Key Points
The USS Dwight D Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the US Navy, but its still fighting despite repeated false claims by Yemens Houthi rebels...
The Houthis and online accounts supporting them have repeatedly alleged they hit or even sank the carrier in the Red Sea as it leads the US response to the rebels ongoing attacks targeting both commercial vessels and warships in the crucial waterway...
And while he shrugs off his posts, they represent the new level of information warfare the Navy is having to fight as it faces its most intense combat since World War II and tries to keep the morale of the nearly 5,000 personnel aboard the Eisenhower high and munitions ready as their deployment stretches on...
While even the secretive leader of the Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, has name-dropped the carrier in speeches while making false claims about the vessel, Hill has offered ceaselessly positive messages online about his sailors on board...
Every leader on board the Eisenhower that the AP spoke to acknowledged the Navy was trying to use the right weapon against the Houthis, whose asymmetrical warfare sees them use far cheaper munitions...
