The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been on patrol for months. How do staff manage being constantly shot at and how do they keep up morale?
The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been on patrol for months. How do staff manage being constantly shot at and how do they keep up morale?
While the Houthis have launched unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the past against Saudi coalition forces that have intervened in Yemen’s civil war, they were used for the first time against U.S. military and commercial in the Red Sea on Jan. 4. In the weeks since, the Navy has had to intercept and destroy multiple USVs.
In those months the Eisenhower's fleet of fighter and surveillance aircraft has worked non-stop to detect and intercept the missiles and drones fired by the Houthis at ships in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Gulf of Aden. The carrier's F/A-18 fighter jets are also frequently launched to take out missile sites they detect before munitions are fired.
ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (AP) — Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against