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Did Iran Take A Us Ship?


karlunity

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Sez: Initial media reports suggested the vessel was a US cargo ship but US officials denied this and said no Americans were on board.

 

Been through that area a bunch of times. They Iranians always play games there. If it was a US flag ship, I guarantee that there would have been a US destroyer escort there with it and this would not have happened.

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Doc, possibly it was a spy ship like the Pueblo. The US govt went into denial mode after the Pueblo, crew and classified surveillance equipment was captured. I can't recall all the late 60's facts but I do recall the US claiming the unescorted ship was not a spy ship saying it had some other so-called legit reason for being near North Korean waters. My guess it will be years before we hear the truth. If I'm totally in the dark about the reason but it is a US ship. Our spineless leader either wont do anything or give the store away via The Botox Doofus Secretary of State to recover it.

 

Doc I have to give you credit for having the testicular fortitude as an American to travel in the area. I wouldn't have the nerve to travel anywhere near the Mideast even if I were to be heavily armed.

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It was a living. As a sailor, you go where they send your ship. We hauled JP4, some JP5 and Diesel from Bahrain to the whole far east, Subic, Okinawa, ships at sea in the Gulf of Arabia, Guam, Diego Garcia, etc. I did that run for about 2 years. Military charter. A destroyer escort would pick us up before we got to Hormuz, then escort us into the Persian Gulf, AKA "The of the World." That was during "Tanker Wars" when Iran and Iraq were fighting and both sides were shooting up unarmed tankers, sometimes their own. I was on an unarmed tanker. We would see ships hit by rockets from aircraft in Bahrain. The Iranians had a battleship or cruiser or something really big that would patrol the strait. They would go zig-zag in front of you, try to get you to do stuff like they seem to have done to that ship. The tin can escort we would have would make mean gestures back. We were in the middle of it all, of course.

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