[mandaladon]

A spokesperson for the Navy's 5th Fleet, which is based in nearby Bahrain, said that a security team aboard the oil supply ship U.S.N.S. Rappahannock fired a .50 caliber machine gun at a "small motor vessel after it disregarded warnings and rapidly approached the U.S. ship" off the coast of Jebel Ali, a city approximately 30 miles from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-navy-fires-ship-persian-gulf-dead/story?id=16787035#.UARK7pG0KSo

[barmag25]

I was just there a couple of weeks ago on a US flagged tanker. God bless the security teams both military and private that travel with our US flagged vessels. The civilian crews appreciate what they do.

[pops88]

Interesting- the Navy spokesman called it a “small motor vessel” and CNN a “pleasurecraft.” The power of words....