“””The US Navy currently does not use lookouts anymore. They rely on their electronic systems. This policy has been in place for about 10 years.”””
This is NEW news. In all of the countless FR postings and media reports on the Fitzgerald collision there were many, many, many reports that a person stood watch on the aft and the forward of a destroyer. Are you saying everyone is wrong and that no one is on watch forward and aft?
I have never heard such a thing. Can anyone with more recent Navy experience confirm or deny this?
That sounds like insanity.