The most plausible explanation for the 10 riverine sailors captured by Iran

American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2016 | Thomas H. Lipscomb

[Travis McGee]

See also: Calling BS on the official story of the Iranian capture of two US riverine boats I have separately heard from two experts, both high ranking Marines, one on active duty and the other working in DC at a foundation, the following.


 When I pressed them on the Fars News Service statement from Iran that the 10 captured on the two US vessels were all Marines, they countered: No, they are part of a Rivierine Squadron based in San Diego. Further they are support crews for SEAL missions from the US Navy and highly trained. The Iranians probably mistook “Riverine” for “Marine” in doing the story. So that explains several things. Why the captured sailors were so much more fit than the average sailor these days, and how a woman could be among them. While not special ops personnel directly engaged, they have to be extraordinarily fit and well-trained, as indeed these sailors appear to be. It also raises the question as to whether they had been on a...(Read Full Post)

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

the psychological interpretation....

Lifson has “Penis Envy.” He has a sense of inadequacy in the face of a “real man”. That’s why he can’t respond.
To apologize, it takes self-confidence. It would mean to actually engage you “man to man” and he is incapable of that...lots like that in the world of academia.

Confident men are not “threatened “by other confident men. They want strong men on their team. They own up to any of their own shortcomings or “mistakes” and eagerly ask others who are competent to join them.

Further analysis would be unfair...albeit, mommy-daddy issues are suspect. ha.

[Big Red Badger]

Mexican standoff,

That’s about it!

[El Gato]

They did not go through Kuwait, they were assigned there, doing port and river security work. They were being reassigned to Bahrain, probably to guard that port, or for refurbishment beyond the capabilities in Kuwait, or as preparation for being shipped back to the US. They may or may not have been replaced with another pair of boats in Kuwait. If they were, the new boats likely got to Kuwait before these two left.

I, Travis, and others, don’t think they were in Irainian waters when taken. Likely they were swarmed by a bunch of smaller, but heaviliy armed, boats, while their radios were Jammed, and their GPS either jammed or spoofed.

It’s possible they were in Iranian waters, due to their GPS being spoofed, but it seems unlikely, since they also had radar, and could “paint” the coast to compare to what GPS was telling them, and could compare what GPS said their heading was, with their compass.