[SkyDancer]

CNN? I’ll wait to see it on other real news sources.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Bummer.

Was it a supertanker it collided with?

Size matters.

[ealgeone]

If you’d looked about 10 posts or so down you’d seen this was already posted.

[11th_VA]

They don’t allow cell phones on the bridge, do they?

[Semper911]

It's bad.

[FredZarguna]

Here's a reputable news source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-navy-destroyer-collision-20170616-story.html Please don't send clicks to #FakeNews #CNNisISIS.

[llevrok]

Career ender

[Lexington Green]

Someone has some ‘splaining to do.

[P.O.E.]

Parallel parking?

But seriously, prayers up for the missing sailors.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sailors missing? Yikes!!!!!

[Godebert]

Any other source for this story? Not going to go to a fake news site.

[NRx]

SOP in these situations is that as soon as the ship is safe the Captain, XO, and all officers on watch will be relived of duty and removed from the ship. They will be drug tested and interviewed separately, repeatedly. Probably by NCIS and also special accident investigation teams. There will be a formal board of inquiry called at which every single detail of what happened leading up to the collision, during the accident and after will be examined under a microscope. All of the ships logs and standing orders will be examined. The training records of every single sailor on the ship will be gone over with a fine tooth comb. Each sailor will also be interviewed and required to give a written statement about what happened. The senior officers will be advised of their Article 32 rights (the military equivalent to a Miranda warning) and they can retain lawyers or request a military lawyer be assigned by JAG. If the BOI does not completely exonerate everyone on watch at the time (irrespective of whether the CO was on the bridge or not) the Captain will likely be court-martialed. Others may also be court-martialed. And yes, in these situations a lot of careers usually come to an end. The Navy has a long tradition of holding COs as absolutely accountable for whatever happens on or to their ships.

[pa_dweller]

I wonder, have lookouts with binoculars been done away with?

[Shadowstrike]

and why didn’t our Navy see the thing?

[golux]

NOTICE:

As one of Free Republic's few remaining salty old sailors I am compelled to remind any and all FRiends on this august forum to be, in your posts, duly sensitive to the needs, rights, and desires however landlubberly or otherwise disturbing of trans, cis, or other-gendered members of the United States Navy, pregnant or otherwise, who may or may not have been emotionally affected and thereby had their days ruined in full or in part by news of this collision at sea.

[Monorprise]

It is real:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-navy-destroyer-collides-with-container-ship-near-japan-suffers-damage/2017/06/16/111df46e-52e7-11e7-b74e-0d2785d3083d_story.html?utm_term=.cee104075670

How on earth does a experienced Navy captain let his state of the arc ship collide with a big slow moving cargo ship?

Theses Aegis destroyers are not cheap, and are in short supply they are needed for the defense of Japan and the USA from Possible North Korean Missile attack.

[wjcsux]

Prayers up!

[Ace's Dad]

Navy site says one sailor helo’ed out with injuries, but no one reported overboard.

[Innovative]

From Reuters a few min. ago:

At least three injured, seven missing after U.S. Navy destroyer collides with merchant vessel off Japan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-asia-idUSKBN1972SW

Prayers for all of them.

[Pollard]

these days you almost have to wonder. Did someone do something on purpose just to make the CIC look bad?