The Harry S. Truman carrier strike group’s nine-month deployment, which ended in late May, included four mishaps resulting in the loss of nearly $100 million in equipment. While no U.S. personnel were seriously hurt in any of the incidents, naval investigators acknowledge that there could’ve been “catastrophic” outcomes had they played out a little differently.

The carrier group deployed in September 2024, first heading to the North Sea, where it participated in NATO exercise Neptune Strike before it entered the Red Sea in mid-December to eventually lead the Pentagon’s Operation Rough Rider, the U.S. military’s 52-day bombing campaign of the Yemen-based Houthis.