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US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays' as deployment stretches on - AP

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The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it’s still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays' as deployment stretches on

“I think it’s been about two or three times in the past six months we’ve allegedly been sunk, which we have not been,” Hill told The Associated Press during a recent visit to the carrier. “It is almost comical at this point. They’re attempting to maybe inspire themselves through misinformation, but it doesn’t work on us.”

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