Posted on 11/18/2017 10:54:56 AM PST by OwenKellogg
A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan's Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash. The Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold during a towing exercise. The U.S. guided-missile destroyer sustained minimal damage, and there were no reported injuries on either vessel, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet. The USS Benfold, which is awaiting a full damage assessment, remains at sea under its own power. The incident will be investigated, the 7th Fleet said.
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Ummm, could be that the Japanese tug boat collided with US warship.
This sounds fairly trivial... thank God.
Navy needs a complete makeover from top to bottom.
Disappointing.
Navy needs to get rid of the curse it has.
Just d-mn
ABC is playing this up to discredit our NAVY.
The tugboat lost power during a towing exercise.
That might be the case. Another headline calls it a scrape...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/18/japanese-tug-boat-scrapes-us-navy-ship-during-exercise.html
Misleading headline. The tug boat collided with the warship.
The tug lost propulsion in a docking exercise. Not an open navigation issue at all.
“The tugboat lost power during a towing exercise”.
That’s right. Some people here need to read the story before they start wetting their pants.
Misleading headline — the Japanese tug lost power and ran into the U.S. warship, not the other way around. In such a scenario, the vessel under power is burdened, however, given the towing exercise underway, there may not have been enough time or the ability to react.
That said, there is a problem with manpower, training, and personnel & material readiness in the Navy, as well as the other Services. Thanks Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.
You must not have read the story. The headline is misleading.
Imagine this headline.
US Navy blasts Japanese Tug Boat out of water to avoid collision.
Doesn’t sound like such a big deal...unless the Navy vessel was smaller than the Japanese tug boat.
Wait. I want to add to my headline to make it sound more MSM like.
US Navy blasts Helpless Japanese Tug Boat out of water to avoid collision.
I think I should go down to the Navy office and tell them they need to hire me to stand on the forward deck of one of those expensive ships with a walkie talkie.
In a hurry. It would not require training.
Young Men, women, gays and transsexuals with raging hormones trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean, what could go wrong?
I saw that headline first. That’s why I called ABC for sensationalizing it against the NAVY.
Our media is so disgusting.
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