"While boarding the Dhow in rough seas - such searches are considered among the most dangerous naval missions - one SEAL team member fell into the ocean and a second tried to recover him."
Kinda crazy that when it comes to bombing the shit out of the middle east all of the warmonger came put of the woodwork. Would've love to have seen this kind of enthusiasm against russia.
Hmm, so does that mean Iran is justified in striking targets in the US under the guise of "protecting shipping lanes from terrorists attacking civilian ships"? Or is it only terrorism when brown people do it?
Sending my nation's professional wet works crew to the other side of the world in order to assassinate some guys who took over a ship flagged to Panama, because it serves a national security interest to keep a cargo ship full of fleshlights from doing an end run around the Horn of Africa.
And if you question any of this shit, or suggest other nations can do it now too, you are no better than that guy the CIA backed to do freedom fighting in Afghanistan back in the 70s.
If you've ever fallen off a boat into the water and been sucked under that boat and had to claw yourself back out again, you will understand why this is surprisingly non-trivial.
If you've been awake for 72 hours, jacked up on a pharmaceutical only God and the six most sadistic chemists at the Pentagon know about, and you just pulled yourself up on board a ship in the dead of night after tailing pirates for days, I have to image its even harder.
The Navy does prefer to kill their best and brightest in helicopter crashes. But its still very possible to get drowned to death on the job.