I read the entire Navy report on the Fitzgerald.
In it was nothing but praise for ALL the crew. The professionalism, the bravery, the valor, the embodiment of their training in a time of disaster.
Calmly filing down the passageway (hallway) out of the flooded area in waste deep to neck deep water without panicking.
Some of the first sailors to arrive at the ladder to escape the flooding of the compartment, helped others to escape waiting to the very last minute, until they were submerged themselves, to climb to safety. Even then, reaching into the flooded compartment hoping to grab some trapped sailor, WHICH THEY SUCCESSFULLY DID!
This is the same crew who were derelict in there duties on watch, absent from their stations, failing to perform their jobs while underway.
This same exemplary crew that performed heroically under extreme stress and life threatening danger, acting in full accordance with their training, were slough offs when it came to performing their assigned duties? It couldn’t have been just one slough off crewman, it would have had to have been an entire watch of slough offs.
This would seem to be “impossible” because it is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Our navy, FOUR ships now have been targeted (that we know of because of collisions), is under some sort of cyber attack. Hacking?, EMP?, something.
The Navy can not, will not, admit to such a disastrous occurrence.
I am amazed at how gullible so many of you are in believing in this supposed misconduct and how quick you are to throw our sailors under their ships.
I am PROUD of our Sailors and I am ashamed for those who doubt them.
The warships involved in those cases are fast, nimble, and bristling with multiple systems to detect and track nearby ships. The freighters/tankers that hit them are mammoth, slow, and make really long arcs while turning. How would one of these sneak up on one of our warships ships and then outmaneuver it to affect a collision?