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SSgt Ray Stone
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Very informative topic
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SSG Warren Swan
SSG Warren Swan
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thanks!
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Capt Tom Brown
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Well they say that the CO is responsible for everything his ship/unit does or doesn't do. In the one case the CO was just off the bridge in his sea cabin but no one called to report the pending situation. No one wants to be the first one to call the Capt and say 'we have a problem out of our control here and need your assistance to keep us from a collision.' The 2d case was just a fiasco of errors.
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SSG Warren Swan
SSG Warren Swan
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Agreed, but it was also found that training was pencil whipped (which is common depending on the training), and it was accepted practice (which again isn't uncommon in any branch). But when said pencil whipping is an accepted thing within at Flag Level, the ships Skipper should/needs to take that L and be dealt with (they are), BUT those above them are also culpable when they knew, fostered, and accepted sup par training or pencil whipped training that allowed this to continue. If the onion was peeled back more, and harder, the onion would have a few stars in the center. Those stars should not be allowed to shield themselves from the pain. It only promotes the belief that if you're enlisted and O3 on down, there is one UCMJ, and O4-O10 another.
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SFC Signal Support Systems Specialist
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Has a ship commander been relieved for bringing these training detriments to light and refusing the mission until they are satisfactorily resolved? Until such time i'm sure all parties involved will be labeled as complicit.
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Capt Tom Brown
Capt Tom Brown
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Probably not recently. No one wants to commit suicide and say they can't(or won't) carry out a mission (sail the ship) because the crew isn't well enough trained in emergency procedures. So they hope and pray that there will never be any close calls on their watch.
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