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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
Those seven dead are the fault of the failed Navy leadership.
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Concur, sir. IMHO, good leadership can fail and sometimes bad leaders can appear heroic. There's never an excuse for failure when the lives of your crew depend on you. When you fail, you have to own it. The good leader owns it and the shitty leader blames everything and everyone else. We'll learn more when the JAG is done. They'll look at tracks of both ships, weather, visibility, the deck and CIC logs, the night orders written by the CO, the training records, qualifications and performance records of the watch standers, witness testimonies, and every scrap of similar information they can get from the merchant, and more. They'll know what happened, but whether they ever find out why is another matter. But, knowing what or even why won't change the fact that seven sailors died, and that the CO is ultimately responsible. Like you said, TS, "failed Navy leadership".