Further update and probably the last one for this post before I'm back in Louisiana: Yesterday started off eventful as Iran decided to try and play chicken with a 90,000 ton diplomacy tool by positioning themselves (5 fast attack boats) directly in front of said diplomacy tool. The US Navy does not change course in the event of a collision, but Iran does. They lost the chicken game and then decided to flank us on both sides and harass us probably yelling aloha snackbar and dumb stuff like that. We called on our weapons department to man the .50 cal mounts and the helo's circled the small boats with their weapons locked on to the boats. We kept up foreign relations like Maverick and Goose did in Topgun. After about 30 minutes of helos descending lower and lower and the jets making low passes near the boats, they decided that living was better than either, 1. drowing or 2. burning and smoldering so they decided to turn in for the rest of the day. These guys were so close you could see the ammo links on their dshk's mounted on the bows of their boats.
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