Posted on 08/27/2017 12:13:58 PM PDT by NCjim
Congressional investigators and military officials warned repeatedly about overworked sailors, shortened training schedules and budget cuts in the years leading up to two fatal collisions involving U.S. Navy ships, government auditors, lawmakers and Pentagon officials said.
The collisions in June and earlier this week, both Navy guided-missile destroyers operating in the Pacific, left 17 sailors dead or missing.
Three reports in the past two years by the Government Accountability Office, an independent watchdog agency, spell out endemic problems. They found through interviews and Navy studies that U.S. sailors overseas often arrive to their assigned ships without adequate skills and experience. They end up on duty for an average of 108 hours a week, instead of the Navy-standard of 80 hours, the reports found.
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“the cabin boy the cabin boy
that dirty litter nipper.
he hid some glass
inside his a@@
and circumcised the skipper’
How much training do you need to look through a pair of binoculars?
What did the advisors say about fags, crossdressers, fudgepackers and/or straight lads and lasses playing disorganized gr@b@$$ when they’re supposed to be giving their tasks their undivided attention? Dollars to doggie doo, they never mentioned THAT. It’s a mystery, how all those female military types are turning up pregnant.
we're talking peacetime Navy crashing into other ships that were carrying cargo...
My God, were not the sailors in WW2 tested in constant lookout and battle with enemies, yet somehow our Navy was superb...
I can see how that would be a thing. But no alarms going off ship wide when a vessel is being rapidly approached?
A guy who’s article I sometimes read had this to say:
“I’ve been OOD in and out of Yokosuka—USS REEVES (CG-24); about the same displacement—a hundred times; during all times of day, night, adverse weather, and wee hours. In fact, coming into Yokosuka, 4 am in that part of the entry lanes is quite common, so we’d be tied up by the morning’s work day and shipyard workers could get busy.
This sh*t is easy to avoid, even in very heavy choke-point shipping traffic in and out. Surface radar easily has a 30k ton container ship painted 20-30 miles out, and you can see them with your own eyeballs 10-12 miles out. Once you do a minute of scope head plotting with the grease pencil, you can see how close you’ll come to each other if both vessels maintain course and speed. If inside of 10,000 yards (5 nautical miles), all it takes is a 2-5 degree course change, early, to port or starboard, to keep him outside of that envelope.
And, every set of Standing Orders on US Navy ships typically demands that if for some reason it’s unavoidable to keep another vessel outside of 10k yards, you are to notify the Captain immediately.”
https://freetheanimal.com/2017/06/fitzgerald-incident-yokosuka.html
I’m sure that the promotion of lesser qualified personal on the grounds of their “diversity” is a huge problem..
“Smells like BS to me - obvi job one is not to crash.”
Agreed.
Aren’t the radars working? I don’t buy into overworked sailors as an excuse. There is no excuse unless the equipment is faulty.
Begs the questions do we have Trannies doing their nails at the helm, tini latino woman that can’t see over the bow or transom? What is the problem?
A crew rots from the head down.
If the ship’s officers are selected because of “political reliability” then that ship is not going to have any leadership ensuring that SOPs are enforced or that anyone is actually doing their jobs.
But, it is obvious that there are some flag rank wearers in the Navy that are in desperate need of being put against a wall and shot for the damage they’ve allowed to be done.
of course, they'll stay in for 20 because who else will pay them steady wages, fat benefits,many weeks of vacation, and an obscene pension....
and look at all the pretty pins they can put on their shirts...
remember all the purging that took place during the bama debacle?...there you go...
I’m hoping Richard will weigh in again since the reports of more accidents.
He’s pretty Libertarian with with a fiscal (and sometimes social) conservative bent.
He’s the first person I ever read outside of FreeRepublic who said, “Trump is going to win and here’s why” and he was dead on.
(Other people may have written the same, but he’s the first person I came across out in the world outside conservatism.)
He’s usually a food/excerise/paleo-keotard wars writer but I enjoy him when he veers off topic.
Have you ever worked an 80 hr shift? How about 108 hr shift?
Ping to opinion of someone who’s been there: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3581024/posts?page=25#25
You are dead on right. It’s disturbing. I still have two kids in the navy. My daughter, who specializes in the gps programs, is great at her job. She’s a dedicated sailor who loves her job and her country but was told recently that she’d never get far because she doesn’t play POLITICS well enough.
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