Dubai, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. Navy searched overnight until Monday morning for a sailor who had disappeared from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz while patrolling in the northern Arabian Sea amid tensions with Iran.
The team aboard the Nimitz issued a “man-to-sea” alert on Sunday 1847, after being unable to locate the sailor aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, said Commander Rebecca Rebarich, spokeswoman for the United States Fifth Fleet.A Navy founded in Bahrain, following a thorough search of the Nimitz, the oldest active-duty aircraft carrier in the United States carrying some 5,000 sailors and marines.
The Nimitz, the USS Princeton missile cruiser and other Fifth Fleet workers continued their search on Monday, said Rebarich, who refused to identify the missing sailor, which mentioned Navy policy.
Nimitz, whose base port is Bremerton, Washington, has been in the Arabic Sea since last July and replaced the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D.Eisenhower, who had spent months in the Arabian Sea, his deployment that helped the aircraft carrier break the navy’s previous Maritime Register Navy officers have limited stopovers due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Nimitz’s arrival in the Middle East saw Iran conduct real fire training with an aircraft carrier style that looks like it.
The exercise highlighted the risk of a military showdown between Iran and the United States after a series of escalating incidents last year led to a US drone strike that killed a senior Iranian general in Baghdad. Tehran responded to the attack by firing ballistic missiles that wounded. dozens of US forces in Iraq.