{"id":16163,"date":"2025-12-02T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-adm-frank-bradley-commander-who-issued-second-boat-strike-order\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:20:28","slug":"who-is-adm-frank-bradley-commander-who-issued-second-boat-strike-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-adm-frank-bradley-commander-who-issued-second-boat-strike-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Adm. Frank Bradley, commander who issued second boat strike order?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House placed the decision to launch a second, follow-up Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea at the feet of the commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg, N.C., Navy Adm. Frank M. &ldquo;Mitch&rdquo; Bradley. Bradley &mdash; who was authorized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to carry out&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5628986-admiral-bradley-pentagon-directive\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House placed the decision to launch a second, follow-up Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea at the feet of the commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg, N.C., Navy Adm. Frank M. &ldquo;Mitch&rdquo; Bradley. Bradley &mdash; who was authorized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to carry out&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}