Despite false Houthi claims, the Ike aircraft carrier fights on
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Jun 17, 2024, 10:48 AM
ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA — The aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest in the Navy, but it’s still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and online accounts supporting them repeatedly have alleged they hit or even sank the carrier in the Red Sea as it leads the U.S. response to the rebels’ ongoing attacks targeting both commercial vessels and warships in the crucial waterway.
That’s put its leader, Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, and his social media profile directly in what has become an increasingly bizarre internet front line as the campaign goes on. And while he shrugs off his posts, they represent the new level of information warfare the Navy is having to fight as it faces its most intense combat since World War II and tries to keep the morale of the nearly 5,000 personnel aboard the Eisenhower high and munitions ready as their deployment stretches on.
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