US Military: Anti-Drug Ops in Venezuela?

US military assets, including Black Hawks, deployed to the Caribbean amid rising tensions with Venezuela and anti-drug operations. Training exercises signal potential intervention. Pressure from Trump.

Educating with such aircraft showed practice for potential goals fighting drug cartels– or even the regime itself– stated protection specialist Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Colonel currently with the Facility for Strategic International Researches in DC.

“They have excellent monitoring tools to expect potential drug smugglers coming out of Venezuela and the attack capacities to destroy those vessels. They could additionally confiscate vessels, although they have actually refrained that yet as far as is understood,” Cancian told the Blog post.

The 160th Special Procedures Aviation Regiment, called the vaunted “Night Stalkers,” operates assault helicopters like the Military’s MH-60 Black Hawks and tiny transportation helicopters into the most dangerous scenarios.

Military Training near Venezuela

Video clip emerged previously this month showing Army Black Hawks and smaller ‘Little Birds” undergoing training in Trinidad, situated around 500 miles east of the resources city of Caracas, providing the first hint of the rotary-wing power being readied.

Trump’s Pressure Campaign

An elite Military unit efficient in inserting several of the American military’s most deadly unique operations forces into a battle has been released to the Caribbean as President Trump puts in a boosting program of pressure in Venezuela.

Trump uploaded dramatic video of among the American strikes to Reality Social Saturday and wrote about the destruction of a claimed submarine drug vessel that the armed forces struck off the shore of Venezuela.