Hegseth signs off on wounded US troops keeping bullets, shrapnel removed from their bodies after Maduro raid
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, revealed details about the covert Jan. 3 mission targeting Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, describing wounded U.S. soldiers who continued fighting after being shot.
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Cruz said American troops were "vastly outnumbered," describing Cuban military members, tasked with guarding Maduro, opening fire on U.S. soldiers. She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.
"It is an incredible testament to the precision and effectiveness of our military that not a single soldier on the American side was killed," Cruz said. "There was a very large number of Cuban forces defending Maduro who were killed in that firefight."
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