[Gene Eric]

Your other starboard!

[slumber1]

Appropriate metaphor for John McCain

[GunHoardingCapitalist]

Turn hard to Port?

[Thank You Rush]

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?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Was it a left turn?

[Tench_Coxe]

" 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.

[bigbob]

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

[Gamecock]

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

[Thank You Rush]

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.””

[grobdriver]

Hard aLarboard!!

I mean aStarboard!

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

[Pietro]

Appropriate

[Delta 21]

Just like a McCain. Always turning hard left and screwing everything up.

[TheBattman]

In other words - the ship really represents its namesake... Port (Left) turn.... into disaster.

[redangus]

Could the controls have been hacked? How computerized are our naval ships? A change in a GPS setting might cause a sudden turn. Is there any sort of collision or threat avoidance system on board that is computerized?

[JimRed]

Two Questions: Was the turn ordered by the officer of the deck? If so, when did the OOD convert to Islam? If not, when did the helmsman convert to Islam?

[Rappini]

McCain also tried to sink the flat top Enterprise.

[philman_36]

L/STD (FULL)/R (OOD command) - entered into Ship's Log by QM at that time. (any further/following orders to the helm are likewise recorded)
Helmsman (verbal reply) - L/STD/R, Aye sir.(restated so the OOD knows his order has been understood)

The OOD/Helmsman (usually a BM in open water/always QM entering/exiting port back in my day) at the time are the two places where an error can happen.

Hard for me to fathom that the OOD didn't immediately notice the error and order a correction.

[GOPJ]

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.

Ummm, what was the 'series of missteps'? That's what people want to know...

[TXnMA]

USS McCain ping...

[QualityMan]

crazy ivan?

...seems fitting, after all...