These aren't Somalian skinnies in motorboats grabbing these ships, they're trained Yemeni special forces arriving in helicopters. Civilians with light arms are not going to deter them.
“Civilians with light arms are not going to deter them.”
A single bullet in a helicopter engine will cause someone a bad day. When I think light arms, I’m thinking P90. In my opinion, ships should be armed with the equivalent of deck guns or shoulder launched rockets. You’d see the number of ships seized drop immediately.
Of course, there needs to be someone on board who knows how to use those arms. There are plenty of former soldiers who would like the extra pay. I knew a guy who was in his late fifties employed as one of the guards for civilian doctors in Afghanistan. He was lightly built but knew how to hose down anyone who came too close. He was fully booked every day he was there. He only quit when it became too dangerous for civilian NGO’s to send their doctors out to the outback.
“”they’re trained Yemeni special forces arriving in helicopters.””
There was an interesting segment on FOX yesterday with the Captain of the USS Cole... I wondered why the attack reported a week ago by the Yemenis on a ship THOUGHT to be Israeli wasn’t met with armed men aboard the ship. I always wondered the same thing about the USS Cole. This thread explains the missing information. If it was covered in the interview with the Captain of the USS Cole, I sure didn’t hear it.
Still need the US out of the UN - UN out of the US....I bet all those leeches have armed security...
I remember reading in John O’Neill’s book “The Man Who Warned America”, when the FBI was sent to investigate the USS Cole attack, they were not allowed to carry weapons in Yemen with the law laid down by the female US Ambassador at the time - whose name I’ve forgotten but she had no problem moving further up in her career...
John later was working for the FBI in NYC and was assigned to the World Trade Tower and died on 9/11/01...last seen directing others out of the building. If I recall correctly, it was his first day on that job.
Civilians with light arms and conviction freed and set in motion what would become the USA.