I suspect there is more to this than what is presented in the article. It is unimaginable to me that any USN vessel would avoid or hesitate to perform rescue operations once a scene had been assessed.

Things that honorable men (and women) do are never tarnished by the actions of a coward. You should NEVER send it back to the cowards.

Interesting this never went mainstream

Well, they rescued 42. Is it possible there was a delay so they could determine that there was no threat?

Also, who is XO and PMO? XO stands for hugs and kisses where I’m from.

This is disgraceful. I feel like if the occupant of the White House is aware of it, he would laugh.

Here's a link. [amp.theguardian.com]

Do you have a link to this? My father is a WWII Navy vet who saved German sailors from drowning. I want to hear what he has to say about it.

It could have been worse...I remember seeing an actual film taken of an American submarine crew shooting Japanese survivors of a Japanese ship they had just torpedoed. Some of the Japanese were floating in the water pretending to be dead...but that did not help them. It would seem that executing Japanese during WWII was not worthy of outrage or even condemnation.

This sounds terrible. Where was it?