Sure. Do you really believe a US Navy ship with 300 people could keep that secret? Your husband’s ‘military friends’ are morons.
My husband’s military friends are people he got to know over the course of his years in the Marines.
And who says it was a ship? US submarines of the time had AA missiles, smaller Navy boats/ships could be similarly armed, and the parts that the government was looking for at the time were consistent with a Stinger and not a Russian system.
A Bayliner could have launched a Stinger.
Sure. Do you really believe a US Navy ship with 300 people could keep that secret? Your husband’s ‘military friends’ are morons.
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My thoughts too. Military men are genuine experts when it comes to scuttlebutt. No offense meant, merely an observation.