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China-Japan-Koreas
US Navy crew monitoring North Korea says their ship is a ‘floating prison'
2017-10-12
[NY Post] There is a serious morale problem on one of the US Navy’s missile cruisers charged with keeping North Korea at bay, according to a new report.

Crew aboard the USS Shiloh told an anonymous Navy survey the boat is a "floating prison" and said that they "hate" their job and ship, according to a Navy Times report detailing the shocking responses.

"I just pray we never have to shoot down a missile from North Korea, because then our ineffectiveness will really show," one dejected sailor wrote.

Crew lodged the hair-raising complaints in three surveys conducted between June 2015 and August of this year ‐ when the ship was commanded by Capt. Adam M. Aycock. He was not fired, the Navy Times reported.

Another stationed on the vessel said that depressed and suicidal crewmembers were afraid to report the life-threatening conditions because those who did were prevented from leaving the ship.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Trapped between SKor, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Phils...What? I had a timeout there!
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-12 16:32  

#7  Really? Sounds fake, or they found three millennial sailors to complain. Shut up and go back to work. Some times you have to do your job and miss hanging out in South Korean bars...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2017-10-12 13:28  

#6  USS John S. McCain CO, XO Removed as Part of Fatal Collision Investigation

USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) commander Cmdr. Alfredo J. Sanchez and executive officer Cmdr. Jessie L. Sanchez
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-12 08:29  

#5  has the way the USN chose captains changed recently?
It seems to have employed a mass of ineffective captains.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-10-12 06:58  

#4  gee whiz interview all the malcontents exclusively, and it paints quite a picture!
Posted by: N guard    2017-10-12 06:58  

#3  ...This was also the ship where a crewman was thought to have gone overboard, and instead was found hiding in one of the engineering spaces...for a few days.

Something is well and truly wrong on that ship.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-10-12 04:45  

#2  Article over the top? I'm not so sure.

Check out this 'bread and water' story link.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-12 04:40  

#1  This article seems a little over the top.
Posted by: Raj   2017-10-12 00:07  

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