An American Navy ship fired on a boat in the Persian Gulf today, killing
one person and injuring three others aboard the craft, U.S. naval
officials told ABC News.
Lt. Greg Raelson, a spokesperson for the Navy's 5th Fleet, which is
based in nearby Bahrain, said that a security team aboard the oil supply
ship U.S.N.S. Rappahannock fired a .50 caliber machine gun at a "small
motor vessel after it disregarded warnings and rapidly approached the
U.S. ship" off the coast of Jebel Ali, a city approximately 30 miles
from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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I can't help thinking our Navy personnel would be safer overall if they had a policy to scuttle the boats that did this, rather than just firing on the wheelman for deterrence. I doubt if many speedboats play chicken with Chinese or Russian naval ships.
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