The U.S. military carried out its latest strike on a purported drug cartel vessel in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday.

The strike, which killed the two people on board, is believed to be the first lethal engagement by U.S. forces in the Pacific, whereas all of the previous strikes have taken place in the Caribbean.

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“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route,

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