Posted on 03/13/2019 8:41:47 AM PDT by robowombat
Looks like a military judge defied the Admiral
What a snakepit
Pathetic what they’ve done to our military.
Woodley is male. The other two were female.
Lt?...She’s way down on the chain of command..................
three relatively senior SWOs are signaling that whatever happened on Fitzgerald, big Navy shouldn’t be passing off responsibility to individual officers because the structural issues are really at fault,” Rob “Butch” Bracknell, a former Marine and military lawyer, told USNI News on Friday.
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Right....it’s the “system”, there’s no individual responsibility.
“Mistakes were made.” But nobody is individually responsible. Must be nice to bein a protected class.
Dukakis’ old Greek proverb—”The fish rots from the head”— pertains here. The old man is responsible and should have taken the fall.
As we used to say in the USMC, “S#!t flows downhill.”..................
I can’t imagine any ship would accept him unless they were forced to, but he’ll never stand another watch on a bridge or in CIC. Perhaps they could put him on the sounding and security watch bill.
<>While I was in the Naval Reserve I often stood radar watch while we were under way. I’d like to know what really happened in this case.
What I do know however, is that the Surface Warfare Coordinator is responsible for the entire surface picture, and should've had crew members tracking the surface radars, and plotting all surface traffic, including the tracking of CPAs, or those targets with a close point of approach. Lt. Woodley should've been in direct communication with the bridge and the OOD during this passage.
What I don't know, is whether or not Woodley identified the ship that eventually hit the Fitzgerald, and whether or not he reported it. It was certainly his responsibility to do so. If he failed to identify and report the ship to the bridge, he was negligent and partly to blame.
I know that a ship collision is hardly the same as the Holocaust, but -- did we learn nothing from Nuremburg??
This is the story of the crash. Ship was under-manned, repeatedly sent out whenthe 7th Fleet knew it was I’ll-equipped for its mission, had equipment failures and sailors not knowing how to run the systems, specifically the radar.
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/
Who is responsible when a ship is ordered to sea with multiple navigation and radar systems reported as malfunctioning for months? Who is responsible when a ship lacks the Chief Petty Officer responsible for crew training for 2 years? Who is responsible when a ship goes to sea shorthanded, forcing the crew (70% of them new) to work longer hours and taking away training time?
What is that from? Operation Petticoat?
Down Periscope
Apparently, the OOD was not talking to any of the officers in the CIC because of a personal tiff that was ongoing.
Check the long article on Pro Publica on he Fitzgerald collision. Quite shocking that points fingers at the ship's officers, the ship's company (for lack of training), the skipper, the COMMSEVENTHFLT, and the Big Navy. It's not your grandfather's Navy.
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