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Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier (www.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At this point I'm wondering if the Houthi military are actually shooting them down, and the US just doesn't want to admit that.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good point from regular commentator MarmiteLover123 in the newsmega:

The first one fell overboard due to evasive maneuvers by the aircraft carrier during an Ansarallah/Houthi attack, this one was because of an arrestor cable or hook failure on landing. They're not getting shot down directly, if they were you'd be hearing about it from Yemeni sources (who are very quick to claim the shootdown of MQ-9s over Yemen for instance) and the US Navy would have to mount a search and rescue operation in Yemen to prevent the massive propaganda win of Yemen parading around captured US Navy pilots. The Truman had been deployed for over 7½ months now, clearly the crew is quite fatigued.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That is a very good point, the crew are probably very stressed and fatigued (imagine, they actually are fighting an opponent who can strike them back) so it's hardly surprising they're making these sorts of mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

I imagine so many young people who enlist in the Navy would never expect a real conflict to involve them in this way. I knew someone who was in the Navy on a ship in the Persian Gulf during the war in Iraq, they talked about the cramped quarters and various chores, but said even though they were technically in war it was pretty much uneventful the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Weren’t the headlines filled with stories of fragile US sailors whining about how the war wasn’t luxurious enough for them, just a few months ago?