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Monday, August 21, 2017

One Navy Disaster After Another



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we were admitted to Annapolis"

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(Fox News)  -  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.

Initial reports indicate the warship sustained damage to its port side aft.

The warship is named after John S. McCain, Sr., and John S. McCain, Jr., both Admirals in the U.S. Navy, and the grandfather and father, respectively, of the Arizona senator.

This crash came days after the top three leaders aboard the USS Fitzgerald were relieved of command. That warship was damaged badly in a collision off the coast of Japan that killed seven sailors in June. One of its compartments flooded in about 90 seconds.

The USS John S. McCain sailed by contested man-made islands in the South China Sea earlier this month, drawing China's "strong dissatisfaction."

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

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

can you compare with those from another Navys ?

riverrider said...

looks like somebody figuredout how to spoof the gps signal.

Anonymous said...

They must hired Jack Sparow , or Barbosa ... they sail without gps , and they succed ...

Anonymous said...

They fired the fleet commander today .
Hope they go hiring Barbossa .He is a more funny caracter that Jonhnny Deep "Sparrow".