Claim by Iran Wake Up America.
Forwarded
from a Navy Vet friend.......
Here is what a good
friend and former squid sent me regarding this.
What a former Navy
SEAL had to say about it.
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 unexplained 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 take-down 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
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