Bradley Peniston

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Executive editor, Defense One. Author of two books about the U.S. Navy. Knows just enough about scripting to be dangerous.

The minehunting ship USS Avenger undergoes a shock trial to test its resistance to mine damage.
A day or two after the sailors of the damaged USS Samuel B. Roberts saved their ship, a helicopter captured this photo of their fighting spirit as their frigate was towed to port.
This still from a Navy video shows three mines on the deck of the Iran Ajr, an Iranian minelayer captured in the Persian Gulf by US Navy SEALs in September 1987 during the secret Operation Prime Chance.
The hull of SS Bridgeton, up on blocks in a drydock after striking an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf during the first convoy escort mission of Operation Earnest Will. The photo shows the damage done by the mine.
A lookout on a US Navy warship keeps watch for mines and other threats during Operation Earnest Will, during which the US Navy escorted reflagged Kuwaiti tankers through the wartorn Persian Gulf.
Artist's conception of the moment the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a U.S. Navy guided missile frigate, struck an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf on April 14, 1988.