What Happened Off Farsi Island?

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Reply 4 - Posted by: Agent Orange, 1/18/2016 4:47:22 PM     (No. 10615731)
"This former veteran SEAL´s assessment makes a whole lot more sense to me than all the drivel we´ve heard from inside the beltway.
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.
They "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.
MSgt USAF (ret.)
What Happened Off Farsi Island? | The American Spectator
Now that the International Atomic Energy Agency has found Iran to be in compliance with Obama’s nuclear weapons agreement, sanctions have been lifted, more than a hundred billion dollars have been released to the Iranians to do with what they please, and several Americans have been returned from Iranian captivity.
All is well. Everyone should be relaxed and happy, right?
The Iranians, at long last, are our friends. Well, no.
On the day of Obama’s last State of the Union speech, two U.S. Navy boats carrying ten sailors were captured by Iranian Forces near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf.
The next day they were released. But there are a lot of important questions left unanswered about their capture and the sailors’ behavior while in captivity.
These questions are important to the future of our navy because the answers to them may point to damage done by Obama and his team that urgently needs to be repaired.
The facts we know are few.
Two riverine patrol boats, part of the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command, were traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain (a distance of roughly 200 miles) and were supposed to meet a refueling boat along the way.
One boat experienced engine trouble but was still able to proceed at lower than usual speed.
When they came somewhere near Iran’s Farsi Island they were confronted by an Iranian force and surrendered.
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