Another Freeper said: "...This was our newest super-duper ship with all the navigation bells and whistles that couldn’t detect an oil tanker...
A scalpel in the hand of a competent neurosurgeon can save a life and preserve speech and walking to someone who may lose it.
A scalpel in the hand of a butcher will give you a finely cut steak, but it is a dead piece of meat.
A 30 million dollar state of the art sensor system on a billion dollar ship in the hands of a well trained, well drilled, highly motivated and well led crew can spot incoming ballistic or cruise missiles, target them, and shoot them down.
A 30 million dollar state of the art sensor system on a billion dollar ship in the hands of a poorly trained, poorly motivated person being led by people more interested in gundecking qualification reports on that sensor system, and more interested in getting the sexual harassment polices in order and signed off on, is going to be hit by a big, lumbering ship, not to mention rocks, shoals, cruise missiles or thrown grenades.
Affirmative action at work?