My question was why they weren’t talking to each other through the watch?
They were operating in one of the busiest maritime traffic zones in the world.
Captain’s standing orders would have required the OOD to contact the Captain for any contact with a CPA of less than X yards.
None of that happened, and CIC did nothing in the way of communicating anything with respect to intercept, etc.
Can’t understand that. My Academy class graduated a bunch of female OODs, and they all had to pass the same classes and boards the men did. Literally no difference. They were every bit as capable as we were.
Mind you, we had to work out intercepts using manuevering boards (even though the radar system worked it out automagically) and we kept paper plots on paper charts.
If there was DRAMA between the officers, and they weren’t on speaking TERMS, then fire everybody.
USNA ‘89 here. Am I understanding you correctly when you say “My Academy class graduated a bunch of female OODs, and they all had to pass the same classes and boards the men did. “
Are you saying your class got their OOD letters BEFORE being on a ship? Or are you saying that a bunch of same class graduates eventually got their OOD letters in the fleet?
In my time OODs were required to be on the ship for a period of time and once the CO was ok with them - then and only then did they get an OOD letter and it was only for that specific command and that specific CO. Prior OODs were more quickly qualified than new JOs of course (which could take up to 3 years depending on the CO/command)