What pisses me off the most about this is that it wasn’t until year 32 that it was found out.
I can foresee someone to knucklehead really important studies. But it seems the company itself found out about the problem before the Navy even investigated it!
Do they even double check these projects?
And she would have gotten away with it too,, if it wasn't for those meddling kids...
She may be correct that the inspection standards were stupid. A lot of defense contract specifications have questionable stuff slid into them, usually by the contractor so that they get a competitive advantage in getting that contract awarded and renewed by that one company.. Nobody was putting a gun to her head to do them though, and she had three decades to push up the chain to correct them.
Just think of how many naval officers over those 32 years got away with checking the box and retired to second careers with those naval contractors. Wonder what else they didn't do their due diligence on along the way.