Sources: USS San Francisco skipper faces admiral's mast in sub grounding

Stars & Stripes ^ | 2/11/5 | Jon R. Anderson

[ORECON]

Yes, for longer posts.

[taxesareforever]

The bottom line is that if a skipper runs his boat aground, they find something he did that was wrong.


I agree to the point of the last part of your quote which I think should read, "no matter how hard they have to dig, they will find something he did that was wrong".

[ichabod1]

I thought what the poster said about how if a junior officer makes a bad decision it is the fault of the Captain for either not training the junior officer sufficiently, or not putting someone who WAS trained sufficiently in the position to make the decision.

Look, I have trouble getting jobs that should be a cinch for me to get and I’m pretty sure it is because of some easily obtainable criminal records (misdemeanors) from 20 years ago. Responsibility: It's what that author called “Hard America”, it’s what makes our country great, and it, unfortunately, isn’t taught in schools these days.

My Dad used to lecture me about Responsibility all the time and I totally blew him off.

[EricT.]

I watch JAG. Harm and Mac would have sent it to Court Martial, but not until they had finished investigating. Hmmmm, something is wrong here.

The something wrong here is that there is a huge difference between Hollyweird television show and reality.

[Goodgirlinred]

Oh, shoot! Well, it just seemed to me they were railroading him, but then I don't know anything about the "Navy Way" as has been pointed out to me several times. All I have been told is that he was in command of the vessel and something went wrong and he has to take responsibility whether it is technically his fault or not.