Adm. Stephen Koehler assumed of U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony Thursday.
Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Elijah Riddle is at least the second sailor to die aboard a deployed Navy warship in recent weeks.
In 2010, after an earthquake struck Haiti, fleet antiterrorism security team Marines were sent to assist the Marine guards at the embassy there.
The Navy’s moves against the Houthis mirrors the sea service's Middle East operations in the 1980s.
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