{"id":46676,"date":"2024-05-20T18:15:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/05\/20\/after-an-historic-deployment-the-uss-carney-is-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:03:26","slug":"after-an-historic-deployment-the-uss-carney-is-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/05\/20\/after-an-historic-deployment-the-uss-carney-is-home\/","title":{"rendered":"After an historic deployment, the USS Carney is home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After more than seven months deployed, most of it spent fighting off sustained missile and drone barrages fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the men and women of the Navy destroyer Carney returned home Sunday to Naval Station Mayport, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, Carney was deployed for 235 days, a record-setting cruise that began in the Mediterranean Sea but saw the warship shift south to the Red Sea following the Palestinian militant group Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve days after Hamas\u2019 attack, on Oct. 19, Carney got its first chance to take it to the Houthis, when the destroyer intercepted a salvo of missiles and drones fired from Houthi territory in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the Houthis have at times fired at military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea at a near-daily clip earlier this year, and Carney was often at the forefront of the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sailors of the destroyer Carney man the rails as the ship pulled back into Naval Station Mayport, Florida, on Sunday. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Steven Khor\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The ship also helped take down missiles fired by Iran at Israel last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carney\u2019s crew conducted 51 engagements against the Houthis over six months, the first time the Navy has directly engaged an enemy to such a degree since World War II, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franchetti greeted the crew last week when they made a pit stop in Norfolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\t