Navy allegedly ordered sailors to delete footage of boat strike survivors

Dec 07, 2025

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Image of Pete Hegseth; by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sailors aboard a U.S. Navy vessel were allegedly ordered to delete footage of survivors being brought aboard after a boat strike—because those survivors had been classified as “Unprivileged Belligerents.”

According to Blueamp, on Octobe…

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