New U.S. Combat Ship (USS Billings) Collides with Canadian Freighter

Freight Waves ^ | 6/24/2019 | Nate Tabak

[outpostinmass2]

From the article it states that both tugs dropped their lines and the ship was under it’s own power.

So who gave the orders for the tugs to drop their lines.

[xrmusn]

Have to ‘join’ linkedin to open

[Starboard]

Could be the tugs were at fault.

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Certainly a possibility.

[xrmusn]

Was a time when ‘we’ didn’t really GAF who it was, ‘WE’ knew HE was toast.....<: <: <:

[Karoo]

Could someone have hacked the technology on the combat ship, and steered it into the freighter?

[miliantnutcase]

Knowing the LCS the engines probably broke XD

[Calvin Locke]

"The Navy: It's not just a job, it's five jobs."

I went to the Navy Recruiter's presentation in HS.

The Army was advertising 300 jobs at the time. The Navy's response was that those are overly specialized jobs. "If you are trained to be a 2.5 ton truck driver, you'll only drive 2.5 ton trucks. The Navy will train you to be qualified on many different types of trucks..."

[Psalm 73]

Well, they said they wanted the LCS to perform tasks they didn’t want Destroyers to have to do. Like smacking into other ships....

[LeonardFMason]

Captain Rodney Dangerfield

[dfwgator]

[freedumb2003]

>>It’s not her fault. The freighter cut her off.

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The freighter was berthed.<<

Details, details... (or so we will hear if the captain is anything other than a straight white male).

[LegendHasIt]

Oh Goodie.

The 0bama Navy strikes again!!!

Maye if Trump has another 5 1/2 years, he can get rid of the 0bama Diversity promotions.

[Gamecock]

The Atlantic just published an interesting article about how the Navy is staffing these ships with people who can perform multiple jobs vs. those with dedicated expertise.

So they rolled up "Land Guy" into another rate?

[Larry Lucido]

The other ship was MOORED.

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No, it was MOOPED.

[central_va]

Whether or not the CO is held responsible this is not career enhancing.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Wrong way Corrigan's great great grandson, of the USN, was at the helm, obviously! 😉

[central_va]

My list of “collateral” duties was a mile long.

[dinodino]

Haha

[ml/nj]

Built in Wisconsin, going to Florida via the St. Lawrence seaway.

Sure. That makes great sense. They must have had some powerful Congressmen in Wisconsin.

ML/NJ

[dforest]

It was Captain Crunch.