Camp Pendleton Marines join Somali pirate standoff (USS Boxer)

[Renew Deal]

SAN DIEGO - Marines from Camp Pendleton have joined in the standoff with Somali pirates who are holding an American freighter captain hostage on a lifeboat off the Somali coast, it was reported today.

The USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship based in San Diego, joined the U.S. military assets in the Indian Ocean near the covered lifeboat that is out of gas and drifting about 30 miles off the Somali coast, the Orange County Register reported.

The Boxer gets some of its munitions from the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and has Marines from Camp Pendleton aboard, some of whom are from Orange County, the newspaper reported.
<snip>

http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/37106

[sattahipdeep]

1. Is that Mr. Smith

Crew members of the Maersk Alabama arrive in Mombasa, Kenya after overpowering Somali pirates and regain control of their ship. Photograph: Sarah Elliott/EPA

[Duckhunter935]

2. Slingload the lifeboat

and place it on the deck, can you say outnumbered

[TorchTheWitch]

3. Can you say dead captain?

As if the pirates would allow that. Good grief.

[jwirr]

4. 2+2 = the life boat is drifting toward shore - marines are needed to

go on shore to rescue Captain if the boat reaches land.