Well I was a airdale on a carrier and according to NAVY regs, any Officer who is qualified to be a sea going Officer of the Deck(OOD)has his final qual signed by the Commanding Officer, so thus any action(s)other than those that would be considered an Act of GOD by the NAVY thus become the fault of the Commanding Officer since in the end it is his ship, the only time I saw a Commanding Officer escape blame was when our ship hit a unknown rock during docking at which point the ship was under the direction of the harbor pilot.
Hope this cleans some of it up on why a Commanding Officer is alays at fault.
Woof! How are you, True?
Hope this cleans some of it up on why a Commanding Officer is alays at fault.
You are absolutely correct. As a former Chief-of-the-Boat (COB) and 20-year retiree in the Navy I can tell you that the skipper of a United States ship has awesome powers but he certainly has to pay a price for that high honor. He (or nowadays she as well) is ultimately responsible for anything that goes wrong short of an act of God.