[cva66snipe]

Agreed. I’ve served on many US warships. FIRE is the # 1 enemy of any warship anywhere. It is the first thing you hear in boot camp and your reminded of it constantly every day. Ryan Sawyer Mays might have struck the match but it’s the Navy Brass from CNO down that didn’t put the damn fire out. If you can drive a destroyer into a cargo ship and kill six sailors and get away with it you can damn sure light a match and the Navy, run by certified WOKE idiots, can’t put it out because they let everybody go home for vacation.

Back on about Sept. 80 I was a short timer and they put me on R&A detail aka Rescue and Assistance. We were in overhaul and a ship a couple piers down had an explosion below deck. We mustered for stand-by but evidently and crew and yard FD handled it. A yardbird welder and a ships crew fire watched perished.

[Cen-Tejas]

for centuries The Captain of a Navy Warship was held responsible no matter what. Sometimes that was unfair but the principal involved worked. Warship Captains worried about their ship 24/7.

Now, with rampant PC, ACCOUNTABILITY is a joke and has been for at least 2 decades. Weak kneed admirals are afraid of the press and politicians. That’s the problem and bs like the Fitzgerald with 7 killed, the McCain with 10 killed and the Cole with 17 killed will continue to happen until a CNO with balls takes over and order in the ranks is restored.