[beebuster2000]

worth going to the site and reading the entire write up.

Ring of truth but i sincerely hope it is not true

[Red Badger]

It can only mean one thing.

The OOD is a relative of a BIG WIG in DC.....................

[Governor Dinwiddie]

" Perhaps the Fitz’s OOD is a member of a politically “protected class,”"

Hmmm. Sha'qwana? "Randy"? "Butch"?

[Jim W N]

Why the Navy’s effort to divert attention from his identity?

Black, woman, and/or transgender.

Enough of this b/s.

[SandRat]

Could it be, that the name is a Muslim name, a women's name, a Hispanic name or a Black's name.?

[Aliska]

Nothing about the strange behavior and 180 turn by the container ship which steered directly into the Navy ship. If reports about that are true. Glenn Beck talked about it this am, not that he is always right. We talked about it here on another thread awhile back.

A quick search reveals NYT, Newsweek and WAPO don't agree about the turn and whether it was before or after the collision.

[House Atreides]

In the military, political correctness can kill.

[PJBankard]

Two crashes with foreign freighters. My Conclusion is that the Watch was in a severe dereliction of duty. How do you miss a freighter coming at you, unless it didn’t have its lights on. If the lights on the freighters were off, then these were collision was intentional and are attacks on US Naval Ships.

[Covenantor]

....What was that officer doing before the collision that so diverted his/her judgment, and after the collision that it took him/her 14 minutes to sound General Quarters?

WTH? Everyone on board must have felt and heard the collision the moment it happened and as it continued to go on. Publish the OOD's name.

[reed13k]

Damage control is not directed from the bridge it is from engineering. If engineering is incapacitated on most ships it then moves to repair locker 2 which is forward. If 2 also becomes incapacitated then one of the other lockers least impacted is assigned. I was in charge of locker 2 on the Independence (CV62) in the 90s and had to drill as if central was out of commission. The bridge and CIC continues to drive and fight the ship. Some decisions such as flooding spaces to balance loads may require bridge ok, but most dc questions and direction do not.

[Norseman]

Ring of truth? That report is ridiculous, written by someone who had his mind made up before looking at any of the information available. It will turn out to be total b.s., in my opinion.

[reed13k]

OOD hasn’t been named as the investigation is still underway and it could be anyone qualified by the CO as such (I’ve seen NCOs picks up an OOD letter on smaller ships, Pegasus class etc).

Press doesn’t have the info because it hasn’t leaked and should t while the investigation is underway

[dsc]

“First glimmer of explanation on Fitzgerald USN incident that makes sense.”

What? Where? There was no explanation.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

OOD was probably texting.

[Rockingham]

My father, a Kings Point graduate who was both a naval officer and a merchant mariner before taking up law, was appalled at the Fitzgerald collision and loss of life. Intuitively, his explanation was that the officer on deck was not paying sufficient attention. At night, in congested waterways, it does not take much of a mistake to get into serious trouble, and my father's experience was that, credentials and rank aside, some people lacked the innate sense of diligence and care that being the officer in charge of a ship requires. No wonder then that the name of the OOD is suppressed by the Navy. He likely has a record of irresponsibility and mistakes that would implicate the entire chain of command and the personnel system in putting an unsuitable officer in charge of a ship's navigation at night.

[Pelham]

The article is by Angelo Codevilla, someone to take seriously.

[Seruzawa]

You’d think someone would learn after a woman pilot screwed up and tossed an F14 in the drink. But apparently not.

[Dapper 26]

So many mishaps in such a short time span indicates serious command and leadership problems. Maybe too many training hours and time spent on social engineering? Could it be the false gratification of “diversity” over competence? The Navy is in trouble........at the HIGHEST levels.

[Uncle Sam 911]

You can bet that if political correctness caused this disaster, the Navy will do all it can to cover it up. Women handling a damage control party is like women fire fighters, unable to lift the equipment necessary to calm the situation and requiring the men to do double duty with, in this case, the resulting loss of life likely.

[Pollster1]

The OOD either removes the problem by changing course by one or two degrees on his own authority, or, notifies the captain who then makes the course adjustment.

I find this statement odd. Perhaps surface ships are different from subs, but I never changed course by only one or two degrees (surfaced or submerged) to avoid coming close to another ship. Part of the point of the maneuver is to make an obvious course change, so the other ship knows you have taken action and does not do something stupid (and in violation of the rules) to avoid a collision you have already avoided. Also, part of the point is to change course so much that even mistake/malice from the other ship cannot create a crisis.

[JimRed]

Was OOD a female, homosexual, tranny, undecided, or all of the above?