Personnel at Rafael Hernández Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, began installing covers on fence lines to block spotters’ views of Special Operations Command (SOCOM) movements, according to X user @tom_bike, during the 30-minute period from 6:16 p.m. to 6:46 p.m. UTC on December 29. The action occurs at the same airport where a CV-22B Osprey tail number 0073 from the 20th Special Operations Squadron was previously spotted, as corrected by @tom_bike over the prior hour. That squadron conducts low-level penetrations for clandestine infiltration, exfiltration, and resupply. These developments follow President Donald Trump's claims of a U.S. strike on a Venezuelan drug facility in Zulia state's San Francisco industrial zone on Christmas Eve, December 24, and reports of V-22 Ospreys moving toward Puerto Rico, according to aviation spotters @SirListenalot and @tom_bike in earlier updates on December 29.
