Posted on 01/14/2016 7:43:13 AM PST by shortstop
Were any of the crewmen JAGs?
If so, it could explain a great many things.
Sighted Ships
Surrendered To Same
I saw one picture where the Iranian navy types were looking at weapons laid out on the deck. I was surprised they gave back the boats.
Do not forget that the current State dept press spokesman is a retd Rear admiral, as well as being a turd..
What difference does it make?
Benghazi was a bigger lie.
Matthew Bracken sends:
I rarely pull out my dusty old trident, but in this case, here goes.
I was a Navy SEAL officer in the 1980s, and this kind of operation (transiting small boats in foreign waters) was our bread and butter.
Today, these boats both not only had radar, but multiple GPS devices, including chart plotters that place your boat’s icon right on the chart. The claim by Iran that the USN boats “strayed into Iranian waters†is complete [bovine effluvia].
For an open-water transit between nations, the course is studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation’s claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke down, the other would tow it, that’s why two boats go on these trips and not one! It’s called “self-rescue†and it’s SOP.
This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are lying.
The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed and firepower that it became a “hands up!†situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water.
I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America’s face.
Just watch. The released sailors will be ordered not to say a word about the incident, and the Iranians will have taken every GPS device, chart-plotter etc off the boats, so that we will not be able to prove where our boats were taken.
The “strayed into Iranian waters†story being put out by Iran and our groveling and appeasing State Dept. is utter and complete BS from one end to the other.
But somebody will.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven and has from the minute it hit the airwaves. When I saw pics of captured sailors laughing and eating food the captors gave them and not a mark on them I was like WTF?
Isn’t the new Navy boss an AA woman appointed by Obama who’s never been in command of a boat? Pathetic. Not only is the Navy run by a know nothing political hack but why were TWO boats broken down at the same time? What the hell is going on? Who is running the show?
The TREASON ESCALATES!!!
I'm more cynical.
How far up do we have to go to find the treasonous SOB who ordered this staged event to happen?
No remember he was preparing a very important speech and making travel plans to repeat that speech in two elementary schools the next two days. Super busy, could not have given the order to surrender.
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