“It came in really fast.” The USS Boxer crew describes a nerve-wracked day in the Strait of Hormuz facing off against Iran.
ABOARD THE USS BOXER—The Marines, armed with machine guns, started taking their places in the early dawn light of Thursday morning, standing guard where intruders might board the USS Boxer as it began entering the Strait of Hormuz.
They were leading a group of Navy warships into one of the world’s busiest waterways, where a third of the planet’s seaborne oil is shipped. It is also crawling with Iranian navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ vessels.
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