50 shades of Kara Hultgreen
Posted on 05/13/2018 2:59:41 PM PDT by Retain Mike
The sailors who were manning the combat nerve center of USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) did not know they were on a collision course with a ship almost three times their size until about one minute before impact, according to new information revealed in the preliminary hearing for two junior officers accused of negligent homicide for their role in the collision that resulted in the death of seven sailors.
Lt. Natalie Combs, the tactical action officer, and Lt. Irian Woodley, the surface warfare coordinator, were both on duty in the windowless combat information in the belly of the guided-missile destroyer on early on the morning of June 17 as the ship moved southwest from the coast of Japan less than a day out of port.
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Great. She gets pushed into this assignment and only during the court martial does she realize the gaps in her preparation. She ends up being a theatrical prop for a social engineering program, but she not the DOD elites get to live with the deaths of those sailors.
http://militarycorruption.com/hollygraf2.htm
They still haven’t corrected the errors since Holly Graf.
A white male would have been washed out.
I saw somewhere that Hillary toured this ship and praised its diversity.
She didn’t even know enough to know she was in over her head with no help. At that point, she could have pulled the ‘trump card’, ordered ‘All Stop’ and thrown up the Red over Red Nav lights.
Search Hillary you’re USS Fitzgerald images.
Along with the men, there’s a few female officers there. They obviously couldn’t hack it, and now sailors are dead for it.
>>Living conditions on a Fletcher class destroyer in 52’.
I was on a Skipjack class submarine.
I’ve been on a modern frigate and a modern submarine. These Snowflakes don’t know how good they have it compared to your Fletcher and my Skipjack.
50 shades of Kara Hultgreen
It's the same with R101.
For lack of a swabby with a pair of binocs.
wi a mere slap on the wrist
The Navy has done a great disservice to all of these sailors, living and dead. I worked with Naval Security Group sailors for years, and they were some of the most switched-on people I knew.
as a man once said, hell of a price for being stylish
The Left views the military as another welfare program for people who are incapable of doing a real job in politics or in the unions. For them, it’s perfectly reasonable to use it as a platform for their pet social justice programs.
For those curious about the lookouts, it was at night and what they actually see is lights. Not hulls, just lights. The way it's supposed to work is that CIC keeps the big picture and feeds the bridge crew a distilled version that the bridge matches up with what it sees visually. The lookouts are part of that, and they need to be fed a little help of what it is they're looking at. It's supposed to be a team effort - it has to be a team effort in congested waters and this sounds more like a gaggle of unrelated individuals wandering around with not a clue about the outside world and not talking to one another to make it any better. The lookouts can't help you when you're in extremis.
Apparently they froze when it became apparent what was about to happen - the collision alarm was never activated and nobody had even the seconds that would have offered to brace themselves or get out of the spaces. Seven sailors died for it.
The idea that the TAO was on watch to back up a weak bridge crew is scary enough by itself - this is not, or wasn't, usual procedure. Any bridge crew that suspect should have had the Captain or XO on the bridge to back it up, especially in those waters, not somebody in Combat who was essentially blind, and worse, did nothing about it.
What the hell has happened to my Navy?
You won’t even know they are on a collision course if you aren’t tracking them.
Do they expect me to believe that she graduated SWO Basic, job school, plus qualified as Engineering Officer of the Watch, CIC Watch Officer, & Officer of the Deck in less than 2 years? Were they ever in port?
The CO, XO, and the Department Heads need to be relieved for cause and cashiered if not imprisoned.
I qualified SWO in 1981 after one and a half deployments and it was a grueling process. Nevertheless, such a situation would not have happened on my ship or on my watch. I also qualified as TAO shortly thereafter.
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Too much dependence on electronics?
Bring back flogging round the fleet.
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