Two Navy SEALs are missing after a night mission off the coast of Somalia

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials.

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

Both SEALs are still missing. A search and rescue mission is underway and the waters in the Gulf of Aden, where they were operating, are warm, two of the U.S. officials said.

The U.S. Navy has conducted regular interdiction missions, where they have intercepted weapons on ships that were bound for Houthi-controlled Yemen.

Assian_Candor,
@Assian_Candor@hexbear.net avatar

sicko-orca

Mindfury,
@Mindfury@hexbear.net avatar

lol eat shit

Egon,
@Egon@hexbear.net avatar

Bones in the ocean, but you read it in a mocking tone instead of a sad one lol.

Oh, I bid farewell to the port and the land
And I paddle away from brave England’s white sands
To search for my long ago forgotten friends
To search for the place I hear all sailors end

As the souls of the dead fill the space of my mind
I’ll search without sleeping 'til peace I can find
I fear not the weather, I fear not the sea
I remember the fallen, do they think of me?
When their bones in the ocean forever will be

Plot a course to the night to a place I once knew
To a place where my hope died along with my crew
So I swallow my grief and face life’s final test
To find promise of peace and the solace of rest

As the songs of the dead fill the space of my ears
Their laughter like children, their beckoning cheers
My heart longs to join them, sing songs of the sea
I remember the fallen, do they think of me?
When their bones in the ocean forever will be

When at last before my ghostly shipmates I stand
I shed a small tear for my home upon land
Though their eyes speak of depths filled with struggle and strife
Their smiles below say I don’t owe them my life

As the souls of the dead fill the space of my eyes
And my boat listed over and tried to capsize
I’m this far from drowning, this far from the sea
I remember the living, do they think of me?
When my bones in the ocean forever will be

Now that I’m staring down at the darkest abyss I’m not sure what I want, but I don’t think it’s this
As my comrades call to stand fast and forge on
I make sail for the dawn 'til the darkness has gone

As the souls of the dead live for’er in my mind
As I live all the years that they left me behind
I’ll stay on the shore but still gaze at the sea
I remember the fallen and they think of me
For our souls in the ocean together will be

I remember the fallen and they think of me
For our souls in the ocean together will be

Evilphd666,
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Weapons on ships boud for Yemen…?

But I thought Iran controlled the Houthis. What is this way off the coast of Somalia in their disputed maritime border with Kenya? Seems a bit out of way for a shipment from Iran.

Cover up the unspoken mercenary war we’ve been funding and arming for the last decade that no one talks about blame Iran without mentioning because we already programed people to associate Houtis with Iran.

Also we hope you all forgot about that 7 countries in 5 years memo from the Project for a New American Century 9/11 oopsie daisy thing that included Somalia.

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In Kenya, soldiers traumatized by the cw shhh war PTSD

In the U.S.-backed war against the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia, Americans wage their battles mostly from the air, with drones.

On the ground, at sweltering checkpoints and in dusty trenches across Somalia’s southernmost states, soldiers from neighboring Kenya do almost all the fighting.

One of them was Christopher Katitu, a low-ranking grunt with the Kenya Defence Forces, or KDF, who spent two years manning a mounted machine gun from a trench in Kismayo, a port city shattered by street-to-street skirmishes over territory. Then, when al-Shabab killed almost 150 students at a university just across the border in Garissa, Kenya, Katitu was sent to the edges of the tense city to guard a highway checkpoint day and night.

A kind of pressure was building up in his brain, one he could not quite place. It was not just the war — money problems were intensifying at home, too, and his wife was angry with him. Through almost a decade in the army, he had never seen a counselor.

On a short leave home from Garissa, Katitu had a mental breakdown. But instead of being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, he was jailed and court-martialed when he tried to rejoin his battalion.

Since Kenya joined the war in Somalia in 2011, the United States has given its government more than half a billion dollars in security assistance.

Awoo,

Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

y tho

CloutAtlas,

Seppuku with American characteristics

420blazeit69,

If I went missing from my job I’d get fired

Evilsandwichman,

Whereas with these chuds they got watered

Utter_Karate,
@Utter_Karate@hexbear.net avatar

They obviously defected to the enemy.

emizeko,
@emizeko@hexbear.net avatar

here’s hoping their fate is SEALed

came_apart_at_Kmart,

Workin’ on our night moves
Trying’ to make some front page drive-in news
Workin’ on our night moves

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CloutAtlas,

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

Wholesome! The US navy has enshrined a suicide pact!

Egon,
@Egon@hexbear.net avatar

Lmao that’s the dumbest fucking doctrine to instill into grunts. “Yeah if we have a MOB you gotta go overboard too, definitely the best course of action. Under no circumstances should you stay on the vessel and use it to search for your partner, we’d rather have to find both of you”

GinAndJuche,
@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net avatar
  1. Get rekt, literal skill issue
  2. How fucking indoctrinated do you have to be to intentionally jump into the ocean with no hope of rescue just to drown alongside the guy who didn’t know how to hold onto the boat properly?
SacredExcrement,

literal skill issue

data-laughing

fox,

Hey quick Q, why were there US Navy seals that far from the US?

oktherebuddy,

Defense, of course

Evilphd666,
@Evilphd666@hexbear.net avatar

Because back in the late 90’s after the fall of the USSR the fanatical fascist investor class wanted to take control of the region as a part of their New American Century project to keep the MIC juice flowing. Guess what countries were on the chopping block list?

CloutAtlas,

Alternative headline: Houthi Hydromancers conjure rogue wave, why congress should approve additional military strikes against Yemeni civilians.

Des,
@Des@hexbear.net avatar

Houthi Hydromancers

god i love this so much

Evilphd666,
@Evilphd666@hexbear.net avatar

We’re going to need a Posidon blessed couterpart to german-mud-wizard now.

JohnBrownNote,

one got knocked off by high waves.

comrade Poseidon

CloutAtlas,

Let’s look at the track record:

Caligula vs Poseidon : Poseidon W

Billionaires in submarine vs Poseidon : Poseidon W

European yatchs vs Poseidon : Poseidon W

2 Yankistani SEALs Poseidon? You better believe Poseidon W

GinAndJuche,
@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net avatar

I don’t get why it’s always sky gods taking the top spot, ocean gods are scary mf’ers

GnastyGnuts,

Sky Gods: Here’s some lightning every now and then, maybe a few will hit some people occasionally, I dunno, whatever. Be scared by the thunder I guess.

Ocean God: DROWNING DROWNING DROWNING constant DROWNING crushing pressure FISH PISS

Egon,
@Egon@hexbear.net avatar

It’s cause ocean gods make sense while sky gods are fickle.
“Why’d jaesop drown?” “He went out in a storm, angered the ocean”.
“Why’d Aesop get struck by lightning?” “Shit I dunno, better sacrifice a deer or something.”

GinAndJuche,
@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net avatar

This is too logical a response to be true, but it makes a lot of sense.

Also: imagining a guy who’s super devout to the forest god and goes to pray during a storm. Gets hit by lightning. “Ah shit, we better not pray to the forest god during a storm or sky god gets hella jealous”.

Mindfury,
@Mindfury@hexbear.net avatar

because the sky gods leave survivors

dead men tell no tales

corgiwithalaptop,
@corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net avatar

I’m a simple person.

I see dead US soldiers, I laugh.

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