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US Navy faces most intense combat since WWII against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, officials say
Fox News ^ | June 14, 2024

Posted on 06/14/2024 9:52:59 AM PDT by McGruff

The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen.

The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II, its leaders and experts told The Associated Press.

The combat pits the Navy's mission to keep international waterways open against a group whose former arsenal of assault rifles and pickup trucks has grown into a seemingly inexhaustible supply of drones, missiles and other weaponry

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Iran; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Yemen
KEYWORDS: houthi; iran; usnavy; yemen
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To: xoxox

The AP article uses the phrase ‘sustained combat’ since it is a daily occurrence.

“The Eisenhower’s air crews have dropped over 350 bombs and fired 50 missiles at targets in the campaign, said Capt. Marvin Scott, who oversees all the air group’s aircraft. Meanwhile, the Houthis apparently have shot down multiple MQ-9 Reaper drones with surface-to-air missile systems.”

Not fighting harder against the Hooties is a 0bama/Biden Admin political decision to appease the Iranians until they get a working nuke or two. When that is achieved, and used on Israel and NYC, then 0bama/Biden can comfortably surrender for the ‘greater good’.


21 posted on 06/14/2024 10:15:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red6

“We’re going to have to put boots in the sand at some point. Already are without a doubt.”

The Commandant USMC in all his wisdom took away ALL of the Marines tanks, most of the artillery, all of the combat engineers, and the Amtracks are no longer allowed in the water except for war emergencies.


22 posted on 06/14/2024 10:16:19 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: McGruff

It’s almost like they needed another forever war...


23 posted on 06/14/2024 10:17:24 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ by)
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To: McGruff

I just cannot roll my eyes anymore.


24 posted on 06/14/2024 10:17:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: McGruff

The Houthis will crucify people. There are news items of it.


25 posted on 06/14/2024 10:18:35 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: McGruff

What a pant-load of BS!

Today’s pathetic DEI-constructed & led Navy would have surrendered to the japs on December 8th...

What an insulting title and BS article content...


26 posted on 06/14/2024 10:22:00 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: PIF

350 bombs and 50 missiles! WOW.... The USS Valley Forge did that much on it’s first attack on Korea.

And during Inchon;
“Valley Forge’s Air Group 5 made numerous daily strikes against North Korean targets. Troop concentrations, defensive positions, and supply and communications lines were repeatedly bombed by the A-1 Skyraiders and the F9F Panthers and F4U Corsairs delivered rocket and cannon fire. Over 5,000 combat sorties delivered 2,000 short tons (1,800 t) of bombs and rockets between 3 July and 19 November 1950. During this time, Valley Forge maintained a high operational record as she steamed up and down the coast of Korea, a distance equal to twice around the world.”

And as many as 11 carriers saw action.

And then there is Vietnam.

The audacity of these guys crowing about sustained combat. Like Carriers and the Gun Line ships in Vietnam didn’t exist.


27 posted on 06/14/2024 10:22:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: PIF

That’s around 7000 bombs depending on the breakdown. from just ONE vessel.

I understand keeping morale up, but jeeze that’s very self aggrandizing.


28 posted on 06/14/2024 10:24:46 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: McGruff

The Navy is shooting down $50k drones with $10m missiles.


29 posted on 06/14/2024 10:30:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: McGruff

The US needs to buy some Iranian drones to deal with the Yemenis.


30 posted on 06/14/2024 10:32:08 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: McGruff
In WWII the stated goal was "unconditional surrender". And they got there.

What exactly is the war aim here?

I think we can agree the Houthi are a bad lot and need to be stopped from interfering with world trade. And stopping them is a worthwhile goal, unlike some of the messes the US military gets in these days.

But what specifically is the goal militarily? I'm not asking for operational details, just what's supposed to happen when it's over?

Over? Or just keep it going as long as possible?

Negotiation of terms perhaps? Pay them to stop?

31 posted on 06/14/2024 10:33:07 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: McGruff

Admiral Halsey and Admiral Yamamoto are both spinning in their graves with the comparison of these goat humpers with drones to the Imperial Japanese Navy.


32 posted on 06/14/2024 10:35:35 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
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To: PIF

I suppose if measured in dollars funneled to the Grift, it’s far more intense now.


33 posted on 06/14/2024 10:36:48 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: glorgau
Who the heck are the Houthis?

The modern-day equivalent of the Barbary Pirates.

Perhaps you've heard of them?

34 posted on 06/14/2024 10:38:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: McGruff
From the article: ...most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II June 8, 1967.
35 posted on 06/14/2024 10:39:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: McGruff
Every time I think of the Houthi I think of Ewoks for some reason. Can't you just see them lobbing rockets and drones from the rocky coast of Yemen and jumping for joy?

When I hear silly things like this story I think the last thing this government did right was WWII. Everything since has been less intentional and much less successful.

36 posted on 06/14/2024 10:45:35 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: McGruff
Turn the tide on the little buggers and go on the offensive? Oh no, we can't do that, it might escalate the conflict or harm some innocent or some other crap like that. So, instead, we tie the hands of our people and throw them into a crucible to see just how close they can come to being killed and how many millions of dollars in weapons they can expend for the defense contractor over-lords and their political war lords.

In a right and sensible world we would blow the living hell out of the Ewoks, take their peninsula firing location, occupy it and control it. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper and safer.

37 posted on 06/14/2024 10:50:52 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: Robert DeLong
The U.S. babblin' biden administration has been indirectly trying
to lower tensions with Iran..

In an unsuccessful attempt to placate their rabid supporters.

38 posted on 06/14/2024 10:52:23 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: Sequoyah101

“...I think the last thing this government did right was WWII. Everything since has been less intentional and much less successful.”

The UN began October 24, 1945.


39 posted on 06/14/2024 11:05:24 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: ryderann

Well, there is that but I don’t think it is the whole cause.


40 posted on 06/14/2024 11:19:10 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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