[AndyJackson]

$40 B could have bought about 10 of these. If we took our status as a maritime nation seriously and stopped worrying about defending our Eurasian money laundering scheme. And that would leave some money over to provide operational training for their crews.

But that is money down the drain anyway until we end the leadership rot in our own military.

[Bookshelf]

... the grounding “resulted from an accumulation of errors and omissions in navigation planning, watchteam execution, and risk management that fell far below U.S. Navy standards.” \
I didn’t know the Navy still had standards.