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Moment Iranian drones and speedboats swarm two US warships with 4,000 troops on board during tense clash in the Persian Gulf
Daily Mail ^ | 21 August 2023 | PERKIN AMALARAJ

Posted on 08/21/2023 6:19:15 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Dozens of Iranian drones and speedboats swarming two US Navy ships near the Persian Gulf after Washington sent them in to deal with Iran's renewed threat against one of the world's most important waterways, dramatic new footage has revealed.

Iran's navy sent the small vessels to confront the USS Bataan and the USS Carter Hall in the fraught Strait of Hormuz, which sits between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, according to a video published on Saturday.

The speedboats were manned with armed soldiers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and came within inches of the ships, while drones also taunted the ships and managed to snap pictures right above them.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Iran
KEYWORDS: drones; iran; johnkirby; navy; persiangulf
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Navy crews were occupied in being mustered out for a lecture on proper pronoun usage
1 posted on 08/21/2023 6:19:15 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

And proper tucking. A “lady” doesn’t want her balls moose knuckling in her dress uniform…


2 posted on 08/21/2023 6:20:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: artichokegrower

How many tranny sailors were on board?


3 posted on 08/21/2023 6:21:35 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: EEGator
her balls moose knuckling

Do I want to know what that means?

4 posted on 08/21/2023 6:23:11 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Apparently our feckless uniform wearers and the so-called “Commander in Chief” do not remember the USS Cole.


5 posted on 08/21/2023 6:23:55 AM PDT by LuigiBonnafini
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To: BlackbirdSST

Probably not, but it’s the male version of camel toe.
Too tight pants…


6 posted on 08/21/2023 6:25:00 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: artichokegrower

The captain is a homosexual and is busy giving the sailor boys a bath. The XO is a drag queen busily entering the crew away nasty Persians or there’ll be awesome
scratching and spitting.


7 posted on 08/21/2023 6:33:47 AM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: EEGator
Too tight pants…

Like a small town hotel.

No ballroom.

8 posted on 08/21/2023 6:37:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: artichokegrower

I constantly worry for the rank and file troops with the likes of mark milley being their leader. Every single military honcho in charge since obama was prez needs to spend some time in Fort Leavenworth making peoples from stone for a long, long time.


9 posted on 08/21/2023 6:38:20 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: PGR88

Precisely.


10 posted on 08/21/2023 6:49:48 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: artichokegrower

So Iran knows that our navy will allow a boatload of Iranian military within inches of a warship?

What comes next?

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?


11 posted on 08/21/2023 6:52:48 AM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: bigfootbob

I will take the sun, th heat and humidity for 9 months for a Ma Duce gun crew position with a 1980 ROI for a few engagements with small boats driven by idiots. I have no idea why the saudis and the other rich bitches refuse to control the gulf for themselves by neutering the Iran Navy this decade for “reasons”.

Guess running the price of their product up 50% due to threats is more profitable than the once every 8 year tanker war. Guess that is why they let a small civil warlords stop exporting their product at the red sea.


12 posted on 08/21/2023 6:55:44 AM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: BlackbirdSST

“Do I want to know what that means? “

It’s like a Camel Toe, but with antlers.


13 posted on 08/21/2023 6:56:36 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: artichokegrower

“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fk things up” -Obolo


14 posted on 08/21/2023 7:01:51 AM PDT by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: EEGator

I thought paratrooping was hard on the boyz. Yikes!


15 posted on 08/21/2023 7:05:11 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: null and void

USS Cole part deux?


16 posted on 08/21/2023 7:07:21 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: PLMerite

I don’t know what compelled me to ask my question, I knew I didn’t want to know. Now I know way too much on the subject.


17 posted on 08/21/2023 7:10:57 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: EEGator

It worked once. They can’t help but try it again.

Sorta like stealing an election...


18 posted on 08/21/2023 7:14:52 AM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: artichokegrower
America can be completely energy self sufficient and be a net exporter of oil, natural gas and refined petroleum products. When we become energy self sufficient again, we do not have a single national interest in the Persian Gulf. Other nations will, so it’s their damn problem. No where in the US Constitution does it state that we are the world’s cop. The hundreds of billions of dollars in military assets can be deployed to other areas of the world where we have real interests.

You and I know that to be the South China Sea and the Strait of Taiwan. Our national interests there are semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, steel and building materials, and cheap junk that some clutter their homes. These products represent another self sufficiency effort that must be made concurrently with becoming energy self sufficient. It will destroy China’s economy and America will become an overall net exporter. Then our military assets can be brought into defense of the homeland where we always have a national interest.

Make no mistakes about it. The climate change extremists must be crushed to achieve these goals. Energy self sufficiency is key to dominating world manufacturing. It is low cost energy that will allow America to produce superior products at competitive prices. Our GDP will grow at rates not seen before in American history. The growth of the private sector economy combined with the elimination of the vast majority of government, the elimination of most regulations, reform of the Federal Reserve and our monetary policies, and the right-sizing of our military we begin to pay off our debts.

This is the way we become a true world leader. This is the way we spread “democracy”. We lead by example. Others will follow and others will not. I really do not care if others do or not.

19 posted on 08/21/2023 7:16:14 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: BlackbirdSST

You “looked at the car wreck”…


20 posted on 08/21/2023 7:18:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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