Fired as in kicked out of the Navy or fired in that he’ll be navigating a desk the rest of his career?
Someone had to take the fall for making 0bama and Kerry look bad.
Active Duty ping.
rocks and shoals...
” Rasch was the executive officer of the squadron at the time of the incident.”
Can’t find who was the CO at the time, must have had a strong alibi.
The Fall Guy.
Saw that one coming.
the thing which just does not make sense to me is they say in the article that they were in Iranian waters.
Just how is that possible? I suspect they were not. If they really were, then someone is an idiot.
This has Obama-smell all over it.
“fired” what the hell is “fired”? This is the MILITARY!! You court Marshall and imprison the scab. I want to know the real story here — not the lies!! “FIRED” — Holy crap!!
YEsss...!!!!!
Super happy ping!
He deserves to go down. As I recall, the riverboats did not refuel before taking on their daily tasks, and ran out of fuel. Poor, poor, training if true.
Former SBU24 sailor
That little episode is right up there with the ‘usama bin Laden’ “kill” and subsequent “burial at sea in accordance with muslim tradition” bullshit ( & ignoring that little SOF helicopter incident afterwards too).
LOOK at those “sailors”... physiques by 5 years’ duty at Larry’s Bar and Grill.
<24 hours from “capture” to “release” ??? Kerry’s intervention released them??? Quadruple bullshit.
That little event was staged from beginning to end by BOTH the CIA-SOF/State/WH AND the IRG.
Obama probably just wants to put a black, lesbian, Muslim woman in his place.
Ranch is just the scapegoat. He was following orders from the White House
Could it be the Iranians had a different definition of territorial waters to which they wanted this Administration and our Navy to subscribe? That seems more likely. Regardless my CO and I would have laid out a course which intercepted the friendly shore at least by the latitude of the Iranian island. We would have been nowhere near the island, and the refueling ship would have been where we assigned it.
Finally how could the Navy lose track of these boats? Why were the crews not initiating contact? During an amphibious exercise my wave of assault boats were swallowed by a fog. When I saw that fog coming I made sure the flag ship could vector us back to our LPD. In this case the departure port, refueling ship, and the destination port should all share the same radio frequency and do regular radio checks. This evolution was not rocket science.
This event directs my memory back to the Cold War involving China as well as the Soviet Union. Navy ships stationed in Yokosuka Japan ”patrolled” through the Taiwan Straits as they transited to Vietnam. Our captain told us that if any Chinese ship tried to intercept us we would fight. The prospect was not that exciting because our heaviest armament were three dual 3in50cal anti-aircraft mounts. But the Pueblo incident was on everyone’s mind and that was going to be our response.
As far as I am concerned everything we have been and will be told by this Administration and their Navy acolytes is a lie.
Next should be the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.