Coast Guard crews have seized about half a million pounds of drugs this year. But instead of killing "enemy combatants," they’re sending them back home.

U.S. Southern Command said in a press release late on Monday that a strike "at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth" in the Eastern Pacific hit a vessel.

The U.S. military carried out two additional strikes on boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing five people and bringing the total number of boat strikes to 28 and the death toll to at least 104.

The U.S. military continued its campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats, blowing up three vessels in the eastern Pacific on Monday and killing eight “narcoterrorists” in total. All

The U.S. military announced Monday that it conducted a strike against another alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.

In a post shared on social media, U.S. Southern Command stated that intelligence assessments determined the low-profile vessel was traveling along