I agree with you that we are being lied to. With the federal government, all the way back to the Tonkin Gulf, to “read my lips, no new taxes”, to “Irag has weapons of mass destruction”, to “what difference does it make?”.........we get lied to.
BUT, I’ve been in Navy small boats out on open water and bays and harbors scores of times. We called them “Mike boats”. What they really were were old WWII landing craft the Navy converted for use as “utility service boats” for ships in harbors and bays although I did go out into the Sea of Japan one dark night in one.
In any event, I can tell you these things (small boats in the Navy) DO break down, and often! Then you are usually just STUCK waiting for the massive navy bureaucracy to MOVE and send help!
My guess is one boat lost power and these kids were just waiting for help.
The initials (officially) for this in the Navy are “it was a huge CF”.
The second boat was just hanging around (I guess).
If one boat had trouble, the other boat could have towed it. There is more to this story than meets the eye. Terrible to use these young sailors, and especially with a woman aboard, this way...coz’ anything could have gone wrong
that explains the boat breakdown, but what about radio breakdown as well, plus “lost touch with the fleet”, how do you explain that? i can’t believe we don’t have Aegis tracking everything afloat in the gulf, certainly two of our own. how do you explain that? both radios, AND the fleet radar?
First the story was one boat ran out of fuel. Then they added ran out of fuel and ran aground in Iranian territorial waters. Then they added that the second boat ran out of fuel. The video of them on deck clearly shows that neither boat is hard aground.