Re: Two US submariners die


"Andrew Chaplin" <ab.chaplin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...

"Brian Sharrock" <b.sharrock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...

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It's still hard to ascertain what happened.

Somewhere between "somewhat" and "very"......

Whatever the case, it's terrible news for their families and shipmates.
R.I.P., poor blighters.
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Commendable sentiment.

I would not be at all surprised to see an official investigation and a
resultant Court Martial. The issue at question may well be that status of
the boat's sortie. Was she departing as part of some emergency or emergency
drill or as a routine scheduled departure?
If it was a routine sortie , the CO's may end up "before the bar" across
the green felt from an official accusation that he unnecessarily and
unwarrantedly placed the men out on the casing at hazard.

TMO


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