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Carrier you were being shadowed by an iranian ship. tell us about that. at the time i was actually and the u.s.s. bunker hill, which is the egypt-type cruiser that was the carrier s essort escort, and at a certain point through the morning haze, you could see off our star bird beam, about 3400 yards away, a dow, the dow are the ships of the area, mostly commercial ships, this one you knew was iranian because it was flying anan flag, it had a radar far too extensive for fishermen to own and it shadowed us and came within a mile. the officers going to the gulf for money years told me this is typical behavior on the part of the iranians. the worrisome thing is that there have been incidents over the last year in which the iranians have come very close to some of our capital ships and the fear is that even a small boat could do enormous damage to a very ....

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