Who puts 15 sailors in the middle of Iranian waters, apart from the main fleet?

Question

Can anyone explain how 15 people end up in a little boat in what may have been Iranian territorial waters? I've been in the Navy , and the only people who end up in those type of craft are Navy Seals and Special Forces . Of course they wouldnt make as pretty propaganda tools, as what is splashed all over TV today. Iranian TV supposedly. But I challenge someone to tell me why these pretty people were in these little boats apart from their fleet??

I love how people cant DIRECTLY answer the question>?

Do they make their sailors travel miles away from its fleet, where they cant protect them?/ Thats like putting your fighter planes up in Canada when new York is under attack

Answer 1

Someone looking to start a war .
Its like sending a blood over to crip territory by himself to get a candy bar for you as a test of courage .
Then when he is killed you use his death as a reason to go to battle withe them .

Answer 2

"In the middle of Iranian waters"

This is a false statement. They were along a disputed waterway, which means the Iranians were just as wrong for being there. It was a beligerent action to try to prove to the Americans that Iran isn't affraid of the US.

As to apart from the main fleet, they were interdicting a cargo ship suspected of dealing in stolen cars. Seems to make sense, now. Stolen cars are needed for car bombs, or to replace the cars blown up, already. Which begs the question of why Iran stopped the enforcement of International Law (against Piracy). Also, these vessels were not on the high seas. This was all within sight of land.

Mymadsky, I was a member of a boarding party, while serving in the US Navy, during the War on Drugs. The US Navy indeed DOES board ships. I had to learn hand to hand combat from Marines, the use of a cutlass, as well as how to carry and handle the operation of an eight gauge shotgun (used for opening locked metal doors).

Answer 3

Nobody does.

1. They were in Iraqi waters.
2. The small boats were launched from larger naval vessels. This tactic allows a small boarding party to gain close access to another vessel to inspect it without endangering the larger asset.
3. The US navy does not carry out this kind of operation, the US Coast Guard does.

Answer 4

Nobody.

Iranians are under increased embargo and have just received fresh sanctions from the U.N. over their nuclear program. Taking hostages to force a more favorable solution is a practice that goes back to the beginning of mankind.

Those Iranians invaded Iraqi waters and the hostage taking was premeditated. They want to purchase British support with the lives of 15 of their sailors on the U.N. security council and get food, money and nuclear materials again.

When you were in the Navy and had to participate in a boarding party you must have used transporters to beam you over to the other ship, right? Was the transporter room's operator named Scotty?

Did you train at Starfleet academy?

You were never in the Navy.

Answer 5

The border in question was demarcated in 1975, and was re-affirmed after the Iran-Iraq War. The Brits were most assuredly in Iraqi waters, which renders the Iranians guilty of piracy.

EDIT: It is a rivercraft. These are typically small, and are used around the world for coast guard type actions, ie: intercepting smugglers, illegal aliens, etc...

Why would craft of this sort operate in flotillas contrary to the SOP of every navy in the world?

Answer 6

Incase your behind on the news, the official GPS data proves that it was in Iraqi waters. These men were not part of a "fleet" they were doing a routine search of vessels in Iraqi waters, tehy had a rubber raft basicly this wasnt like a destroyer or something.

This is a routine thing they do all day and night, thats why they were away from their main stations.

Answer 7

simple. its called intel no one risk the lives of soldiers willingly without the promise of something in return. assuming the soldiers did not get caught what would be the most valuable thing that the Brit-american alliance would like to obtain. INTELLIGENCE, as this media controlled world turns the economical giants could only pray that they found something that would justify them sending 15 men in those waters anyway.

P.S Iranians to my Knowledge are descend from Persians-who were once feared in the known world, so why exactly to we mess with them .

Answer 8

Who'd do it? Someone who wants their sailors captured. Easy: Put your sailors in a boat far enough away from the fleet so there's little chance of support. Leak their location to the folks you want to capture them and tell them how many there are and how heavily armed they are so they can be sure to have enough attackers that the sailors don't bother to fight back. The question is why they wanted their sailors captured.

Answer 9

They were dispatched from a nearby frigate, which needed to continue its patrol.

And from Royal Navy GPS coords, as well as the preliminary Iranian GPS coords (those changed a few days later), they were well within Iraqi waters. Thus, Iran invaded Iraqi waters, not the other way around.

Answer 10

You see where you're confused is you support the enemies of your own people no matter what. They weren't in Iranian waters. But you can't get over the fact that the Iranians aren't right all the time. And I don't care if you aren't British. The British are our allies in Iraq. And, right or wrong, we are currently in Iraq.

Answer 11

Well, if you were in the Navy as you claim, then you'd know that boarding parties leave their ship and approach the ship to be boarded in small boats...just like the ones the 15 sailors and marines were in, since they were a boarding party and were preparing to board an Indian vessle to conduct a UN-mandated inspection.

But since you were in the Navy, as you claim, you already know that, right?

So why the nonsensical challenge?