[Chainmail]

I'll tell you who I am: I am a former artillery battalion commander whose battalion fired over 17,000 High Explosive rounds over an eighteen month period with zero mistakes and never missed a deployment. I am a former Investigator for the Inspector General who conducted a number of high-level investigations that resulted in Courts-Martial and convictions. I have stood bridge watches on amphibious ships at sea - as a surface warfare qualified Marine officer. And I have served as a member of General Courts-Martial Boards and had to weigh the evidence that convicted or acquitted naval personnel.

The standard is and always should be that a Commanding Officer is responsible for everything that goes right or goes wrong in his command.

The Captain went to sea with critical equipment faults (radars and navigation). He went to sea with too few critical personnel. He was asleep while his poorly-trained and apparently mentally deficient duty officers severely damaged a crucial missile defense ship, one of only a few available and killed several irreplaceable young men while they slept.

You don't think that he should be held criminally responsible?

I do.

[Cold War Veteran - Submarines]

Thank you for your service and semper fi. I do not believe he should be held criminally responsible. Get your ship ready for sea is a lawful order. By his own written statement his crew ( senior command) has bee previously qualified on at least one other ship. The equipment, based the long version from the same publisher, was in ill repair but functional for Navigation.

By your statements you have had an exemplary career but where is the part where you had to go through something that happened and you weren’t the investigator but the investigated?

As for me, I am just a nobody who did nothing in places that don’t exist.