"The Downed $32 Million MQ-9 Reaper Drone: The Houthis Threaten Israeli Ships in the Red Sea"
Channel: Defense Now
Date: 2023-11-14

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh briefs the news media at the Pentagon.
Since October 17th through today, we are tracking that there have been 55 attacks on us forces. There have been 27 attacks against US forces in Iraq and 28 attacks in Syria and an update for you. Um from last week on injuries, we are also tracking 59 US personnel who have received injuries in the TB I or nonserious categories since these act, uh since these attacks began, approximately 27 personnel have been evaluated for TB I and 32 for other non serious injuries. As of today, all 59 have returned to duty and with that.

Iranian backed Houthis downed an MQ nine Reaper drone. A US drone , $32 million drone . So far there's been no response by the US and the Houthis are saying that they will uh threaten Israeli ships in the Red Sea. Isn't the lack of response by the US military inviting uh more actions, aggressive actions by the Houthis. 

So earlier today, the secretary arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia to attend the 10th ASEAN defense ministers meeting plus while in Jakarta, he will conduct an ASEAN United States informal meeting to discuss opportunities to expand the ASEAN United States security co-operation.

Secretary Austin approved a request from the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency to provide 30 DC National Guard personnel to support the DC Police Department during the March for Israel on the National Mall .

These 30 guardsmen will be unarmed and will provide traffic and crowd management support to DC police from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and will remain under the operation and administrative command and control of the DC National Guard . 

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Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Holds Briefing
UNITED STATES
11.14.2023

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