@schnurrbart wrote:
Except that they didn't break down in Iranian waters. They drifted into their waters after the breakdown.
There was no break down. We are suppose to believe our sailors are completely incompetent. Are our boats equipped with junk chinese equipment. Or maybe our sailors were tying to figure out if they are really boys or girls.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday it appears a navigational error caused the crews of two Navy boats to stray into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf, where they were detained overnight by Iran and released.
"It does appear - the information that they have given us and through their commanders - that they did stray accidentally into Iranian waters due to a navigation error," Carter said in an interview in Miami with Fusion network. Later, he flew to Tampa to meet with leaders of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the U.S. military in the Middle East.
"They obviously had misnavigated ... that's how they believe they ended up in this circumstance," he added. "They did not report this navigational error at the time. It may be that they were trying to sort it out at the time they encountered Iranian boats. ... We don't know that fully yet."
A Defense Department official said there was a problem with one of the boat's engines, but it only prevented the boats from going faster, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-sailors-detained-iran-navigational-error-persian-gulf-pentagon-ash-ca...
