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Iran Detains 10 US Navy Sailors
Riverine Command Boat (RCB) 802, assigned to Combined Task Group (CTG) 56.7, conducts patrol operations in the Arabian Gulf in Oct. 2015. Two small riverine vessels of this type were detained on Iran’s Farsi Island. MC2 Torrey W. Lee / U.S. Navy
Just in time for Obama’s final State of the Union:
Published in Foreign Policy, MilitaryIranian military forces seized two U.S. Navy boats Tuesday and are detaining them on Iran’s Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf, senior U.S. officials told NBC News.
The 10 American sailors were on a training mission around noon ET when one of the boats may have experienced mechanical failure and drifted into Iranian-claimed waters, officials said. Iran’s coast guard took them into custody.
The officials said it’s unclear whether the sailors — nine men and one woman — aboard the two small riverine vessels had strayed into Iranian territorial waters before they were captured.
“At this point, we’re still monitoring the situation and it’s not entirely clear what happened,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on MSNBC, adding that Iranian authorities confirmed that the sailors are safe.
Earnest said there remained no exact time frame for when the sailors would be let go, but didn’t expect a long delay.
Following reports of the incident, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Iranian officials in Tehran by phone, attempting to secure the sailors’ release.
Twitchy.com has pictures of shoeless sailors and the female with a shawl on her head, all being held in a room sitting on the floor leaned up against the wall. Striking images.
How the hell does a twerp like this get to be a Rear Admiral? Compromising pics of SECNAV, or is he some kind of Jedi Master in the fine art of knowing what to kiss when?
I will simply assume that he was very good at his job. What that job was, I do not know.