Oh, well, what's a destroyer or two?
...During the early weeks after the USS Fitzgerald was speared by a
lumbering Philippine container ship, it was noteworthy that the captain
and a couple of admirals were publically named, but not the actual
officer in charge, the officer of the deck. (OOD) The other person who
should have kept the Fitz out of trouble is the person in charge of the
combat information center, the Tactical Action Officer. That individual
is supposed to be monitoring the combat radar, which can detect a
swimmer at a distance of two miles.
Not until a year later, when the final reports are made public and the
guilty parties have been court-martialed, does the truth come out. The
OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie,
and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! The Tactical Action Officer
would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there
is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!...quoted at The Other McCain
In this area a reporter-ette spent some time aboard a carrier; one of the officers on that carrier was a woman from Wisconsin. Maybe she'll be replacing one of the two idiots above, eh?
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