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US Navy pilots come home after months of shooting down Houthi missiles and drones

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — U.S. Navy fighter pilots have come home in Virginia after months of shooting down Houthi-launched missiles and drones. The fighting in the Middle East had become the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II. Dressed in green flight suits, the aviators stepped from their F/A-18 Super Hornets onto the hot tarmac of their base in Virginia Beach. They were embraced by women in summer dresses and kids carrying American flags. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group was protecting vital commercial shipping channels and allied warships under fire in the Red Sea.

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