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Article: Navy keeps its cool in the blistering gulf heat ; It was, in the words of the current First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, "a bad day in the Royal Navy's 400-year history", for on March 23, 2007, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy delivered a humiliation to "Little Satan" (as firebrand mullahs like to call Britain), that more than a year later still hangs like a black cloud over the Senior Service.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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It was, in the words of the current First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir
Jonathon Band, "a bad day in the Royal Navy's 400-year history", for
on March 23, 2007, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy
delivered a humiliation to "Little Satan" (as firebrand mullahs like
to call Britain), that more than a year later still hangs like a
black cloud over the Senior Service.
Everywhere on the front line, from Nato counter-terrorism efforts
in the Mediterranean to drug-busting in the Caribbean and guarding
against both al Qaida and facing down Iran in the northern Gulf,
British sailors and Marines are keen to show what they can do. The
kidnapping of 15 sailors and Marines from HMS Cornwall in the same ...
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