WASHINGTON: US sailors who were captured in January after straying into Iranian waters committed basic navigational blunders, were quick to surrender and some buckled under questioning, a damning Navy probe released Thursday found.

The report into the January 12 incident in the Persian Gulf highlights a string of leadership and procedural failings in Iran’s humiliating seizure of the 10 American sailors, with investigators saying the crews of the two captured boats had been derelict in their duties.

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