Truth About US Boat Capture by Iran!

American Thinker ^ | 01/13/2016 | Matt Bracken

[2harddrive]

Here is what REALLY happened!

The comment by Matt Bracken on the linked article at the bottom:

"I rarely pull out my dusty old trident, but in this case, here goes. I was a Navy SEAL officer in the 1980s, and this kind of operation (transiting small boats in foreign waters) was our bread and butter. Today, these boats both not only had radar, but multiple GPS devices, including chart plotters that place your boat's icon right on the chart. The claim by Iran that the USN boats "strayed into Iranian waters" is complete bull$#it.

For an open-water transit between nations, the course is studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation's claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke down, the other would tow it, that's why two boats go on these trips and not one! It's called "self-rescue" and it's SOP.

This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are lying. The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed and firepower that it became a "hands up!" situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America's face.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/10_us_sailors_held_by_iran_confirmed_freed.html

[FreeAtlanta]

Payback may be hell, once Obunghole is out of office < 370 days!

[logitech]

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Go to the comments at the bottom of the article

Matt Brackin aka travis mcgee

[Mike Darancette]

Where was the Coastguard cutter?

[RedHeeler]

Asskissing Burkina Faso!

Try to keep up, Mike.

[Mike Darancette]

The now official statement is that the boats we trying to rendezvous with a Coast Guard Cutter for refueling at the time they were captured. No engine failure just took a wrong shortcut to the refueling ship.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/15/the-u-s-radically-changes-its-story-of-the-boats-in-iranian-waters-to-an-even-more-suspicious-version/

[Mike Darancette]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-series-of-mishaps-led-to-iranian-capture-of-10-sailors-1453144565

[Mike Darancette]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/us/politics/navy-releases-timeline-of-irans-capture-of-us-sailors.html?_r=0

[2harddrive]

Iran SEIZED our two small, PT-style boats from INTERNATIONAL waters and kidnapped the crew, in a BOLD demonstration of pure POWER over the Wimp of the White House. Read the 2nd comment, by Matt Bracken, linked below:
http://bit.ly/1nf3vTw

[2harddrive]

Iran SEIZED our two small, PT-style boats from INTERNATIONAL waters and kidnapped the crew, in a BOLD demonstration of pure POWER over the Wimp of the White House. Read the 2nd comment, by Matt Bracken, linked below:
http://bit.ly/1nf3vTw

[ColdOne]

Thank you for that link.

[2harddrive]

No Coast Guard that far away from US waters. Iran SEIZED our two small, PT-style boats from INTERNATIONAL waters and kidnapped the crew, in a BOLD demonstration of pure POWER over the Wimp of the White House. Read the 2nd comment, by Matt Bracken, linked below:
http://bit.ly/1nf3vTw

[Mike Darancette]

“The timeline said that last Tuesday, the crews were taking two riverine command boats, or R.C.B.s, which are typically used to patrol shallow waterways, from Kuwait to Bahrain. The boats departed Kuwait at 12:23 p.m. local time and were supposed to refuel from a Coast Guard cutter in the Persian Gulf at 5 p.m.”

Many cutters have been deployed to the Persian gulf.

[Osage Orange]

Yeah, the whole thing stinks like fish on ice. And to make matters worse, John Kerrys fawning compliments for the way these Persian bastards treated our sailors was humiliating. Obamas entire Iranian policy is a Code Pink exercise in narcissism that places his legacy and ego above the well being of our nation and that entire region.

The truth is that Barry Sowetos legacy is going to be basically Jimmy Carter on steroids with even more damaging policies than the peanut farmer could create.

My only guilty pleasure from all of this is that as these truths become more self evident after B. Hussein is out of office it is going to drive him fucking crazy!

[Osage Orange]

Really?? I never knew that...............

[Mike Darancette]

The refueling ship was probably USCGC Monomoy currently forward-deployed to Manama, Bahrain.

[Osage Orange]

Interesting..