USS J McCain / Alnic MC collision near Singapore

[Capt_Phoenix]

@Slick_cam1

Aviators seem to take great pride and spend a lot of time perfecting their skills as pilots. Specwar officers officers seem to take great pride and spend a lot of time perfecting their skills as operators. Surface warefare officers seem to train to be quasi-shore based paper pushers who are forced to take sea billets to advance and dont seem to have too much interest in being a skilled seafarer. They do not, in fact, train to be skilled seafarers. Rather, they seem to train to be weapons/tactics officers who happen to also have to drive their weapons platform to the combat area as an auxillary duty. They seek to achieve competency rather than mastery in navigation.

That sounds correct and it’s a sad state of things.