{"id":19298,"date":"2026-02-24T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-forces-board-third-oil-tanker-in-indo-pacific-tracked-from-caribbean-to-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:22:36","slug":"us-forces-board-third-oil-tanker-in-indo-pacific-tracked-from-caribbean-to-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-forces-board-third-oil-tanker-in-indo-pacific-tracked-from-caribbean-to-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces board third oil tanker in Indo Pacific tracked from Caribbean to Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military forces boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indo-Pacific Command (IndoPaCom) region on Tuesday &mdash; which was tracked from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean.&nbsp; The Pentagon said that U.S. forces boarded &ldquo;Bertha,&rdquo; without &ldquo;incident.&#8221; The vessel, which was sanctioned by the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5752445-third-oil-tanker-us-forces-caribbean\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military forces boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indo-Pacific Command (IndoPaCom) region on Tuesday &mdash; which was tracked from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean.&nbsp; The Pentagon said that U.S. forces boarded &ldquo;Bertha,&rdquo; without &ldquo;incident.&#8221; The vessel, which was sanctioned by the U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19298","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\/19298","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=19298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}