unfriggin believable...
Posted on 05/08/2018 6:46:25 PM PDT by chajin
WASHINGTON — The junior lieutenant in charge of navigating the USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a commercial vessel pleaded guilty Tuesday to dereliction of duty and acknowledged her role in the deaths of seven sailors last year.
Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock cried during her court-martial at the Washington Navy Yard. She was sentenced to forfeit half of her pay for three months – an additional month on top of the two she forfeited as her nonjudicial punishment. She also received a letter of reprimand.
“Not a day goes by where I haven’t thought about what I could have done differently,” she said. “There is nothing I can do now but take responsibility.”
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
No Discharge?
Two thoughts:
1. She had no business being the OOD to begin with, thanks to affirmative action, and
2. I will give her credit for taking responsibility and not blaming others. That is the one thing she did right.
yes once a month or so thats why she is still there
No excuse for what happened.
Damn you Instagram!
She isn’t a “junior lieutenant”, she’s a “Lieutenant Junior Grade”. And the speculation as to why the Navy was so reticent about identifying the OOD is now over.
Never having run afoul of the UCMJ I don't know much about it but I thought that once you were punished for an infraction under Article 15 you couldn't be prosecuted/punished in any other way.
There was the problem right there.
unfriggin believable...
The navy is in such terrible shape because they are trying to integrate queers and women into a war machine. Won’t happen. Can’t happen. Never has and never will. The republicrat head of the armed services committee takes over a million dollars a year from defense contractors and screened employees, We are in huge trouble.
A ‘reprimand’
and a few month’s pay
PUKE
How many O-4s and how many O-5s were assigned to that ship? 10 or more total? (How many of them were on the bridge?) Yet, it is Navy procedure to have an O-2 OD. I was never in the Navy (but was in the Army) and although I am all for young officers being given responsibility, this sounds really stupid to me.
This young LTjg should write one hell of an “After Action Report” for the benefit of all -—— “Lessons Learned” is a great tool to prevent this kind of FU’s in the future.
This article is very confusing as it describes a court martial and also calls it non judicial punishment. It cannot be both. Poorly written to say the least.
Having only reached the lofty rank of SP5 I don't know much about officers but I've heard it said that when an officer receives a letter of reprimand his/her military career is over.
Political correctness costs lives
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