My Brigade Commander wrote a book which encompassed much of my 5 month deployment to Somalia in 1993.
He discusses some “accidental discharges” that happened during the deployment from US and coalition forces and how there is no such thing as an accidental discharge.
He said that with very few exceptions, every incident he saw in his career was either the result of
poor training,
poor discipline,
poor leadership,
poor SOP’s
and usually a combination of the four.
I’m sure most ocean ship captains know by now to avoid US NAVY vessels due to their keen ability to crash into random vessels.
so yeah, you start putting lives in the hands of incompetence, then lives will be taken.
Tough times make strong men, strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make tough times......
we are in the weak men make tough times phase of the human life cycle right now. We are entering a leaderless generation......and the price will be paid soon enough........
Did not a Navy ship hit another because of a tiff between two female officers on deck at the same time a few years back? It was because they would not talk to each other I gather, I can’t remember the details anyone else remember?