Somebody on an earlier thread pointed out that it’s a hard-bulkhead covered lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama, not an open one. The pirates and the captain are inside, out of sight.
I wondered the same thing; any Marine fresh out of Sea School on the deck of the Destroyer could make the shot easily, over open sights-if we were talking about the open boat that the pirates arrived in. (Do destroyers have Marine detachments? Probably not.)
It’s all about orders from Washington at this point. If I had to guess, the White House will trade the captain’s life for their lives, and they’ll walk.
What would it take to make that lifeboat slowly sink?