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Re:Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fa... by arethuza on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:11AM (#18938045)
Presumably they don't run realistic exercises all the time - that sounds like a military equivalent of always being in crunch mode and we all know how well that works out!
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Re:Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fa... by icebraining on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:49AM (#18938188)
Wartime can last years, you can't rely on only being able to withstand that for a couple of weeks or months.

I can't say I have any experience with the military, but from listening to "Life and Work on HMS Enterprise"[1], they are constantly running realistic exercises (in their case, mostly simulating fires and people overboard, since it's a research vessel).

[1] http://omegataupodcast.net/277-life-and-work-on-hms-enterpri...

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