Oh what a load of tripe. Those martians, urrr Russians, ur martians are at it again. It’s an attack!!!
Puleeze.
Ships have bridges (even the latest stealthy ships). With glass. People look out of them. They see other ships. They don’t run into them.
This is a leaderships issue. If we stay PC long enough eventually we’ll have a navy to rival that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
why does the new german navy have glass bottom boats, so they can see their old one
..........one night on the bridge of the USS Haynesworth I had my Navy talk phone hanging from my chest and a Chief Petty Officer was instructing me how to use it and how to report on it and so on (circa 1967). We were enroute from New Orleans to Mayport, florida to reload after putting a new screw on the boat in New Orleans. We were somewhere south of Mississippi and it was around midnight with clear skies. A Chief handed me a pair of binoculars and said “now, IF you see ANYTHING!!!!....ANYTHING AT ALL................REPORT IT on these phones and you keep reporting it every 5 minutes until you don’t see it anymore!!! And you make sure the OOD hears and acknowledges your report and if he doesn’t you walk in and talk to him face to face...........got it!! Yes Chief!
So, between then and my watch expiring around sun up, I saw a ship about every 15 or 20 minutes and I dutifully reported it and kept reporting it until I couldn’t see it. None got within MILES of us without us lookouts seeing it. This is why I cannot understand what the hell is going on!!! All of us were deadly serious and no screwing around and very scared as teenagers that we might screw up and endanger this warship we were so privileged to ride on but were too young to appreciate THAT fact at the time.