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

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

[dirtymac]

Article says that the Billings sustained damage above the water line.

[Starboard]

Please see my comment #17 about the earlier versions of this story.

Thanks.

[PapaBear3625]

Equivalent of hitting a parked car. Somebody needs to be cashiered.

After this many stupid incidents, a whole bunch of people need to be cashiered. Not just the CO, but lots of people above him.

I would go with decimation, as a policy. Shake up the entire institution enough that whatever this shit is that has taken hold, gets tossed out in institutional self-defense.

[Jim Noble]

“Maybe thw Navy is unsure who was in command”

What gender were they assigned at birth?

[xrmusn]

CO & XO WM, CMC BF

Commanding Officer Michael Johnson of New Orleans, Executive Officer Aaron Helgerson of Freeman, South Dakota and Dennisha McElveen of Fountain, Colorado,

Saw a picture of all 3....

[Reverend Wright]

another CO’s career down the toilet. Probably the XO’s, OOD, JOOD’s careers also.

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if they are diverse, zero chance of any career damage.

[Reverend Wright]

So we’ve got a crap boat, crewed by the best that “diversity” can offer.

This is what late Empire decadence looks like.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/littoral-combat-vessel-worst-us-navy-warship-ever-39232

[Bull Snipe]

thanks, missed the original thread.

[CFW]

“Diversity” is our strength!

Having trans-GIBLETS in our military is the most important issue facing military readiness!

Being able to captain a combat ship not on the list of important requirements.

[Bull Snipe]

The other situation where a Captain is relieved of responsibility is when the ship transits the Panama Canal. The locks and transit pilots assume legal responsibility for the safe navigation of ship. Or it use to be that way when we operated the canal.