Cuckoo Award! Going Off Halfcocked

This war in Iran is bring out the Cuckoo Awards... what this is the third one given to the Trump administration over the war! This one is for both Trump and Hegseth for going off to war halfcocked!

What is the number one problems with the Strait of Hormuz? Mines! And where are the navy's mine sweepers? Why sitting in the navy's Philadelphia base!

Trump pulled mine-sweepers from the Middle East and they’re sitting in Philadelphia as the Iran War rages

The Navy went through with plans to pull the ships from service despite ongoing tensions with Iran

The Independent

Andrew Feinberg in Washington, D.C.

Wednesday 11 March 2026

As President Donald Trump warns Iran against using mines to threaten oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy’s purpose-built minesweepers are sitting stateside thousands of miles away with no plans to put them to use while the war rages on.

As gas prices in the U.S. continued to skyrocket, Trump on Tuesday took to Truth Social to demand that Tehran “immediately” remove any mines placed in the vital seaway and to do so “forthwith” lest the Iranian military suffer “consequences ... at a level never seen before.” That warning came after multiple news outlets reported Iran had begun mining the strait, a narrow waterway that is the only passage from the Persian Gulf into open ocean.

He also threatened to use drone strikes to “permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait” and boasted of having done so against 10 Iranian “inactive mine-laying boats” in a separate post several minutes later.

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On Monday, a massive cargo ship, M/V Seaway Hawk, was spotted on camera arriving in Philadelphia carrying a quartet of Avenger-class Mine Countermeasure Ships that were based at U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain as the Navy’s front-line deterrent against mining operations in the Middle East until this past fall, when the last of those ships, U.S.S. Devastator, was decommissioned.

Hey wait a minute! Trump and Hegseth didn't think that they needed the mine-sweepers this time? I say this time because...

 The four wood-and-fiberglass vessels, including Devastator, U.S.S. Sentry, U.S.S. Dextrous, and U.S.S. Gladiator, were built in the 1990s had been built in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and ships of that class were first deployed to the Persian Gulf region during Operation Desert Storm.

For the next four decades, the U.S. kept minesweepers forward-deployed in Bahrain to deter use of mines in the Gulf region amid fears that Iran could use them to effectively block the narrow chokepoint through which one fifth of the world’s oil supply passes each year.

A good one you two! How many are going to die because you didn't think to send mine-sweepers to protect the tankers!

So without any fan-fair the Cuckoo Award is given to both Trump and Hegseth for their idiocy  of not sending mine-sweepers!