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 shard972 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:19AM (#19104736)

> Not sure about the firing squad... people make mistakes, I can certainly see how she was focused on trying to avoid a collision and forgot to sound the alarm. There must have been at least 5 other people on the bridge who could have done it as well.

But she was the CO no? Maybe im wrong but isn't it the CO's job to lead? Not just expect the grunts to step and be a leader?

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Re:Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own ... by jessaustin on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:52AM (#19115317)

Technically the CO was in bed at the time of the collision. OOD "had the conn" and certainly should not have wrecked the vessel. Still, we could imagine extenuating circumstances that would excuse an OOD's failure. No one ever imagined the CO's career would survive a collision like this.

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