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Dushak Mirovich was killed during a U.S. boat strike.

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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
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Multiple sources, including AP-derived reporting and Airwars, state that Dushak Milovcic, a 24-year-old former National Guard Academy cadet from Guiria, was killed in a U.S. boat strike, and Airwars places him in the October 29, 2025 strike that killed four men.

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… Similarly, Joseph had told his wife he had found a boat ride from Venezuela back home and would see her in a couple of days. They never arrived. Per Air wars, Dushak Mirovich, from Guiria, was also one of the men killed during that strike. He had once been a cadet at the Venezuelan National Guard Academy but dropped out to run drugs, per the AP. The lawsuit against the US. …
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What we found

Supports. Airwars states that 24-year-old Dushak Milovcic, a former National Guard Academy cadet who had dropped out to run drugs, was killed in the October 29, 2025 U.S. strike on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific.[1]

Supports. AP reporting carried by VPM and CBC describes Dushak Milovcic, 24, a former cadet who dropped out of the National Guard Academy and later worked on drug-running boats, as among the men killed in U.S. strikes on boats.[2][3]

Supports. A later report lists Dushak Milovcic among four victims of a boat strike that also included Ricky Joseph and Chad Joseph, the men named in the post's surrounding passage, consistent with the post's description of a shared strike.[4]

Context. The name spelling differs across sources ('Milovcic' versus the claim's 'Mirovich'), and Airwars notes that the details of some victims were not tied to a specific strike until later, so the exact strike attribution rests on Airwars' assessment.[1][4]

Sources

4 sources: 4 not rated

  1. 1USMAR251029a – October 29, 2025airwars.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
  2. 2Trump says boat crews are narco-terrorists. The truth is ... - VPM Newsvpm.org · not rated · cited for: supports
  3. 3Called narco-terrorists by Trump administration, men 'executed' in Venezuela are mourned by loved ones | CBC Newscbc.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
  4. 413 of the Nearly 200 People Murdered by Trump and Hegseth ...commondreams.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context

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