Something is fishy about USS Fitzgerald story we are getting from the media [More]
This won't be the first time transparency has not been forthcoming and connections to something that will bite us in the future obscured. [Via Florida Guy]
rexxhead has left a new comment on your post "We're the Only Ones Helpful Enough":
Don't these Navy ships have radar? It seems almost incomprehensible that anyone looking at a radar screen and seeing a large vessel heading toward them wouldn't -- you know -- say something, maybe "Hey! We're gonna get rammed!" and that others in charge of steering might steer toward safety, or is it the rule that "We're the Navy; we're not moving"?
There is a tradition called The General Prudential Rule that says (net) if you can avoid an accident and don't, it's your fault. Who shall we blame for this?
A dry/wet-run?
ReplyDeleteTrojan horse?
Thank you, FG. I held off thinking David might not be interested.
ReplyDeleteThis seems very suspicious. Earlier, I saw this; what do you think?
* https://warontherocks.com/2017/06/how-could-this-happen-the-fitzgerald-the-u-s-navy-and-collisions-at-sea/
I believe this should have gone here:
ReplyDeleterexxhead has left a new comment on your post "We're the Only Ones Helpful Enough":
Don't these Navy ships have radar? It seems almost incomprehensible that anyone looking at a radar screen and seeing a large vessel heading toward them wouldn't -- you know -- say something, maybe "Hey! We're gonna get rammed!" and that others in charge of steering might steer toward safety, or is it the rule that "We're the Navy; we're not moving"?
There is a tradition called The General Prudential Rule that says (net) if you can avoid an accident and don't, it's your fault. Who shall we blame for this?