Posted on Jun 18, 2017
Fitzgerald crew's 'heroic efforts' saved their ship from sinking, admiral says - American Grit
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“Heroic efforts prevented the flooding from catastrophically spreading, which could have caused the ship to founder or sink,” Aucoin, the head of U.S. 7th Fleet, said. “It could have been much worse. … Because of the tireless damage control efforts of a resolute and courageous team, the ship was able to make its way back to port safely on its own power last evening.”
Fitzgerald crew's 'heroic efforts' saved their ship from sinking, admiral says - American Grit
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Sgt Eric Mitchell There's a Reason for Damage Control Training. You Hope Never to Put those Skills to the Test but it appears that they were applied very recently.
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LT Brad McInnis
I remember a very large increase in the quality of DC training after USS COLE. It's one of the few times I have seen where throwing a ton of money at a problem actually paid off.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
LT Brad McInnis - I was DCPO for My Division on USS California CGN-36 and USS Arkansas CGN-41. I'm Glad that the Equipment that I Maintained, was Never Needed.
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LT Brad McInnis
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Yeah, unfortunately I have to use a lot of mine both as DCA and CHENG. Sailors pulling together to get dangerous job done for the safety of their shipmates never ceased to amaze me...
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I am sure they just thought of it as doing their job to get the ship to port ASAP.......I.A.O. Get Home. Good job Navy...
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LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow God Bless You DCA and those that Followed in Your Footsteps. Respectfully CTO1 Wm "Chip" Nagel USN(R)
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SN Greg Wright
LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow - Lose more Sailors my ass. That training is why they didn't lose ALL of the Sailors, and the ship to boot.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SN Greg Wright - I'm Sure You Navigation Skills are Excellent but someone Definitely Screwed the Pooch on the Navigation on these 2 Vessels.
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SN Greg Wright
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - No argument from me there, CTO1. I'm still half a mind that it was a deliberate act, I just can't explain that uturn any other way. That and the DDG's failure to evade.
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SN Greg Wright - I've been in a lot of close quarters maneuvering, and had some close calls, but I always maintained situational awareness, using moboard or a scopehead plot. Part of the problem today is that everyone is too busy "playing video games." I've seen it first hand on a ship with 56H radar repeaters, that could automatically calculate CPA. That system went down and all the SWOS trained officers were at a loss. I got a popsicle stick and grease pencil and scopeheaded on the Feruno radar and was asked by a non SWO LT why I was writing on the radar. SMH!!!
The skippers of today are from those year groups. They've never had to rely on paper navigation or monitoring, and they don't have the old school seamanship skills...
The skippers of today are from those year groups. They've never had to rely on paper navigation or monitoring, and they don't have the old school seamanship skills...
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