Fitzgerald navy ship crash investigation

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[dynachrome]

The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.

When Fort walked into the trash-strewn CIC in the wake of the disaster, he was hit with the acrid smell of urine. He saw kettlebells on the floor and bottles filled with pee. Some radar controls didn’t work and he soon discovered crew members who didn’t know how to use them anyway.

Fort found a Voyage Management System that generated more “trouble calls” than any other key piece of electronic navigational equipment. Designed to help watchstanders navigate without paper charts, the VMS station in the skipper’s quarters was broken so sailors cannibalized it for parts to help keep the rickety system working.

[Cen-Tejas]

Same here.

I’m not sure I ever even talked to a female sailor. I KNOW I can’t remember ever seeing one.

Quick story: I had an attorney who was working on some litigation for me, and still does 20 years later, who, one day, got up from the table we had been working at in his office and said to a female employee of mine who was both uber smart and uber gorgeous.....”would you come with me, I want you to help Linda (not her name) with something”.

The attorney was in his thirties then. He then came back and sat down and with the door closed he looked at me and said...... “don’t you EVER bring her into my office again”. That is a textbook example of how a hot female in the room distracts the boys in the room! No legislation or regulation or feminist fantasy imaginable will ever change that!