U.S. Navy leaders are scrambling for answers after two guided-missile destroyers collided with other ships in the Pacific within months of each other, causing millions in damage and costing the lives of sailors aboard.
In a year that also saw a cruiser run aground in Tokyo Bay and anotheroverrun a South Korean fishing vessel, the evidence appears stark that something is wrong.
Early Wednesday morning, Navy officials announced that the three-star commander of the Yokosuka, Japan-based 7th Fleet, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, had been relieved from his post weeks before his planned retirement in the wake of the mishaps. But is the problem regionally focused, or does it have implications for the larger Navy?
Ongoing investigations into the two recent collisions and a separate review of Navy training and certification standards, with an emphasis on the surface warfare officer community, aim to answer those questions. But some Navy experts who spoke with Military.com suggested the service may not like what it finds out.
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10 comments:
Is there a radar problem? Has masking been perfected here?seems pretty dysfunctional for this many accidents to happen.
The truth is, the men are fooling around with the women at night.
LOL
The men are fooling around and the women are probably fooling around, but not with each other!
These young people are so stupid they don't which end is up.
They were hacked, becasue nothing is secure like they want you to think is... Certainly not now after the CIA and NSA hacking tools were released...
Only real answer is that external forces somehow are taking over control of ship.
Each accident is slightly different but can be traced back to two critical words: Situational Awareness.
A number of trained crewmembers, officers and enlisted alike, failed to be aware of where they were and what was around them in time to avert the problems. None of these situations happened in a split-second. Watch standers and those on the bridge had responsibility. Sadly, most deaths appear to have been among crew in their berths.
Hoping they can 'fix' the underlying issues ASAP.
For the educated answers, ask someone in the military. They appear to have the answers. As to the person who stated the 11:12 comment, clearly you do not have a loved one who has been deployed for six months on one of these large vessels, and then re-deployed 6 months later, for 6 months.
This is total incompetence. On most ships their are deck watches 24 hours a day. Radar surveilence and tracking, security roving patrols. The ship's crew and captain should be relieved of duty. No excuse for this ever to happen!
Millennials on deck...it's the navy not call of duty here. They need extra training and more discipline. The young people of today are coddled and use excuses way too much.They come from doting mom's and schools that are not preparing them for graduation much less officers school.
I agree.....they work in shifts.... a whole shift is responsible for this incident..
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