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2014-11-20 Arabia

Two US Navy Vessels Collide in the Gulf of Aden

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Posted by Steve White 2014-11-20 08:53|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Two new commanding officers and two new deck cleaners.

Posted by JFM 2014-11-20 11:02|| 2014-11-20 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a suction between vessels crusing closely, you gotta watch out, or the ships will suck together.

(Very ex- Navy)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-11-20 11:21|| 2014-11-20 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Every ship can be a minesweeper ...... once.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-11-20 11:39|| 2014-11-20 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, it happened to Nimitz.

Although he didn't hit another boat.

Posted by charger 2014-11-20 12:13|| 2014-11-20 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Playing Marco Polo with expensive ships is never a good idea.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-11-20 13:49|| 2014-11-20 13:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess Amelia and Walter were, just a bit too much, attracted to each other.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-20 13:54|| 2014-11-20 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Replenshing operations mean some pretty close ships. I'm not sure this would justify replacing the command, although I suspect promotions might be over for the commanders.

Of course I was never in the Navy, I just read a lot about them.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-20 15:01|| 2014-11-20 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 So it appears that Walter Diehl Never did find out where Amelia ended up......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-11-20 17:51|| 2014-11-20 17:51|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect promotions might be over for the commanders

USNS = Military Sealift Command ship Civilian crews, with a small military detachment. Captained by a civilian (Master.)

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-20 20:07|| 2014-11-20 20:07|| Front Page Top

#10 #6 I guess Amelia and Walter were, just a bit too much, attracted to each other.

Whatever happened to Don't Ask, Don't Tell?

All snark aside, this is just another example of how doing mil stuff is like running with scissors - explosive fragmentation scissors. In civilian life, a screw-up means you have to fish a fork out of the garbage disposal or reboot the server because your code skipped checking for an error condition. Maybe expensive, but seldom fatal. Nobody was hurt here, but often times a mil screw-up means people die. Just something to think about. Hey, anyone up for a night carrier landing?

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-20 21:15|| 2014-11-20 21:15|| Front Page Top

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