Interesting story on how the Yorktown Flight Deck officer before Midway experimented with filling the fuel lines before battle with C02 thus preventing any major AV Fuel fires..It worked and that is why the Yorktown was able to absorb the attacks on her till her end..That practice become fleet wide after the battle.
Yes...that is very cool. That is (or was) one of the strengths of the US military in the past. Anyone can suggest something to improve a process, and personal initiative is not looked on as dimly as it in in Communist forces from what I understand.