US Navy's Crushing Revenge After a Costly Betrayal by an Old Ally 

Man... this gives me an overwhelming sense of patriotism haha, thanks for sharing.

Well done, eldjr1104…a proud moment indeed…👏🏼 🇺🇸 💪🏼

Awesome story thanks for posting

As a Brit who's country has had the odd punch up at sea for over 1000 years, I can honestly say that the reputation America has for patching up almost derelict ships is second to none. The Ohio crewed by us staggered into Malta harbour, lashed between two destroyers to stop her sinking. Her back was broken and blasted to hell, but they kept that old lady afloat with her fuel, food and ammo. God bless the Americans who made her.

@@jp-um2fr Well said.

The Fat Electrician has a really good video too. I don't think anyone tells the story better than he does

That was the USS Merrill DD-976 We were headed to the second platform when we were turned around

The Russians was backing Iraq and not Iran at the time, They were also running protection to the oil tankers and also engage in attacking Iran

That is why there are so many pictures coming out of the Eastern Ukraine now.

@@anthonysmith3577 Totally agree

I was there as a stinger gunner, then came back for desert storm as well

Grateful for your service.

I was on Guadalcanal LPH-7, we were around for these events but kept a bit distant, I didn't hear any gunfire when we shelled the platforms. On that day rumor had it that we were going to attack the Iranian base at Bandar Abbas!

​@@gmansard641 Rumor Central. LoL! I was on Merrill.

If any of you all find yourselves thirsty in SW Florida, I’d be happy to buy you a few foamy “adult beverages” just to listen to your stories.

Fat electrician and operations room both have videos about it

Illegal by who's terms? Legal only has teeth when someone has the ability to enforce said law. When the only country which enforces International Law gets pissed and decides to sink your entire Navy. I would call that fuck around, be prepared for international law to mean NOTHING as you FIND OUT.

It was straight up a war crime, there's no justifying it just like shooting down a passenger plane due to a captain that failed to follow basic instructions and orders and the guy who was in charge of radar being a dipsh*t failing to properly identify a target. Let's have a look on the outcome of these war crimes committed by the US. Ah yes, a country where everyone hates the US and they now have nukes and decent drone technologies. Great Success.

its the best kind of legal

@@stevendubin3584 "It's not a war crime the first time"

Old guy here. The last stand of the tin can sailors. Those guys had guts! That’s the reason the shipwreck was so deep in the water. The extra weight of those men with BRASS BALLS took it deep!

At least we don’t have to worry about Chinese tankers registered in Malaysia robbing those grave sites!! Can’t believe we’ve sit back for ten years and watched China recycle 90% of the war memorials of ww2 that was supposed to be gravesites and national historic memorials, shit a lot of ppl don’t even know about it. The one time they did arrest anyone for it the ship somehow slipped away from holding a week later then they turned the crew loose after that with no one being charged. Supposedly steel from before 1945 (pre nukes) are worth more for electronics, I think we should sink anyone near these gravesites in a recycling ship! Not like we don’t know which ships are doing it, where the workers are from, what country is paying them to do it, what yard they take the scrap to, & who is issuing the permits to sights near it which is not where they are going. A couple of them had permits for universities but that still doesn’t make it legal but most get a permit for some place 50-100 miles away and just go to the sunken warship instead. It’s been well documented just nothing done about it. Even the ppl working at the recycling yard has reported finding bones and taken them to their graveyard and buried them but when reported to the police they went and seized all the bones and “debunked” it by saying it was bones of cats, you know because human bones are so similar to feline house cats that simple island ppl can’t tell the difference!!

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@@Legion-xq8eo i think they should take every single one of those metal ships at the bottom of the ocean out as most of them are toxic ticking time bombs. put a buoy or something up above the spots and make it a memorial on the surface

​@matthewfors114 that's a lie though. The only thing supposedly toxic is the oil and if you knew any better you would know that oil seeps from the ground into the ocean every day naturally.

The way I understand it, the Marines were sent to deploy charges on one and the Seals on the other after both had taken fire from the supporting USS ships and Cobra helicopters. The Seals mission was cancelled because the initial attacks destroyed it, making the mission unnecessary. The Marines platform was not destroyed by the initial attack, so the Marines had to set the charges. There is someone who did a much more thorough video on this series of events.

“I didnt make any history but I lived through some.” You just made history with 👆🏼 quote, a brilliant one, IMO.

You and me both have seen the fat electrician

@@JBWRight88 "Proportional Retaliation" :D

@@Culdcepter Yes!!!

Quack-Bang, Out.

​@@JBWRight88the Fat Electrician is hilarious! 😂

What war ???? Iraq in 1990 yes

You did what you had to do.

I was at Chanute in '77 learning aircraft maintenance and remember the Iranian students. There were a lot of odd rumors about their behavior. I'm sure most of the gossip was false.

@@jeffrothman7227 one class of enlisted and another of officers. Ironically, the officer class had a female instructor, which the Iranians despised. They only had one use for women. She handled the American students and I handled the Iranians.

The Iranians didn't like the puppet government we put in place back in the '50s.

She didn't leave under her own power, she was towed away. The mine destroyed her engine room and both Gas Turbines.

It must be demoralizing when you just run into a mine.

@@Seltkirk-ABC apparently not, the crew had won awards before for damage control and their training paid off.

She could have left under her own power. The gas turbines were knocked off their bases and were no longer aligned with the ship’s gears. However, the FFG’s were also equipped with two auxiliary propulsion units that dropped down near the ship’s bow. They could be deployed and turned in any direction. They’re primary purpose was to get the ship back underway after such an event took place in order to get the ship into safer waters. FFGs shouldn’t have ever been allowed to be used as target ships. These were really good ships that deserved to be modernized with the latest weapon systems. They still had plenty of life left in them.

@@mudman6156 She only had one SSDG operating since 3 main engineering spaces were flooded. To operate the APUs, 2 SSDGs were required. As I said before, she had to be towed from the scene. I commissioned USS Doyle (FFG-39) and served in the 1991 Gulf War on USS Kauffman (FFG-59). I am very familiar with the capabilities of this class of ships. OSCS(SW) USN RET'D 1978-2002

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Well, the Americans and Russians both seem to have lost the Middle East. And the British lost it 50 years before them.

US is still allied with 70% of the oil production there.

@@jaegybomb That may have changed with one Jarred Kushner. Revealing state secrets.

Far be it for me to correct a fellow sailor possible actual shipmate but I too was on the Uss, Sides though a couple of years after that and unless they added a couple to that hull number in those couple of years it was FFG 14 not 12. Yeah it been a while and that almost Mandella effected me I was going to look it up but remembered that I still have my shellback card.. It says 14. Unless the mighty Neptune himself was having an off day it is FFG 14 and I still have most of my marbles. Well at least that one marble. Small world though. Fun fact he Sides (14) and the Phillip (12) were decommed at the same time and were some of the very last of that class when decommed in 2003 since they both had received an upgraded flight deck and towed array the Navy hung on to them even as they were scrapping much newer frigates. The Sides was scrapped in 2015 and as far as I know the Phillip is still sitting in a boneyard somewhere.

i was wrong on the Hull numbers correct number should have been (FFG-14) and the (FFG-12) was the Philips. I stand corrected folks. Had to go to my I love me wall and look too. Yep, Snipgoat1 was correct. I blame this on old age, sorry and thanks

Sorry for bonehead mistake embarrassing I had to go to the photo hanging on my wall. hank you for correcting this old guy. @@Snipergoat1

Aye aye. @@johnmarkley2620

I was on Guadalcanal LPH-7 at the beginning of Earnest Will, the SEAL team that captured the Iranian minelayer were embarked with us. I like to tell people how I provided close administrative support to the SEALs. (My disbursing office processed their travel claims).

So... You had a friend on the good Reuben James! (I'll see myself out now...)

Ruben James relieved the ship that captured the Iran Ajr, USS Jarret as I was stationed on the Jarrett

I was looking to see if anybody else posted that far more detailed, he actually tells you who dropped what and who killed what.

That's the America I know. Making things right.

There was talk that they deployed a new jamming device that interferes with it's ability to see the water surface.

Why do you have a 🏆(trophy) next to the US flag? These actions have directly caused an entire nation to hate the US, which now have nukes and Great drone technologies. Those drone technologies which give them the ability to swarm ships... I fail to see how this was a success. Just another F up added to the list of the many, the US has created. Like failing to control Iraq and the region after destabilising it, like for real does it feel good paying higher prices for gas? Because, your country destabilised an entire region and F up so big, that they failed to control it. That you now largely rely on them for oil?😂😂 Or, how about going into Afghan and failing to whipe out opiate farmers. How's the opiate crisis going right now? It is still over 90% of heroin on the streets of US coming from Afghan. Granted your education system is set up to fail you and make you believe a piece of fabric aka American flag, is the be all and end all. But, reality works in a different way and reality is, USA are playing catch up to China especially technologies. Large parts of Africa are falling into Russian and Chines hands. USA heavily rely on China, just one example over 80% of US medicine and supplies are improted from China. You successfully destabilised large regions of Asia and now have enemies that have nukes. The best bit though, US rely heavily on Chinese business and China owns a large amount of US businesses. Tiktok everyone knows about. My favourite one, China owns a ridiculous amount of land in the US just by simply using fake names to fool the American authorities and they didn't even need to fire a single bullet for that land lmfao.

Why was Iran laying mines?

@@trimetrodonThey targeting Iraqi shipping and decided the best way to hit Iraqi ships was to just hit any ships

@@loganamurray64 Why was Iran targeting Iraqi shipping?

@@loganamurray64 And you believe that?

@@trimetrodon They were at war

I'd like to see that too!

You could try asking The Fat Electrician, he seems to put out vids quickly, and loves to do some homework like this.

Finally, 1 Genius, Grateful FEMALE. Please educate & Correct Your "Sisters" by other Mothers.

*Iraqi fighter jet

Ofcourse not. Too close to the USS L1b€rty incident, and thus the conversation would naturally gravitate towards that.

The crew of two died in the crash

She was repaired and was one of the last OHP class in service.

Remember, David vs Goliath only worked in the bible, and that's a book of fairy tales.

Yes, I remember this in the news right when we were headed to the Gulf. We were pretty annoyed.

And probably one sided. Given the forces against him, Mossaddegh probably could have been overthrown without Kermit’s help. Also, Shah Pahlavi was REinstalled.

@@Egilhelmson -You don't say you've read it, how do you know its one sided? The US and UK did overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran and reinstalled Shah Pahlavi, father of the Shah who was overthrown in the 1970s. I'll take Wikipedia over Conservapedia any day. Concervapedia don't mention the 1953 restoration of the Shad. For a real laugh, have a look at their alternative facts version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. They say it forbids both evolution and relativity. Apparently the universe didn't get that memo...

Several months before this I was on Guadalcanal LPH-7, I remember Hercules. Our medical department took care of some of you guys.

@@gmansard641 For everyone else, Hercules was an unflagged mobile sea forward operating platform. Joint forces expeditionary teams. I came home with a desert duck t-shirt, with the American flag waving on the back and said Persian 1988 & These Colors Don't Run. I still have my Rocket Fins.

@@gmansard641 also my dad was on the original USS Boxer LPH 4...

the world is used to these vietnam - afghanistan failure coverups, lol. uss roberts was hit by a torpedo, not a mine, or several vessels transporting it would hit mines; including MV Mighty Servant. uss stark was hit by an iranian missile. Iraqi air force was 8 hours north of doha, unless an iraqi pilot (which none existed after iran destroyed all the jets) decided to take a lunch break and fly 8 hours south, lol ...2 corvettes, 12 recon chopper flight deaths, vs 3 iranian speed boats and conveniently leaving out the fact that iran wasn’t even fighting us, but 86 nations behind iraq. even if funded by cia or mi6 it's still f0kng lame, lol

​@@syncopatedfeb4770where's your info coming from?

non-israeli media that ownes you, lol@@PaulJohnson-vn7eh

​@syncopatedfeb4770 You are clueless. Everything you just mentioned is completely wrong. Sammie B hit not one but two French made Lugm-300 mines that were sold to Iran. Stark was hit by two Exocet AM-39 missiles that failed to arm (inside min range launch) and was damaged by exploding fuel.

To be clear. "Aegis" is the ship's radar/sensor and fire-control system, while "Phalynx" is the anti-missile gun system (CIWS), or "Close-In Weapon System", which is an automated system consisting of a radar and 6-barrel Galting gun designed primarially to down in-coming anti-ship missiles.

You can see some examples of the "SPY" AEGIS CONTROL CENTER in various parts of the movie Battleship. Which is an amazing movie, I might add. 👍👏

Honestly, it would have been better if it never started. The Iran-Iraq War was a huge contributing factor toward Iraq's decision to invade and occupy Kuwait a few years later, which then got the US involved in the 1st Gulf War. If the US wasn't pushed to uphold it's security guarantor obligations in the Mid East at that time, there's probably a good chance we don't have an invasion and occupation of Iraq in the mid 2000's based on bad intelligence that cost tens of thousands of lives, and severely destabilized the entire region.

Because of an attempt at New American Empire by neocons, & Bush Jr was too much of an idiot... or he was on it. There's some evidence that Bush was always going to invade Iraq, primarily for the sake of US & friendly oil companies. 9/11 was like mana from heaven for trying to legitimize the scheme. It was leveraged to gain Congressional support, even.

Maybe the million dollar bounty on the American president had something to do with it.

@@richarda996 Yea, that's certainly an act of war.

Actually magnetic minds do. anchored mines not so much! This war is where I got my Armed forces expeditionary medal. Served on board the USS Esteem (MSO-438) 1984/88. We got there after the stark got hit. took a few months to get there LOL.

quis custodiet ipsos custodes

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probably f35 that's never seen a battle lol