US Navy Destroyer Severely Damaged in Collision

[Lester Polfus]

With our national focus on land wars for the last fifteen plus years, the Navy's largely been ignored. I'm not surprised and assume these incidents will stem from a failure of command, from the top down. I've seen first hand what a difference a squared away CO makes, as well as the effect a shit one has on the entire command. Shades of the USS Stark.

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.

[RJ]

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.

Holy shit.

That's outrageous.

[GardoneVT]

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.

[HeadHunter]

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.

That's stunning.

[peterb]

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=102034

USS John McCain damaged in collision, sailors missing.

[Chance]

Some early photos of the McCain.

[VT1032]

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?

[Wondering Beard]

Hanlon's razor:"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

We'll see.

[Duelist]

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?

i do not think you are crazy for positing this.

[GardoneVT]

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?

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.