It ain't your father's America anymore.
It ain't your father's America anymore.
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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT !!
The boats were both heavily army with small arms and (looks like) 40 cal mounted
These people stood down and allowed the boarding ... They HAD to ...
jug ears sez so ...
I doubt that our rulers will ever disclose the truth.
You will never, ever find out who gave the order to surrender combat capable vessels. If the order did not come from the top, why not? Where was Obama? Campaigning?
I would end up court martialed afterwards than give up my boat(boats) to these animals with their “john boats with sunshades and tassels”. Animals that have the nasty habit of cutting peoples heads off.
Better being a captain of my own bass boat than putting my crew at risk of being prisoners or dead.
With the imposed “Rules of Engagement” if the crews of both boats fought capture, they’d have been court-martialed for firing of the innocent “FISHING BOATS” of another nation. Also charge with the killing of any of the innocent “fishermen”.
After Iranian protest, the MEDIA would have labeled the sailors as “Trigger happy “warmongers” and demanded reparations to the families of the Iranian “fishermen.”
When I first heard about this, and the explanation, the scene in the Avengers where Fury orders the carrier to the South, the guy at the helm responds that the nav system is down and Fury says “Is that the Sun rising? Put it on our left!” came to mind.
Also Kirk telling Sulu that “I don’t think these kids know how to steer” at the beginning of Wrath of Khan.
How much time in navigation classes have these sailors really been in? As opposed to various “sensitivity” and “awareness” ones?
They were testing the Iranian navy and hoping to start a war. Didn’t work so maybe they should try again, with the carrier.
Maybe the boats were fueled with that crap biofuel.
It’s January, too.
Did we get our boats back? I think not. The Iranians are having a go at all the neat stuff on them.
Were any of the crewmen JAGs?
If so, it could explain a great many things.
Sighted Ships
Surrendered To Same
Do not forget that the current State dept press spokesman is a retd Rear admiral, as well as being a turd..
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.
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?