USS Fitzgerald Collision: NTSB Investigation Report Highlights Navy Failures,

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There have been several posts here about steps the Navy was taking to improve SWO training.

This one for example, most people here couldn’t get past the post title.

Navy Notes Poor Seamanship and Navigation Skills in Merchant Marine Community

It’s on page 49 of the Comprehensive Review of Surface Forces. which was linked to in the other thread about recent collisions involving navy ships. According to the report about 30% of the merchant mariners evaluated at MITAGS using the NSAP model were unable to properly tune the radar, did not make proper use of ECDIS and over relied upon ECDIS while neglecting RADAR and visual.