Thursday, November 19, 2009
A very bad report card
The US Navy has released its report on the collision last March between a surface ship and a nuclear attack submarine.The blame has been put on the sub for, among other reasons,
The navigator was listening to his iPod during a critical evolution.The Navy Times summary of the report is pretty scary when you consider the various nuclear elements on board. We hope this was a one off example of "McHale's Navy" and not a trend.
Watchstanders were known to sleep on the job.
Stereo speakers were rigged for music in the radio room.
An informal atmosphere — along with crew complacency, a “weak” command and inferior submariner skills — are named as contributors to the March 20 collision between the attack submarine Hartford and the amphibious transport dock New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz.
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