December 6, 2022 (Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf) On a clear moonlit night, two U.S. Navy ships sailing through international waters faced danger as a fast approaching Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrol boat appeared. The Iranian Navy boat, disregarding international law, headed straight towards the U.S. Navy ships while attempting to blind them with a spotlight. The unfriendly patrol boat passed within 150 yards of the U.S. Navy ships, extremely reckless behavior in a narrow passage where dozens of oil tankers sail though each day.
‘Unsafe and unprofessional’ is how the U.S. Central Command describes the actions of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard patrol boat. Instead of returning fire with lethal force, the U.S. Navy ships responded with a non-lethal option, B.E. Meyers’ very own LA9/P.
