The U.S. Navy has fired Rear Adm. Charles Williams and Capt. Jeffrey Bennett amid probes into multiple incidents of warship collisions in the Western Pacific over the summer, according to US Naval Institute News.
Williams was the officer in charge of Combined Task Force 70 and Bennett was commodore of Destroyer Squadron 15.
"Both reliefs were due to a loss of confidence in their ability to command,"a Navy statement said.
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scapegoats the military has lowered and standards to the point we're not much can be done about it
They're not scapegoats. A very reliable source, close to the matter, told me that the same admiral reduced classroom and simulated training and told all of the commanders under him that training should be done on the ship. No one dared tell him he was wrong, for fear of demotion or no promotions.
Karma's a bitch, Admiral. Now you have the lives of those young men on your conscience. He deserved to be fired.
OK so they fired a bunch of the top brass, but what I want to know is who was in the wheel house telling the helmsman what to do, that poor guy is just some swabby that only does what is ordered to do, he sure as hell isn't make any decisions on his own. Who the hell actually caused those collisions and what were the circumstances that caused those collisions to happen. What actually happened? I suppose the navy is like every other government bureaucracy we will never really learn the truth because everybody is trying to cover their butt.
Exactly, 6:19, all they did was retire a couple of end of career top brass that would probably retire soon anyway.
Who was supposed to be "Hands on the wheel"? That and on radar, navigation, etc? Let's get real as dead bodies, here.
The lack of funds to support training is the source of this problem.
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