This POS is going to prison for a very long time.
If he was diagnosed as bipolar by the Navy and was not in the process of being discharged, somebody screwed up. If he was diagnosed as bipolar and the recruiter knew, someone should be screwed but won’t be. Don’t believe for one moment a recruiter would not still put him in if he could. I dealt with a handful of people whose mental capacity was severely diminished before they entered the Navy. Once they make it to the fleet, the easiest way to get rid of them is general discharge not compatible with military service. But a diagnosis of bipolar should have been cause for a medical discharge. Bipolar should have been caught in basic and SEAL screening.
I had a Sailor whose own parents said they we’re stunned the Navy accepted him. Mother warned the recruiter. He made it through basic, his sea school and only had two years left on his contract when I got him. He did absolutely nothing to warrant a bad conduct discharge. Doctors refused to recommend a medical discharge. He was like a child, we had to assign people to make sure he showered daily. A senior enlisted made sure he never got orders to a ship and he spent his career mowing lawns. The VA took over his mental health care when he was discharged. Once they make it to the fleet, except in rare cases, taxpayers now own their medical care for life. That period in the Navy was about as normal as his life would ever be. I gave his recruiters name to BUPERS, his command was notified, but he claimed plausible deniability.
I know back when I was serving, the recruiters were under a lot of pressure to produce new service members and would go to extremes to make sure they passed muster to make the grade. Even my wife, who was career Air Force, got in only because her recruiter used to take her out to big meals all of the time because she was a small, skinny little thing. She was only 95 lbs and needed to be 105 libs to get in. So he put the lbs on her. She didn't create any problems though.
But I had this little gal in my hospital squadron who was assigned to do security clearances for the security police squadron. I kept getting complaints from the cops that they couldn't get their paperwork processed. My first sgt and I would go talk to her and she said she understood the urgency and would smile and shake her head that she would try harder. Well, she went on leave one time and we discovered piles of unprocessed clearance applications buried in the bottom of her desk. When she got back we confronted her and discovered she didn' t know how to read past the fourth grade level. Her recruiter had cheated and took the entry tests for her and she was just bumbling along, smiling like he told her to do. She was discharged right away.
But destroying a billion dollar plus ship is a little over the top. I hope he pays for it heavily.