LTJG Stephany Breau probably at some port.
Posted on 02/10/2019 11:24:51 AM PST by GrootheWanderer
A little after 1:30 a.m. on June 17, 2017, Alexander Vaughan tumbled from his bunk onto the floor of his sleeping quarters on board the Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald. The shock of cold, salty water snapped him awake. He struggled to his feet and felt a torrent rushing past his thighs. Around him, sailors were screaming. “Water on deck. Water on deck!” Vaughan fumbled for his black plastic glasses and strained to see through the darkness of the windowless compartment. Underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, 12 miles off the coast of Japan, the tidy world of Berthing 2 had come undone. Cramped bunk beds that sailors called coffin racks tilted at crazy angles. Beige metal footlockers bobbed through the water. Shoes, clothes, mattresses, even an exercise bicycle careered in the murk, blocking the narrow passageways of the sleeping compartment. In the dim light of emergency lanterns, Vaughan glimpsed men leaping from their beds. Others fought through the flotsam to reach the exit ladder next to Vaughan’s bunk on the port side of the ship. Tens of thousands of gallons of seawater were flooding into the compartment from a gash that had ripped through the Fitzgerald’s steel hull like it was wrapping paper. As a petty officer first class, these were his sailors, and in those first foggy seconds Vaughan realized they were in danger of drowning. At 6 feet, 1 inch and 230 pounds, Vaughan grabbed a nearby sailor by the T-shirt and hurled him toward the ladder that led to the deck above. He yanked another, then another. Vaughan’s leg had been fractured in three places. He did not even feel it. “Get out, get out,” he shouted as men surged toward him through the rising water.
(Excerpt) Read more at features.propublica.org ...
Will they be silenced? Told to stay silent if they want to stay in the Navy?
USN ping
So this being ProPublica, one of the left most of the leftist rags, why would they print an article about the military that was ... so seemingly balanced?
It almost looks like a preemptive blast at damage control or a way to prepare Ms. Breau for public service. It certainly paints the military in a bad light - repeatedly skipping maintenance, understaffing and under-training the crew.
But this is Obama’s navy, no matter how you slice it.
It seems like a honest article.
A long read and very much worth the time. Thanks!
They have been silenced.
ping
The Breau Code?
I thought that pic was taken in the officer's mess.
The ship’s navigation and communication system was based on Windows, and, surprise, did not work.
BFL
Long but good read.
Looks like it was taken at Tsukiji
The article makes for some troubling reading. What I see in it is that our politically correct Navy is inept and quite clearly not prepared to fight a war. No lookouts? Geez...
the ships navigation and communications systems worked. The officers that were responsible to make educated decisions about the handling of the ship didn’t.
The female officer of the deck was sobbing when the Captain got to his post?????? Glad we have gender equality in our military. Thanks Obama and Sec Defs who have done NOTHING to erase the destructive policies put in place during his reign.
“But this is Obama’s navy, no matter how you slice it.”
It is too bad that the real culprits in this disaster cannot be keelhauled!
A warship with unsecured containers? Does not pass the smell test. My ship had banks of lockers secured at deck and overhead, nothing loose.
I hope they could at least speak English.
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