Mate 2d Class Oriola aircraft engineer Michael Aregbesola died on Wednesday, March 20, the Pentagon announced today. Aregbesola served aboard the destroyer USS Mason, of the Carrier Strike Group Dwight D. Eisenhower, deployed to waters off Yemen.
The incident is currently being investigated and the Ministry of Defense has shared more details about the cause of Aregbesola’s death.
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The USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, has been in waters around Yemen for months, in reaction to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement on warships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. they shot down Houthi drones and missiles, as well as radars and selective release sites in Yemen itself. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group has also participated in several larger coalition airstrikes on Houthi-controlled spaces in Yemen this year.
In November, the USS Mason took part in an anti-piracy action. The destroyer and ships of Task Force 151, which is in charge of anti-piracy operations in the region, came to the rescue of an advertising tanker that had been seized for five years. The Mason and other ships frightened the pirates, who abandoned the tanker and tried to escape, but were temporarily stopped.
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