Posted on 06/30/2016 8:59:43 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Weak leadership, poor judgment, a lack of "warfighting toughness" and a litany of errors led to the embarrassing capture and detention by Iran of 10 U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf in January, according to a Navy investigation released Thursday.
Six officers and three enlisted sailors have been disciplined or face disciplinary action.
The trouble began even before the sailors left port in Kuwait aboard two 50-foot boats on a short-notice, 300-mile journey to Bahrain. They were delayed, unprepared, poorly supervised and ill-suited for the mission, the report said.
At least one sailor had been up all night with boat repairs. Their higher headquarters failed to arrange air or surface monitoring of the boats' transit. Such monitoring "would likely have prevented" the sailors' capture by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, according to the report.
The Navy's top officer, Adm. John Richardson, was presenting the investigation's results at a Pentagon news conference.
The lengthy investigation concluded that while the boat crews erred in entering Iranian waters, the Iranians violated international law by impeding the boats' "innocent passage," and violated U.S. sovereign immunity by boarding and seizing the boats.
Other rules were "ignored for convenience," resulting in the boats being "unable to present the appearance of a hard target or to defend themselves against (Iranian) aggression." The Iranians boarded the U.S. boats, confronted the sailors at gunpoint and took them to Farsi Island, where they remained overnight before being released after Washington intervened.
"Decision-makers at every level failed to intervene when the boats could not achieve minimum communications standards ... and when the (boats) violated Saudi and Iranian territorial seas," the report said.
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Funny how criminals seem to have such disregard for what it says on paper.
Iran broke the law my a**.
Iran abode by the law?
More transgender and promiscuity training is obviously needed for sailors.
Seems like their training worked, they were crying in about 10 minutes.
This is just the beginning of the results we are going to see from the ‘new’ military that the Liberals have given us.
To a Muslim written non-Islamic laws don’t count. Only Sharia law counts. There is no other law. So, what law do you break when, if you are Islamic, you can make your own law?
I am an American fighting man, I will never surrender of my own free will.
Why were the sent on this mission “on short notice”?
Do you suppose this was a set-up, so that they could be captured, giving Iran some massive propaganda victory? IIRC, Kerry went off on some excessive speech expressing our gratitude to Iran over releasing these guys.
How do you suppose these confrontations will go, when half of the US military is gay and/or transgender?
We are doomed.
Well of course the sailors lack ‘warfighting toughness’!!! That would mean they were MEN and the new sensitive military can’t have any of those awful creatures around because they might offend someone’s feelings!
Basically what they are saying is that if 1,000 crack troops from Russia wanted to, they could take Washington DC in a few hours. By the time the jets were scrambled, Obama would have signed a surrender.
‘Do you suppose this was a set-up, so that they could be captured, giving Iran some massive propaganda victory’
Yes. And I’m sure if those, on our side, implicated in this mess are women, minorities, LBGTQXYZ, etc., we will NEVER hear about it.
The USN will not get the message until an Admiral is relieved. VADM Donegan, 5th Fleet, needs to go. These were his people and sh!t-canning junior officers and enlisted men will not amount to anything.
It’s simple...they weren’t Marines
Right. Situations like this exist and arise because the command structure (or the management chain in the civilian world) allow or encourage it. In truth, the rot that caused this disgrace begins in the Oval Office.
This is a Barack Hussein Soetoro Odinga Soebarkah WTF 0bama thing.
Iran broke the law?
Once again, the media is wrong.
It is only against the law if Obama says it is against the law.
Do they seriously think we live in a nation of laws?
No sirree bob, we live in a nation of Men.
Serious dereliction not to send aircraft to locate the RPBs after BOTH boats lost comms.
Seem it would be SOP in a hot zone.
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