[Non-Sequitur]

When this happened before, good old Gerald Ford sent in the Marines and a handful ended the situation quickly and those pirates never took another hostage in their very brief lives.

At the cost of 62 killed and wounded among the U.S. forces.

[ansel12]

The Mayaguez rescue was a disaster we may even have abandoned three men to their death, I was fresh out of the army and I was shocked at how bad it went.