The two U.S. Navy SEALs presumed dead after an 11-day search and rescue mission off the coast of Somalia graduated from Naval Base Coronado, Department of Defense officials said in a release Monday.
The two U.S. Navy SEALs presumed dead after an 11-day search and rescue mission off the coast of Somalia graduated from Naval Base Coronado, Department of Defense officials said in a release Monday.
Christopher J. Chambers, 37, and Nathan Gage Ingram, 27, are the first known U.S. fatalities in the Biden administration’s effort to thwart attacks from Iranian-backed Houthis.
The US Navy has identified the two SEALs who went missing and were declared diseased during an operation to seize alleged Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the waters of the Gulf of Aden. US military on Sunday (Jan 21) had declared both of them dead after a 10-day search failed to locate them.
What happened to US Navy SEALs?
The US Central Command, on Sunday, announced the end of an exhaustive 10-day search and rescue operation, which involved multiple aircraft and surface ships to look for the two missing SEALs.