I do not fault the crew. The point of these exercises is to get experience from testing the capacity of equipment and crew in all kinds of cockamamie scenarios. Stuff happens. If anything, full credit should be given for making a survivable ditching that let at least eight survive. Give thanks for that, We are the less if the other three are not found.
Good news that at least most on board survived.
But what’s this about mentioning two collisions between destroyers and cargo ships? What does that have to do with a story about an aircraft crash?
If members of the military only ever died in training, that would be as good as it gets.
Because of concerns that the military is over stretched.
And the 7th Fleet in particular.
I don’t get why there’s a ship named after the president who caused America to collapse into oligarchy careening towards collapse? Wasn’t he one of the very worst and stupidest presidents, up there with Trump and W, in fact settting the precedent for their inane stupid evil? Why name a ship after him? I’d be ashamed to be aboard it and I’m deeply ashamed I haven’t prevented my tax dollars from being wasted on it.
You’d think that the crash of an Osprey aircraft off Australia last August with three fatalities would at least get honorable mention. Another training exercise mishap.
The 7th Fleet has experienced several major accidents this year, and the death of 17 sailors. They resulted in fleet mucky-mucks being relieved. I think all of the collisions were deemed avoidable. This accident is totally unrelated, but for it to happen to the same command on top of everything else is really unfortunate.
Because he expanded the Navy and increased the size of the fleet, so the Navy named a ship after him.