An F-22 Raptor taking part in a fighter exercise Monday in Savannah, Georgia, was involved in a mishap around 11:30 a.m. local time.
The destroyer has been at the forefront of the fight against Houthi rebels in the Middle East for the past six months.
The hurt crew member had suffered injuries from a hot fuel oil spill.
Five of the injured troops were transported to a civilian hospital, with four released the next day, the Navy said.
The Navy will honor the Marines and sailors who served in Afghanistan with the name of the next America-class amphibious ship.
One lawmaker called Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro’s answers to recruiting questions “a lot of hot air.”
It's the second fleet-wide stand-down of the Navy's trainer aircraft fleet since 2022.
An F-16 assigned to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, crashed around 11:50 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
In a memo obtained by Defense News, a Marine Corps squadron commander raises the alarm about the quality of Lockheed Martin's new F-35C jets.
The aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower has been operating in the Middle Eastern waters of U.S. Central Command since November.
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