Captain Jim Fennell

Well, Steve, I think, you know, the verbology can, you know, we're going to watch different words be thrown around.

But typically a blockade is used in terms of military operations associated with a kind of an act of war.

whereas a quarantine is, I think, what we've been actually doing.

You know, the taking of the Bella One, the taking of the earlier tankers a few weeks ago.

Oh, by the way, Southern Command also took the motor tanker Sophia here in the last 24, 48 hours as well off the coast of Venezuela.

So what we're doing is we're enforcing our –

it's international law as well as U.S.

national law against sanctions against this dark fleet that's transporting illegally obtained oil, and we're going to stop it.

And we're not going to, as you said, we're not going to go to a court of law to do it.

We have the capacity to do it.

I'm not even sure that special operations or SEAL teams are involved with this operation.

The U.S.

Coast Guard Cutter Monroe

been shadowing this vessel along with the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance from U.S.

Navy P-8 aircraft.

So we do what we call visit, board, search, and seizure operations routinely in the United States Navy, and we work with our Coast Guard counterparts, law enforcement detachments, to do these operations.

Now, it could be that there were SEALs on board or Special Operations Forces, but we have a capacity across the U.S.

Navy and our Coast Guard

to conduct these operations.

So we don't just have to have these tier one assets that are very highly trained and very elite and very judicious use of their time and effort, like we saw, I think, on Saturday night in the raid against Maduro.