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USS John McCain’s ‘sudden turn’ led to deadly collision that killed 10 sailors
Reuters via NY Post ^ | 03/08/2018 | Reuters

Posted on 03/08/2018 7:26:42 AM PST by DFG

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1 posted on 03/08/2018 7:26:42 AM PST by DFG
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Your other starboard!


2 posted on 03/08/2018 7:29:03 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DFG

Appropriate metaphor for John McCain


3 posted on 03/08/2018 7:29:19 AM PST by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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To: DFG

Turn hard to Port?


4 posted on 03/08/2018 7:30:13 AM PST by GunHoardingCapitalist (The dumber society becomes, the wiser i am in their eyes.)
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To: DFG

Thought I’d see posts about other wrong turns made by the other McCain....Pile on....

A shame that there had to be loss of life for whatever reason the Captain wasn’t up to the job. It was part of obozo’s program to weed out the good ones and promote the slackers, wasn’t it?


5 posted on 03/08/2018 7:31:27 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: DFG

Was it a left turn?


6 posted on 03/08/2018 7:31:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: DFG
" happened because of a sudden turn to Port by JSM, which caused it to head into the path of AM"
The irony here is too much, lol.
7 posted on 03/08/2018 7:33:08 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: DFG

The name McCain is synonymous with the destruction of military property.


8 posted on 03/08/2018 7:33:10 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: DFG

Did the name of anyone on the bridge rhyme with Mohammed?


9 posted on 03/08/2018 7:33:30 AM PST by Gamecock (The greatest threat to humanity is not "out there" but "in here" in the recesses of the soul. TK)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Your left or my left?


10 posted on 03/08/2018 7:33:39 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Gene Eric

A well trained, alert “old fashioned” Mark 1-Mode A eyeball may well have been able to avert the collision.
And standard issue is TWO eyeballs per lookout, or at least it used to be in the “OLDE NAVY”.


11 posted on 03/08/2018 7:34:31 AM PST by CaptainAmiigaf (.)
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Incredible.....won’t assign blame or determine liability and will restore basic naval skills??? I would say the time to do that is long before the ship leaves port.

“”The sudden turn was due to “a series of missteps” that took place at the control of the John S. McCain that unintentionally increased the rate of the vessel’s turn, the report by the Transport Safety Investigation Bureau said.

The agency is the air and marine accident investigative arm of the Singapore government. It said its report “should not be used to assign blame or determine liability.”

The US Navy subsequently announced a series of systemic reforms aimed at restoring basic naval skills and alertness at sea after a review of deadly ship collisions in the Asia-Pacific showed sailors were undertrained and overworked.””


12 posted on 03/08/2018 7:36:56 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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Hard aLarboard!!

I mean aStarboard!

Good thing they fixed that a couple of hundred years ago...

13 posted on 03/08/2018 7:38:41 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: DFG

Appropriate


14 posted on 03/08/2018 7:39:47 AM PST by Pietro
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To: Thank You Rush

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.””


15 posted on 03/08/2018 7:41:23 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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“”The name McCain is synonymous with the destruction of military property.””

True but it was all shrugged off, wasn’t it? Unreal!


16 posted on 03/08/2018 7:42:40 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Was it a left turn?

I am answering in case your question was a serious one, and for the folks who don't know what "port" and "starboard" mean.

PORT has 4 letters. "LEFT" has 4 letters. Port = Left

Starboard isn't 4 letters, so it must be right.

Hey, I had lots of time at the wheel while helping Dad doing charterboat fishing, Dad had to teach me something!

17 posted on 03/08/2018 7:43:27 AM PST by blu (Save us the time of explaining the links...read the article...unless you're Lazamatz.)
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To: blu

Port wine is red.


18 posted on 03/08/2018 7:45:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: blu

I know what port and starboard are. I thought a reference to “left turn” in the context of John McCain was an obvious political joke, but I guess I was wrong.

Thanks for the nautisplaining anyway.


19 posted on 03/08/2018 7:46:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

So very true. As a former QM Naviagator in the USCG I have seen my share of bad OOD officers and have had to question their decision more than once. I even called the captains cabin a few times to have him “wonder” up to the bridge. Visual navigation is being lost to electronic charts, no one walks to the bridge wing anymore and looks around. This action is inexcusable.


20 posted on 03/08/2018 7:48:43 AM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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