@gameruncle69 @jockowillink 1/3 We were attacked by the #IDF—the most powerful military in the Middle East at the time—but they weren’t alone. They were allied with the President of the United States.
2/3 As soon as LBJ learned aircraft had been dispatched from Sixth Fleet aircraft carriers, he ordered CTF60 RADM Larry Geis on the #USSAmerica to recall the aircraft.
3/3 Had that order been disobeyed (and Article 99 of the UCMJ demands it be disobeyed) they would have arrived in time to drive off the torpedo boats and 25 of our shipmates would have survived the attack.
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