U.S. Navy Officers in Crosshairs Over Iran Debacle

I agree

None of us knows what LT Narther and his command did "exactly"...let alone why. We know enough to assume that they were doing what Sailors have been asked to do since 1775; do a great deal with very little at the extreme edge of policy. Frankly, if there were, as there appears to have been (no surprise) training and equipment issues...it was the responsibility of the chain of command to provide it, or devise a plan to deal with it. They don't make O-3's skippers of small vessels unless they are good at seamanship...so, I'm going to assume that navigation errors involved were more a factor of CRM breakdowns and support failures than competency.

I do think we can cannex the talk about being a "traitor" or a "coward" though-Anyone familiar with the vessels, and the Iranian vessels involved should admit that with one craft DIW, and the odds four plus to two...suicide isn't a proper command decision. As to his statements? We'd all like to think we'd stick with "Name, rank, serial number"...but again, it sounds like we screwed up, got caught, and number one priority for the chain of command was getting sailors back alive.

Once the smoke clears, I'd want to know about the relationship between the officers in command and their NCOs...was there hostility leading to failure to take advisement, or did the Boss put his people into an infeasible scenario? We shall see.

Doubtful that the public will ever learn the real truth, back stories, or just what actually happened. Mission now is to put a positive spin on the incident, throw a few people under the bus, and crab-walk out of the kill zone. From some reports the whole thing was a 'Perfect storm of errors'. It is hard to believe this happened to our finest, what were they doing? A sad commentary to say the least & makes one wonder just how competent are our troops if these are the finest special ops types?