The D Brief: More boat strikes; OSD’s communications bottleneck; Navy scrutinizing sailors’ tweets; Shutdown effects; And a bit more.

The U.S. military left another survivor after destroying four more boats off the Latin American coast Monday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday on social media in a 28-second video of the fiery attacks. Three U.S. strikes targeted the boats, which Hegseth said were “operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific,” though he did not provide supporting evidence. “Eight male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel