Time to retire and raise turkeys. It's SOP, sad but true.
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| US sub chief removed over deaths |
| 2007-01-21 |
| The commander of a US submarine has been removed from his post following the deaths of two crew members off the south-west English coast in December. The two sailors were among four who were swept off the submarine, the USS Minneapolis-St Paul, by strong winds. They were working in poor weather on the outside casing of the submarine. Officials said a navy investigation had determined that the incident was avoidable and due in part to a poor decision by the commander, Edwin Ruff. He has now been reassigned to a position on shore, the navy said in a statement. The decision was taken "due to a loss of confidence in Ruff's ability to command", it added. The submarine's executive officer, Peter Young, was reprimanded. A US Navy spokesman said: "The facts of the investigation led the admiral to determine that non-judicial punishment was warranted." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Anonymoose - uh, those are baby chickens. Domestic leghorns, from the looks of them. My mother bought 400 of them once, when I was a kid. We raised over 380 of them to full growth. I never got so tired of chicken in my whole life. Took a decade or more before I could face it again. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-01-21 22:59 |
| #5 Time to retire and raise turkeys. It's SOP, sad but true. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-21 15:48 |
| #4 Is everyone at the Beeb a blithering idiot? In a word, yeah. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-01-21 12:05 |
| #3 #2 P - that was a rhetorical question, right? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-21 11:48 |
| #2 "...the outside casing of the submarine." Is everyone at the Beeb a blithering idiot? |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2007-01-21 10:34 |
| #1 Career over in both cases. May the sailors rest in peace. |
| Posted by: Jonathan Elliott 2007-01-21 01:57 |