Posted on 03/20/2009 6:48:01 AM PDT by Scythian
MANAMA, Bahrain — The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet says two of its vessels — a submarine and an amphibious ship — collided in the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian peninsula early Friday.
The military says in a statement that the collision occurred around 1:00 a.m. local time on Friday (5 p.m. EDT, Thursday).
The USS Hartford, a submarine, collided with an amphibious ship, the USS New Orleans.
According to the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, 15 soldiers aboard the Hartford were slightly injured but able to return to duty. No injuries were reported aboard the New Orleans.
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You thought incorrectly. They have message traffic.
ah the good ol’ days of being bad.
If there really were soldiers onboard, it was probably something else.
Yea, memory failed and so did browser we we <300
It’s hard to get away with that kind of stuff anymore...you should hear the one’s about marines!!!
Yea, memory failed and so did browser we were <300
doesn’t change the fact a sub should never hit a target.
Reminds me of a few years back when I was Whale Watching in San Diego Bay. A Navy sub surfaced RIGHT NEXT TO OUR 80 foot boat and scared the cr@p out of all of us on board!
I hate being on the water. It always turns out badly for me...
Wrong N.O. link and the ship is not amphibious - it is a transport for amphibious ships.
I was on the USS Mars (AFS 1) when it collided with USS Cook (FF 1083) in 1979. Very interesting experience.
Probably not as exciting as when the Belknap hit the JFK...but any bumping at sea is good reason to change the skivvies.
At least it didn't surface UNDER you as happened with a Japanese fishing boat off Hawaii in 2001 resulting in several dead fishermen.
except when they are in port... at which point, all seamen are released
:)
Interesting, thanks. Now I’m wondering how they transmit without giving up location.
can you freepmail it?
Modern technology.
So right you are — and for very good reasons !
It seems these Naval mishaps come in “bunches” — from my experience over the years.
Time for the Navy to have a close look at our competency level and optempo. These two elements of the equation are intregally related IMHO.
The rapid rotation of the Commanding Officers is one compelling factor in the competency issue. Additionally, often some of the truly unsatisfactory naval ship captains are long gone — often promoted to 0-7 — before their detrimental impact upon the commands have been fully ascertained.
(I speak to this issue with substantial first hand experience.)
Kindest personal regards.
The idiot OOD should have had all sorts of alarms going of in his head, like what is that skimmer @*(#*! doing turning towards me, as he rings up flank, and puts the rudder over to evade while calling the CO to contact the idiot's commodore and B!Tc4. This is like bumper cars between a tandem truck and a Corvette.
The goofballs that write the stories don’t think there is a difference.
I'm guessing that our hyperregulated modern military, worried more about which uniform is in and which is out, forgot that you are giving expensive toys to not very experienced boys and girls and you need to train them to do their real jobs.
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