Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after doing a nighttime boarding mission off the coast of Somalia, according to two U.S. officials. In a statement Saturday U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials.

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

Both SEALs are still missing. A search and rescue mission is underway and the waters in the Gulf of Aden, where they were operating, are warm, two of the U.S. officials said.

The U.S. Navy has conducted regular interdiction missions, where they have intercepted weapons on ships that were bound for Houthi-controlled Yemen.

  • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    10 months ago

    It’s cause ocean gods make sense while sky gods are fickle.
    “Why’d jaesop drown?” “He went out in a storm, angered the ocean”.
    “Why’d Aesop get struck by lightning?” “Shit I dunno, better sacrifice a deer or something.”

    • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netMEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      This is too logical a response to be true, but it makes a lot of sense.

      Also: imagining a guy who’s super devout to the forest god and goes to pray during a storm. Gets hit by lightning. “Ah shit, we better not pray to the forest god during a storm or sky god gets hella jealous”.

      • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Also I’d say before we invented masonry and agriculture, the sky gods dictates whether you lived or died.

        You’re stalking prey and the sky gods shift the winds, and your pre-soap body odour gets picked up by the antelope and it runs off? You might be eating lean for the next couple days. Hell, we weren’t apex predators, the shift in wind might bring your scent to a pack of wolves or a pride of lions.

        A sudden storm knocks down a fence and your goats escape? You haven’t paid your dues to the sky gods, remember to sacrifice one next time, if you survive the winter without your herd.

        You’re arrogant enough to think the sky gods can’t harm you because you built a hut of wood and clay? The sky gods will send a Hailstone the size of a large rodent through your thatched roof or strike your hut with lightning.

        The sky gods send a drought? Your water holes dry up, you can’t find enough plants to forage and the rivers are crowded with thirsty predators and ambushing crocodiles.