Posted on Dec 7, 2017
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Poor training and leadership lead to an "avoidable" collision between a U.S. warship and a South Korean fishing boat last spring, according to a Navy report on the incident. What is going on with our Bridge watch standers?
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I think there is a tendency to rely on the computerized radars that will alert you to impending danger, recommend a CSE/SPD to get out of danger. But, none of that is good if you don't look outside, or are afraid to call the CO. If I remember correctly, there wasn't even bad weather, in amy of these recent accidents. It is pretty easy to be an armchair QB, but I once had a CO tell me if you can't figure out CBDR, and figure out a way to get out of it, then you don't deserve to be in the Navy. You can only do 2 things, change course or change speed...
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CWO3 Dennis M.
LT Brad McInnis And, don't forget that call to the CO... with your recommendations! Do they even do maneuvering boards any more? Is Comabt not on the horn to you anymore? I remember a time I had the deck on Bainbridge while we transited the English Channel from the North Atlantic to Bremerhaven, Germany. The crossing traffic from England to France and France to England was horrific, not to mention the traffic in front of us and coming at us in the opposite direction.. We had so many skunks on a four hour watch we went through the alphabet twice. And we were busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest! The grease board did not have enough slots to keep track of them all and I had to ask for a legal pad run up to the bridge ASAP. It was worse than Gibraltar and worse than Panama canal at the entrance and exit!
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Being a Cryptology Officer that’s earned a
Surface Warfare Officer pin when it was authorized, this is something that the community and even an outsider myself warned would happen. I guarantee you 100% that I was at least one of many who socialized that it would take a couple major accidents and live to change the SWO culture. Some COs feel that since they were beaten up during their qualification process that their successive subordinates should suffer the same. I was enthralled after spending thousands of hours on watch barely to catch a break, the least sleep I ever experienced that now I’m on a CPAP and medication as a result, this lifestyle is unacceptable. Why SWOs believe it is not only appalls me, but many see nothing wrong with it. Well, these events prove them all wrong and mission and exercise I’ve training is a no-no. Train like you fight and you will have a competent warfighter. I’m sure the merchant crews are going through their own modernization. You can still accomplish the ship’s mission by not sacrificing the crew, hence the reason so many Sailors do not want to go out to sea because frankly it sucks. I was Enlisted 12 years before becoming and Officer and the only Officers I enjoyed working with out at sea who were COs were mustangs like me, although not all non-prior Enlisted Officers were bad. The was a culture instilled that had not changed and a dangerous one at that. Change this culture and train folks instead of blowing it off, things will drastically change!
Surface Warfare Officer pin when it was authorized, this is something that the community and even an outsider myself warned would happen. I guarantee you 100% that I was at least one of many who socialized that it would take a couple major accidents and live to change the SWO culture. Some COs feel that since they were beaten up during their qualification process that their successive subordinates should suffer the same. I was enthralled after spending thousands of hours on watch barely to catch a break, the least sleep I ever experienced that now I’m on a CPAP and medication as a result, this lifestyle is unacceptable. Why SWOs believe it is not only appalls me, but many see nothing wrong with it. Well, these events prove them all wrong and mission and exercise I’ve training is a no-no. Train like you fight and you will have a competent warfighter. I’m sure the merchant crews are going through their own modernization. You can still accomplish the ship’s mission by not sacrificing the crew, hence the reason so many Sailors do not want to go out to sea because frankly it sucks. I was Enlisted 12 years before becoming and Officer and the only Officers I enjoyed working with out at sea who were COs were mustangs like me, although not all non-prior Enlisted Officers were bad. The was a culture instilled that had not changed and a dangerous one at that. Change this culture and train folks instead of blowing it off, things will drastically change!
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