In the middle of a busy traffic area, the bridge lookout positions were unmanned. That, all by itself, should be enough to court martial and cashier the officer on duty and the captain.
In the middle of a busy traffic area, the bridge lookout positions were unmanned. That, all by itself, should be enough to court martial and cashier the officer on duty and the captain.
That area isn’t just busy, it’s notorious. How the captain could sleep at night with these idiots on watch is beyond me. Could the captain has assigned people to oversee these wenches? Or slept during the day?
Only if Fleet sailing directives required lookouts to be posted. They did when I was in the Navy many years ago. They may no longer be required by current policy. The ship was sailing under a normal steaming watch at the time.
Yep.