Missile Inbound: The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf Review

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(More customer reviews)A post-attack crewmember from 1993-1997, I served as CS-3 (Ordnance) Division Leading Petty Officer and Weapons Control Officer. The report of investigation headed by Admiral Sharp was much more interesting reading, and seems to have been largely overlooked by the authors, as well as any interviews with surviving crewmembers other than the officers.
It overlooked the heroic damage control efforts of the crew under the most adverse of circumstances. With fires raging near the missile magazine, 20% of the crew dead in the initial moments, lack of firemain pressure and communications, and one-third of the repair lockers out of commission, the crewmembers literally almost sank their ship to save it.
It was largely a whitewash of the entire affair, seemingly written for the purpose of justifying Captain Brindell's refusal to accept responsibility for the attack and hanging his junior officers out to dry. It was a coldly analytical look at an overall unrelated sequence of events that couldn't have been pieced together in any other circumstances than a tragic aftermath. Necessary reading for any USS STARK (FFG-31) crewmember prior or subsequent to May 17, 1987...maybe we can get together and tell the true story of that dreadful night.

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