Matt Bracken's thoughts: "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 bull$#it.
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." - Matt Bracken
Patriotism means to stand by the country, it does not mean to
stand by the president
- Theodore Roosevelt
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