Video: April 19, 1989: USS Iowa Gun Turret Explosion

Makes one want to have a second look !

Despite being told about the known 'fatal flaw' in that rammer system, namely the possibility of 'over-ramming', NIS concluded the explosion was deliberate and the result of a homosexual relationship gone wrong between 2 sailors, an elaborate murder/suicide;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

"The first investigation into the explosion, conducted by the U.S. Navy, concluded that one of the gun turret crew members, Clayton Hartwig, who died in the explosion, had deliberately caused it. During the investigation, numerous leaks to the media, later attributed to U.S. Navy officers and investigators, implied that Hartwig and another sailor, Kendall Truitt, had engaged in a homosexual relationship and that Hartwig had caused the explosion after their relationship had soured. In its report, however, the U.S. Navy concluded that the evidence did not show that Hartwig was homosexual but that he was suicidal and had caused the explosion with either an electronic or chemical detonator."

Whatever you call them, NIS or NCIS, it is an agency long out of control.

I remember a whole bunch on this day.. April 19th should be a day of awareness, Thanks SP5 Mark Kuzinski