The two Navy SEALS lost during operations near the coast of Yemen have not been found. Centcom announces their status changed to deceased.
CENTCOM – TAMPA, Fla. – We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed to deceased. The search and rescue operation for the two Navy SEALs reported missing during the boarding of an illicit dhow carrying Iranian advanced conventional weapons Jan. 11 concluded and we are now conducting recovery operations.
During this expansive search operation, airborne and naval platforms from the U.S., Japan, and Spain continuously searched more than 21,000 square miles to locate our missing teammates. Search assistance was also provided by Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, the U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command, University of San Diego – Scripts Institute of Oceanography, and the Office of Naval Research – Oceanographic Support. Out of respect for the families, no further information will be released at this time.
“We mourn the loss of our two Naval Special Warfare warriors, and we will forever honor their sacrifice and example. Our prayers are with the SEALs’ families, friends, the U.S. Navy, and the entire Special Operations community during this time,” said General Michael Erik Kurilla, USCENTCOM Commander. (LINK)
The two Special Warfare Operators have been identified as Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers and Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram.
NAVY – On the evening of Jan. 11, Chambers and Ingram, both assigned to a West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit, were reported missing at sea while they were conducting a night-time seizure of a vessel illegally transporting advanced lethal aid from Iran to resupply Houthi forces in Yemen.
“We extend our condolences to Chris and Gage’s families, friends, and teammates during this incredibly challenging time. They were exceptional warriors, cherished teammates, and dear friends to many within the Naval Special Warfare community,” said Capt. Blake L. Chaney, commander, Naval Special Warfare Group 1.
Chambers enlisted in the Navy on May 17, 2012, and graduated from boot camp at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Ill., in July 2012. He served with West Coast-based SEAL units since graduating from SEAL qualification training in Coronado, Calif., in 2014. His awards and decorations include the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Combat “C,” three Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medals, Army Achievement Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, and other personal and unit awards.
Ingram enlisted in the Navy on Sept. 25, 2019, and graduated from boot camp at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Ill., in November 2019. Ingram served with West Coast-based SEAL units since graduating from SEAL qualification training in Coronado, Calif., in 2021. His awards and decorations include various personal and unit awards.
“Chris and Gage selflessly served their country with unwavering professionalism and exceptional capabilities,” said Chaney. “This loss is devastating for NSW, our families, the special operations community, and across the nation.”
The incident remains under investigation. Naval Special Warfare’s top priority is to respect the families’ privacy while providing unwavering support to them, their loved ones. (link)
My heart aches for these men’s families.
More lost where they never should have been. God help us all. 😞
My heart aches, too. But then I also have this increasing anger issue to deal with.
You and me both, but the last time I let my rage at the senseless loss of life in that godforsaken region get the best of me, Ad Rem put me in timeout for multiple weeks.
The rage is still there. I buried dozens of my men for nothing. Politicians like the asshat in the oval profited off their deaths. I could say more, but shouldn’t.
Not sure what that was about, but if your rage got you put in time-out, then you probably shouldn’t go into it here.
There is a healthy place for anger. It can be a great motivating force. Combined with other emotions, perhaps it can be unhealthy, unwise, or unwarranted.
Please take care. You are not alone.
I do NOT believe the explanation given for their deaths.
Supposedly they were killed after falling off the side of the ship they were attacking, and were never found.
WRONG.
The pictures show the SHIP they were attacking was an approximately 45 foot long BOAT.
Hardly more than a medium sized fishing boat…
The gunwale of the BOAT was no more than 7 feet above the surface of the water at its highest point, and was only 3 feet above the water line at its lowest point..
in other words, THERE WAS NO “SIDE” OF THE BOAT BIG ENOUGH FOR THEM TO EVEN CLIMB UP, MUCH LESS FALL OFF OF………
NO WAY THIS EXPLANATION FOR THEIR DEATHS IS TRUE……….
These MEN died, and it appears to me there IS A COWARDLY COVERUP GOING ON TO HIDE HOW THEY DIED……..
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED……
DON’T BELIEVE THE PENTAGON…..
I don’t believe they are dead…
They may still be alive…
I believe the mission went SNAFU, and our boys were CAPTURED by the enemy….
Appears the Pentagon wants to cover up their failed mission…
and they are LEAVING OUR BOYS BEHIND…
Just like the 1400 American Soldiers were LEFT BEHIND AND WRITTEN OFF when we abandoned Vietnam in 1974…
So sorry for the loss of good men in the service of this Nation.
May God comfort and support their families.
As long as this regime is in power, I highly recommend that no American joins the US Armed Forces and those who can get out, file your separation papers ASAP.
This regime cannot be trusted and THEY DO NOT HAVE YOUR BACK.
Amen
Because, JOEBAMA is poking Putin. They are trying to get Putin to attack US with NATO. I have read that our Military is
NOT equipped to fight the Russians. JOEBAMA and his Communists administration don’t give a damn about us.
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Amen
God rest their souls, there’s more to this story then what is being told…I guarantee it. Heroes both of them.
No doubt…May God ease the grief of the families. Yes, heroes.
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I heard the Navy Seals were killed in gun fire. Because, we weren’t supposed to be in that area. You are USMC. Do you actually believe the
Navy Seals would have survived that long lost at sea.
Yes they could have survived in the sea but they wold have needed drinking water
And do you believe that they couldn’t swim in rough seas. Don’t they train for that? Something’s fishy.
Good insightful.
They paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. 😪
They paid the ultimate price for globalist bs.
We don’t know exactly how they’re lying to us yet, but we know for sure that they are.
#YourPronounIsLiar
Exactly
My heart aches over this. May God rest their souls and comfort their families and crew-mates.
BUT… I absolutely agree with Retired USMC that this story does not add up. Seals do not fall off boats and drown. Their vests have built-in locator signals with dozens of other drown-proofing and location checks and balances – most remain classified, yet highly effective. Loss of servicemen is always bad news, but when politics and/or brass hats deceive blatantly… that issue needs to be addressed. A very bad feeling I am trying to ignore keeps bugging me towards the Pat Tillman debacle. I hope my gut feeling is wrong.
your wingman,
reeko
RIP Amen
Add 2 more to the list of those who died as the result of a stolen election.
Exactly! Stolen elections have terrible consequences!
+1. Through all the twists, turns, and distortions THIS is an accurate conclusion. Now, and once again, when and how is the price for this extracted? Another Johnson & Friends “investigation”. Anyone else here wild sick of this yet? Once again Steve Bannon’s assessment: “Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic elections.” Done as much with the acquiescence of “republicans” in at least the following so-called “swing” states. Where the “swings” were given away by republican state legislatures abdicating the “swings” and with them the 10A Rights and Electoral totals belonging to those who elected them to begin with… WI; PA. with the illegal abdication of PA.’s Act 77 which may well be the most heinous capitulation read violation of Oath in any state’s history; AZ; MI where “-r” has been decimated by their own hand and has for any and all effective purpose ceased to exist since Unit: Ronna Romney-McDaniel’s 2013 alliance with a true Dirtbag and ex-governor named Rick Snyder; GA; and probably NV (Clark County). I have receipts in abundance for what I state, but at this late point I’m 2X D-DONE publishing facts others can find as I have – and continue to on everything since.
The act 77 debacle in Pennsylvania was the brainchild of the current “selected” governor Josh Shapiro. He then “guaranteed” a Biden win.
Shapiro certainly was SELECTED. He didn’t WIN anything.
Fair winds and following seas young men.
May God Bless Petty Officers Chambers and Ingram and their families who mourn them. These are two of America’s finest.
Amen
Amen
RIP. 🙏🙏🙏
Remembering Dick Cheney during the 2000 Presidential campaign, sitting atop a destroyer, much like the USS Cole that had been attacked at Aden:
“Help is on the way.”
RIP Brave Warriors.
Your tour of duty has come to an end.
We the People Thank You.
Succinct and powerful.
“Depart, O Christian soul, out of this world,
In the Name of God the Father Almighty who created thee.
In the Name of Jesus Christ who redeemed thee.
In the Name of the Holy Ghost who sanctified thee.
May thy rest be this day in peace, and thy dwelling-place in the Paradise of God.”
Amen 🙏🏻🕊
Jesus Saviour Pilot Me
Beautiful prayer, Betsy…just beautiful!
AMEN thx.
Amen.
Amen with deep sorrow.
So..Beautiful🙏
Amen
Betsy ! Beautiful words!
AMEN !
Look at these upstanding young men….. What a loss. I pray they’re resting in God’s loving arms and their families can endure the heartbreak. This is so sad.
Has Biden been checking his watch yet?
I am the mother of a Navy vet.
This is the Commander in Chief who probably is unaware that these two young men have been sacrificed for his government’s vainglorious war.
Look upon him and weep.
Most likely correct. What’s even worse is that if he is aware, he likely doesn’t care.
Whether he is aware or not, his handlers should have given him a short script to just recognize that this happened. The HANDLERS did not bother because THEY DO NOT CARE. They are arrogant and detached from the American citizens. They are actively on their mission to destroy America as we know it. This regime is the new Pol Pot, the new Mao. Even FJB has come out and told us on more than one occasion that WTP with arms are no match for “his” F 16s.
Life is cheap to these repellent creatures.
But not to this man…
My gosh how this country needs him…
Thank you Betsie for sharing. Praying for your son to be safe.
You are so kind, wolvybat. He is safe. 5 years in and now out, thank Almighty God.
I will weep for our military deceased. I will spit on this person…
I do, too, Diceanna. And for those who have served with honour only to be cast aside.
I, too, am the mother of a Navy vet. Another thing we have in common. Also have a younger Marine vet. They both served in the Iraq War.
As I am sure you do, also, I thank God they are no longer in the service.
I grieve for the loss of these good men, and their families. Your prayer was beautiful and touching. Thank you.
That lovely, comforting prayer came from my Book of Common Prayer, Patriot. It is my most treasured possession. Bless your beautiful children. I know you are as proud of them as I am of mine.
Now I have to worry for my twin 18 year old grandsons…and I do worry with a madman and his psychotic warmongers in office.
No draft…we’ve lost enough. The price is too high for their vanity and greed and bloodlust.
Fair winds & following seas, Godspeed sailors.
Eternal Father hear when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea.
Be at peace my good and faithful Shipmates.
It’s a damn shame that our government wastes our best and brightest on foolish adventures. I wish their families peace.
Thanks, Biden.
Please don’t trot out Beau again. Or the near loss of your 1967 Corvette, or when you had a small kitchen fire.
FJB.
The Demented Fraud shouldn’t even be allowed to say these Seal’s names.
How about if Joe drives out, in his corvette, with it on fire, and over a cliff?
And as it falls, a trail of classified papers falls out and drifts down ..
Oh dear , thanks for the inopportune chuckle .
God Bless their souls
and damn Biden to Hell
Biden’s still MIA on these soldiers as well as Various disasters around the country ie: East Palestine OH and Hawaii
I’m quite sure that the residents in East Palestine OH will NOT give even 1 vote to FJB. However, I am equally sure that most, if not all the Hawaiians will come out in full force to vote for FJB. WTH is wrong with this Island Nation?????
They are democrats! That’s what’s wrong.
Navy Seals, our finest, among our most dedicated, tried and tested.
We miss you terribly. God bless you forever.
Has President Biden been too busy taking holidays and eating ice creams to say anything about the death of these two?
I wonder how many others we’ve actually lost in the Ukraine, but without us knowing it…
If there are any Americans fighting in Ukraine, they are not Patriotic Americans and deserve nothing from WTP
This calls for a double dip waffle cone for Joe.
I reflexively clenched my teeth. Visceral.
Fair winds and following seas, shipmates. Semper Fidelis.
I would be surprised if they are truly dead, at least from what they have described. A seal can last 10 days in warm water no problem at all. They were prepared, they were well trained, and they certainly know what they are doing.
I would suspect if they died, they did so somewhere else not floating in the warm waters of the gulf.
In which case this long search and declaration of loss were a cruel ploy to hide the truth.
It is doubtless possible, mysterious “training accidents” ramped up as we prodded Ukraine to destroy itself.
I mourn their loss just the same, and regret that we cannot know certain we, and their families, are being told the truth.
“Veterans under Obama suffered.” – 45
https://rumble.com/v35qx06-veterans-under-obama-suffered.html
Officers who served under Secretary Lloyd Austin believed he was a diversity hire!
https://truthsocial.com/@RepMattGaetz/posts/111773421341590712
My condolences to both families for their sacrifice and loss. I am most appreciative of these two young men wanting to serve our great country. They were the best in military around the world. God bless their families.
Amen
Given the fact that this administration lies about everything, it’s entirely possible that the 2 seal operators aren’t dead, but in fact may be prisoners. No proof of this, but quite possible.
No bodies, no proof.
I find it difficult to believe anything coming out of the Obiden/JoeBama administration.
my fear…
True enough. And since the SEALs were acting on a mission, i.e. the interdiction of terrorist tools in the War on Terror and have not been found… Well, without having found the bodies, should not the classification be MIA rather than Deceased?
The reason the Navy can’t seem to hit the Houthis is simple.
#ActingPresident Obama is funding the Houthis.
Just like he funds Hamas.
Just like he funded ISIS.
Just like he funds Iran.
Just like he funds the Taliban.
By the billions and billions and billions.
He wouldn’t give Israel a dime if he thought he could get away with it, but that pretense must be kept up–for now. But he always has a reason to give our enemies vast wealth.
He’s the World’s Largest Funder of Terrorism.
And he will not let the Navy really harm his Houthi Brothers.
“It’s cute, though, that you think Joe Biden runs anything.”
Rest in the Vine: Houthi Q, Brother, I Love You, Houthi Q
Just like he funds the Nazi’s of Ukraine?
And Commies in Venezuela and Cuba.
It’s a Big Payroll and We’re Not On It.
French frigate Latouche-Tréville
And not even a perfunctory “thoughts and prayers to their families” nor a word of gratitude, thanking them for their service from FJB.
https://www.military.com/special-operations/about-the-navy-seals.html
-“Navy SEALs are named after the environment in which they operate, the Sea, Air and Land, and are the foundation of Naval Special Warfare combat forces”
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✝️
I heard that this is a cover-up by the OBIDEN administration. Those Navy Seals were killed in gun fire. It was covered up, because we shouldn’t
have been there in the first place. Did they actually think the Navy Seals would survive that long lost at sea. Give me a break!
Yes I was wondering what exactly happened – how were they “lost ‘ /killed ? If some sickening low rent cover up involved just so Joe can have his afternoon ice cream cone visit, that would not be surprising , and just as disgusting…
…when the race is run
Your course on earth is done
may it be said, “Well done,
Be thou at peace”
Amen.
LLTB 🔱
RIP
These are our Nation’s finest. Pray for their families. Feel safe that men like Chambers and Ingram go where few men and women are willing to go in order to protect our liberty and freedom. Until Valhalla! NSDQ!
Hand Salute to the Fallen:
Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers
Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram
May God Hoist them on Silver Wings and Keep them in the Bosom of His Heart…
Prayers are being said for the families of these Fallen Hero’s..
This breaks my heart. Lord please comfort the families and bless them. I know these 2 are with you.
Amen
This breaks my heart. May time and good memories bring solace to their families.
It sure makes you wonder what really happened to them, because the story we’re being told is a non-starter.
If 2 SEALS died by drowning then there’s a serious issue with who qualifies to be a SEAL and passes SEAL training. Nothing is beyond the scope of how silly our military has become in the 5 years.
That said, I don’t believe the drowning scenario. I have no doubt in my mind these 2 were killed in action in an area WE weren’t supposed to be. Just more hiding or burying of the truth by the DOD.
And don’t they have locator beacons, or are we supposed to forget that?
Great young men lost for nothing but the another swamp distraction.
God Bless them and their families, free America mourns their loss.
So sad that the Beast controlling our MIC still puts these young men in peril, off shore.
I know, we go where the trouble is (the sound of the guns) but mostly, we go where we want to start trouble.
Korea-who made the decision to split?
Vietnam-who created the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
Afghanistan-why did we want those poppy fields?
Ukraine-How do you spell Israel?
So CENTCOM doesn’t know the correct spelling for SCRIPPS Institute of Oceanography, but I bet their proofreader has its own pronouns.
Oh good lord…I didn’t catch that but wow…
God bless them and comfort their families. My heart goes out to everyone who loved them.
They died a warriors death doing what they believed in.
The rest is up to God yo sort out.
See you on the other side brothers.
Beautiful
What a waste.
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Thank you, Sundance, for your loving heart and genuine concern for all.
🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
Matt Bracken, USN ret, and a SEAL, said on X yesterday that this whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Sundance. your video of ship in strong seas gives me shivers. 1960 my husband navigating with sextant on tuna bait boat out of San Diego ran into a chubasco. There had been no warning. Radio crackles (old AM set). Partner boat radios “water over main engine, Stuart. getting in life raft. pick up our guys on Rocka Partita. see you back in port.” I was listening to radio at Darlene’s apartment(her husband in Navy also at sea.) Report says my husband’s boat lost with all crew. I passed out and Darlene poured water on my face. Thank God it was not my husband’s boat that went down. When I went to the dock to pick him up I had to get through all families of drowned crew. Many are the times over the years I sat up from sleep wondering why Coast Guard helicopter going up middle of the night. commercial fishing not for sissy wives.