Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
How do Navy
ships operate?
Accidents
happen no matter how well you are trained or how careful you are. That’s why it’s
accident, not incident. So then, it’s the matter of how well you manage the
damage and situation caused by an unpredicted occurrence. That is when how well
you are trained matters.
On June 17th,
a US Aegis destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, was hit by a container ship off the
coast of Japan and suffered substantial damage and casualties. How did such a
collision occur? Since an Aegis destroyer is well equipped with state-of-art
radar, detection and navigation systems, the Fitzgerald must have known what
was coming to her course. And of course, she must have had watch team on duty
at all time.
Enjoy reading
and learning how an US warship is operated in the sea.
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