You are so right.
I was on Swift Boats, (was there an entire year...no multiple Purple Hearts) and we ran aground returning to base from patrol. As I reall it was our first patrol without a trainer and wouldn't you know it, we took the wrong passage between two islands and stuck hard in sand. The worst thing was the Coast Guard had to pull us off.
The only damage was we bent one of the two shafts, but you would have thought we ran a carrier into the rocks and it sunk with all hands. The crew spent a week in Saigon being grilled and giving depositions. The OIC was not relieved of command, but was repremanded and was not allowed to re-up after his tour.
Yep, the US Navy does not look kindly upon its skippers who touch bottom; bottoms either.
ohhhh Yes!
the brass most certainly frowns on that. I asked an old skipper (waaaaay back when I was a newly qualed QM3) what the secret to a sucessful command tour was. His Answer was priceless:
"Avoid cleaning your bottom on a rockpile!"