Navy chief halts Pacific fleet operations, orders review after collisions

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 08/21/17 11:41 AM EDT

The Navy will launch a review of recent accidents following the collision of the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker in the Pacific Ocean, the second U.S. warship to be involved in such an incident this summer.

Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, will call for a temporary halt in operations for the Pacific-based 7th Fleet, the forces that operate around Japan.

“He has put together a broader inquiry to look into these incidents and to determine any of the causal factors to determine what’s going on,” Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters while traveling in Amman, Jordan.

Richardson will announce the review in a video message on Monday, calling for an “operational pause” to take “a deeper look into how we train and certify forces operating in and around Japan,” the Washington Examiner reported.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/347347-navy-chief-halts-pacific-fleet-operations-orders-review-after-collisions

[IronLionZion]

1. Sounds like the right decision

they need to investigate what's happening and how to prevent collisions in these crowded shipping channels.

In the meantime, I hope our commander in chief doesn't do anything supremely stupid to require military action in the pacific theater at this time, like with North Korea.

[atreides1]

6. Yes it is the right decision

It could be something as simple as fatigue or as bad as lapses in training!

[pwb]

15. Trump is only commander and chief of the military.

Not the civilian population. He is president to you. The cable news call him that but they don't know any better or deliberately try to pump trump up. Sorry. This was meant for a post above you. Peace

[IronLionZion]

16. Peace!

[dalton99a]

2. Kick.

[radical noodle]

3. Thanks, trump!

He's the president... he should have stopped this.

Remember Benghazi.

[Achilleaze]

4. More eclipse FAIL for the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

freaking republican Chickenhawk liar & cheat as "Commander" for our sailors and soldiers? Deplorable

[LiberalArkie]

5. I think they need to figure out why the alarm on their radar is not working.

[politicat]

7. There was a report in June about faulty GPS readings.

The white hat hack community published a vulnerability to certain GPS software a couple years ago that showed a proof of concept for GPS spoofing. White hats don't usually open publish before telling the relevant body, unless the relevant body seems to be ignoring the problem.

Whit hats have been worried about GPS spoofing for literally years.

[CentralMass]

8. There was a James Bond movie based on that premise a few years back.

[politicat]

9. For all that Bond films are mostly cotton candy...

The tech in the modern version has tended to be in the realm of possibility. Not always.

[CentralMass]

11. Undwrstood. However it seems like a plausible concept.

[Yonnie3]

10. The things that come to me are:

Morale
Teamwork (communication)
Adequate rest
Training and technical fitness
Maintenance and repair
Command (responsible for all the above)

In both the collisions the Navy has mentioned the well done efforts of the crew in damage control. Yet, other members of the crew appear to have not made satisfactory actions to avoid the collision.

What comes to mind, are the studies of airplane crashes that showed the air crew was not communicating strongly to the pilots. They made suggestions to the pilot instead of contradicting him. If the crew and officer communication is unidirectional in operational situations, rapid reactions to threats may not be happening. The shipboard culture may be part of the problem.

I have no information to lead me to believe that the culture or morale is the reason or even part of the reason for these collisions. I'm just suspicious. Didn't all the services feel it necessary to clarify tweets etc. from 45 recently?

[Puppyjive]

12. They have lost their situational awareness

They were watching Fox News.

[BigDemVoter]

13. And How MUCH fucking $$ do we spend on our military?

And they can't keep from colliding with other ships in PEACETIME. . . . . WTF?

[Turbineguy]

14. Is the Navy still infected with

Amway?