An additional link in the original has this which seems to contradict about not assigning blame....
“”The two top officers of the USS John S. McCain have been fired for a “loss of confidence” following a fatal collision in August.
The Navy said in a statement that the commander and executive officer of the war ship were relieved of their duties for crashing the ship into an oil tanker near Singapore.
The crash killed 10 sailors and injured five others.
The Navy statement said it was “evident the collision was preventable, the commanding officer exercised poor judgment and the executive officer exercised poor leadership of the ship’s training program.
The commander of the Japan-based 7th Fleet was fired shortly after the crash.””
“The Navy statement said it was “evident the collision was preventable, the commanding officer exercised poor judgment and the executive officer exercised poor leadership of the ship’s training program.
The commander of the Japan-based 7th Fleet was fired shortly after the crash.”
Just look at the litany of weasel words! Isn’t this what government (in this case the Military) does in all cases? Paper over a major loss of life accident with a lot of verbal BS. Seventeen young men are dead and this is what you get?
I worry that if we have to go to war with North Korea we may have a problem winning!