Destroyer gets run over

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The USS Fitzgerald, an Arleigh Burke class guided missle destroyer, collided with a container ship off of Japan. Given the radar on that sort of ship, it is beyond me to understand how this could have happened. My guess is that the Naval Board of Inquiry won't understand how either, and that the Captain's career is in ruins. Four sailors medevaced, including the CO,and seven are missing.

How in seventeen hells does something as big as a container ship get close enough to run over you without anyone noticing?

US Navy destroyer collision: 7 sailors missing - CNNPolitics.com

 

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Connecticut NBC station won't air Megyn Kelly interview with Alex Jones

Good for them. **** Alex Jones.

 

[dixiehack]

You just flipping channels and commenting on whatever's on grandpa? ;)

 

[cyclingwriter2]

They must have been playing chicken

 

[Batman]

The Japanese ship had its blinker on for 20 miles, and by the time the Fitzgerald's captain realized it wasn't going to turn it was too late.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The Wreck Of The Fitzgerald.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This will be the spin on this.

"Blah blah military is a disaster blah
Blah such a disaster we have antiquated navigation systems blah blah we use a globe and a compass blah blah Eighty trillion in additional funding requested."

 

[SpeedTchr]

Thanks, Trump!

 

[UPChip]

The USS Fitzgerald, an Arleigh Burke class guided missle destroyer, collided with a container ship off of Japan. Given the radar on that sort of ship, it is beyond me to understand how this could have happened. My guess is that the Naval Board of Inquiry won't understand how either, and that the Captain's career is in ruins. Four sailors medevaced, including the CO,and seven are missing.

How in seventeen hells does something as big as a container ship get close enough to run over you without anyone noticing?

US Navy destroyer collision: 7 sailors missing - CNNPolitics.com

Yeah, I thought that hitting just about anything costs you your command.

 

[DanOregon]

Tough week for the Navy between the "missing" crewman and this. I'm sure the Sec. of the Navy is getting an earful. Oh, that's right he still hasn't been confirmed by the Senate.

 

[Tarheel316]

Yeah, I thought that hitting just about anything costs you your command.

You are correct.

 

[BTExpress]

Given the radar on that sort of ship, it is beyond me to understand how this could have happened.

Yawn. Russians hacked radar. Yawn.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Tough week for the Navy between the "missing" crewman and this. I'm sure the Sec. of the Navy is getting an earful. Oh, that's right he still hasn't been confirmed by the Senate.

Has one been nominated to replace the guy who withdrew?

 

[typefitter]

I thought this was about the KISS record.

 

[Neutral Corner]

You just flipping channels and commenting on whatever's on grandpa? ;)

Yeah, pretty much. I surfaced from what I'd been doing around the house, checked my various news feeds, and stuck Megyn in this thread carelessly. Ten o'clock is really late when you're old like me.

Now get off my lawn.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I thought this was about the KISS record.

I was thinking more the Kinks.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I don't understand how two ships - loaded with radar - can hit each other like that.

 

[ChrisLong]

I haven't asked my brother, a naval veteran, about this yet. But I do remember him telling me about a time back in the '70s when the nuclear submarine he was on hit a cement barge that was full of monitoring equipment and was actually monitoring this particular submarine at the time. I guess it is as simple as: **** Happens.

 

[Starman]

Has one been nominated to replace the guy who withdrew?

Yeah another incompetent unqualified corporate hack. At one point in his life he may even have been on a boat.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The Wreck Of The Fitzgerald.

C'mon. Anyone?