This is an account of what happened onboard the Crystal. So, lets hope the American is going to reveal their account soon.
US would only release a report after all the necessary investigation is done, unlike what you and other people think, an investigation have to be back up by all facts, it's misleading and sometime counter-productive to release partial statement during an investigation.
It's the same everywhere, in US, Canada, Australia, UK or any civilization in the world, if you ask the police any information during an investigation, they won't release anything and say the investigation is ongoing.
You know what else doesn't make sense? A agile multi-billion Destroyer operated by professionally trainer sailors with state of art radar, detection system, and avoidance system that can detect Crystal size ship hundreds miles away and still, somehow, managed to collide with it.
Again, do you know why the two ship crashed? Cause I don't.
There are MILLIONS of scenario that can resulting in a billions dollar destroyer cannot avoid a oncoming cargo ship, some of them are pure negligence in the US part, like the lookout is asleep or they are partying 1 am??, and the crystal done everything right? some of the reason where both side are at fault (Both failed to notice each other or something), and some of the reason are purely the Crystal is at fault (They are on autopilot, did not post look out, or Crystal is overtaking Fitzgerald from the starboard) . Again, do bear in mind, radar and navigation aid can be turned off, and the ship could have rely on the look out. There are many factors that this can happen.
The problem is, the two things I mentioned is the iron rules of the Maritime Navigation. You turn port to avoid traffic, you stop when you have the crash. I cannot think of anything you can do beside the two action in a collision that would otherwise make sense. There are no other explanation as to why the captain did this if this is his account. You don't ever turn to starboard in a collision course, this is where the other ship is going, you turn starboard mean you will collide with the other ship even if they try to turn away (because they will turn port and you will hit the other ship's stern, and if they turn starboard as well, you will hit their bow.) And since there are no one injured in Crystal, if there were people in the pilot house, then why no one is doing anything immediately on the ship, and they have enough crew to deal with this and they don't actually need to tend to their injured, because there are none.
Nobody is claiming the crew of the USS Fitzgerald didn't make a colossal mistake. It is also very possible that criminal negligence occurred on the part of the Fitzgerald. Considering the seven deaths heads will roll that can be guaranteed.
The objections I have and a few other members is the characterization that this incident means the US Navy is unprofessional and our ships are junk. The fact that you are gloating over the deaths of the sailors is strange and shows your immaturity. You are a disgusting person.
The mere fact the ship survived the collision shows how stout the ship is built. The fact the crew saved the ship also shows some measure of skill by the crew. The fact two men died attempting to rescue mates indicates character.
By your standard the Polish military is also incompetent. I believe your President was killed in an accident along with a bunch of high ranking officials.
The Captain of Fitzgerald is responsible for the ship and crews, as I said in the beginning, the crash is an avoidable act and he has failed his duty of command, he is going to be relieved for sure. People died and he was asleep? Either his order to the OOD is not clear enough to not be able to wake him before this happen (Which is his fault), or the OOD does not do his job he was assigned to (which is to wake him if they are close passing traffic) and that would be the Captain fault as well because it is about training of the OOD.
The problem here is the liability of the incident. It's not the same as to failure to avoid a collision.
Because at sea, if both side follow all the rules, nobody is ever going to crash on each other, meaning if a crash happened, both side is at fault and should be equally blamed for the crash. That's a given. However, as to who cause this crash, that is debatable. For the family of the US sailor, they need to know why the crash happened. Yes, the Captain would very likely to be charged by UCMJ for dereliction of duty, but that's not the answer for their family, they will need to know the full account on the incident.
If they think this is unprofessional, than that's their problem