Feb 6, 2024. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
The pilots
on board the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier have spoken about the distress
they’ve experienced since they began their mission against Yemen in the Red
Sea.
Speaking to NBC News, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Travis Keating, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, said they did not train to come to the South Red Sea and do what they are currently doing.
“When we
first came out here, we had a lot of unknowns,” he said.
He said
they experience “anxiety associated with the nervous energy to make sure that
you don’t let this team down.”
“There’s a
lot of sights and sounds that will be etched in my brain forever for sure,”
Keating said. “Seeing standard missiles being launched from ships, seeing
missiles being launched from aircraft, seeing bombs being dropped from
aircraft, the explosions associated with all of these things. You actually hear
the sounds in the jet.”
The US and
the UK have been launching air raids on Yemen over the Arab country’s
retaliatory attacks against Israeli-linked ships sailing in regional waters.
The
government in Sana’a, which is run by the Houthi Ansarullah resistance
movement, declared its support for Palestine since the Israeli regime launched
the deadly war on Gaza on October 7.
Yemen has
vowed to continue its retaliatory measures in the Red Sea until the Israeli
regime ends ground and aerial offensives against Gaza that have killed over
27,000 people in the besieged territory.
IRNA