{"id":68399,"date":"2016-10-12T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68399"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:08:58","slug":"pentagon-considers-retaliation-for-attack-on-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68399","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon considers retaliation for attack on Mason UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David sends us a link to the news<\/a> that the Defense Department is considering action against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who perpetrated a guided missile attack on USS Mason and USS Ponce in the Red Sea the other day;<\/p>\n

Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said today that the U.S. is still assessing who fired missiles at the destroyer when it was in the Red Sea on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime anyone engages a U.S. Navy ship at sea in hostility … they do so at great peril to themselves,\u201d said Davis.<\/p>\n

Asked if that could mean retaliatory strikes against those responsible for firing the missiles, Davis said, \u201cThose things are things that we\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want very much to get to the bottom of what happened,\u201d said Davis. \u201cWe’re going to find out who did this, and we’ll take action accordingly.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure that those guys who fired the missiles are shaking in their boots at this point in anticipation of receiving a strongly worded letter from John Kerry promising to sail closer to shore next time.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: It looks like MASON fired two missiles in retaliation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After being targeted by two missile launches off the coast of Yemen, the USS Mason, a guided missile destroyer, fired two missiles in defense.<\/p>\n

The USS Mason fired missiles defending itself and the USS Ponce, an amphibious dock ship, after it detected inbound cruise missiles presumably fired from Houthi militants on shore in Yemen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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