Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, following the first striking of a boat in the Caribbean in September, issued a verbal directive to U.S. service members to “kill everybody” with a second strike that would leave no survivors, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
The Post reported that the second strike was conducted at Hegseth’s discretion and carried out by the counterterror group SEAL Team 6 after two survivors of a vessel allegedly carrying narcotics were spotted. The vessel originally held 11 individuals before it was struck by a missile off the coast of Trinidad.
“The order was to kill everybody,” one of two people with direct knowledge of the operation told the Post.
A Pentagon spokesperson told Military.com it had no…
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