Good grief.
Apparently the whole Navy is too busy getting busy on the bridge to pay attention to anything.
It isn’t like cargo ships suddenly have cloaking devices.
I blame nonsense like this:
Every clown in that video should’ve been keelhauled sideways for a month. Instead they probably all ended up in Surface Warfare Officer School and made watch standers on our Destroyers in 7th fleet.
Shakin My Damn Aviator Head at this foolishness.
Perhaps they were filming a music video when the collision occurred.
?So what is happening. It’s a big ocean out there; how come the Navy seems to keep hitting other vessels. Per the article you quoted, Brent, this is the 4th episode. We know of the Fitz, but apparently a cruiser ran aground somewhere in Tokyo Bay and another cruiser hit a fishing vessel. There are a lot more airplanes up in the sky and they don’t seem to be running into each other all over the place.
The sad part is people mess up and others die or are injured.
It’s a good year to be an owner of a heavy lift ship.
It is hard to see chemical tankers while wearing Eclipse Glasses. How do expect sailors to see the ship coming while they are looking at the sun? Get real folks!!!
It is said that the tanker snuck up on them nice and slow.
They Navy has decided to change these type of ships from Destroyer to Destroyee.
We’ve had a collision with a cargo ship and a tanker. What’s next, a floating drydock? The Queen Mary?
CT, not a collision. It was a frank unplanned international meeting between two vessels with a healthy exchange of kinetic energy in solidarity with our core values from our extensive training. We are looking into a sailor who failed to use the right pronoun who might be the root cause of the friction.
we have come off eight years of grooming command level Navy based on global warming , social justice and political correctness.
This is the rot that sets in.
To put this in perspective, we only have about 80 cruisers and destroyers and probably only half of them are out at a given time. Losing three in 8 months is a huge attrition rate.
I still can’t see how these things can happen. Isn’t there enough buffers and redundancies in the system?
Time to put someone up in a crow’s nest again. I wonder how long of a watch those guys had up there.
The collision was with a tiny tanker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnic_MC
Just like Crystal was a tiny containerized cargo ship.
How is a 600 foot long ship tiny?
It’s all relative. Big cargo ships and tankers are much larger than those.
To put this in further perspective, Ronald Reagan’s Navy had more than twice the present ship count and fewer of the modern navigation aids. But they were crewed by late Boomers and early Gen-X. The current ships are crewed by millennials.
Though Liberian flagged, the Alnic is owned by a Greece-based shipping company Stealth Maritime Corporation S.A. through a subsidiary registered in the Marshall Islands.
This could explain it!
Jeesh, it’s getting embarrassing. When are we going to hear about half-tracks colliding with semis?
What. The. Hey.?! Sheesh…
“After U.S. destroyer collision, Chinese paper says U.S. navy a hazard”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-destroyer-collision-chinese-paper-says-u-navy-075617873.html
I don’t think spirit videos at the Academy are to blame for these collisions.
Of course, it will soon be revealed that both incidents occurred during the recording of spirit videos: “I wear my sunglasses at night…”
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These individual events have individual proximate causes, but as a pattern, fault-finders should look to long-lead decisions over the last several decades.
7th Fleet is the canary in the global coal mine. The butcher’s bill for neglecting the Navy has come due.
I suppose one can ask why no flags seem to have voted with their feet when circumstances became poor. ?Do you think there were any reports listing the issues facing the Navy from the flag POV. My sense is no; they are a go-along-to-get-along group. When no one resigned over Benghazi you knew you had a feckless group.
dis-* the sentiment but don’t disagree.
No flags stepped down b/c money — damn nice pension.
Yes, but most of the flags are past where the pension is either in danger nor grows. I would find it hard to do what Dempsey did as CJCS for Obama. But that’s me.