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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.

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 83 points 10 months ago

one got knocked off by high waves.

comrade Poseidon

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago

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@hexbear.net 53 points 10 months ago

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

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

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@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

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@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

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”.

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

because the sky gods leave survivors

dead men tell no tales

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[-] D61@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago
[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago

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@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

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"

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

pity they don't follow this protocol to it's logical conclusion and just all jump into the ocean, one after another

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 75 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Des@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

Houthi Hydromancers

god i love this so much

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

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

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago

I'm a simple person.

I see dead US soldiers, I laugh.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 63 points 10 months ago
  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@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago

literal skill issue

data-laughing

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago

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

y tho

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

Seppuku with American characteristics

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 56 points 10 months ago

omg please pray for these brave - LOL fuck them wet work goons enjoy the trip to davey jones locker you fucks

[-] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago

Funniest part is they got owned by either Somali fishermen or Houthi fighters. Also the US are such fkn hypocrites to scream about Yemenis interdictions off the coast of Yemen when the US has been covertly doing it in the same area for the past decade. This isn't US waters, ridiculous. The US only ever talks about it when their SEAL teams get owned and there are too many questions.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago

it seems like they just got owned by the sea

the one thing they're really supposed to be good at

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

Imagine calling yourself a seal and then fucking drowning

[-] fox@hexbear.net 53 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

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?

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago

here's hoping their fate is SEALed

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago
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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

Officer down (under the water)

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Under the sea, under the sea,

Fascism's better down where it's wetter, take it from me

Up on the shore they're woke all day

Capitalism's gifts they throw away

While we're all voting,

Bootlicking, doting,

Under the sea

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[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago

Whereas with these chuds they got watered

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago

if i didn't wanna go missing at night i would just not go swimming after dark

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

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.

Archive beyond the paywall -

In Kenya, soldiers traumatized by the U.S.-backed war in Somalia often face discipline instead of treatment 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.

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[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

Every person who has talked to me about a SEAL theyve known describes the worst sociopath imaginable.

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

More and more soldiers are defecting the US regime.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

gonna be found chewed up by a shark and some asshole is going to try to take away comrade sharks' credit by claiming "sharks don't eat people" as per usual

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago
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[-] let_me_tank_her@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Osama bin Laden's Revenge :packwatch:

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

They obviously defected to the enemy.

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

lol eat shit

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