WTF is going on with the Navy? How can these collisions happen? As I have stated before, any decent Navy radarman can determine the course, speed, and CPA (closest point of approach) of any given radar contact within six minutes. At least, that’s the way it was fifty tears ago when I was in the Navy and stood radar watches and I wasn’t even a radarman. I was an electronics technician. This information is immediately relayed to the bridge on every single contact.
Have things changed since I was in the Navy? I guess they have. Maybe the Navy is spending tooo much time on Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) awareness training and sensitivity training and less time on seamanship. Geez! This ship is the real Navy. I was in the Gator Navy where discipline was slack but we wouldn’t have let this crap happen. This isn’t rocket science.
From what I heard of the John S. McCain incident, since this was a busy area, the captain was prolly on the bridge when this happened. If so, it was on him and his career is over. Even if he wasn’t, his career is over since he’s responsible for everything that happens. Were the radarmen in CIC incompetent? Was the officer of the deck incompetent? His (or her) career is prolly over as well or would a woman officer be treated differently? We certainly can’t be mean to women can we?
That would make the Navy sexist and insensitive to the needs of women.
The Department of the Navy needs to be shook up and the Navy needs to get back to its main mission, patrolling the seas and not social engineering. That goes for the Army and Air Force as well. What we are seeing is the result of eight years of Obungler and the touchy feely bullshit introduced into the military. Standards have obviously dropped along with training and discipline. These are dangerous times and we don’t have time for anything but training people on how to do their jobs. All the other stuff is bullshit and a waste of time and money.
Obviously there were not enough minority lesbians and transexuals on the bridge.
Or perhaps there might have been too many?
The ship was just upset about sharing a name with a traitor and attempted suicide.
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Having served on a big frigging service station (A0-99 USS Canisteo). I was amazed at the demonstration of seamanship that was exhibited when refueling two or even more ships underway. So what the hell happened?
Hey Denny
From the scuttlebutt I was hearing, there was steering gear failure. in one of the most congested seafaring lanes in the world. warships are over engineered, some of the places that I get information from state that there is a serious maintenance issues going one. With money being tight, it is easier to shave money for maintenance rather than the F35 albatross and other things that are stylish to the liberals.
Our military is suffering from a perfect storm of the same factors that have been affecting all of our institutions and infrastructure for decades, including corruption, inefficiency, waste, incompetence, moral lassitude, vice, and political correctness.
Spot on, Formerlib.
USA Today had a map showing the collision location as east of Singapore, in area of the southern South China Sea and the beginning of the Strait of Singapore.
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/2017/08/21/USATODAY/USATODAY/636389035131545491-082117-USS-McCain-singapore-online.png
That matches other info I had the other day. So how come it’s being reported in the press as the Malacca Straits? Them’s way over to the west past Singapore.
“John McCain”, a name associated with Naval fuckups for over fifty years.
Remember this bullshit?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/a-public-embrace-between-two-female-sailors-from-california-is-being-hailed-as-the-kiss-heard-round-the-world-by-activists-wh.html
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/17807-pentagon-allows-drag-show-by-soldiers-at-okinawa-air-base
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