Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy

Re:Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own ... by danso on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:21PM (#19100107)

Good god this story is a gripping read, even at ~18,000 words. I had the pleasure of being colleagues with one of its authors, T., years ago, and was always amazed at how throughly nerdy in detail he was in investigating the document trail, while still being able to so elqouently describe impact and drama at the individual human level. It's not that the two skills are diametrically opposite, it's just that T may have been the best at both, especially when reporting on complex bureaucratic tragedies.

This American Life had a good segment in late 2017 about the Navy accidents here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile...

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Re:Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own ... by Aromasin on Thursday February 07, 2019 @06:40AM (#19104567)

I didn't even acknowledge that the article was 18k words long until reading your comment. You know it's an excellent author when they can make something that dense seem like a brief read.

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