USS Fitzgerald collision at sea

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Yeah, I know it was 2017. My bro-in-law sent me this article. It makes me seethe with anger. As many things I love about the Navy, there are an equal amount of things I hate, The BS contained in the article I hate, and I wasn't even haze gray and underway as a SWO or ships' company.

features.propublica.org

The Inside Story of an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy

Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
features.propublica.org features.propublica.org
 
The inexperience showed in a series of near misses in the weeks before the crash, when the destroyer maneuvered dangerously close to vessels on at least three occasions.
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^^^^^ Captain should have already been relieved!
 
Tim said:
^^^^^ Captain should have already been relieved!
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Arleigh Burke said "the difference between a good captain and a poor one is 10 seconds...."

He would have been gone had any of those near-misses turned out to be "mutually shared space at sea." I had read articles about the event before, but none quite this damning. Undermanned, inadequate training, multiple certifications not held, sleeplessness and fatigue, down equipment, the list goes on. How he retained command is beyond me.

In this climate of canning so many ship COs, XOs, and CMCs, I get how incompetence gets fired, but honestly some of the BS things the Navy does to fire command in some cases and stuff like this is swept under the rug in others is just beyond me...
 
I read the whole thing; sorta wish I hadn't. Depressed, sad, angry. One wonders if it's like this across the fleet. I don't like to think about it.
 
Interesting read, and it does not paint a picture of competence. My mind kept wandering to another story about a destroyer and a some strawberries.
 
An amazing article. The damage control officer appeared to the most competent of all of the officers.
 
I read any article today ironically that the SSN Uss Connecticut which struck a underwater mountain in 2021 in the Soith China Sea would be out of service until 2026 sitting in Washington in repairs at a cost of 80 billion dollars.

www.yahoo.com

US nuclear-powered submarine that ran into an underwater mountain in the South China Sea is going to be stuck in repairs for years

USS Connecticut is considered to be among the Navy's most capable submarines, but it will be sidelined by maintenance until at least 2026.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
 
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