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USS John S. McCain: US Navy sacks Joseph Aucoin as fleet commander
BBC (Bragging British Communists) ^ | August 23, 2017

Posted on 08/23/2017 8:31:29 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

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To: SandRat

Usually the side you are not on.................


21 posted on 08/23/2017 8:55:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Tucker39

And the homos form cliques and influence procedures etc


22 posted on 08/23/2017 8:56:48 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: TexasGator

“”Why did the Alnico make the sharp turn to port?””


Because it hit the McCain.


23 posted on 08/23/2017 8:58:09 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Navy Patriot; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ..

Active Duty ping.


24 posted on 08/23/2017 8:58:48 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Slyfox
I wonder if training interference from the Obama regime had anything to do with these Naval problems.

You just know if the situation were reversed, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk would be claiming an "immediate end to xyz policy which is jeopardizing the lives of our sailors" whether there was any meaningful connection or not.

Therefore, as Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a crisis go to waste."

This is the cover Trump or anyone else needs to remove every asinine, transgender, homo-appreciation snowflake policy implemented by Obunghole

25 posted on 08/23/2017 9:00:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Gamecock; be-baw
Are sleeping compartments (right term?) routinely sealed at night or is it more than likely they were sealed after the collision.

Yes, standard procedure is to keep hatches and watertight doors shut at night during sleeping hours.

Any sailor that felt a collision impact would shut all hatches and doors (last man through) while responding to their assigned collision station by training, without alarm or instruction.

26 posted on 08/23/2017 9:01:26 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: NEMDF

If they’d have put the “you’re fired!” memo on a foreign ship, it’d have been delivered sooner.


27 posted on 08/23/2017 9:02:37 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Slyfox
I wonder if training interference from the Obama regime had anything to do with these Naval problems.

I would say yes.

28 posted on 08/23/2017 9:03:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot

The USN has to look at themselves for the way these sailors were trained and for being politically correct, ie, affirmative action, women, gays, transgenders etc.


29 posted on 08/23/2017 9:03:39 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: grania

One would think a third grade kid would know to put someone on deck as lookout.


30 posted on 08/23/2017 9:04:52 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Navy Patriot

Official bio:
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=437

An air wardare background, two promotions under Obama.


31 posted on 08/23/2017 9:04:53 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: GOPJ
Same lines used by our ICBM’s to get to their target...

No, not possible. Minuteman uses a hardened sealed cable system that is autonomous and independent of the internet, cloud or whatever.

32 posted on 08/23/2017 9:05:38 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: PGR88
Maybe Aucoin was having to follow orders from the previous administration that were still in play. And, working with less than well-trained personnel, because they had to go through all those gender retraining exercises to the detriment of the real training. Ya know, something has to give when the feminoids get their way.

Aucoin comes from a good family. His cousin is one of my good friends.

33 posted on 08/23/2017 9:05:41 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: Rennes Templar

Lookouts with binoculars posted to watch all 32 points around the ship. Old fashioned but effective. Were these in use in these last two collisions?


34 posted on 08/23/2017 9:05:55 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: be-baw
In what sort of sealed compartments on a destroyer would sailors normally be?

The way I'm reading is that these sailors were in spaces where damage control crews had to seal hatches and scuttles in order to prevent excessive flooding in berthing or possibly engineering spaces, from the picture I saw.

35 posted on 08/23/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Navy Patriot

Electrical engineer, aviator, sqadron commander. The usual exceptional career. What a shame he got whacked before he got out.


36 posted on 08/23/2017 9:07:23 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Rennes Templar

“What are they doing?”
Texting.


37 posted on 08/23/2017 9:08:09 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: SoCal Pubbie

The whole point of those doors is to keep things sealed after a collision (or other damage). That way breaches don’t flood the entire ship sinking it.


38 posted on 08/23/2017 9:08:32 AM PDT by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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To: madison10

Well I hope sailors can read maps! Or look out the porthole! Good Lord, what were they doing? But I hear ya on map reading. Went out like math did with the calculator. And it’s true, at the risk of committing a gender non-PCism, females don’t read maps as much as men. You are an exception.


39 posted on 08/23/2017 9:11:19 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: Stingray51
I read elsewhere that Aucoin was already scheduled for retirement within weeks.

That's correct, but I don't have enough fleet level political knowledge to figure the reason they canned him with a couple weeks to go other than to just look like they were doing something.

40 posted on 08/23/2017 9:17:34 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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