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Involved in the incident and this should be resolved within the next couple of hours. but you can imagine the consternation with all the politics and diplomacy involving iran as of late. absolutely right, jim. and i m thinking, when you say riverine craft, i m thinking of somewhere between a launch and a pt boat with an open stern, perhaps stand-up cockpit, center cockpit, but not a very large vessel? there are several versions of them, but you re exactly right. they re manned by a small number of crews. and in vietnam, they were used wi widely. in fact, john kerry served on a riverine boat in vietnam and was wounded. it was his final purple heart that brought him out of vietnam during the vietnam war. but again, you know, what raised everybody s concerns here is that sometime ago, a similar incident occurred with a number of british sailors, and when they inadvertently drifted into ....