Any reason why they didn't ?/. I'm not at all familiar with the specifics but presumably wouldn't the Uss liberty have put out an immediate sos/ under attack to the carrier group ?
The video that I saw informed me that the officer in charge, I believe it was an admiral, decided that sending fighters might cause an international incident. He wanted confirmation from the White House.
Ah ok, the ole deferred Authority.
'Hi, you have reached the White House. We can't come to the phone right now. Please leave your name, number and reason for calling and We'll get right back to ya!'
Depends on what their orders are/were. When I was deployed in 2001-2002, we had 4 or 5 different subs in our group. They just came and went. We never knew which was with us, but we knew when there was one with us.
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