Posted on 09/02/2017 6:21:23 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
On Wednesday, the U.S. Navy's top officer said that post-accident investigations have turned up no evidence of a cyberattack in the collisions involving the USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald.
The two collisions each involved an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and a merchant vessel, and the similarity of the circumstances led many to speculate that the casualties might have been caused by hacking. In an address to Navy staff, chief of naval operations Adm. John S. Richardson moved to dispel these rumors. He said that the accident investigators have given cyber factors "an amazing amount of attention," but so far they have found no evidence of any form of cyber intrusion.
In an initial investigative report on the Fitzgerald casualty, the Navy's Seventh Fleet suggested that the incident was due in large part to human factors. "The collision was avoidable and [the mariners involved] demonstrated poor seamanship. Within Fitzgerald, flawed watch stander teamwork and inadequate leadership contributed to the collision," Seventh Fleet said.
Seventh Fleet held several servicemembers accountable for the incident. Fitzgerald's commanding officer, Cmdr. Bryce Benson, executive officer Cmdr. Sean Babbitt and Master Chief Petty Officer Brice Baldwin have been relieved of their duties. The junior officers on watch the night of the collision were also relieved due to "poor seamanship and flawed teamwork as bridge and combat information center watch standers."
On August 22, just a few days after the McCain collision, Seventh Fleet commander Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin was relieved of duty "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command." He was due to retire in September.
On Wednesday, Adm. Richardson said that to prevent future accidents, the Navy has to fight back against a "do more with less" mentality and must maintain its high standards. "We have to make sure that we're properly resourced, whether that be fuel, whether that be parts, whether that be people," he said. Otherwise, he warned, a decline in readiness "sneaks up on you.”
The Navy faces new scrutiny over training and readiness after the deadly collisions, and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Tx) has scheduled an oversight hearing on the accidents for next week. He called for a thorough internal review, but he also echoed the Navy’s long-running call for more resources. "We ask a lot of our men and women in the Navy. The time they spend at sea is increasing, while their ships age and their funding gets cut. These are just the conditions that can lead to an increase in the kinds of accidents we are witnessing," Thornberry said in a statement. "Congress has a duty to provide our Sailors with the additional resources they so clearly need, and to do so immediately.”
Navy announces independent fleetwide review
On Friday, Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer announced the formation of an independent team to conduct a Strategic Readiness Review in response to the recent series of surface vessel accidents. "These incidents are unacceptable and demand a thorough and comprehensive review, which is why I have formed an independent subject matter expert team to conduct a Strategic Readiness Review,” he said. “As we mourn the loss of our Sailors, we must improve upon the way we operate." The independent review will complement the Navy’s own examination of the factors behind Pacific Fleet’s recent casualties.
Check the comments. Here is one:
“”If the USN would publish the relevant track charts, suitably annotated with times, names, speeds, headings, etc - then the wider maritime community could make a more substantive contribution to resolving these tragic incidents.
The USN has nothing to lose from greater transparency - - unless, unless those track charts show errors of shiphandling and seamanship that are SO egregious that it (USN) dare not publish ... ... then we are in a totally different ball game.””
http://maritime-executive.com/article/navy-finds-no-evidence-of-cyberattacks-in-collisions
Ping
Theyre training as much as ever it’s just that half of the things turned training involve social experiments:
understanding homosexuals or minorities, putting on pregnancy simulators, walking around in high-heeled shoes...all manner of things totally unrelated to making America safe.
as has been noted 100 times, the liberal tendency is to turn the military into a laboratory for sociology ideas and we just got out of doing that to the US military for 8 years.
actually more than that.
The only blessing is that we’re finding this out while we do not yet have a full-scale Navy battle on our hands.
BULL DUNG!
Four Navy ships involved in crashes, and yet no answers as to how or why.
The complaint about readiness appears to be saying the Navy is undermanned. That class of destroyer has a manning roster and it takes X number if people to man it when it goes to sea.
They either had the proper number of people on that ship or they didn’t. If they did, then the overall navy is not the issue when that vessel was at sea.
I have read that the Traffic Separation Scheme at Singapore is one nautical mile wide. It is the purplish colored stripe in this ship tracking video.
http://maritime-executive.com/article/navy-finds-no-evidence-of-cyberattacks-in-collisions
As the Alnic MC enters the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the tanker appears to be about one half mile starboard of the TSS on a steady course towards Singapore.
So how does the USS McCain manage to get itself in front of the Alnic MC and get hit?
because there is a video showing a tanker practicing a ramming drill under exactly that scenario. The McCain was rammed. Period.
Who were these junior officers who screwed up so badly? Are the Navy and/or the press hiding the names for political reasons? Social engineering indeed...
understanding homosexuals or minorities, putting on pregnancy simulators, walking around in high-heeled shoes...all manner of things totally unrelated to making America safe.
I hope you're not equating integrating the military and trying to ease racial tensions with that other stuff.
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I have read that the Traffic Separation Scheme at Singapore is one nautical mile wide. It is the purplish colored stripe in this ship tracking video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlrA36GzHNs
As the Alnic MC enters the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the tanker appears to be about one half mile starboard of the TSS on a steady course towards Singapore traveling at 9.2 knots.
So how does the USS McCain manage to get itself in front of the Alnic MC and get hit?
Do you have a link to it?.
I refuse to believe that it was not intentional the second time.
These idiots will tell us next that 9/11 was just bad piloting.
Megadittoes and amen.
The duty of ANY military force is to be ready, at all times, to make noise, break things that belong to the enemy, and kill these same enemies.
Breaking your own things and killing your own people is highly unproductive. No matter how much noise you make.
If it comes down to money used for seamanship training, or sensitivity training, which get priority?
The families of the dead sailors and the taxpayers deserved competent officer’s of the deck.
It was incompetent deck officers. Period. The social engineering has gotten that bad.
the pictures I saw the ships looked like they were rammed . like some group checking out out vulnerability....
Any trannies on the bridge helping out the captain when the crashes happened? Hmm? Just asking...we won’t be told such things. The code of silence is deafening.
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