A pair of Navy Seals drowned during a Jan. 11 raid off the Somalian coast in which U.S. forces intercepted Iranian-made weapons bound for Houthi terrorists.
The U.S. military declared the two Seals dead following a 10-day search that covered 21,000 square miles. Their names were released Monday after the families were notified. Nathan Gage Ingram and Christopher J. Chambers are the latest American casualties in Middle East warfare, three years after the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that included the deaths of 13 service members. The U.S. military says 2,402 American soldiers died and 20,713 have been wounded in the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Ingram and Chambers were reportedly part of a mission to block illicit Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthi terrorist group threatening global trade routes with attacks on commercial ships from Yemen.
“The mission came as the interdiction of weapons to Yemen takes on new urgency,” the Associated Press reported. “The Yemen-based Houthis have been conducting a campaign of missile and drone attacks against commercial and Navy ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And U.S. retaliatory strikes have so far not deterred their assaults.”
The U.S. military began launching air strikes on the rebels Jan. 12. President Joe Biden said these were conducted “in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.”
The escalating turmoil in the Middle East is the direct consequence of a disastrous White House foreign
