To: <1/1,000,000th%
"Like we did on the USS Cole?"
The officers on the Cole were so distracted by preparing for an upcoming inspection that they failed to realize that the missile that their radar was tracking was about to hit them. Inexcusable, but not an ROE issue.
19 posted on
03/27/2007 10:43:17 AM PDT by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: Airborne1986
The officers on the Cole were so distracted by preparing for an upcoming inspection that they failed to realize that the missile that their radar was tracking was about to hit them. Inexcusable, but not an ROE issue.
The Cole was attacked by a group of suicide bombers in a boat. IIRC, the attack was a sneak attack; it wasn't as if a missile was coming in and they didn't engage it.
28 posted on
03/27/2007 11:20:07 AM PDT by
JamesP81
(Eph 6:12)
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