No U.S. military personnel were seriously hurt after a fighter jet and tow both fell off the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea.
A fighter jet fell off a U.S. Navy ship on Monday, according to military officials.
Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon for comment.
United States military personnel located in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean have faced renewed threats from the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group backed by Iran, for recent attacks in Yemen perpetrated on Houthi strongholds.
Rising Middle East tensions have Houthi leaders publicly telling U.S. President Donald Trump that he entered a «strategic quagmire called Yemen.» However, Trump’s latest ordering of military airstrikes on Monday in response to international shipping lane disruptions in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and Gulf of Aden follows six weeks of air bombardment, which the U.S. military says has reduced the Houthis’ attack capabilities by more than half.
All U.S. service members aboard the USS Harry S. Truman have been accounted for and are safe after a fighter jet, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, fell overboard into the Red Sea, officials said in a statement.
The press release went on to say that the ship lost the Super Hornet, which was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136.
