To: U S Army EOD
So what are your thoughts on whether or not this was mishandling of ammo or a hit from a Japanese midgit sub?
44 posted on
03/12/2004 10:08:39 AM PST by
snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
I would say it was probably more a case of the former, than the latter. Look at the Port Chicago disaster and tell me that sailors weren't lax about what they were dealing with. Of course anytime there is a disaster and the inquiry happens, sailors will always look for other things to blame it on. But the truth is carelessness causes most ordnance mishaps. I know this first hand having survived the USS NIMITZ Flight Deck fire of Nov. 30th, 1988. It was cause by an ordnanceman NOT FOLLOWING proper procedures and taking a short cut.
48 posted on
03/12/2004 10:22:53 AM PST by
Colt .45
( Veteran - Pride in my Southern Ancestry! Falsum etiam est verum quod constituit superior.)
To: snippy_about_it
I would have to say mishandling of ammo. It happens all the time.
92 posted on
03/12/2004 6:54:20 PM PST by
U S Army EOD
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