[AnotherUnixGeek]

should he really be there?

From the article:

"“There was actually a lot of functions on there that I had no clue what on earth they did,” Bordeaux said of the system."

I'd say the answer would be "no". Incredible that they'd let people who did not know the navigation system inside and out use it to steer an 8300 ton destroyer. And of course the taxpayers get the bill for this idiocy.