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WASHINGTON – The Gerald Ford aircraft carrier strike group has moved into the Latin America region, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, dramatically escalating a military buildup in the Caribbean that has stoked tensions with Venezuela. -
The US military has undertaken a campaign against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea using a variety of drones, gunships, and fighter jets, according to people familiar with the assets being deployed. Most of the strikes have been carried out using MQ-9 Reaper drones, the sources said, which are remotely piloted aircraft used by the military and are typically armed with Hellfire missiles. Other strikes have been conducted by manned aircraft, including AC-130J gunships and fighter jets, the sources said.
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After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty military service and then return as an officer. But his initial return to civilian life was uneasy. “I started to feel like I didn’t really have a purpose, the same purpose that was given to me in the Marine Corps,” Downes says.
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The U.S. Navy is granting service members the opportunity to extend their enlistment amid a government shutdown and lapse in appropriations, according to a Nov. 6 memo from the Navy Pay and Personnel Support Center. Sailors with a soft expiration of active obligated service — a date for separation that was extended past their original one — on Dec. 5 or earlier are allowed to execute a voluntary extension of no more than 30 days.
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Sailor Pay During Government Shutdown Updated Nov. 6, 2025
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