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13.02.26 - 18:48
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Pentagon Confirms 1st Troop Death In Drug Boat Targeting Operation Southern Spear (ZeroHedge)
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Pentagon Confirms 1st Troop Death In Drug Boat Targeting Operation Southern Spear
In the first publicly disclosed military death related to America's ongoing 'Southern Spear' operation to disrupt the Caribbean and Latin American drug smuggling network, a Marine with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit died after falling overboard USS Iwo Jima, the Marine Corps has confirmed..
Lance Cpl. Chukwuemeka Oforah, 21, of Florida, fell overboard Feb. 7, the a II Marine Expeditionary Force said in a press release.
The USS Iwo Jima, US Navy/Getty Images
Oforah is the first service member whose death was publicly announced as part of the huge US naval Caribbean build-up since last Fall, which enforced an embargo on sanctioned tankers coming in and out of Venezuela, and which is now doing the same for Cuba, with an eye on 'illicit' Russian and Chinese shadow fleet tankers as well.
The Marines officially declared him deceased Tuesday after a three-day search. Oforah has been identified as an infantry...
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