[image] Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy. - ProPublica A very good article, what happened on the Fitzgerald, hard to read in places. How We Investigated the Navy’s Twin Disasters in the Pacific The USS John S. McCain was brought to Yokosuka, Japan, in December 2017. (The Asah…

I’ve read the official documents related to this case. This is the first I’ve had opportunity to read individual experiences and a timeline reproduction. I do understand the issue much better than I did reading the cold investigative work. I believe one of the critical factors was there was no “e…

Congress is interested in this piece, and our own leadership is not. [image] Admiral to Congress: Think about the 280-plus ships that didn’t have collisions It was a tense exchange between Adm. Phil Davidson and Sen. Angus King. “These two collisions were a…

Here is another view on the ProPublica articles The Fitzgerald Collision: In Search of the Onus Bryan McGrath The problem with this narrative is that it is incomplete, and it removes from positions of obvious responsibility and culpability the very people most responsible for the accident — the …

That piece by Brian McGrath is pathetic. He’s saying that the blame lies with the ship and crew alone, that leadership ashore bares little responsibility for the accident. Let me explain the folly with an analogy: It’s snowing. The roads are icy. A parent give the keys to a corvette to his unlicens…

The way that I was used to was the ship was part of a flotilla where my own vessel was commanded by a commander. The lead vessel of the flotilla was commanded by a Captain. All the specialist officers in the lead ship were one rank higher than normal and they conducted periodic inspections of the ot…

Dunning-Krueger effect, in summary.

So I finally made it through. That was quite a read, thanks for sharing. Some thoughts and questions in random order: I fully understand how inexperienced and fatigued personnel can succumb to helmet fire and make a bad move in collision avoidance. What I don’t understand is how you can spend …

[image] Klaveness: destructively stringent organizational culture, or of disastrous personal qualities in the people manning the station. That is precisely what the Navy wanted and what it got. Can’t have those people thinking for themselves … or even being capable of such behavior.

[image] Navy Promised Changes After Deadly Accidents, but Many Within Doubt It’s... Interviews and an examination of the Navy’s publicly announced reforms raise uncertainty over whether senior leaders have fully followed through on them after the 7th Fleet disasters in 2017. …

This is what’s called saying the quiet part out loud. Better I suppose then all the top brass who are saying the opposite. One of Davidson’s stops in November 2017 was in San Diego, and inside the base’s movie theater, he addressed hundreds of concerned commanders and officers. He was met with a s…

Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy

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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy

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