USS Fitzgerald Collision (and another: USS McCain)

**ABNAK** · 08-19-17, 11:06

Originally Posted by T2C

It's definitely not over yet. Investigators and upper command are looking closely at the whole watch section on duty at the time of the incident.

Could someone on watch on the opposite side of the ship be held accountable?

**docsherm** · 08-20-17, 19:45

USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship in Pacific.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain was involved in a collision with a merchant vessel east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, the 7th Fleet announced in a tweet.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08...n-pacific.html

**FromMyColdDeadHand** · 08-20-17, 20:30

Originally Posted by docsherm

USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship in Pacific.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain was involved in a collision with a merchant vessel east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, the 7th Fleet announced in a tweet.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08...n-pacific.html

Aegis radar? They need my cars blind spot warning light.

**docsherm** · 08-20-17, 21:31

This has to be a command issue. I guess the last few years have been ruff on command selections.

**docsherm** · 08-20-17, 22:35

10 missing and 5 injured.

08/20/10-missing-5-injured-after-uss-john-s-mccain-collides-with-tanker-in-pacific.html

**yellowfin** · 08-20-17, 23:15

Originally Posted by docsherm

This has to be a command issue. I guess the last few years have been ruff on command selections.

We had someone in office for 8 years who deliberately wanted us less able as a worldwide force, so that would be a possible result.

**elephant** · 08-21-17, 00:35

i know a lot is asked of our sailors, so I expect mistakes to happen, this would be the second time this year that a guided missile ship collided with another ship, both happen to be commercial merchant ships and both incidents occurred in busy shipping lanes near ports, but the third one (which hasn't happened yet) will make me wonder.

**FromMyColdDeadHand** · 08-21-17, 00:47

This marked the fourth mishap for U.S. Navy ships in the Pacific since February.

Aside from the USS McCain and USS Fitgerald incidents, the Navy crusier USS Antietam ran aground dumping over 1,000 gallons of oil in Tokyo Bay in Februray. In May, another cruiser, USS Lake Champlain, hit a South Korean fishing vessel.

Didn't hear about the fishing boat.