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How Did the US Navy Shoot Down Its Own Fighter?
Liberty Nation News ^ | December 26, 2024 | Dave Patterson

Posted on 12/26/2024 4:48:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

When America’s naval ships engage in friendly fire, something has gone terribly wrong.

Once again, the spotlight is on the failure of President Joe Biden’s military policies. There are few other explanations for the US Navy assigned to protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea being in a position to shoot down one of its own fighters. Questions that need to be answered: What were the Pentagon’s maritime and air policies from which the rules of engagement (ROE) were created? What training procedures led those manning the combat information center radar and weapons operators to identify a US Navy F/A-18EF, the Super Hornet, as a hostile inbound aircraft?

US Navy Attacks Iran-Backed Houthis

Combat sorties have been flown frequently by the Israelis, the US Navy, and the US Air Force, carrying out attacks on Yemeni Houthi terrorist targets. On Dec. 21, US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces attacked “a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana’a, Yemen,” a CENTCOM press release announced. The strikes used precision-guided weapons to “disrupt and degrade Houthi operations, such as attacks against US Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb, and Gulf of Aden.”

During the launch of one of the flights heading to attack the Houthis, the USS Gettysburg, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, mistook the F/A-18 Super Hornet for an enemy drone or anti-ship missile of some sort. During the launch and recovery operations for the fighter aircraft from the USS Harry S. Truman, members of the carrier task force “also shot down multiple Houthi one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles and an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea,” CENTCOM reported. There was a significant amount of air activity around the Gettysburg and Harry S. Truman.

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1 posted on 12/26/2024 4:48:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hmm... They aimed at it, and then they fired the missile?

Doh!


2 posted on 12/26/2024 4:52:00 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In 1988 the USS Vincennes fired two missiles and accidentally down an Iranian jetliner. Oops.

In 2024, the USS Gettysburg accidentally shot down a US F/A-18. Oops.

In 1996, TWA 800 was downed by either a spark in the center fuel tank, or by a surface to air missile (as reported by multiple witnesses) from one of several US navy ships in the area. But such a thing could never happen, right?


3 posted on 12/26/2024 4:55:15 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Second Lieutenant James MacArthur on fire control.


4 posted on 12/26/2024 4:56:19 PM PST by OKSooner (Get the US out of the UN, and get the UN out of the US!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope the houthi go the way of isis once Trump is in command. Looking forward to this day!


5 posted on 12/26/2024 4:57:51 PM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DEI?


6 posted on 12/26/2024 5:00:12 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: jerod

Hmm... They aimed at it, and then they fired the missile?

Doh!

No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort!


7 posted on 12/26/2024 5:04:47 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches anything. (outofsalt))
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To: OKSooner

“If he fires one, I’ll fire one”.

“Fire one!”


8 posted on 12/26/2024 5:04:56 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: OKSooner

Bedford Incident


9 posted on 12/26/2024 5:05:45 PM PST by Son of Rooster (He who dares not to offend cannot be honest. T Paine)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

F/A-18DEI, not F/A-18EF


10 posted on 12/26/2024 5:07:51 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I had a video of the USS Vincennes shot down which mysteriously disappeared.
That was a pure example of un-trained people in charge of weapons.
Get women out of of command positions in our military.
That is the problem.
I have no problem with women in our military, I’m sure the enemy loves raping the captives, but in terms of leaders they are emotional, not cold hearted killers.
Subtle difference, but a needed one.


11 posted on 12/26/2024 5:11:12 PM PST by rellic (no such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DEI Navy pilots is the answer you are looking for.


12 posted on 12/26/2024 5:11:41 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“F/A-18DEI, not F/A-18EF”
The F-18, coupled with carrier-based flying, is by itself an almost foolproof DEI-grad filter, with a failing grade being very painful...if one feels it at all.


13 posted on 12/26/2024 5:13:01 PM PST by Da Coyote (H)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"How Did the US Navy Shoot Down Its Own Fighter?"


14 posted on 12/26/2024 5:18:51 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: OKSooner

Was the Bedford involved in. this shoot-down?!


15 posted on 12/26/2024 5:26:05 PM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Bonemaker

What a cluster...In that picture, CNO looks like a 4th grade schoolteacher dressed up in boy clothes.


16 posted on 12/26/2024 5:26:43 PM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

with great accuracy...


17 posted on 12/26/2024 5:31:58 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Rummyfan
"If he fires one, I'll fire one ..."


18 posted on 12/26/2024 5:34:48 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Were the Israelis flying sorties in the same area?

What a nice mess it would have been to leave Trump. The USA shooting down an Israeli jet. Maybe they thought they were aiming at our ally’s plane(s).


19 posted on 12/26/2024 5:37:23 PM PST by BookaT
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hello McFly, why would a US Navy ship, off the shores of the continental United States, shoot down a commercial airliner?

A PYSCHO ship captain, with the backing of an entire psychotic crew, goes berserk, all at the same time, and shoots down an American airliner full of passengers?

<> Free Republic <>

A formerly respectable news forum website, loosing credibility, one post at a time.


20 posted on 12/26/2024 5:37:40 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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