Originally posted by Teken
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Your suggested cause might hold for one incident, but to have similar collisions happen on both the Fitzgerald and the McCain (and the Lake Champlain) implies a much deeper problem. It's not just what they did wrong, though that is critical, but how could it be that with all the scrutiny that followed the Fitzgerald collision they were not under extremely tight supervision and control. If discipline is in the sorry state you describe, then no one on the ship nor none of their superiors in the fleet are doing the job expected of them.
It's not just the grunts on duty at the time. Not just the sailors on one ship. Or three . . . or four. (There was also the grounding of the Antietam to consider.) I'm pretty sure the Navy is worried there is a much more serious and systemic problem. That's certainly what has me concerned.
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