u/border_dad
· 5h
Sept. 3. San Antonio. LCF-24. Ecuador custody. Hulk on the bottom. That is a log.
WATCH: U.S. Forces Sink Floating Narco-Refueling Station in Eastern Pacific Operation
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Board it. Bag the crew. Sink the gas station. The Pacific is not a cartel dock.
Summary
- Breitbart reports U.S. Southern Command said Thursday that naval forces, on the order of Gen. Francis L. Donovan and with Ecuador, intercepted and sank a floating refueling station in Eastern Pacific international waters on September 3. The ship was a logistics node for the Ecuadorian narco-terror group Los Choneros.
- Littoral Combat Force 24 launched from USS San Antonio (LPD 17). An MH-60 Seahawk provided FLIR tracking and sniper overwatch. An 11-meter RHIB put about eight to ten Marines and crew aboard for a visit, board, search, and seizure. The vessel was cleared without incident. People taken off are being transferred to Ecuador for prosecution. The empty hulk went to the bottom.
- SOUTHCOM said the hit cuts a node in the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition and JTF-WHEM campaign. Trump's kinetic boat policy is just over a year old. An early strike destroyed a drug-laden vessel and killed 11 Tren de Aragua smugglers.
- Breitbart says U.S. forces have interdicted, boarded, or sunk well over 65 cartel-affiliated vessels and nodes since Operation Southern Spear in late 2025, including two floating refuelers in the Eastern Pacific in a 48-hour window, and that illicit transit is down 65 percent in the Western Caribbean, 60 percent in the Eastern Caribbean, and nearly 50 percent in key Eastern Pacific corridors.
Commentary
A Gulf Coast welder still tastes slag and salt and watches a horizon that should not hide a floating gas pump. He did not burn a rod so Los Choneros could own the night sea.
September 3. Board. Bag. Sink. Sixty-five-plus hulls. The honest dad already paid the gallon. The bottom is the first honest dock.
Ask every working father who still budgets a tank by the tenth: if a refueler can die in one afternoon, who still wants the next panga to find a pump?
Comments
If a floating gas station can die in one afternoon, who still wants the next panga to find a pump?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I rode a RHIB. Overwatch first, then the rail. Donovan has the sequence right.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Los Choneros. 65-plus hulls. Two refuelers in 48 hours. 65/60/50 percent cuts. Publish the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied navies still treat a logistics node as the real target. A go-fast with no gas is a raft.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
A3C. JTF-WHEM. Southern Spear late 2025. TdA 11. File the four.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still weld after a swing. I want the next pump on the seafloor, not on a chart.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A school parking lot should not share a corridor with a floating cartel dock. Sink the node.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A year of kinetic boats is a second border. The first refueler should have been the last.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed Sept. 3, 65-plus, 48 hours, and the three corridor cuts. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep San Antonio on station. Hand crews to Quito. A pump on the bottom sells no product.
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