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USS John F. Kennedy Commanding Officer Relieved
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| 26 august 2004
Posted on 08/26/2004 4:04:49 PM PDT by csvset
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Done in by a dhow.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:04:49 PM PDT
by
csvset
To: csvset
I was wondering how a dhow got close enough to an aircraft carrier to have a collision. Guess the Navy wasn't pleased.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:08:00 PM PDT
by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
To: csvset
Done in by a dhow.I know what you mean. I suspect it was more than just the dhow.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:09:23 PM PDT
by
68skylark
To: csvset
There goes the Dhow Jones!
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:09:36 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: EternalHope
Question for the Navy Freepers here..A carrier, coducting operations, is part of a battle group..scrfeened with cruisers and frigates..and which is commanded by an admiral..who is ultimatelymresponsible for the deployment of the ships...large batt;e units have a screen commander, right..So..what gives?
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:10:26 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Bill Clinton has just signed to be the national spokesman for Hummer..)
To: csvset
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:11:02 PM PDT
by
Vision
("This is in God's hands now")
To: csvset
result of a collision that occurred between a dhow and Kennedy during the night of July 22.
He might as well retire, his career is over.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT
by
marty60
To: Travis McGee; Squantos; cva66snipe
Ouch...what you might call a real career debilitator.
Lots more to this story I'll bet.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:11:17 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: csvset
An explosive dhow would have been troublesome to say the least.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:12:56 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
To: Jeff Head
Each ship captain is responsible for his ship, regardless if an Admiral is commanding the taskforce.
I a US Navy ship hits ANYTHING, another ship, a pier, anything, the captain is immediately removed, and don't be looking for a promotion anytime soon.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:14:20 PM PDT
by
Viet-Boat-Rider
((KERRY IS A NARCISSISTIC LIAR, GOLDBRICKER, AND TRAITOR!))
To: Viet-Boat-Rider
Yep...like I said, a real career debilitator.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:15:28 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: ken5050
It must have been a stealth dhow.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:16:30 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: csvset
DHOW!
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:16:40 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
To: ken5050
What gives is that a lot of people screwed up and were not sufficiently vigilant. Having been on a warship that protected the JFK for 9 months in the early '70s, I cannot fathom (pun intended) how such could be the case. More brass-hatted heads should roll, IMO.....
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:17:02 PM PDT
by
tracer
To: csvset; Poohbah; hchutch; Pukin Dog; All
Navy FReeper here. Big John has a VERY jinxed rep in the Navy. This is its THIRD skipper to be relieved in the last four years. At one point in 2002, she was in such bad condition that she couldn't even fire her boilers, nor move her elevators. Her skipper then claimed he's had "no idea" that she was in such condition, after serving as her commander for 10 months prior. She BARELY made this deployment.
JFK really needs to be decommisioned...she's old, worn-out, and all around bad news.
NO small craft is supposed to get within miles of a carrier, EVER. However, few of us squids were surprised to find out that, since one DID, it was Big John.
Google a bit...the ship's troubles with commanders and maintinence are all over.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:17:20 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
To: Cacique
Exactly. This will be career-ending for a number of officers beyond the Kennedy's captain. For one, the Combat Information Center Watch Officer on duty in the carrier CIC, probably the same for one or more such duty officers on the screening ships.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:17:25 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(hoplophobia is a mental aberration rather than a mere attitude)
To: Viet-Boat-Rider
I was on a ship in 1976 where the Captain was relieved on the spot during a visit to Bahrain due to the Officer of the Deck running the ship aground. No questions asked just bye bye and then an Admiral's inquiry.
Standard operating procedure.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:17:50 PM PDT
by
Wooly
To: Viet-Boat-Rider
Dhow
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:18:56 PM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(I pray that Im wrong about alot of things.)
To: ken5050
there were a lot of people asleep at the switch... like the deck watches...
A dhow is a rather small boat so it is not going to show up on radar, but damn the deck watches should have seen it. even if it were at night... not only the carrier watches but the crusiers and plane watch destroyers... there are going to be quite a few captians masts i believe.
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:19:18 PM PDT
by
Americanwolf
(Gnawing at the shinbone of the democratic party since 1991. (And no it does not taste like chicken))
To: tracer
thanks...I can't see how the ship's captain, and not the admiral, wasn't relieved..Aren't carrier captains already pre-screened for flag rank..
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posted on
08/26/2004 4:19:32 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Bill Clinton has just signed to be the national spokesman for Hummer..)
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