Unfortunately the 7th fleet issues seem to be larger than individual CO's. Dunno if you are familiar with the "Fat Leonard" scandal, but here's a link.
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Unfortunately the 7th fleet issues seem to be larger than individual CO's. Dunno if you are familiar with the "Fat Leonard" scandal, but here's a link.
Damn. A sitting Naval Admiral with a Bronze Heart & Purple Star doing time for corruption. With clowns like that passing classified information to defense contractors for money left and right, no wonder Hillary Clinton wasn't prosecuted.
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=102034
USS John McCain damaged in collision, sailors missing.
Some early photos of the McCain.
Attachment 19247
Attachment 19248
Does anyone else think these could be intentional rammings? These were both ships with significant anti ballistic missile capability. Seems to me, a certain belligerent power in the region that happens to be fascinated with missiles could stand to benefit by innocuously getting these ships out of the area?
Hanlon's razor:"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
We'll see.
Why would they resort to overt terrorism when a Navy contracting front company and a few million in bribes can do the same thing?
In any event if it were terrorism, the Navy wouldn't have relieved the Fitzgerald command staff. It would also be public knowledge the incident was malicious,followed by a Devrgu visit to those responsible.