USNS Rappahannock

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This "warn, shoot, ask questions" procedure would have prevented the USS Cole bombing back in 2000. Well done, Rappahannock security team. I look forward to seeing what turns up in the investigation.
 
This will become locked soon I'm sure. I'd just like to lend my vote in supporting the actions the USN took.
 
I don't think they have much choice when a boat twice tries to approach the ship at high speed. A 30 foot boat can potentially carry a lot of explosives.

Good possibility that it was a test to see what would happen. And of course now people can say that human beings were killed unnecessarily. But if they are not allowed to shoot in the future that boat in the future carrying explosives will come.

In all honesty I think it is only a matter of time before there is a war in the Middle East. I am not trying to make some kind of political statement. I think it is a simple fact that a war is coming.
 
Originally Posted By: RamFan
This will become locked soon I'm sure. I'd just like to lend my vote in supporting the actions the USN took.

Really? I haven't been a poster for very long (been reading for 3+ years now) but I don't see anything that would sanction it being locked...
 
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Originally Posted By: RamFan
This will become locked soon I'm sure. I'd just like to lend my vote in supporting the actions the USN took.


Word.
 
It is a good thing they still have some weapons on those support ships and there are still some military personnel and not just civilians. In these times of pirates and criminal lead nation-states a merchant ship or support ship still needs at least a machine gun.
 
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After the Cole and other incidents, there must have been a policy change, even if it is 'unofficial'.
Apparently, this was not simply young kids playing around in a speedboat.
 
I listened to Fox News and they said the boat was a 50 foot boat. A boat that size could definitely have carried a lot of explosives. There were repeated warnings and even warning shots before the boat was targeted. I think you have to blame the people on the boat. I would certainly back off once .50 cal machine gun rounds started to land in the water. What were the people on the boat thinking?

Of course, regardless of any facts in this case, the United States will be made out to be the bad guy. But remember, the next high speed boat could be carrying explosives.

I think they had no choice except to shoot.
 
If this was some kind of a test than they need to train their people better. Unless their people are untrainable. Once machine gun rounds start landing in the water you back off.

And I don't know if they have recovered the boat or not. Maybe there were explosives in the boat. We will probably find out.

But shoot or not, the US Navy will be made out to be the bad guy.
 
They have no choice but to shoot because if they do not shoot the next boat might be loaded with explosives.

These people are playing a game. Test them and see if they shoot. If they shoot and people get killed then everybody will be on the US Navy. If they don't shoot load explosives on the next boat.
 
Originally Posted By: Axeman
This "warn, shoot, ask questions" procedure would have prevented the USS Cole bombing back in 2000. Well done, Rappahannock security team. I look forward to seeing what turns up in the investigation.


No it wouldn't have. The USS Cole was expecting trash barges to dock with it. They had their guard down because the bombers used the trash boat as a trojan horse.
 
This is just an unfortunate accident, there was no terrorist motive involved it was just incompetence on the part of the captain of the small boat.

Why the US media is sensationalizing it..... seems obvious to me, an agenda is afoot.
 
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