" class=\"body-graf\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Pentagon<\/a> carried out another &#8220;lethal kinetic strike&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a> direction on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that left four men dead.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-48281b\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;Earlier today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific,&#8221; Hegseth <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecWar\/status\/1983676996220588093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>, using the secondary title of the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761335987593_now_daily_b_kube_drug_boat_tda_251024_1920x1080-m2j8ay.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6d977c\" class=\"body-graf\">It&#8217;s the 12th known time that the Trump administration has launched military strikes against alleged drug-carrying boats in recent months.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ff6331\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">The announcement comes a day after Hegseth said that the U.S. military had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/pete-hegseth-says-14-people-killed-new-strikes-alleged-drug-carrying-b-rcna240253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">conducted three strikes <\/a>Monday on four vessels in the same area that killed 14 people, whom he similarly described as &#8220;narco-terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/author\/zoe-richards-ncpn1291151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zo\u00eb Richards<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zarichards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"byline-social--link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-bio expanded-byline__bio\">Zo\u00eb Richards is a politics reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the Pentagon carried out another &#8220;lethal kinetic strike&#8221; at President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-259778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}