Wonder if the public will ever learn who was the officer on the deck when the accident occurred. It may tell the American people much about their “new” Navy.
The announcement of Courts Martial will be public.
Wonder if the public will ever learn who was the officer on the deck when the accident occurred. It may tell the American people much about their “new” Navy.
I’m really curious about this too. The simple answer is incompetence or purposeful ramming from whoever had control of the helm .
............I have spent many hours on a USN Destroyer in CIC and on the bridge and I can tell you you are getting close to the most likely problem. “Something” was going on on the bridge OR CIC. Someone was distracted. Hmmmm...........what can “distract” a young sailor? A pretty young sailor!? Damn right!
So, “one” possibility, and I stress “POSSIBILITY” for those freepers who sometimes miss that qualifier, is that sailors in CIC or on the bridge were engaged in some form of hanky panky with a female sailor.
From my own experience, I don’t think “asleep at their post” was happening. I’ve never seen that. There was a distraction...............and it was a doozy whatever it was. If the OOD was involved in hanky panky with a female sailor at the moment of impact, he should go to Leavenworth for LIFE! 7 young sailors did DIE.
Come on, she was on her cell phone & putting on her makeup in the rear view mirror.......cut her a break! An it might habe been a heavy flow day too.