The incident happened amid a backdrop of the U.S. trying to curtail Yemen’s Houthi rebel efforts to attack ships in the area.

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“The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Central Command said in a statemen ...

"The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18, which was flying off the USS Harry S. Truman ...

Truman aircraft carrier. The strike came when the USS Gettysburg, a guided missile cruiser part of the same carrier strike group, mistakenly fired on the aircraft. The Gettysburg's crew had ...

IMAGE: US guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters As per a press release from the US military's Central Command one of the pilots has sustained minor injuries ...

“The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Central Command said in a statement.

The jet was mistakenly fired on by the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of a carrier strike group in the region. NBC News' Raf Sanchez reports from Jerusalem.

The incident occurred after the missile cruiser USS Gettysburg mistakenly fired on the craft. Both pilots were safely recovered, with one sustaining minor injuries, per CENTCOM. An F/A-18 Super ...

Sunday’s friendly fire happened when the USS Gettysburg “mistakenly fired on and hit” the Hornet while the aircraft was flying from the USS Harry S. Truman, according to Centcom. The Navy ...

However, the presence of an American warship group may spark renewed attacks from the rebels, like what the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower saw earlier this year. That deployment marked what the Navy ...