Posted on Aug 17, 2017
“Water on deck!” “Get out!” — The Navy's official report of the Fitzgerald's catastrophe at sea
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A LOT of personal details here that have not been released before, so far as I know. Lots of personal accounts. Pretty harrowing. And just look at that berthing, and imagine trying to escape it, rousted from sleep by the collision, in the pitch black, and water filling the joint within 90 seconds. I can't even...
“Water on deck!” “Get out!” — The Navy's official report of the Fitzgerald's catastrophe at sea
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As a DCA and CHENG on that class of ship, all I can say is wow... brave sailors doing the jobs they were trained to do in conditions they never thought that they would ever been in... I will say that the DC training changed after COLE, and it sounds like they really needed it here (going all the way back to message blanks).
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Thanks for posting this brother I can't imagine what our shipmates went through.
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I read the report tonight as well. Wow. I hope that those that were commended anonymously in the report are commended in real life. There were some selfless acts in here. Again, damage control proves to be a key factor in vessel casualties, like the Samuel B. Roberts.
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