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US Navy FIRES USS Connecticut Commanding Officer, Executive Officer and Chief of the Boat after $3.1bn nuclear-powered attack submarine collided with 'uncharted seamount' in South China Sea
UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/04/2021 | Shannon Thaler and Ross Ibbetson

Posted on 11/04/2021 2:24:24 PM PDT by DFG

The US Navy has fired a nuclear submarine's Commanding Officer, Executive Officer and Chief of the Boat for 'loss of confidence' after their vessel collided with an 'uncharted seamount' in the South China Sea.

The $3.1 billion USS Connecticut's CO Cmdr Cameron Aljilani, XO Lt Cmdr Patrick Cashin and COB Cory Rodgers were relieved of their positions on Wednesday.

A seamount is a mountain which rises from the ocean floor.

A statement from the Navy said that the October 2 crash, which injured 11 crew members, could have been prevented with 'sound judgement, prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning'.

Three interim officers were ordered to fill in and the Seawolf-class submarine is reportedly in Guam 'undergoing damage assessment' overseen by the Naval Sea Systems Command.

On the day the USS Connecticut struck the underwater mountain there were soaring tensions with China after 39 warplanes breached Taiwanese airspace and a record 56 aircraft flew into the zone two days later in a 24-hour period.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aljilani; cashin; connecticut; navy
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To: colorado tanker

“With all three of them relieved I’m guessing this was not an “unknown” seamount.”

Has me suspecting they weren’t fired for the collision but for actions taken AFTER the collision. Maybe tried to shade what happened?


101 posted on 11/04/2021 4:26:12 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Tallguy

So would that be a “known unknown” or a “regular unknown”?

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This would likely be a case of keeping something unknown.


102 posted on 11/04/2021 4:27:38 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Diplomat

But what’s been released about this incident isn’t the whole story of what happened.

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Agree. We may never know.


103 posted on 11/04/2021 4:30:17 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Dundee

BTW, I have no knowledge of the navigation systems in these subs. So if the sea floor maps are not part of the subs navigation systems, that’s a total surprise to me as we’ve had entire sea floor mapped for decades.

Here’s my theory: the sub hit a mound of garbage dumped their by Biden’s bffs.


104 posted on 11/04/2021 4:33:28 PM PDT by Diplomat
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To: The Westerner

It’s a common nickname for a US Navy submariner, especially those who re-up.


105 posted on 11/04/2021 4:33:30 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: nascarnation

AKA a fast-tracker, perhaps too fast to fill his suit??


106 posted on 11/04/2021 4:34:47 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Blueflag

No direct knowledge, but I get the vibe that today’s military is way more Jimmy Carter than George Patton.


107 posted on 11/04/2021 4:35:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: wgmalabama

This is somewhat confusing. It sounds as if you are saying they need to be making noise to know where they or something else is in the water.
I thought we were a little more capable than that.


108 posted on 11/04/2021 4:36:22 PM PDT by onceone (0311, K Co., 3/5 1st Mar Div, RVN '68)
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To: DFG

Did the Chinese Communist Party fire them ? LOL


109 posted on 11/04/2021 4:40:07 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: sphinx

China makes islands.

Did they make an underwater mountain?


110 posted on 11/04/2021 4:42:35 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

“Possible affirmative acction promotion. “

Ya think? Looks kinda like bammy, has the ears for sure.


111 posted on 11/04/2021 4:44:18 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: max americana
Were the officers vaxxed?

And what are their preferred personal pronouns?

112 posted on 11/04/2021 4:59:44 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: PGR88
Here’s his Linkd in profile

Gotta ask...do the Chicoms advertise their submarine commanders on social media?

113 posted on 11/04/2021 5:00:37 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Not sure, but 38 of their admirals have Wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People%27s_Liberation_Army_Navy_admirals


114 posted on 11/04/2021 5:04:44 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: EEGator

Unfortunately so...


115 posted on 11/04/2021 5:10:30 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Honest Nigerian

ha!


116 posted on 11/04/2021 5:15:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: larrytown
Water and I have never gotten on well.


117 posted on 11/04/2021 6:29:49 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: BobL

Many retire about that age, with 20 years of service.


118 posted on 11/04/2021 7:28:12 PM PDT by octex
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To: Starboard

“Blind Man’s Bluff” was a great book.

Loved the part about the two subs that took turns navigating down to that tapped communications line up in the Sea of Okhotsk (I think, it has been a long time since I read it) and one sub went up once and placed a cattle skull with horns and all on top of the unit, and when the next crew went up (I guess they didn’t have the same cool GPS thingies we have today) so there were long periods of using external cameras to find it, and the guy on the sub nearly shat himself when the skull came into view after hours of boring sand!

I also loved how they found where the secure communications underwater cable was, by looking for signs on the shore that said “No Anchoring Here” just like we have in the States...:)


119 posted on 11/04/2021 8:04:10 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: DFG

A couple decades ago, I recall that a sailor was killed on a USA sub that crashed into a sea mount in the western Pacific.

At the time, I remember thinking it was a miracle that the sub and the crew could survive something like that.


120 posted on 11/05/2021 2:13:12 AM PDT by zeestephen
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