The ten U.S. sailors who were seized by Iranian gun boats when they drifted into Iranian territorial waters have been released without incident. It appears that one of the boats suffered from some type of mechanical failure, and negotiations for the sailors release were quickly accomplished. It helped that the Farsi Island location at which the boats were found drifting was neither a strategic location, nor a sensitive location for communications or other military activities.
A video has surfaced wherein one of the sailors appears to be apologizing for the accidental incursion, which could complicate things for the sailors.
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Let’s put it this way: You are the leader of 10 men, captured by a rogue military from a terrorist nation but not at war with your country; You are held captive, your llife and the lives of the men you lead are subject to be snapped at a minute. You are told to aplogize or face execution…. What would you do? That was the situation with our sailors in the Sea of Hormuz… So, the boat commander “apologized”, and he and his men were released… Should he have followed to the code of conduct that, as an officr, is subject to???? And in so doing, would have caused him and 10 others the loss of thier loves??? There were precedents where men acquiesced to indignity and “apologized”, and those men were recognized to have done THE ONLY thing they could do under the circumstances…. I do not believe the boat commander did anything wrong in apologizing for “intruding” into the Iranian space…
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Where was the military support for these two boats? Surely they could see the Iranians approaching on radar??? Why were they left alone out there? This smells like obuma set this up!!
he was forced to do it
Before I give my opinion, I want to hear exactly what happened. I personally think that the Obama WH told the Lt. what to say.
Actually it’s not that clear , the were detainees, not POWs . They obviously didn’t have any SERE training
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Why not charge the real problem,,,,Obama,,,,he set our boys and girls up …
he should be invited to the whitehouse obama invited the parents from Bergdahl to the white house and he is a traitor. The sailor thinks about his man to bring them home save