Posted on 11/04/2021 2:24:24 PM PDT by DFG
The US Navy has fired a nuclear submarine's Commanding Officer, Executive Officer and Chief of the Boat for 'loss of confidence' after their vessel collided with an 'uncharted seamount' in the South China Sea.
The $3.1 billion USS Connecticut's CO Cmdr Cameron Aljilani, XO Lt Cmdr Patrick Cashin and COB Cory Rodgers were relieved of their positions on Wednesday.
A seamount is a mountain which rises from the ocean floor.
A statement from the Navy said that the October 2 crash, which injured 11 crew members, could have been prevented with 'sound judgement, prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning'.
Three interim officers were ordered to fill in and the Seawolf-class submarine is reportedly in Guam 'undergoing damage assessment' overseen by the Naval Sea Systems Command.
On the day the USS Connecticut struck the underwater mountain there were soaring tensions with China after 39 warplanes breached Taiwanese airspace and a record 56 aircraft flew into the zone two days later in a 24-hour period.
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“With all three of them relieved I’m guessing this was not an “unknown” seamount.”
Has me suspecting they weren’t fired for the collision but for actions taken AFTER the collision. Maybe tried to shade what happened?
So would that be a “known unknown” or a “regular unknown”?
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This would likely be a case of keeping something unknown.
But what’s been released about this incident isn’t the whole story of what happened.
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Agree. We may never know.
BTW, I have no knowledge of the navigation systems in these subs. So if the sea floor maps are not part of the subs navigation systems, that’s a total surprise to me as we’ve had entire sea floor mapped for decades.
Here’s my theory: the sub hit a mound of garbage dumped their by Biden’s bffs.
It’s a common nickname for a US Navy submariner, especially those who re-up.
AKA a fast-tracker, perhaps too fast to fill his suit??
No direct knowledge, but I get the vibe that today’s military is way more Jimmy Carter than George Patton.
This is somewhat confusing. It sounds as if you are saying they need to be making noise to know where they or something else is in the water.
I thought we were a little more capable than that.
Did the Chinese Communist Party fire them ? LOL
China makes islands.
Did they make an underwater mountain?
“Possible affirmative acction promotion. “
Ya think? Looks kinda like bammy, has the ears for sure.
And what are their preferred personal pronouns?
Gotta ask...do the Chicoms advertise their submarine commanders on social media?
Not sure, but 38 of their admirals have Wikipedia pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People%27s_Liberation_Army_Navy_admirals
Unfortunately so...
ha!
Many retire about that age, with 20 years of service.
“Blind Man’s Bluff” was a great book.
Loved the part about the two subs that took turns navigating down to that tapped communications line up in the Sea of Okhotsk (I think, it has been a long time since I read it) and one sub went up once and placed a cattle skull with horns and all on top of the unit, and when the next crew went up (I guess they didn’t have the same cool GPS thingies we have today) so there were long periods of using external cameras to find it, and the guy on the sub nearly shat himself when the skull came into view after hours of boring sand!
I also loved how they found where the secure communications underwater cable was, by looking for signs on the shore that said “No Anchoring Here” just like we have in the States...:)
A couple decades ago, I recall that a sailor was killed on a USA sub that crashed into a sea mount in the western Pacific.
At the time, I remember thinking it was a miracle that the sub and the crew could survive something like that.
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