Sad but not unexpected…
RIP warriors. Condolences to your families.
That fukkin sucks.
Sad for their families. Gotta be hard to not even get a body back.
Fair winds and following seas gentlemen.
Memory eternal…
I can’t imagine as a parent getting that call.
God bless the Families of those young Men.
May they have fair winds and following seas, RIP shipmates.
I wish their families the courage needed during these difficult times. Not having a body to lay to rest, has to be difficult.
It occurred to me every pirate and terrorist and unfriendlies with a boat must have been looking for them too. Even finding them dead, would still be a PR thing for them. I’m really surprised nothing of them was found. They’d normally have flotation devices and or GPS trackers too, so what ever happened, those didn’t get used for what ever reason. Maybe both were simply pulled under in heavy seas or some similar scenario. Their job is dangerous, anything done on the water increases the Murphy factor X10 at least, and one big wave you don’t see that slaps you hard into the hull etc, can end badly. Maybe details of what happened will be released at some point.
Navy Seals identified
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/navy-identifies-2-seals-lost-sea-off-yemen/story?id=106568203
So while search and rescue has been called off, glad to learn recovery efforts are still underway.
I am really sorry to read this. VBSS ops are very dangerous. My thoughts are with their families and Teammates.
LLTB.
My guess. Assuming the ship was moving and trying to evade being boarding it would be under full power. Being they went in the water right next to the ship it would seem possible that as they reached the stern they could have been sucked into the prop and killed or severely maimed making it impossible to attempt self rescue.