{"id":23122,"date":"2026-04-13T05:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/us-military-says-5-killed-in-eastern-pacific-boat-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:08:25","slug":"us-military-says-5-killed-in-eastern-pacific-boat-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/us-military-says-5-killed-in-eastern-pacific-boat-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"US military says 5 killed in Eastern Pacific boat strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/AP26098467957919-e1775655740571.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>The U.S. military said Sunday that five people were killed in boat strikes in the Eastern Pacific, stating that \u201cintelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the\u201d region. \u201cOn April 11, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted two lethal kinetic strikes&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5828458-narco-trafficking-vessels-targeted\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military said Sunday that five people were killed in boat strikes in the Eastern Pacific, stating that \u201cintelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the\u201d region. \u201cOn April 11, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted two lethal kinetic strikes&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}