"Serious breakdowns on the part of both."
Causing serious bow damage.
"Bow?,.. what bow?
Posted on 06/12/2022 5:05:12 PM PDT by daniel1212
the U.S. Navy released a long-awaited, but heavily redacted report of its investigation into the circumstances surrounding USS Connecticut hitting an uncharted seamount while sailing in the Pacific region on Oct. 2, 2021, an accident that caused extensive damage. The War Zone has now had a chance to review the entire 67-page document in detail. In the report, investigators describe how a weak command environment and lax attitudes when it came to performing key tasks ultimately put the submarine, which was also suffering issues with some of its sensor systems and other equipment, on a direct path to the accident. It also describes how the crew acted fast to save the stricken submarine that began to sink after making it to the surface after the impact. Here is our full summary of the report and its implications.
In terms of where grounding occurred, the Navy's report only confirms that Connecticut was in international waters at the time of the accident, but it has been widely reported that the submarine was somewhere in the South China Sea at the time..conducting a humanitarian evacuation (HUMEVAC) transit at the time.[snip]
The report includes a review of events leading up to the accident ..in March 2021 it emerged publicly that Connecticut had been suffering from an infestation of bed bugs, which sailors onboard alleged had been the case for at least a year at that point
Then, on April 14, 2021, Connecticut smacked into a pier.
for reasons not immediately clear, Cmdr. Aljilani made the decision to approve the use of a temporary route plan, which skips certain safety checks and approval processes built into certain systems. .What is clear is that Connecticut suffered, or was already experiencing, some kind of mechanical or technical issue during the transit...
At some point, for reasons that are not clear from the unclassified portions of the report, the decision was made to increase the cruising speed from 16 knots to 24 knots...
“Connecticut did not properly mark two ‘underwater danger/underwater hazard’ locations or five areas of ‘discolored water’ as navigation hazards.... “The OOD stated he was concerned with the shallower-than-expected soundings but “The OOD did not consider ordering a lower speed.”
From the details included in report, the events immediately following Connecticut’s impact into the seafloor were chaotic, at least to some degree. The Diving Officer of the Watch (DOOW) twice did not hear or acknowledge orders from the OOD, the first being to change the submarine’s depth to 160 feet and then the second command to slow the speed of the ascent to keep the submarine at that depth. The submarine subsequently leveled off at a depth of 36 feet, at which point portions of the boat had broached the surface.
the “sonar reported severe degradation from the spherical array,”..
Once on the surface, the crew had to deal with the fact that the ship was not deballasting properly and was beginning to sink back down...
Note that if the behavior of Naval crews in recent accidents is an indication of the overall condition then it impugns confidence.
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The Navy has decided to scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard. The Navy concluded that repairing the ship could cost more than $3 billion and take between five and seven years to complete,
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Which may partly be in response to the advanced WOKE capabilities boasted by the developing liberalnation "Wokelitary," from,
allowing transgenders to serve in the military,
with Army mandatory training now including training Army personnel to know what to do in such scenarios as when a soldier who was "assigned" a biological gender at birth says he/she identifies as another gender, and lives as such in off-duty hours, but is not requesting to be treated as such while on duty, versus if such later requests to be identified as according to their chosen gender during duty hours, and/or experiences increased distress relating to his/her gender identity;
and ensuring free gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel,
and with The Pentagon Forming a Diversity and Inclusion Office,
and the Air Force being with WOKEism in creating 'LGBTQ' and 'Indigenous Nations Equality' Focus Groups,
and also authorizing the use of gender pronouns in signature blocks,
and the CIA funds a 'cisgender millennial with anxiety disorder' campaign, and with the
along with the Navy's first all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew,
to lower fitness standards for women
while nearly half of female soldiers are still failing the new Army Fitness Test,
yet calling for Increased Diversity and More Women in Combat,
and changing its song to be gender-neutral,
and Forcing Marines to Make Boot Camp Coed,
and feeding cadets cultural Marxist propaganda about gender and masculinity therein,
to its new diversity and inclusion operation from West Point
and for its Special Operations Command ,
while showing a rapid response readiness to engage in online combat with the likes of Tucker Carson and other such enemies
thus nuking Jesus-themed candies on an Air Force bases as well as the Pentagon ordering a company to stop making faith-based Dog Tags,
and prohibiting service members from “liking” or reposting "extremist" views on social media (depending on all the circumstances involved) as part of its prohibition against actively engaging in extremist activities,
yet allowing turbans and hijabs in the Air Force,
while working to rid the military of “extremism”
such as the head of the US Space Force unit being fired and put under investigation for criticizing Critical Race Theory
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. (Ezra 9:6)
I want to know more about that “humanitarian evacuation” part? Fast attacks don’t have room for many tourists. And is that it how it got bed bugs? There’s no way in hexx I would let my guys start working on a ship that we knew to have bugs. You want your boat fixed? steam clean it then we’ll talk. It’s a freeking Nuke. It can clean it’s own bugz. Just quit dragging snot aboard when you make those foreign port calls. Remember those geniuses who brought covid to the Stennis from lollygagging around veetnam? yeah, those guys.
“And is that it how it got bed bugs?”
Article says bugs existed for a year.
“The Diving Officer of the Watch (DOOW) twice did not hear or acknowledge orders from the OOD, the first being to change the submarine’s depth to 160 feet and then the second command to slow the speed of the ascent to keep the submarine at that depth. The submarine subsequently leveled off at a depth of 36 feet, at which point portions of the boat had broached the surface.”
Serious breakdowns on the part of both.
Agree with all your points. It was the USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) nuclear aircraft carrier and point of the spear of Carrier Strike Group 12. It port visited (arranged by some idiots at the State Dept/and Navy) at Da Nang.On 5 March 2020, Theodore Roosevelt, along with the cruiser USS Bunker Hill, arrived at Da Nang, Vietnam, for a five-day port visit commemorating the 25th anniversary of United States–Vietnam relations.
One cannot imagine how they could have given shore leave to both ships— in DaNang. Filled with chi-com agents and their helpers to infect the crew with Covid. But, it happened, and Roosevelt docked for weeks at Guam. Entire Strike Group Chinee tested and out of action. And the Captain whined to San Fran media and was rightfully fired by Trump.
Bump
"Serious breakdowns on the part of both."
Causing serious bow damage.
"Bow?,.. what bow?
The commander of the squadron rated the Connecticut unfit for deployment, then changed his evaluation the day before he transferred to a new post.
Would a HUMEVAC be picking up a team of operators?
Only report that would interest me would be a racial, religious, gender, and LBGQT breakdown of the crew...
Knowing some of that might explain both the lice and the incompetence...
Connecticut had been suffering from an infestation of bed bugs, which sailors onboard alleged had been the case for at least a year at that point
Bow WOW!
Agreed. That’s why in important comms you not only ack the comm, you read it back. That way the sender knows you understood the message. I fault the OOD here. If you don’t get an ack on an order you damn-sure don’t just assume it was received. You repeat it or fix the comm problem - possibly by smacking someone up side the head. Figuratively or literally.
Ashore, Commander Aljilani served as the Submarine Operations Officer for Destroyer Squadron Fifteen forward-deployed in Yokosuka, Japan, as the Submarine Operations Training Officer at Tactical Training Group, Pacific in San Diego, CA, and completed a Joint Tour with United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) as a Counterterrorism Planner and Executive Assistant to the AFRICOM J3, Director of Operations. During his time ashore he completed his Master of Engineering Management degree from Old Dominion University and completed the requirements to become a Joint Qualified Officer (JQO). He currently serves on the Navy Staff (OPNAV N97, Undersea Warfare Division) as Speech Writer and Strategic Communications lead.
A Bull Halsey he aint.
The thing that struck me is the bedbug infestation.
I can’t think of anything that can break morale like bedbug infestation.
My god, we are not on a wartime footing. The command structure should have ordered the boat back to port for fumigation.
If you can’t sleep, you can’t function.
The entire chain of command, from vice admiral down to the medical corps needs to be fired.
My Uncle served on a WW II sub in the 50’s. He knew there were no small mistakes. To this day he can still remember every step for starting and running the Diesel engines. A friend was on reactor watch in the 80’s on a Boomer and emphasized absolute precision was his goal.
Fumigation should work well in such a closed environment. Esp. (dangerous) Sulfuryl fluoride!
Da Nang became a virtually shut down city during the China Flu. No Viets seen on the streets, businesses that were open had employees wearing what looked like space suits. The virus was already present when this huge US Navy surface group pulled in. The locals must have been going crazy. The DoS people responsible were either fools or just arrogantly unconcerned, which is how State types come across most of the time.
Causing serious bow damage.
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Yeah, I’d rate “missing” as “serious“.
Celebrating perversity and fighting climate change are the top priorities.
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