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Capt. Matt Phillips as career Surface Warfare Officer definitely has a good perspective on this.
USS Fitzgerald: Investigate First, Blame Later
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This a Naval Officer culture across the Navy. If your subordinates mess up, we as Officer are responsible and accountable for them. I agree, but then I disagree. I’ve seen to many good officers be let go many time over things they have no control of and given a DFC and then they have to fight for their careers going through the Board of Inquiry process. Most of the time, the officer have not done anything negligently, but again our culture needs to change and start using better common sense. I guarantee you that most JAGs know which officers have blatantly neglected processes, procedures, and everything in between because they have seen the difference in the cases they see.
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Bill, he raises some good points, but I'm not sure I agree with all of it.
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I agree but he has a qualified perspective. If I knew him I would ask him some very direct questions. And out of respect for the dead I am going to try to refrain from making voicing the assumptions that run around in my brain. I am patiently waiting on the investigation but I hope the good Admiral release a preliminary statement of findings because it is killing me.
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