and i caught a ride with the uss vincennes cruiser, it is a billion—dollar boat, state—of—the—art atwe got into a battle with iranian speedboats. during the gunboat battle, we were thinking that they are going to come at us with whatever they have now, that would have been the air force. the year before, in 1987, the uss stark got hit by a missile, that was launched by iraq, we always had in mind remember the stark, remember the stark. and about five minutes went by and they said there was a target that had left bandar abbas, the iranian airfield, and the military airport and the civilian airport is the same place, so the aircraft, when it took off, was identified as air hostile. they thought it was iranian air force but the plane, in reality, was flight 655, it was an airliner, an airbus. five times a week, there is a scheduled service across the bandar strait to dubai. they travel a flight path... but here the crew is, waiting for another target to come at them when the aircraft takes off. and i believe that one of the lieutenants, i went up and asked him and i said "what are we do