Here is a recent tour of Cole: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j62BlcuHmae9eYU.html Posted yesterday, it includes memorials on the ship to the crew lost in the attack. Apparently it's from last month's Fleet Week in Port Everglades, Florida, in April 2023. The same gentleman has tours of the landing ship New York and the Virginia class submarine Indianapolis from the same event. The sub's Commander gave a very good tour.

Dumb---ass!

now do the bombing of the uss liberty

You should cover the Israeli attack on the U.S. Naval vessel USS Liberty June 8th 1967. Edit: never mind the channel “forgotten history” just covered it

Can you cover the Korean War?

That's what NATO is for. The critics tend to forget that sometimes.

And to the intelligence analysts and Navy Seals who avenged the lost.

@@QemeH The people unhappy about nations not following the requirements I can understand. The wild thing was the people that claimed a defensive alliance somehow drove putin into a corner and forced him to invade ukraine.

@@prw56 The requirements are "self-inflicted" anyway - as in, every member voluntarily joined NATO and signed on to what that would mean. So I agree with you that it is valid criticism of members when they do not meet these obligations. The US (and some other nations), however, are sometimes a bit too quick to call members on this. A big example of this is the "2% of GDP" goal for defense spending - the US usually talks as if this was a hard rule for all members, but in fact it only is a _goal_ for all members since 2014. The actual language of the agreement is "allies currently meeting the guideline to spend a minimum of 2% of their GDP on defense will aim to continue to do so and allies whose current proportion of GDP is below this level will halt any decline, aim to increase defense expenditure and aim to move towards the 2% guideline". So while you can be of the opinion that some countries should move faster or start to move at all - there is not a single country (aside from during the economic crisis where GDP was all over the place) that failed to meet these criteria: don't spend less, aim to spend more... I'm also in agreement with you that the myth of NATO aggression by pure existence is bonkers. By nature it is a defensive agreement and we all know that the US would never have come to the aid of, say, Poland if they were just going on the offensive against Russia. But even if you believe the russian propaganda line that the defense part is a lie and NATO really is a unified military block with a single mindset - the question still remains on how that threatens the existence of russia. Not a single head of government or head of state of any of the NATO members has at any point said that russia shouldn't exist or owns too much territory or has to be "liberated" or any such language that would suggest an aggressive stance against russia. Moreover, it would also be stupid to go to war with russia intentionally, not only because of the MAD of nuclear weapons, but also because time is on NATOs side - russias population is shrinking, their economy only works when integrated with the west and/or china and their military readiness got worse and worse every day before the war. This is most likely the reason WHY russia attacked Ukraine now rather than wait for later - because they, too, know that russia is slowly getting weaker with every year. NATO's best strategy, even if they _wanted_ to harm russia, would be to just wait and let them die... But my main point of the comment was: NATO is such a valuable and in the modern world neccessary partnership for the western nations, that it is stupid for the vast majoritiy of criticism to call the _existence_ of the alliance into question. We might squabble over who lifts how much of their weight and how deeply to integrate our troops with each other etc. - but to call into question weather NATO should continue to _exist_ is just international suicide. Maybe the US could survive (although their security policy would get a whole lot more complex as well), but every single other member would be cast to the winds the day they left.

@@prw56 Which subsequently only served to strengthen the numbers and the resolve of said defensive alliance, too lol.

Do try to remember that as Russia marches across Europe and you stand to elect a president who wishes us to concede ground to them

@@SirRichardofkent Russia cant march across a quarter of Ukraine before NATO sent help how tf they gonna march across all of Europe LMFAO, what drugs you on lad they sound fkn amazing.

​@@SirRichardofkent nobody cares and it has nothing to do with the original comment

@@SirRichardofkentdo people like you just go across the internet and just have the sole objective to make everything political and controversial in nature?

@@SirRichardofkent The same incompetent Russia that can't even overcome the most corrupt country in Europe - is going to march across Europe? Huh? How does that follow? Besides, Europeans have told us off many, many times, quite rudely, that they want our troops OFF their soil. Why are we not accommodating their wishes? We are uninvited guests, the worst kind.

Woah!!

Damn.

The US never forgets. Our military and intelligence has a very long memory.

I served with a damage controlman who was aboard when this happened. Dude was very, very serious about his job and often rubbed people the wrong way but once they were told why they understood completely. Definitely inspired me to join the Flying Squad and I took DC just as seriously.

Rip

Couldn't agree more. The Navy has been doing UNREP (underway replenish ment) for decades. This half baked idea was the brainchild of General Zinni and SEC of State Albright, to "improve relationships " with countries in the region.

Sure, but I don't agree with your objection to Jeremus seeking our liege's right to rule.

@@johnfetter3252 As terrible as it is, it is nice to see someone who knows who specifically in the chain of command is the cause for it. Too many people I know personally just blame whatever president it was at the time and ignore the folks who actually wrote the damn orders in the first place.

Religion is a crazy drug

@@mrosefield309 fr

Probably in disbelief at how smoothly it went

​@Casper Guo No, knowing that what they're about to do is going to be successful.

those men believe they are going to receive their 72 virgins

I read the same thing in the book on the UK military action that took place at Pegasus Bridge on the eve of D Day. A soldier said those who he thought were weak performed above expectations and those who showed bravado beforehand were the ones who cowered and didn't offer any assistance. Another thing that I have read is that the biggest fear a soldier has is the fear that he/she will not perform on the battlefield.

This was exactly my experience when I found myself in my first ambush. I have immense respect for people who spent their career being mocked, only to surface as true bad-asses when it really counted.

It reminds me of one of the things I always say when it comes to wannabe cowboys. Many people talk about what they would do if they needed to use their gun. I always say that until bullets start flying you will not know how your will react. Some will run towards and some will run away. I hope the sailors that ran towards in this attack were rewarded for their bravery.

So so very true. When shit hits the fan some of the ones who tou woukd least expect to be badass turn out to be just that

Same in Great Lakes.

Just shows how important damage control is for the US Navy.

Cough, cough… uss bonhomme richard. What a waste of a good ship.

Well trained? Do you mean the threat to fire on friendly vessels or returning the salute of an attacking vessel?

@@Chris-pi5vv That was a fire from within the ship. The ship never sank. So your point?

@@Chris-pi5vv the ship that only burned because the crew wasn’t on board and had its fire suppression systems disabled? The ship that could have been repaired if the navy really wanted to spend the money? If something like that happened to a Russian ship it would have been catastrophically lost.

Really

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That's really interesting. I had no idea.

As far as I can tell I think that might have happened after

I was in Boot Camp at the time. When our drill instructors heard we were attacked, they had a whole different attitude and things got very serious quickly.

Div 476?

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Back at you lads, we love you too. God bless America 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@@hansgruber788 Thank you Much respect

@@hansgruber788so heartening to see this. The internet is full of Europeans shitting on Americans. I won’t say it’s all unjustified, but good to know we still have allies. Maybe it’s because you guys aren’t Europeans anymore though. (; Love from the US. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@@daniellivingston7699 Dw my man, we Brits generally love Americans. To give you an idea, half of us don't really consider ourselves European and consider ourselves more kindred with Americans, Canadians, Ozzies ect. And then left wingers generally will see themselves more European than British and have defo less of a bond with America. All comes from our history of whilst being one of the Great European powers, at the time of our zenith Britain created other English speaking nations where we'd share kindred ties. Hence the conflict of identities.

Amen to that.

I love ur vids!!!

Eyyy Suchomimus ^-^ Appreciate the videos, and glad to see you in the comments. Cheers

Please do longer video format

Thank you for your service and for sharing your story.

Don't be upset. They didn't play that role. To quote the Captain who wrote a book about the experience: "I was heartened when Marlborough's Executive Officer Lieutenant Commander Andrew Webb - emerging onto the refueling pier from a small zodiac-style (inflatable) boat flying the Royal Navy's white ensign - walked up the brow, requested permission to come aboard, and asked if there was anything we needed. With some pride, I told him that while the offer was greatly appreciated, the only thing that might be in need of replacement was the aqueous fire-fighting foam; otherwise the ship was in relatively stable condition. After exchanging a few more details about the attack and the aftermath, Lieutenant Commander Webb offered the immediate aide of the Marlborough at any point we needed it and left the pier." Front Burner - Commander Kirk Lippold

No, he's in hell, getting raped by 72 demons every day.

Nicccccce lmao

Bin Ladin attacked US troops at the hotels downtown Aden on December 29th 1992 eight years earlier.

​@@idolhanz9842There was also the us embassy bombings in 1998

@@johnxina1675and then September 2001

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in most planned suicides that pattern holds. With school shootings randomness or uncertainty can stop a school from becoming a target.

I don't know for sure but I believe that the Cole did have lookouts present and manned on 50 caliber guns at the time but rules of engagement wouldn't let them do anything.

US naval ship - higher valued target. Simple as that.

sounds more like tea rounds

Osama bin Laden - not so much.

​@@butterw55 Geronimo

@@butterw55 Bin Laden still serves, as a warning to those who would try the same and a reminder to us that those who say they are our friends but don't help us(Pakistan) could very well be working with our enemies.

​@@Blodhelm not much of a morning, still have a ton of terrorists.

Murdering women and children because Israel ordered you to is hardly "service".

Many people just shrugged and went on with their lives. People who knew about OBL saw increasing terroristic attacks after the bombings in Africa.

yeah. I remember the embassy bombing in Dara Salaam and The Clinton administration shooting cruise missiles at Afghanistan. It' is hard to believe now but many people thought it was a "Wag the dog" scenario, based on a movie of the same name where a president uses a fake military crisis to distract the public from a political scandal. A indicator of public naivete about Islamic terrorism and how scandal plagued the Clinton presidency was, or more precisely, how it scandal plagued it was perceived to be.

​@@jtgd : A Frontline documentary featured one intelligence officer who tried to warn his superiors about the threat of OBL and what would eventually become 9/11. He was subsequently killed in the attack that he tried to prevent.

The Calgary always seems to just barely miss the action.

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography Aptly named, I guess?

Yea battle stations is a rad training exercise

My brother just finished his Battle Stations training and is graduating next week. I wish the video had gone into a little more detail about rescue operations but it helped me understand what happened to the Cole and why it is important to the Navy.

Wish I made it to battle stations.....was separated 3 weeks into boot camp only to be in RTC sep barracks for another 4 weeks only to see my division march by me one day. Boy was I sad. They were on their way to serve their country. Me on my way home.

It's kinda hard to enforce an exclusion zone if you expect three trash barges ;)

@@QemeH Not when the last one isn't even a trash barge and is speeding right for you.

​@@QemeH well it's pretty easy then? Three trash barges? Coordinate what they look like, how they will approach, and when they are scheduled to come? I mean it's not too hard since these are the basic security measures we have in place today that we somehow had to relearn and relearn again.

@@amistrophy this post is too stupid for someone using a Yui avatar, please delete it

Sure just shut down every harbour during peacetime. What do you think the Navy is for? It's there to control shipping, not stop it. When the aircraft carriers come to Hong Kong, the ferries come within a stone's throw - quite amazing to step onto a big ship and then cruise past an actual big ship, towering over you.

Demons helping their fellow demons.

@@N238E look out lads, we've got a budding osama here

@@N238E If you say so. Let's meet up and chat about it.

@@N238E so the 'demons' help out their buddies... what does that make your people who stand aside as r*ssia and china puts your fellows into camps, represses their religion and drives them off their lands?

I thought it was odd a frigate was that much bigger than a destroyer.

HMS Marlborough may have been smaller than USS Cole , but I bet the crew of Cole saw Marlborough as a huge Angel of the seas .

It could be circumstantial, with how many ships are probably delayed during docking every single day. However, I can't say it's impossible!

Piss poor research.

""... did not breach the hull..." there was a 40ft wide hole in the hull, that is certainly a breech." Another verbiage nitpick: Which breach/breech are you going to use?

The hull is that which keeps the vessel afloat hence below the waterline

@@williamwalls9725 I am not sure what you are getting at here. The hole extended both above and below the waterline.

Considering marlborough was a frigate also lol

@@drewb3490 well, with modern ships, what is a destroyer and what is a frigate varies depending on the navy. The newest German Frigates may as well be light cruisers/destroyers by displacement and length.

How unique...

Simple man copy.

Simple man copy where simple man see fit.

Every US Navy ship in the area were flying "battle flags" that day. Including the Cole at one point, IIRC. Which in this usage basically means the biggest US flag they have on board, and they're big, typically only used for photo ops.

Because people use the incident to comment on controversial things

Are you honest about that?

That’d be a very interesting video. Hopefully he won’t neglect the fact that the Israelis knowingly attacked an American ship.

@@gorka1455 They didn't

@@chaosXP3RT They absolutely did, they saw the flag, waved at the sailors, and still attacked. or do you just not believe the people who were there that day?

It is most likely that they meant that the keel was not damaged, and thus the ship not irreparably damaged

A more accurate statement would have been "did not breach water tight integrity" which may have been in the original report but misinterpreted to mean the hull. What that means is the breach was isolated using the ships compartments and water tight doors, which are throughout all USN warships and I'm sure most other countries. The CDR may have even had a heightened condition set since they were warned, so that any leakage was contained before the explosion had even occurred. There is a bunch to explain about USN battle conditions for that to make sense, I hope you can research that if you have questions.

@@jameshisself9324 Not even that, the explosion only entered 'mechanical spaces' (unmanned) under the galley there was no critical flooding, and the dead were killed by the buckling of the floor under them...high compression and blunt force trauma. The Cole is a modern DD, it has more armor/layers of hull than ships of the line did in WW2. The only water that needed to be managed was from those mechanical areas and the keel was undamaged and flooding was not in a critical area. The hole was a problem as the Cole has multiple hulls and it would not have faired well on her own power in rough seas.

What he said and what he ment? If your doing research for a 7 minute video get it right.

@@fortusvictus8297 What are you smoking, modern destroyers do NOT have armor especially compared to battleships of ww2. For example, U.S.S. Cole is 6,900 t displacement and U.S.S. Iowa was 56,500 t with a 12in belt...

Easy, send him there.

sending them there.

Squeeze the trigger and send him on his way. Let God deal with him.

The Japanese were kinda like that. If I recall, lots of bullets and bombs set them straight.

NUKE

Me too, it’s on my shelve

It'd obvious they delayed the fueling and did probably know about the attack that was gonna happen that is probably why they never helped or was uncooperative when the us investigated them

It's

Below the water line is the hull

@@williamwalls9725 That hole extends below the waterline. And, I'm sorry, but the hull DOES NOT stop at the waterline.

Yeah you haven't watched it yet, you don't know it's great.

@@JSFGuy It's a pretty good assumption on this channel.

@@JSFGuy it was great smartass

Explain please

That's classical guilt tripping. No-one can predict something like that happening so it's no-one's fault. Mothers are just that selfish and myopic, needed to not take her seriously as she was just venting off her frustration.

One of the issues with adding Japan is that it has a limited offensive military. Following WW2 for decades it only had a defensive capability, until just a few years ago when it voted to change its laws. Though it could have a logistical (due to location) or intelligence role.

And?

@@JSFGuy what?