USS Fitzgarald: The Immorality of the Navy With This Line

Would you even want to be in that Navy if they would leave you behind a flooding hatch unless they have 500% you were dead.  Somebody was saying another sailor rescued 20 sailors in those flooding compartment. Does it even matter if they were dead or alive, if you didn't have 100% proof everyone was dead.  

 

New details emerge in USS Fitzgerald collision investigation

By CNN Published: June 26, 2017, 9:09 pm

(CNN) — Five of the seven Navy sailors who died aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of Japan may have been almost instantly “incapacitated” and died quickly, according to a preliminary Navy analysis, a defense official told CNN.

That assessment is based on an examination of the point of impact and the berths in which the sailors were likely sleeping.

The two ships collided on the Fitzgerald’s starboard side directly next to the berthing area, where sailors sleep. The impact ripped the Fitzgerald open and caused water to pour in.

The official also noted the Navy is trying to corroborate accounts which suggest that the two sailors who weren’t almost instantly “incapacitated” attempted to help the other five escape the incoming water.

“But at some point the ship somehow lost communication,” with the two sailors and they also perished, according to the official. All seven were found dead in the flooded area…