Replies

Exactly. This talk about some kind of conspiracy is nonsense.

US Navy ships have always been, and in my understanding, still do have human watchstanders as the last line of defense at all times while at sea 24x7.

Even if radar was jammed with some kind of device or GPS altered, or who knows what other kind of conspiracy people come up with, there are supposed to be multiple sets of human eyes hooked to human brains all feeding information into sound powered phones even if all electricity is gone.

When I was in, falling asleep on a watch, even ashore, was a serious infraction and was treated as such. At 05:24 local time, there should have been enough light if watches were awake and alert.

Which makes me think the watches were not awake and alert.

I am beginning to wonder if watchstanding has become an exercise in gun-decking, and sleeping on watch is no longer enforced with anything more than a verbal reprimand.

The government damn well should initiate a far-reaching investigation and training overhaul (Separate of any Naval investigation).

People laugh at me when I disparage all this damned useless sensitivity training, sexual harassment training, and every thing else under the sun that has absolutely no bearing on the military capability of a ship or execution of warfare, but this stinks to high heaven of a military service corroded from within, poor discipline, poor training.

Obama and his administration promoted a black woman to full admiral who had zero experience on warships (a support ship only) and did this over the advancement of dozens of other naval officers who had sterling and relevant naval service records.

Anyone who thinks that does not have a large deleterious effect on the service and its operations has no idea what they are talking about.