Posted on 01/14/2016 9:39:04 AM PST by wtd
Matthew Bracken sends this graphic as a commentary on yesterday's news from the Persian Gulf:
Additional commentary by Mr. Bracken was posted yesterday at WRSA:
"I rarely pull out my dusty old trident, but in this case, here goes. I was a Navy SEAL officer in the 1980s, and this kind of operation (transiting small boats in foreign waters) was our bread and butter. Today, these boats both not only had radar, but multiple GPS devices, including chart plotters that place your boat's icon right on the chart. The claim by Iran that the USN boats "strayed into Iranian waters" is complete [bovine effluvia].
For an open-water transit between nations, the course is studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation's claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke down, the other would tow it, that's why two boats go on these trips and not one! It's called "self-rescue" and it's SOP.
This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are lying. The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed and firepower that it became a "hands up!" situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America's face.
Just watch. The released sailors will be ordered not to say a word about the incident, and the Iranians will have taken every GPS device, chart-plotter etc off the boats, so that we will not be able to prove where our boats were taken.
The "strayed into Iranian waters" story being put out by Iran and our groveling and appeasing State Dept. is utter and complete BS from one end to the other.
Media reports:
Just like our drone that suddenly landed in Iran in December 2011.
I also remember BJ Clinton giving missile technology to China because we had “an unfair advantage”.
I have no words.
Kerry is jealous that he didn’t get the chance to surrender to the VC. Kerry is Swift-Boating himself.
This was shameful and it was an act of piracy. And the ****ing traitors in Washington are going along with it so they don’t look bad.
I believe our old PT boats had three engines.
How many engines do these boats have?
“This was shameful and it was an act of piracy.”
Yes, I believe the Fraud intended to give them the boats.
Well, that’s one way of getting info to hussein’s muzzie bros.
One boat in distress, maybe. Both boats, no way. Then not a peep out of the Terrorist in Chief about it during his speech and the msm holding off until after.
I heard earlier today that they have twin diesel engines....each.
So, both engines would have to fail.
The chances of that happening?
I’m not military so I have a question. If they took all the GPS and maps, etc. so there was no proof left on the boat, and they were under the supervision of a larger craft, wouldn’t the larger craft know exactly where the smaller craft were at all times. It seems the military would have proof where the boats were seized. But then again like I said I’m an old grandma without military experience.
yeh, something stinks, and it isn’t diesel fumes.
Ping!
As another FReeper stated, BAD BIO-FUEL probably. I wouldn’t doubt it.
Sabotage at the diesel pump?
But.. IMO, this entire event was planned by both team 0dunga AND Iran, well before the boats departed their place of origin. Another 0dunga ‘giveaway’ as it were and to embarrass the U.S. and making Iran look ‘nice’ for giving our sailors back ahead of receiving their $150 BILLION jackpot.
Could be, but I would think the problem would have hit earlier.
Could be, but I would think they’re trained to clean fuel filters.
That would make Obama a traitor.
I think that this happening right before Obama’s speech was a slap in the face to him.
I think Obama is involved in this Shia/Sunni feud right up to his eyeballs.
Clinton gave the ball bearing factory specs to the chi-coms in exchange for info regarding MIAs.
Was it worth it? Probably not in the arena of national security, but to the families of the MIAs, possibly.
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