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.