Posted on 08/21/2017 7:31:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
LOL. I haven't heard that one for decades. When I served in the USN homosexuals were banned from the Navy. Well before "Don't ask, don't tell."
If you have seen the hole in the side of the McCain, my guess is that those missing were killed on impact and their bodies are trapped in the compartment that was opened to the sea and still flooded. Wont find them until there is a temporary patch is welded over the hole and the compartment dewatered. Or if the ship is drydocked, then they can dewater compartment. Either way, IMO that is where they will find the missing sailors
8/19/16 USS Louisiana
5/19/17 USS Lake Champlain
6/17/17 USS Fitzgerald
8/21/17 USS McCain
At first I read your post as he had driven his sub into a gay bar called San Francisco and he isn’t even in AA yet.
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks.
Drowned in watertight compartments that won’t be able to be examined until they bolt plate over the hole and pump the water out.
I was Army.
Both of these episodes reflect badly on the state of training of our navy and the merchant trade. most especially this last one. The port side aft point of impact may indicate that the merchantman was the burdened vessel ( if McCain was sailing a steady course). But as has been noted in these forums many times there is a responsibility on the part of both vessels to take effective action to avoid collision.
In fact the term COlission means both are, in proportion, responsible if there is an unforntunate meeting. If a vessel hits a fixed object, that is an allision.
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>> “Keep this up and the navy will be in row boats. <<
Without oars!
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Sailors could be in the flooded compartments.
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Lol!
Bulbous bows was in a quotation I was responding to.
I guess bulbous bows are better that bulbous balls.
Military vessels have AIS (They don’t turn it on because it drains the batteries)
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