At least we provided warnings to evacuate, Twice.
I learn new things everyday. I learned a while ago, in some book or something I was reading that the way to count seconds in your mind is “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, and so on”. Counting 1, 2, 3 etc doesn’t fill up the space correctly unless you’ve been watching clocks and pendulums for a very long time. I discovered that it’s actually a pretty decent method, I was usually off by a few seconds but a reasonable estimation of a minute when holding my breath.
First Lt. Feehan was killed by an Iranian strike in Jordan. There aren’t many videos left of the strike on YouTube given the War Department’s strong warnings to soldiers about not posting base strikes online. I provided the full search link because your YouTube algorithm might show you more.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Muwaffaq+Salti+Air+Base+bombing
No such restrictions about air base security exists for global military forums.
The New York Times has apparently decided to cover a Gold Star family on their front page after months and years of covering Israel. Everyone gets a second chance, one supposes is the message from the Lieutenant.
Yet their framers could not resist showing a grieving American family with “A More Confident Iran” on top.
It’s one of those, even when they win, they lose sort of dilemmas. Just can’t help themselves with spreading hatred, sort of an instinctual reflex for them now. The website must not feel right if they could only have a grieving American military family on the page.
So I thought I would provide you the other side of war. 84 Iranian sailors were killed when an American submarine or two torpedoed the IRIS DENA 19 miles away from Sri Lanka. The ship was part of a celebration of naval exercises with 70 nations participating. The rules of that particular exercise is that the ships are unarmed.
The official infrared periscope footage showing the Mark 48 heavyweight torpedo impact against the IRIS Dena was coordinated and distributed through the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) media pool. [1, 2, 3]
Because the strike took place in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka—which falls geographically under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USPACOM)—the operational details were authorized through them, while the broader strategic verification was delivered natively by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a live briefing. [1, 2]
“An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon news briefing. “Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.”
After Sri Lanka’s navy received a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, which had 180 people on board, it sent ships and planes on a rescue mission, the country’s foreign minister, Vijitha Herath, told Parliament.
But by the time Sri Lanka’s navy reached the location, there was no sign of the ship, “only some oil patches and life rafts,” navy spokesman Commander Buddhika Sampath said. “We found people floating on the water.”
A video released by the U.S. Department of Defense on X showed the moment of the torpedo attack. The Iranian ship appears to be hit by an underwater explosion that causes it to break apart, as a large plume of water rises up in the air.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603071125
We warned them! We warned them! Twice. Abandon yere ships ye filthy whores and hordes. America is coming for you. Like a video game. BOOM.
I wonder if they ever learned 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi.
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/why-did-the-us-torpedo-irans-prize-warship/1259031919485239/
The comments on Facebook used to be interesting.
Third Lieutenant Hamed Momeneh, a member of the Iranian Army serving aboard Dena Destroyer, was welcomed by local residents and officials in the city of Kermanshah on April 18, 2026. A US-Israeli attack on the vessel in the Indian Ocean on March 4, 2026, resulted in the martyrdom of 84 crew members, while 52 others were reported missing or wounded.
What’s a third lieutenant? What’s a first lieutenant? Why is the word tenant inside a military rank? What is “Landlordism?”
Those are probably inappropriate questions for this essay. They sound almost childish. Like a curious 5 year old.
But hey, we warned them. Twice.
