soebarkah’s view of diplomacy is to give the bully his lunch money in the hope of not getting a swirlee.
Obola is going to have to cut the paragraph about our great relationship with Iran
My thoughts and prayers for the men and women of the USN.
Cant help thinking though, that the Royal Navy took ridicule and commendation from people here and across the US when the same happened to ‘Mr Bean’ and Co a few yeara ago......
How the hell does the Navy I todays age in a war stricken area lose two boats for crying out loud?
WTF? You mean Obama isn’t on TV making another speech deploring gun violence by them thugs?
How long for them to take everything apart take pictures and document all our super secret tech and then return it? Months?
Prayer’s up for the crew. I don’t trust Iran any father than I can throw an aircraft carrier.
The Tripoli pirates are not much different than the "Iranian Pirates and Their Ability to Buffett Obama Around.....Iranians should walk up to Obama during his SOTU and Kick him in the arss....before the American people do over this latest slap in the face by the J.V. Team.
Active Duty ping.
If the details coming out are accurate, somebody screwed up very badly. No way this should have played out like it did.
Where are those boats? They should be aweigh by now.
Officials said the sailors were part of Riverine Squadron 1 based in San Diego and were deployed to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet in Bahrain. When the U.S. lost contact with the boats, ships attached to the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier strike group began searching the area, along with aircraft flying off the Truman.
Officials said a radio signal from one of the boats showed that they were on Farsi Island, setting off efforts to contact the Iranians. The Riverine boats were not part of the carrier strike group, and were on a training mission as they traveled between Kuwait and Bahrain, officials said.
What boats?
I posted this reply on an American Thinker article today.
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 bull$#it.
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.