To: garyb
For FWIW department:
The Fitz was on ABM (she was packing the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA)picket duty to protect Tokyo and surrounding areas from anything the Norks would sling that way.
She operates in a restricted area (off limits to normal commercial traffic) usually sailing in a “Box”, she may even been hove to. That restricted area was breached by the Crystal, the Fitz may have been thinking she was in “Protected waters”, the Crystal made a last minute port turn into the Fitz
64 posted on
06/19/2017 11:27:20 AM PDT by
Robe
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To: Robe
75 posted on
06/19/2017 11:36:34 AM PDT by
garyb
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To: Robe
That scenario just makes it worse. If you’re in charted ‘restricted’ waters, and another ship breaks that perimeter, then all eyes should have been on that ship.
No way it should have gotten that close.
Most of what I’ve heard seems to suggest that they were close to port, perhaps heading back in and were dealing with traffic. (You wouldn’t set up a patrol box in congested shipping lanes except in time of war)
Somebody was negligent at best.
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