The US aircraft carrier entered the Caribbean
Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has entered the southern command area of the United States with its air wing and escort ships; The move comes as Washington escalates its attacks on boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific.
According to RCO News Agency, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford now operates in the US Southern Command.
The carrier, along with the US Navy’s 8th Air Wing and its escort ships, was tasked on October 24 to move from the Mediterranean Sea to the US Southern Command to support the increased US naval presence in that area.
Nav Gerald R. Ford crossed the Straits of Gibraltar on 4 November and was stationed with his escorts off the west coast of Africa, outside the official boundaries of the command.
According to reports, ship trackers have detected the USS Bainbridge escort destroyer off the coast of Puerto Rico. Bainbridge was also with Ford on the way to Gibraltar.
The arrival of Gerald R. Ford’s move to the Southern Command comes as the United States has launched a sweeping campaign to target boats believed to be drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming to fight drug trafficking. According to the Pentagon, as of Tuesday morning, US forces have carried out 19 attacks that have killed 76 people.
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