President Donald Trump ordered three Navy destroyers to the waters off Latin America to combat drug cartels.

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham , and USS Sampson , supplemented with several thousand Marines, will be used as part of Trump’s ambitious plan to use the military to fight the threat from Latin American drug cartels. The three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are fresh off a deployment to the Red Sea to combat the Houthis’ war on international shipping.

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