Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put on his best tough-guy face as he met with sailors and Marines off the coast of Puerto Rico.

In a video shared on X, Hegseth delivered a chest-thumping message aboard the USS Iwo Jima amphibious assault ship, telling troops that “it’s not if, it’s when” they’re deployed that “narco terrorists and drug traffickers are on notice.”

The video, overlaid with soaring patriotic music, ends with a sign-off from the “U.S. Department of War”—the new proposed name for Hegseth’s department,

Hegseth’s arrival in Puerto Rico comes as the Trump administration ramps up tensions around the Caribbean Sea region in its fight against international drug cartels. Trump has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of letting drugs be smuggled into the U.S., which Maduro ha

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