Posted on 05/12/2016 5:56:12 PM PDT by QT3.14
The commanding officer of a West Coast-based Navy riverine squadron has been fired in the fallout from an investigation into an incident in which ten sailors were briefly captured by Iranian forces earlier this year.
Cmdr. Eric Rasch, commanding officer of Coastal Riverine Squadron 3, was relieved today by Capt. Gary Leigh the commander of Coastal Riverine Group 1 due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to command,” according to a Navy release.
Leigh made the decision to remove Rasch after reviewing a preliminary investigation into the incident that unfolded over Jan. 12-13. Two riverine boats carrying ten sailors from CRS-3 were apprehended by the Iranian military after they entered Iranian waters.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
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.
> the thing which just does not make sense to me is they say in the article that they were in Iranian waters.
Several weeks before this incident the Iranians hijacked a US drone, by giving it false GPS signals stronger than the real GPS. The drone thought it was in a location other than where it was and it’s auto-landing routine kicked in allowing the Iranians to capture it.
I’d bet the Iranians pulled the same thing on the 2 SWCC Boats.
“Obama Kiss Ass” not a “Commanding Officer”
http://www.militarycorruption.com/LTCWest-1.htm
Still taking and absorbing Liberal arrows for being a True Leader.
I weep for MY Military as it was MY Life
(I really miss my Guys/Gals)
Here’s a link to help you understand why he isn’t being court martial...
The military can fire you....for incompetence among other things...
http://www.military.com/benefits/military-legal-matters/courts-martial-explained.html
Who is this Court Marshall guy you speak of?
"When's dinner? I'm hungry"
"Do you guys have X-box or WII?"
"Um, yeah, we ran out of fuel, lost all nav, radio, GPS, and had no backup or rescue, lost all SATNAV, SATTRACK and SATCOM too, compasses and dead reckoning broken too"
"When's dinner???"
"Can we take a group selfie?"
"We're transgender and Black Power salute friendly."
THAT (Point at the Picture of the supposed Commanding Officer)
sheesh I messed up that post
They made the Navy look bad. Obama & Kerry couldn't give a f*** ... Kerry a grandstanding phony Navy hero and Obama whose obscure past brings to question did he ever register for the draft? Understand, Obama was in his foreign student, born in Mombasa mode at the time. Before his Hawaii ... no birth certificate to verify ... more recent evolution.
Weeks? Try half-decade if you’re referring to the RQ-170 HANDOVER.
Dang I messed that Post up ... just fired up
Ranch is just the scapegoat. He was following orders from the White House
Desk. No chance of premier assignments and zero chance of promotion. His career is dead.
Fired is common nonmeclature in the military. Fired means removed from the job.
According to the story at the link in #23, he has been relieved of comand and reassigned.
yep. kinda what I was thinking.
The Russian army is a military organization, with no queers allowed.
The American army under the MOOSELIMB HUSSEIN BARAKA appears to be chock full of faggots, morons, women everywhere they are not supposed to be, and diversity cases.
The fact is that no normal self respecting American has joined the American military in at least 6 years.
The Trump purge is going to be a beautiful thing.
**** “The fact is that no normal self respecting American has joined the American military in at least 6 years” *****
My Son left the Military after 6 years (Navy) and I quote “Loved my job, but we were a Social Experiment”
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.
**** “The Russian army is a military organization, with no queers allowed” ****
Still there just fewer and a better walking Blood Supply ...
For just that reason alone Gays should be shown the door, to hell with PC or anything else they are Tainted Blood because of their Lifestyle Choice and not Fit to Serve unless they take themselves out of the Blood Donor Pool, which makes them pretty much hired hands that can’t be up front.
If I had to get a field transfusion that saves my life but gives me Aids and or Hep and therefore a few years left to live because of it ... I’m spending the rest of my quality time/years Hunting (and it wouldn’t be for a Deer)
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