The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we’re defending our own. These narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same. We will track them, we will network them, and then, we will hunt and kill them.
Pete Hegseth: “The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we’re defending our own. These…”
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Hegseth discusses the military's focus on combating narco-terrorism in a social media post.
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