2 Navy ships collide in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in minor injuries

Two individuals sustained insignificant injuries aft a collision betwixt a U.S. destroyer and a proviso vessel connected Wednesday portion transferring supplies, according to U.S. Southern Command. 

"The Arleigh Burke-class guided rocket destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG103) and the Supply-class accelerated combat enactment vessel USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) collided during a replenishment-at-sea," Col. Emmanuel Ortiz said successful a statement. "Two unit reported insignificant injuries and are successful unchangeable condition. Both ships person reported sailing safely. The incidental is presently nether investigation."

The Wall Street Journal archetypal reported the collision. 

Since August, the Navy has built up a beingness of warships successful oregon adjacent the Caribbean Sea arsenic portion of the Pentagon's stated extremity of countering narcotics. Since then, the U.S. subject has conducted strikes against alleged cause boats and imposed the partial quarantine President Trump announced backmost successful December connected sanctioned lipid tankers going successful and retired of Venezuela. 

Replenishments-at-sea to present indispensable supplies and instrumentality are reasonably regular yet analyzable missions that impact 2 ships sailing broadside by side. They tin instrumentality days to hole for and respective hours to complete. 

The USS Truxtun arrived successful Fourth Fleet earlier this week, joining astir a twelve ships presently adjacent South America, including the world's largest craft bearer the USS Gerald R. Ford. 

The 2 individuals who sustained insignificant injuries were not transported for treatment, a U.S. authoritative said. 

While this is the archetypal known mishap successful the Caribbean, the Navy precocious had a drawstring of accidents successful the Middle East involving the USS Harry S. Truman bearer onslaught radical that were caused successful portion by the precocious accent environment. 

Over the people of its deployment from September 2024 done May 2025, the radical had a affable occurrence incidental successful December — erstwhile a Navy destroyer launched missiles astatine 2 F-18s — a collision with a merchant vessel successful February and mislaid 2 F-18s, one successful April and another successful May.