Pentagon relieved to discover tankers in Gulf Of Oman just collided with US Navy warships
WASHINGTON — Officials at the Pentagon breathed a collective sigh of relief this week after receiving word that the tankers damaged Thursday in the Gulf of Oman were actually accidental collisions with US Navy warships.
According to reports from 7th Fleet, both tankers were damaged nearly simultaneously by the USS Boxer (LHD 4) and the USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) in completely unrelated yet fortuitous acts of gross negligence.
"We are happy to announce that reports of Iranian attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman were merely incompetence and dereliction of duty on the part of the U.S. Navy and not the harbinger of future wars to come," said 7th Fleet commander Vice Adm. Phillip G. Sawyer.
While a win for US foreign policy, it is a major blow for the the U.S. Navy, who have been grasping at relevancy since the cancellation of 70's sitcom "CPO Sharkey." Everyone at the Department of the Navy, including key defense strategy analysts, had been working at a fever pitch determining the im…
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