I find some of this just sad.
People can get so blinded by hatred that they can rationalize nearly anything, disregarding logic and commonsense.
I don’t like to see it. Thanks for that input, though. I feel much the same way.
I worked under a couple of officers who had all the personality of a pit viper. One was bad for belittling people and quite abrupt when you needed to find out anything. But he knew the entire Engineering Plant lake the back of his hand and I mean he knew valve numbers and locations in hard to find places including the chill water loops. A class A Jerk but the man you wanted to be in Central when it hit the fan because his orders were accurate. He got transferred off for his shore duty rotation and ended up being assigned to the Propulsion Examination Board the inspectors who tested our knowledge skills for readiness. Yeap he came back onboard for it LOL. The other officer didn't care who someone was. The Admiral found out when his LOL. He was the ships DCA.
I posted either on this thread or another about how shipboard fires were handled by enlisted rather than officers. I just did a look up. Five officers died that day including CMDR White whose plane was hit & the rest were enlisted. http://www.virtualwall.org/units/forrestal.htm The ORANSKY fire was about 75% officers but a very different cause and type of fire. I suspect their location when explosion hit had a lot to do with a high count. A fireball went through Officers Country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_fire. If a person reads about the Enterprise fire they might see what looks to me like events got combined and twisted erroneously into the Forestall tragedy as both involved Zuni’s.