this just released…72 pages telling a sorry tale of idiots asleep at the wheel [image] Navy investigations find 'multiple failures' in two 'avoidable' destroyer at-sea... The results of both investigations revealed sub-standard performance by both crews and commanders in the accidents thi…

Don’t be fooled. 90% of what SWOs do is paper work, sitting in their state room, and going to meetings where they pretend to know something. That and waiting for shore duty.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: You need to understand the mindset of the merchant academy trained mariner. Whilst at the Merchant Academy, I flirted with the idea of going into the Navy. Even had an ROTC scholarship on the table waiting for me to complete a DODMERB physical. After my first year I…

It is there, but hidden for some reason. Here it is: [image]

[image] Lone_Star: Don’t be fooled. 90% of what SWOs do is paper work, sitting in their state room, and going to meetings where they pretend to know something. That and waiting for shore duty. Oh I’m not trying to defend Navy officers here. I was enlisted in the CG on the big cutters. I was n…

[image] Kennebec_Captain: I’m referring to the level of discussion on this (and other navy) thread. This isn’t a high school pep rally. The Navy has 17 dead sailors to answer for. The USN has bigger problems: [image] ‘Fat Leonard’ probe ensnares dozens of US navy admirals The “F…

It appears that USCG believe that Merchant Marine officers are also “generalists”, not enough specialists and not well enough trained to keep up with the advances in technology: [image] USCG makes call for radical changes in seafarer training - Current seafarer training is becoming out …

More like the USCG doesn’t see enough opportunity for cushy retirement jobs. Adding more certification requirements means adding post retirement jobs for the regulatory class.

Thank you for your reply. I still cannot get my head around this. Is there a place I can download digital charts for this area? Looking at the Japanese chart catalogue if looks chart #80 covers the area in question. Or do you know if anybody has posted a plot of the course of the Fitzgerald? Thank …

[image] ombugge: It appears that USCG believe that Merchant Marine officers are also “generalists”, not enough specialists and not well enough trained to keep up with the advances in technology: I cannot agree more…training for deck officers these days should be much more along the lines of …

Of course we all knew this...it was the Navee's fault...TWICE!

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There is a thread about that here: Navy Captain Faces Imprisonment in Fraud Scheme - the subject of this thread is Navy’s report about recent collisions.

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Of course we all knew this...it was the Navee's fault...TWICE!

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