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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed an aircraft carrier strike group to move to the Caribbean to support President Donald Trump 's effort to dismantle "Transnational Criminal Organizations" and to "counter narco-terrorism," according to Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell.

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing are moving to the U.S. Southern Command's area of responsibility, Parnell said in a post on X .

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Parnell said the enhanced military 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

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