This was the day before Capt. Phillips tried to escape.
Compare how modest the captain was (a true hero and full of courage) compared with the amateur posers occupying the White House. Stuff is so FUBAR these days.
I have not been in the exact situation as occured but know something of the way these things work. The delaying of the shooters to the scene by Obama ,if true, is definitely outside of the norm in these situations. To me the delay by Obama makes absolutley no sense tactically. It is nonsensical in that his order to delay deployment put the captains life in danger. The standing order always in these situations is that the good guys smoke the bad guys if the hostage is in imminent danger. I know it was reported that Obama gave his okay to take out the bad guys if the need should arise which is a load of you know what. Even if Obama would not have given his okay the bad guys would still have died in that situation. The only way I can figure it, is that Obama knew he could not override the standing order and that is why he delayed the shooters. This whole thing needs to be investigated because of the legal issues surrounding his order to delay deployment. Even though I am no longer in the service my son is. It is decision making like this that causes me to lose even more sleep than I already do.
I will be pleased if the merchant marine seamen who chased the pirates off their ship are not prosecuted for being too mean. You know, that kind of behavior is called assault. And if they took the pirates guns from them, then they were armed merchant men, in violation of the rules.