Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan ‘Razin’ Caine explained the special forces operation to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro in the early morning hours on Saturday, noting that the execution of the operation was essentially flawless and that troops had been rehearsing for months.
Details of the operation came as a video of Maduro being “perp-walked” into DEA custody surfaced.
Caine said the operation began “during the darkest hours of January 2nd and was the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal,” and one that “only the United States military could undertake.”
“It required the utmost of precision and integration within our joint force, and the word integration does not explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction so precise it involved more than 150 aircraft launching across the Western Hemisphere in close coordination, all coming together in time and place to layer effects for a single purpose, to get an interdiction force into downtown Caracas while maintaining the element of tactical surprise,” Caine said while appearing Saturday alongside President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
