Here's the reason the US Navy is reluctant to sail through the Strait of Hormuz

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13. Independent of the discussion of the Strait of Hormuz, your history on the USS Cole is not accurately . . .

. . . stated.

First, it was not in the 1990s. It was in the year 2000.

Second, more particularly, it was in port at Aden.

Here is an FBI report of the event:

USS Cole Bombing

On October 12, 2000, two suicide pilots of a small bomb-laden boat pulled alongside of the USS Cole at midship, offered friendly gestures to several crew members, and detonated their explosives.

The U.S. destroyer, en route to the Persian Gulf, was making a prearranged fuel stop at the port of Aden, Yemen, when the attack occurred.

The blast ripped a 40-foot-wide hole near the waterline of the Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors and injuring nearly 40 other crew members.

. . .

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/uss-cole-bombing

And here is another discussion of that event:

Naval War College Review

Learning the Hard Way
John Callaway

page 111 (page 5 of the PDF)

...

USS COLE
On 10 October 2000, Cole transited the Suez Canal en route to the Persian Gulf,
where the ship was to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Iraq and
keep its Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles ready for possible use by the
Commander, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). On 11 October 2000 Cole
passed southward through the Red Sea at twenty-seven knots. The next day, the
12th, the ship entered Aden and tied up alongside a dolphin, a pierlike structure
of concrete pilings in the middle of the harbor, to take on fuel. As is customary
when a ship visits a port, numerous small vessels soon approached it. Two tugs
maneuvered the ship along the dolphin, assisted by two smaller boats carrying
line handlers, who would pull the mooring lines to the dolphin’s cleats and make
them fast. The harbor pilot, when his task was complete, disembarked into a pi-
lot boat, and the husbanding agent, a representative of the company arranging
for fuel and other services, boarded from (probably) yet another boat. Several
small scows came to take trash, as well as sewage pumped from the ship’s holding
tanks.
Less than two hours after Cole’s arrival, another small craft approached the
warship from the pier area across the harbor. One man was in the stern, handling
the outboard motor, and a second was standing in the bow. The skiff turned to-
ward the center of the warship, the man in the bow waving to the crew topside,
and a moment later an explosion rocked the harbor. An explosive charge ripped
a forty-by-forty-five-foot hole through the steel skin of the ship, killing seven-
teen sailors and wounding forty-two others.(19)

...


https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol62/iss1/8

All of that being said, though, it is a terrible idea to sacrifice the Navy (or any soldiers or people for that matter) on the altar of Donald Trump's moronic planning, war, and ego.