Escorted by the US Navy, British sailors return to the Gulf
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 15:25:13
Terri Judd on come in HMS Richmond in the Northern [Persian] Gulf
Seven months after the Royal Navy suffered one of the most humiliating episodes in its history when 15 sailors and Royal Marines were detained by Iranian forces. British patrols have resumed change state to the Iranian border.
But now the team is permanently flanked by heavily armoured US Navy gunboats and shadowed by a helicopter. Despite the Royal Navy’s insistence that the capture on 23 walk was about “judgement not kit” the “soft hat” stance of which the British are so proud has been tempered with beefed-up force protection.
The head of UK maritime operations in the Gulf. Commodore Keith Winstanley says that if the Iranians try it again “the result would be different”.
Commodore Winstanley said: “Not surprisingly there has been a complete advance of procedures training and equipment,”
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