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To: GreyHoundSailor
They’re great ships and quite survivable.

As long as they have trained non-PC crews manning (personing?) them.

Otherwise they have been speed bumps for larger ships, lately.

22 posted on 03/24/2018 10:31:21 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: doorgunner69

As a Dept Head, my peers and I had some long discussions about what would happen in the future with the lack of training. It’s happening now. After my first sea tour I had three deployments and thousands of hours as Officer of the Deck. Now I see CO’s and XO’s with only 3 deployments. On USS Last Ship, I was the only one who’d ever moored to a buoy or been in plane guard - how could we let our standards slip so far? The collisions were simply inexcusable - and not hard to avoid with a trained crew capable of taking decisive action.


36 posted on 03/25/2018 11:44:09 AM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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