ROBERT DEAN STETHEM United States Navy

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ROBERT DEAN STETHEM United States Navy
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Posted on 09/29/2024 5:38:26 PM PDT by artichokegrower

“Robbie” Stethem was born into a proud Navy family on November 17, 1961, in Waterbury, Connecticut. His father Richard served for 26 years and retired as Senior Chief Petty Officer. After retiring, he continued to work for the Navy as a civilian for another 20 years. Robert’s mother Patricia served in the Navy before leaving active duty to raise the family. Brother Kenneth served for 20 years and retired as a Navy SEAL. Brother Patrick, like Robert, was a “Seabee” diver and served for 10 years in the same Underwater Construction Team One.

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In June, 1985, Robert Stethem was returning from Nea Makri with five teammates on a civilian airliner, Trans World Airlines Flight 847. After taking off from Athens, the flight was hijacked by Shi’ite Muslim extremists aligned with Hezbollah, an Iran-funded Lebanese terrorist organization.

The hijackers forced the flight to make multiple landings in Algiers, Algeria and in Beirut, Lebanon. They held 39 people hostage for 17 days, demanding the release of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Demanding to know which of the passengers were Jews, the hijackers gathered passports—looking for Jewish-sounding names.

With the passports, the terrorists identified the six Navy teammates as American military and singled out Stethem for brutal beatings. Threatening to kill all passengers unless their demands were met, one of the terrorists proved their point by shooting Robert Stethem in the head and dumping his body out onto the Beirut airport tarmac. He was 23 years old.

Thank you Israel for killing the Hezbolla criminal who enabled this murder

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