The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group, which includes three other warships, was protecting merchant vessels and allied warships under fire in a vital Red Sea corridor.
U.S. Navy fighter pilots came home to Virginia feeling relieved Friday after months of shooting down Houthi-launched missiles and drones off Yemen's coast, in the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II.F/A-18 Super Hornets swooped over waiting families in a low formation before landing at their base in Virginia Beach. Dressed in green flight suits, the aviators embraced women in summer dresses and kids carrying American flags.
Benjamin Orloff, a Navy pilot, told reporters in Virginia Beach on Friday that most of the sailors, including him, weren't used to being fired on, given the nation's previous military engagements in recent decades.'It was incredibly different,' Orloff said. 'And I'll be honest, it was a little traumatizing for the group. It's something that we don't think about a lot until you're presented with it.
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