Entering strait, U.S. carrier draws Iranian speedboats
By JON GAMBRELL The Associated Press
Posted: March 23, 2017 at 4:07 a.m.
U.S. sailors aboard the USS George H.W. Bush watched Tuesday as the first Revolutionary Guard vessels appeared on the horizon of the Strait of Hormuz, beginning a daylong face-off that has become familiar to Iranian paramilitary and U.S. naval forces that pass through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
"What reason were they to be in an international corridor, other than to harass us?" Rear Adm. Kenneth Whitesell, commander of Carrier Strike Group 2, asked of the Iranian actions. "Was today the day they were going to come out and potentially deploy kinetic actions against us?"
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