Posted on 01/18/2019 4:28:53 PM PST by daniel1212
.. so much worse than previously thought.
A scathing internal Navy probe into the 2017 collision that drowned seven sailors on the guided-missile destroyer Fitzgerald details a far longer list of problems plaguing the vessel, its crew and superior commands than the service has publicly admitted.
Obtained by Navy Times, the "dual-purpose investigation" was overseen by Rear Adm. Brian Fort and completed 11 days after the June 17, 2017 tragedy.
Their report documents the routine, almost casual, violations of standing orders on a Fitz bridge that often lacked skippers and executive officers, even during potentially dangerous voyages at night through busy waterways.
The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer's electronic nerve center the combat information center, or CIC while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.
When Fort walked into the trash-strewn CIC in the wake of the disaster, he was hit with the acrid smell of urine. He saw kettlebells on the floor and bottles filled with pee. Some radar controls didn't work and he soon discovered crew members who didn't know how to use them anyway.
Fort found a Voyage Management System that generated more "trouble calls" than any other key piece of electronic navigational equipment. Designed to help watchstanders navigate without paper charts, the VMS station in the skipper's quarters was broken so sailors cannibalized it for parts to help keep the rickety system working.
Since 2015, the Fitz had lacked a quartermaster chief petty officer, a crucial leader who helps safely navigate a warship and trains its sailors a shortcoming known to both the destroyer's squadron and Navy officials in the United States, Fort wrote.
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Shes disabled from a Humvee roll over from an IUD near miss in Iraq. Shes going to school. She is conservative and Im sure she is monitoring the situation through friends who are still active duty.
Friggin Colonels and flag officers playing PC politician to advance their careers is one major problem.
IED , not IUD
IED, not IUD. Sorry.
Consider the source. The problem is not female officer per se, but the substandard training and lack of performance standards. My own experience is Army, but that experience told me that women was treated differently at each step of the way. I knew female officers who were as good as any I ever knew in every respect except physical strength, and they were assigned to branches where that was not essential (not true these days). Most were average as were most male officers. But, they also made up a larger proportion of substandard officers. That difference was noticeable, but was ignored and in fact, actively suppressed. Navy deficiencies in surface warfare officers, especially in seamanship, applied to all junior officers, but was more apparent among female officers. It was only a question of time before it showed up in mission performance.
“Calling doctor Freud...”
So, in the Ranger class that contained two women, not a single man failed?
women not men.
You’re right. I was 23 she was 21. Lol
Of course. I knew what you meant. Sorry to know that.
Thanks.
The ranger class had 2 women, only?
There were not men in the class?
Never heard or seen of ANY ranger class with 2 people in it before
Quit trolling
It’s in previous explanations of what happened. I think it is described as they were not speaking to one another or something like that.
And the military cannot define my Biblical concept of success, and what you so aptly described not that, but is apparently all too much the case in the Navy, and tragically so.
That was not the only article I have read on the subject. Expand your horizons.
And no, I was not speculating.
Utterly damning. I would ask what the hell has happened to my Navy but I know perfectly well what the hell has happened to it. It was only a matter of time before it started getting people killed, and between this fiasco and the McCain we have 17 young sailors dead. This sort of job is a meritocracy, and if it isn’t supported as such by command it becomes it when people die. The Navy has been systematically poisoned by people with priorities other than operational effectiveness, and unfortunately some of them are wearing uniforms, and even more unfortunately they aren’t the ones doing the dying.
Are you suggesting that the military is obligated to adopt your Biblical concept of success? In fact they cannot do so. We do not have an established religion in this country, but we certainly do have the freedom to exercise our own religious views.
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