Well I read the whole report and I come away with a COMPLETE lack of leadership from the top down. Complete lack of following normal operating procedures and I am not going to pin in only on the ladies. They too, were in the wrong, but the whole Navy appears to need a reshaping to good seamanship, since we had three of these happen in less than a year.
YEP! And the first thing a good leader would have done is ensured that his OOD knew how to drive their ships which he would have done by spending a lot of time doing man overboard drills which you do by throwing a bunch of life preservers and/or junk overboard all tied together while steaming at full of flank speed and then practice maneuvering to pick it up, over and over and over again until the OOD can do it by eyeball unaided by CIC.
It's like teaching someone to drive a $2B car.
They too, were in the wrong, but the whole Navy appears to need a reshaping to good seamanship, since we had three of these happen in less than a year.
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I agree to your statement about shared blame from the top down and not pinning it ALL on the ladies. But, the “ladies” are the NYT front page, 50 pt bold print headline of what the over arching problem is. Namely, too many legislators and too many presidents aided by too many weak, career obsessed, generals and admirals have allowed too much Political Correctness to take root in our military and sadly “good seamanship” is like a minnow in the sea in contrast to the big picture of politically correct problems about the Navy and our military that have to be rooted out one at a time.
Hopefully, Trump will get around to fixing the military, at least partially, before he leaves office.