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2017-02-03 China-Japan-Koreas

USS Antietam guided-missile cruiser runs aground off Japan

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-03 00:18|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Scratch one Captain's career.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2017-02-03 02:18|| 2017-02-03 02:18|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 Scratch one Captain's career.
Posted by: Lone Ranger 2017-02-03 02:18

Sadly, tragically, yes, even though it appears the pilot was giving the orders at the time. I was dockside greeting a friend almost thirty years ago when the carrier Eisenhower was inbound to Norfolk after a six month deployment without so much as a band-aid for the crew...and the pilot ran her into an anchored freighter less than a mile from the pier. The skipper was relieved the instant they tied up.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-02-03 05:10|| 2017-02-03 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 You had one job...

Posted by SteveS 2017-02-03 10:19|| 2017-02-03 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Spruance and Nimitz had similar kinds of experience when they were junior officers...

Posted by JFM 2017-02-03 10:57|| 2017-02-03 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 My comment was not intended to disparage the unfortunate Captain - I was merely commenting on the factual reality of what happens when a warship is run aground.

Mea culpa.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2017-02-03 11:35|| 2017-02-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Scratch one Captain's career.
Unless there there's a war going on with significant losses.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-02-03 11:52|| 2017-02-03 11:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Luckily Rocks & Shoals Article 4, Section 10, no longer applies.

Posted by Shipman 2017-02-03 14:23|| 2017-02-03 14:23|| Front Page Top

#8 She drug anchor in a storm and, sadly, the bottom of Tokyo Bay is all rocks.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-02-03 20:24|| 2017-02-03 20:24|| Front Page Top

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