Posted on Jan 4, 2020

Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six...

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Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.

Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six...

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Posted 5 y ago

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

Posted 5 y ago

This fiasco is unforgivable. Senior heads need to roll on this one.

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MAJ Ken Landgren

Posted 5 y ago

I did not read the lengthy article. All I am going to say is leadership should look at risk management and those who execute the mission must have the confidence to say we are not ready.

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