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Dec 04 2025

Lethal Kinetic Strike, Dec. 4, 2025

Nov 16 2025

Ford Carrier Strike Group Enters Caribbean Sea

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, led by the world's largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), is supporting Operation Southern Spear.
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Nov 17 2025

Hurricane Melissa Relief in Jamaica

Joint Task Force-Bravo and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit provided critical humanitarian assistance to Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
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Oct 28 2025

Jungle Training In Panama

U.S. military service members and Panamanian security services participated in the Combined Jungle Operations Training Course in Panamá, Oct. 8-29, 2025.
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U.S. military members in camouflage uniforms and helmets point rifles.

Oct 31 2025

Multimedia of Operation Southern Spear

Download released photos and videos of forces deployed to the Caribbean in support of Operation Southern Spear.
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Lethal Kinetic Strike, Dec. 4, 2025

Ford Carrier Strike Group Enters Caribbean Sea

Hurricane Melissa Relief in Jamaica

Multimedia of U.S. Forces in the Caribbean

Jungle Training In Panama

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Operation Southern Spear | Dec. 4, 2025

Lethal Kinetic Strike, Dec. 4, 2025

Operation Southern Spear | Dec. 2, 2025

Pentagon Provides Update on Operation Southern Spear, Reaffirms Socom Ca...

The War Department provided an update on the U.S. military's counter-narco-terrorism campaign, Operation Southern Spear, including the casualties inflicted upon suspected narco-terrorists and a reemphasis on how the operation's first kinetic boat

SOUTHCOM Release | Dec. 1, 2025

SOUTHCOM to host relinquishment-of-command Dec. 12

Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey will relinquish duties as commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) to Air Force Lt. Gen. Evan L. Pettus at the command’s headquarters on Friday, 10:30 a.m., Dec. 12, 2025. Holsey will retire after more than 37 years of

Operation Southern Spear | Nov. 27, 2025

Hegseth Pays Surprise Thanksgiving Day Visit to Sailors in Southcom AOR

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to a pair of Navy warships operating in the U.S. Southern Command's area of responsibility as part of the military's anti-narco-terror mission, Operation Southern Spear.

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U.S. Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey is the Commander of U.S. Southern Command. The admiral assumed command Nov. 7, 2024.

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Lethal Kinetic Strike, Dec. 4, 2025

U.S. Southern Command

Dec. 4, 2025 | 0:20

On Dec. 4, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed.