YEARS OF WARNINGS, THEN DEATH AND DISASTER ProPublica. Part two of a series;
The fleet was short of sailors, and those it had were often poorly trained and worked to exhaustion. Its warships were falling apart, and a bruising, ceaseless pace of operations meant there was little chance to get necessary repairs done. The very top of the Navy was consumed with buying new, more sophisticated ships, even as its sailors struggled to master and hold together those they had. The Pentagon, half a world away, was signing off on requests for ships to carry out more and more missions
Part one of the series is here: Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy