The commanding officer takes credit for all success ... or failure ... in his (or her) ship’s operations. The immediately responsible personnel will also get some degree of proper recognition.
The commanding officer takes credit for all success ... or failure ... in his (or her) ship’s operations. The immediately responsible personnel will also get some degree of proper recognition.
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In the pre Lloyd Bucher/USS Pueblo days, the CO was responsible for ANY member of his crews actions. If a power outage happened and he was ashore, HE better have the answers for the ‘Inquisition Board’.... Of course in those days, the greater Majority of Ships were Commanded by White Males, definitely no Women and possibly a handful of Minorities.
The Pueblo incident changed things because Bucher, the CO wasn’t allowed in some spaces but the Court of Inquiry wanted to Court Martial him and his ‘research officer. CDR Bucher for ‘losing’ the ship and LT Harris for not damaging all the required, classified records(at the time also Buchers ultimate responsibility).
SECNAV decided to not Court Martial Bucher or Harris, the ‘head’ of the CT Detachment, or ANY Pueblo Crew Member, determining that they had all ‘suffered’ enough.
Not long after that the “CO is God” theory remained but the ‘responsibility’ phase was somewhat lessened, dependent on the circumstances.