Posted on Jan 19, 2018
Congratulations To The Navy For Charging Its Officers With Negligent Homicide
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I will agree to disagree. I think the author is putting the cart before the horse on this one in a rush to judgement. Let's not scapegoat them for failures of policy and doctrine. One captain had been aboard less than a month. LTC (Join to see) Capt Gregory Prickett CDR (Join to see) LCDR (Join to see) LT Brad McInnis LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow CMDCM Gene Treants CWO3 Dennis M. SCPO Morris Ramsey CPO Glenn Moss SN Greg Wright
Congratulations To The Navy For Charging Its Officers With Negligent Homicide
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Maritime
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To me, it sounds like they are scapegoating them... sure they should be punished but no previous CO's that I know of have been charged with the same for similar incidents in the past. Plus, like you said failures of policy and doctrine, to which I would add training, manning and OPTEMPO decisions, which is fully on the Flags. I would not send a sailor to mast if they screwed up because I didn't set them up for success...
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Being Captain of a naval vessel is a terribly hard job. Uncharted sandbar? You're relieved if you hit it. Subordinate screws up on a mid-watch? You're to blame. Seventeen dead sailors is terrible - but I don't know enough about what happened to judge those two Captains. I pray for their families.
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CDR Dan Cunningham
As an ensign, future five-star Adm. Chester Nimitz ran the USS Decatur aground in 1907 and was convicted at court-martial for hazarding a ship. Thankfully, he was allowed to remain on active duty. Not trying to imply this should always be the case, but not making exceptions leads to a risk-averse cadre of Commanding Officers and that's not good either.
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Congrats is an awful way to go. In the end though, when the CO states "I relieve you" it's in his/her lap regardless if Change of Command had happened 2 minutes earlier.
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