Two Navy SEALs are missing and presumed dead after a U.S. warship intercepted a ship off the coast of Somalia that was carrying weapons from Iran intended for Yemen’s Houthi movement, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The U.S. Lewis Puller was conducting patrols in the Indian Ocean to disrupt the flow of weapons from Iran to their Houthis allies, who have repeatedly targeted international shipping over the past two months in protest of the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip.
The sea will always be humbling no matter how much we train or prepare it can always take us by surprise. Holding onto hope that they survived honouring the sacrifices they made to if they did not.
That can’t be right, Iran PROMISED to stop sending them weapons in the Saudi deal! They promised!
let’s hope they were not picked up by Iran.
don’t understand why not just spend one tomahawk on that vessel and call it a day?
the lives of two navy seals are worth more than one missile.
To my understanding the first SEAL lost his balance and fell into the sea while boarding, and his partner jumped in after him as he was trained to do.
The commitment involved in jumping to your possible death without hesitation is something worth thinking about and respecting.
My deepest heartfelt condolence to our brave soldiers.
May our solders rest in peace, US will screw Iran for this.
I would have thought they would have been wearing devices that provided floatation and a tracking beacon. Both these days can come in very small packages that could be incorporated into existing gear. Falling into the water in rough seas on a mission shouldn’t be a death sentence in these days.
It’s odd to me that they wouldn’t have a Beacon and a basic inflatable bladder in the event of a man overboard situation. Or maybe they do and got nailed by the side of the boat?
These guys don’t wear some sort of inflatable life jacket?
An unfortunate situation.
Was their uniform wearing them both down or something? Was the water turbulent?
I conducted maritime interdiction operations in the Persian Gulf in the late 90s and I remain convinced that the most dangerous part of every mission was the boarding/disembarking of the ships.
Getting tossed around in a RHIB in heavy seas is its own challenge, but then transferring from the RHIB to the target ship gets real dicey because of the heavy seas and because you don’t necessarily have control of the target ship yet.
While you always hope to conduct these operations in calm/low swell seas, it obviously doesn’t always work out that way. I slipped a couple of times and managed to hang on to the Jacob’s ladder by sheer fucking luck.
We were always much better trained/armed than the ship we were boarding, and we almost always had a frigate/destroyer on scene within a few hundred meters providing overwatch, so the target ship would be an idiot to start a firefight (though it can happen), as a result, the true danger was actually just getting on the damn boat without breaking your arms or legs, or without getting tossed into the drink.
Asking an obvious question, why didn’t they have inflatable PFD’s especially when operating in rough waters at night? They have PFD’s that are small and don’t inflate until you yank on them
I’d have assumed that personnel like SEALs would have some kind of transponder or locator on their person for exactly these kinds of situations. Why didn’t they? Would such equipment be some kind of weakness to OpSec with the concern of such tracking being intercepted?
And what were they doing? Trying to stop a shipment of weapons from Iran to a terrorist group directly attacking US interests. Honestly it is maddening that Iran keeps getting away with de stabilizing the entire region and not being held responsible because it is done through proxies.
It reminds me of the Far Side comic with a ventriloquist getting his arm wrapped up while his dummy sits next to him riddled with bullet holes, and the doctor is saying “You’re gonna be ok, mister, but I can’t say the same for your little buddy over there. The way I hear it, he is the one that mouthed off to them gunfighters in the first place”.
How long are we going to keep putting holes in dummies before we finally go after the hand up their ass?
this doesn’t seem like news you’d want to be public, all things considered (the boarding another country’s ship thing). why would they make this public?
No tracking system on these guys??
So this was pretty much Cod 4 first mission irl? Nutty
These men where likely immensely talented and capable individuals who got unlucky on a boarding. Huge respect to the second seal that dived in without hesitation.
The guy who jumped in after his buddy should be awarded the Medal of Honor.
I am surprised they dont have any gps type tracking on seal personal?
America f yeah, coming again to save the mf day yeah!
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From reporter Mitchell Prothero:
Two Navy SEALs are missing and presumed dead after a U.S. warship intercepted a ship off the coast of Somalia that was carrying weapons from Iran intended for Yemen’s Houthi movement, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The U.S. Lewis Puller was conducting patrols in the Indian Ocean to disrupt the flow of weapons from Iran to their Houthis allies, who have repeatedly targeted international shipping over the past two months in protest of the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip.
Link to the full article: [https://www.vice.com/en/article/pka8yk/two-navy-seals-presumed-dead-in-raid-on-ship-carrying-iranian-supplied-weapons](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pka8yk/two-navy-seals-presumed-dead-in-raid-on-ship-carrying-iranian-supplied-weapons)
The sea will always be humbling no matter how much we train or prepare it can always take us by surprise. Holding onto hope that they survived honouring the sacrifices they made to if they did not.
That can’t be right, Iran PROMISED to stop sending them weapons in the Saudi deal! They promised!
let’s hope they were not picked up by Iran.
don’t understand why not just spend one tomahawk on that vessel and call it a day?
the lives of two navy seals are worth more than one missile.
To my understanding the first SEAL lost his balance and fell into the sea while boarding, and his partner jumped in after him as he was trained to do.
The commitment involved in jumping to your possible death without hesitation is something worth thinking about and respecting.
My deepest heartfelt condolence to our brave soldiers.
May our solders rest in peace, US will screw Iran for this.
I would have thought they would have been wearing devices that provided floatation and a tracking beacon. Both these days can come in very small packages that could be incorporated into existing gear. Falling into the water in rough seas on a mission shouldn’t be a death sentence in these days.
It’s odd to me that they wouldn’t have a Beacon and a basic inflatable bladder in the event of a man overboard situation. Or maybe they do and got nailed by the side of the boat?
These guys don’t wear some sort of inflatable life jacket?
An unfortunate situation.
Was their uniform wearing them both down or something? Was the water turbulent?
I conducted maritime interdiction operations in the Persian Gulf in the late 90s and I remain convinced that the most dangerous part of every mission was the boarding/disembarking of the ships.
Getting tossed around in a RHIB in heavy seas is its own challenge, but then transferring from the RHIB to the target ship gets real dicey because of the heavy seas and because you don’t necessarily have control of the target ship yet.
While you always hope to conduct these operations in calm/low swell seas, it obviously doesn’t always work out that way. I slipped a couple of times and managed to hang on to the Jacob’s ladder by sheer fucking luck.
We were always much better trained/armed than the ship we were boarding, and we almost always had a frigate/destroyer on scene within a few hundred meters providing overwatch, so the target ship would be an idiot to start a firefight (though it can happen), as a result, the true danger was actually just getting on the damn boat without breaking your arms or legs, or without getting tossed into the drink.
Asking an obvious question, why didn’t they have inflatable PFD’s especially when operating in rough waters at night? They have PFD’s that are small and don’t inflate until you yank on them
I’d have assumed that personnel like SEALs would have some kind of transponder or locator on their person for exactly these kinds of situations. Why didn’t they? Would such equipment be some kind of weakness to OpSec with the concern of such tracking being intercepted?
And what were they doing? Trying to stop a shipment of weapons from Iran to a terrorist group directly attacking US interests. Honestly it is maddening that Iran keeps getting away with de stabilizing the entire region and not being held responsible because it is done through proxies.
It reminds me of the Far Side comic with a ventriloquist getting his arm wrapped up while his dummy sits next to him riddled with bullet holes, and the doctor is saying “You’re gonna be ok, mister, but I can’t say the same for your little buddy over there. The way I hear it, he is the one that mouthed off to them gunfighters in the first place”.
How long are we going to keep putting holes in dummies before we finally go after the hand up their ass?
this doesn’t seem like news you’d want to be public, all things considered (the boarding another country’s ship thing). why would they make this public?
No tracking system on these guys??
So this was pretty much Cod 4 first mission irl? Nutty
These men where likely immensely talented and capable individuals who got unlucky on a boarding. Huge respect to the second seal that dived in without hesitation.
The guy who jumped in after his buddy should be awarded the Medal of Honor.
I am surprised they dont have any gps type tracking on seal personal?
America f yeah, coming again to save the mf day yeah!