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Cowardice and Incompetence in the Persian Gulf – The US Navy has Severe Problems
US Defense Watch ^ | July 6, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 07/06/2016 8:14:44 PM PDT by pboyington

Edited on 08/21/2016 5:52:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Last week, the Navy released the results of a lengthy investigation it had completed, concerning the conduct of one officer and nine enlisted sailors after they willingly surrendered their two Riverine Patrol Craft to the Iranians and were subsequently detained for 15 hours in the Persian Gulf last January.


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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: catholic; codeofconduct; easterneuropean; greek; iran; iranseizesussailors; iranseizesussoldiers; italian; obama; usnavy
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To: warsaw44
Has there ever been a more disgraceful fiasco in the history of the US Navy?

No, there has not. This is almost unbelievable. What an utter disgrace.

21 posted on 07/06/2016 8:53:47 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: pboyington

The U.S. navy only has one problem, the CIC.


22 posted on 07/06/2016 9:01:49 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: pboyington

The sentence that gets me is The officer’s “ low experience and low rank AT THE TIME” did this \\\\wad get a promotion? Well I guess that’s about right. H did what his SOS and Obamy wanted him to do.


23 posted on 07/06/2016 9:05:50 PM PDT by Boowhoknew
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To: Talisker

The message this send to the world is terrifying.

Our friends, allies - everyone.

It also sends a message to the Iranians who long for a day when they’ll be free of these damned mullahs. The same ones who stood up to them in 2009 hoping we’d give them some encouragement, something, anything. They got nothing.

They must have watched this and known a radical change has taken place in America. They know they are on their own.

We are a laughing stock the world over.


24 posted on 07/06/2016 9:08:51 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: pboyington

save us from Mabus,


25 posted on 07/06/2016 9:09:10 PM PDT by Boowhoknew
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To: WENDLE

your rant has a little truism but almost all bad outcomes with our military including this incident is because of WEAK MEN....probably pretty perfumed princes that don’t know how to think, work hard, nor lead....its the MEN...


26 posted on 07/06/2016 9:11:39 PM PDT by cherry
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To: WENDLE
hold on there, Sparky.

from the link:
Lastly, the report found that the female gunner should “receive proper recognition for her extraordinary courage in activating the emergency beacon while kneeling, bound and guarded at Iranian gunpoint, at risk to her own safety.”

Apparently, the female gunner in Nartker’s crew was the only one who seemed to understand their duty and who exhibited courage.

Good on her. That's a soldier.

27 posted on 07/06/2016 9:16:36 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: pboyington
No one looked at a paper map before departing, though it is required. Even if they had looked at a paper map, would they be able to understand how to read it? Too many people up here in northern Michigan rely solely on GPS directions, never look at the current navigational chart for our waters, and end up on a shoal or aground, tearing off their out-drives or props, or ending up on the rocks as a result. I took a course in Advanced Coastal Navigation when I was in my late twenties and it was the best seamanship class I've ever had, and use it to this day in my Great Lakes lifestyle.
28 posted on 07/06/2016 9:41:13 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: WENDLE

Bttt!


29 posted on 07/06/2016 10:27:25 PM PDT by Pagey (HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who is a MALICIOUS DIVIDER of humans)
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To: MagUSNRET
It all starts with leadership and we currently have a stuttering, incoherent god damned islamist faggot in the White House.

To the USN - you should get ready for big, big changes coming your way.

30 posted on 07/06/2016 10:48:23 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: pboyington

There’s are indeed some weird things going on.

Senior Navy official caught on camera threatening young men with gun
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/senior-navy-official-karnig-ohannessian-caught-on-camera-threatening-young-men-with-a-gun/

Karnig Ohannessian is an Armenian name, by the way.


31 posted on 07/06/2016 10:49:21 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: pboyington

That trsns dtuff is really working out. Which one of the 57 genders is a tranformstion?


32 posted on 07/07/2016 2:08:20 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: pboyington

Jesus. My Boy Scout Patrol had more on the ball than these folks.


33 posted on 07/07/2016 3:07:05 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: pboyington

“No one looked at a paper map before departing...”


34 posted on 07/07/2016 3:16:26 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: pboyington

When I expressed concern about this story - something we should all be frightened by - a crazy freeper purporting to be a ‘military man’ became abusive with me - sending me private messages saying I was un-American. Well, this report IS shocking in the extreme. And what can be done about it other than voting out Democrats??? This will take at least a generation to fix.


35 posted on 07/07/2016 3:41:13 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: warsaw44

In answer to you disgrace question, yes almost— when John Kerry—three purple hearts that used two Band-Aids to heal-began his march to Democrat prominence by betraying the very men he supposedly led.


36 posted on 07/07/2016 3:58:15 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: pboyington

37 posted on 07/07/2016 4:19:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: PGR88

Hey, no shooting, they might shoot back and people in both sides might get hurt! Just surrender. (This is what is protecting us today?)


38 posted on 07/07/2016 4:39:20 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: pboyington

DIVERSITY = INCOMPETENCE = PC = LIBTARDS RUNNING THE SHOW = FUBAR

you see benghazi has taught the military
HELP IS NOT ON THE WAY...
no man left behind = NO MORE AMIGO.... you’re on your own

the president and his advisory staff willl watch as you get attacked and murdered
and then get a good nights sleep before fundraising or kickback dealmaking...
and then lie about it and the main stream pravda media will defend their actions

navy should have resisted with their last bullet, called for help and help should have been available immediately.... the PG aint tha big .... help minutes away
but not with this SAD SACK LEADERSHIP-LACKING MILITARY

sadly aside from a hardcore group of snake eating operational patriots
the troops are reflecting the sorry ass state of PC EFFEMINATE INCOMPETENCE AT THE TOP.....THE LIMP WRIST AND CROSSDRESSING PENTAGON....
LIPSTICK AND HIGH HEELS AND WOMEN’S UNDERWEAR....

cant you hear the conversation in the National Military Command Center...
hi there ASH.... does your thong irritate you to the point of going to war...???
well yes Eric .... how about
yours.... and what is that dribbling from
your mouth...
dont ask dont tell
READ MY HIPS...
LIKE YOUR HEELS
up your promotion...


39 posted on 07/07/2016 5:08:22 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: pboyington

If they went down shooting, Obama would have blamed them and sent reparations to Iran.


40 posted on 07/07/2016 5:38:27 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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