A Suicide Boat Attack Leaves the USS Cole Reeling from the Damage | Combat Ships | Smithsonian

[@roywilliams9089]

I was in Navy boot camp in the mid 90's with 2 USS Cole shipmates. Rest easy sailors

[@Ron-t8l]

NTC/RTC Orlando 1991

[@Ron-t8l]

Blue Jacket Park

[@aries3968]

My mom was in the engineering room where the explosion took place, what saved her life was the need to go to the restroom. She lost earing in her left ear mostly.

[@MrJuvefrank]

Well, if all she lost was an earring, then it's replaceable.

[@aries3968]

@@MrJuvefrank she lost her mind, she suffers from severe PTSD. She knew all 17 Sailors who died in that bombing and she was the first to see the bodies and what the explosion caused.

[@lolmeh2039]

@@aries3968 its safe to say that things went down the shitter real quick

[@Neilukuk]

@@aries3968 He is messing with you because you wrote earing and not hearing lol

[@roahnosh]

bad ending damned

[@rats2864]

Thanks to the crew of HMS Marlborough for taking care of the wounded

[@walterfechter8080]

I salute those crewmen.

[@maclennylucas2248]

The attacked highlighted a previously unknown or unattended to peril, and that is none of the Weaponry on the Arleigh Burke destroyer could position low enough to fire on small ships closing in, Especially the five-inch gun. Couple of months after the accident I had a job running a CNC lathe making the 4.5 inch shells that were specifically designed as a solution for this problem. Rather than redesigning the gun mounts which would have been extremely expensive to implement, a specific shell was created. The outer casing was made of metal that was two different densities and hardness. The inner shell was filled with shot, or shrapnel. The result was the shell would break apart from the heat and stress of firing it, shortly after it left the barrel and would spread fragments pretty evenly over a very wide area, effectively wiping out any small boats and Personnel on it. I was very surprised and honored actually to work on this as I was on the last Machining operation on the end of the line, many years ago.

[@keithb372]

I was working off dock station 7, assisting with the TSO. I saw the explosion and felt the blast. RIP to those who died.

[@Lady_Trouble]

Narrator: the attack had killed 17 sailors *ends with its brighter here*

[@shannonpace9433]

I helped build the USS Cole. I did the intakes to the main engines and generators. I didn't get to work on it when it came back to Ingalls Shipbuilding because I was already on another ship.

[@RBFR01]

I feel like this video should have been longer. It felt like it just ended when it became interesting and a story was being told.

[@Ozbawky]

Wonder why I'm just hearing about this in 2022...

[@rg9810]

WW3 propaganda?

[@thecool24681]

Because it was a humiliation to the so called super power😊

[@robertlawrence4719]

This was a huge thing in the 9/11 commission report . This was 8 months before 9/11.

[@Dunebashing88]

How about uss liberty when the j3ws attacked.

[@texasred2702]

Eh? It was headline news for months. It revived the discussion about how the Clinton Admin had allowed US defense ro get slack, what with the BRAC base closings and the embassy bombing in Kenya 2 year earlier. It probably helped nudge the election in favor of GW Bush less than a month later.

[@yafismasroorhafiz8407]

I think Al-Qaeda had got this idea from WW2 Japanese Kamikaze submarine

[@AQ-uc4bb]

That’s the truth

[@edcola6671]

That also explains the similarities between 9/11 and airborne kamikaze attacks.

[@ivan5595]

Nah. Shinyos.

[@dwaineskully6515]

Where can I fine the full documentary???

[@geomodelrailroader]

Because Cole got bombed the Navy had to flag down the Blue Marlin which was on her way back to Rotterdam after offloading an oilrig in Saudi. The Blue Marlin was modified in Aden Harbor and Cole was towed aboard. USS Boxer installed a bulkhead plug over the hole and the water was pumped out. Next Blue Marlin departed Aden after taking on Cole. Next Stop Huntington Ingles Shipyard in Pascagoula Mississippi where Cole was built. She was headed home to be repaired.

[@Wolf-xu1fj]

Imagine what an anti ship missile can do to these ships

[@aurockscastillo5460]

And now the guy who did this is a mess on a wall

[@maclennylucas2248]

Yeah and he's with his 72 virgins, so the fairy tale goes

[@matthewtenorioduenas202]

What did I get myself into? Lol

[@walterfechter8080]

Knowing full well that Yemen was a country which harbored terrorist training facilities, we should have had a defensive perimeter set up. Warning buoys with the native language should have been set afloat a safe distance from The Cole. Any vessel getting close enough to inflict damage on the Cole should have been fired upon. Did we worry too much about creating an "international incident" and did not give enough thought towards protecting our naval personnel? On the day of that cowardly and fiendish attack on The Cole, I told many others, "We will be attacked next -- on our own soil." A year later; on September 11, 2001; my suspicions were proved correct. What were our intel gathering organizations doing in 2001? They failed us miserably. The result was the mass murder of US civilians in NYC, PA and in Washington, DC on September 11, 2001. God keep my brothers-in-arms who died aboard the USS Cole on that October day in 2000. God keep all of those who died on September 11, 2001. Sail on sailors. We shall never forget. -- A USAF vet

[@Dunebashing88]

Do research also on your allies in Israel “USS liberty” 1967

[@RapMusic490]

Don't worry the PTSD will set in soon enough and you won't be able to remember this king.

[@UrbanShadeGuardsman211]

First 17, then 2,997

[@texasred2702]

YT won't allow links, but Google John P. O'Neill Not everyone was asleep at the switch in 2000.

[@dannyrichards6233]

Today is October 11th tomorrow is the 12th the 22nd anniversary

[@Abu-Mahemad]

USS Cole

[@gt5715]

Well done 👏

[@DeAngeloStevens]

Patti Mayonnaise's 20th Birthday from Nickelodeon/Disney's Doug.

[@Arab--Man]

RIP the attackers , imagine an Iraqi three years later defends his country against invasion, the invaders call him ter*orist

[@argh39]

Just another event that led to 9/11 that people forgot about

[@yabbadabbadoo8225]

Having a son serving currently in the Navy, it is not possible for some random ship or boat to present along side any US vessel. All supplies & Logistics are vetted at fixed Ports. Nothing gets ''slipped'' thru unless its been approved by the US themselves, thats my take knowing how this system functions

[@Dontworryboutit315]

This was over two decades ago

[@Nathan-bd6cq]

Oh your sons in the navy? You must know a lot then

[@AnnaAparicio26]

Yeah, like the navy now and navy in 2000 was same

[@yabbadabbadoo8225]

@@AnnaAparicio26 The big changes came in the 70's, its just a job now, nothing else.

[@arober9758]

Very good job fellows!! I think Al-Qaeda had got this idea from WW2 Japanese Kamikaze submarine.

[@Zenovarse]

You mean kaitens?

[@NeluThat70sKid]

Osama bin Laden had insisted on rationalizing his attacks on any American-related in the Middle East, only because, according to the A&E Biography episode about him, America "had already dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II". Who knows whether or not, he encouraged his Al-Qaeda fighters to be like kamikaze fighter pilots. Scary.

[@akolangtoh8137]

History repeats itself*

[@WhackTony]

It rhymes never repeats

[@الزئبق-المميت]

حلياً الزمن اعاد نفسه الآن 2024

[@ivan5595]

Shinyo

[@gabrielibrahmbreivikrobich3956]

😂 terroristes.. after hammersmashed face .. the dive pull cord détonation.. suicide à lie❤

[@PGIOL]

drugs in USN

[@bedouinknight9437]

This makes me happy more oh more

[@darksonic9014]

Why does this make you happy a lot of people die does that make you happy are you glad that the ship had a hole in it and people died did you hate that ship why are you happy why do you want more

[@RapMusic490]

@@darksonic9014 You can't be this ignorant, Americans have killed way more using these ships and planes

[@pingpong7810]

♥️♥️♥️♥️pakistan save india♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@pingpong7810]

♥️♥️♥️♥️pakistan india japan save taiwan ♥️♥️♥️

[@pingpong7810]

♥️♥️♥️india save pakistan♥️♥️♥️

[@roahnosh]

Gonna impose sanctions Get bombed surprised pikachu face

[@magz875]

This is the ship that starved over half a million Iraqi babies with Madeline Albright saying "it was worth it"?! Talk about baby formula shortages in the US, bad karma and what goes around comes around.

[@Ozbawky]

Sources?

[@randaddy2000]

How exactly does a destroyer do that?

[@magz875]

@@randaddy2000 oh no, the destroyer goes around handing out candy actually.

[@magz875]

@@Ozbawky read my comment again.

[@matthewtenorioduenas202]

@@Ozbawky putting sanctions. Display of power, you know..

[@dimitri6937]

2nd

[@TheGreekShipEnthusiast]

5th

[@zacharysweeney4720]

4th

[@mg123rules]

3rd