Crashed destroyer not once but twice in peace time sorties which are very very basic seamanship require. Clearly show the quality is not there for the manpower.
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/
US admiral sums up very well....
ProPublica
This is the USS John S. McCain being towed after it crashed in the summer of 2017, killing 10 sailors. One sailor had warned superiors: “It’s only a matter of time before a major incident occurs.”
This is the USS Fitzgerald, which crashed nine weeks earlier, killing seven sailors. An officer had told his bosses that his shipmates might die without changes.
YEARS OF WARNINGS, THEN DEATH AND DISASTER
How the Navy failed its sailors.
By Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller
Design by Xaquín G.V.
February 7, 2019
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When Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin was elevated to lead the vaunted 7th Fleet in 2015, he expected it to be the pinnacle of his nearly four-decade Navy career. The fleet was the largest and most powerful in the world, and its role as one of America’s great protectors had new urgency. China was expanding into disputed waters. And Kim Jong-un was testing ballistic missiles in North Korea.
Aucoin was bred on such challenges. As a Navy aviator, he’d led the “Black Aces,” a squadron of F-14 Tomcats that in the late 1990s bombed targets in Kosovo.
But what he found with the 7th Fleet alarmed and angered him.
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The fleet was short of sailors, and those it had were often poorly trained and worked to exhaustion. Its warships were falling apart, and a bruising, ceaseless pace of operations meant there was little chance to get necessary repairs done. The very top of the Navy was consumed with buying new, more sophisticated ships, even as its sailors struggled to master and hold together those they had. The Pentagon, half a world away, was signing off on requests for ships to carry out more and more missions.
The risks were obvious, and Aucoin repeatedly warned his superiors about them. During video conferences, he detailed his fleet’s pressing needs and the hazards of not addressing them. He compiled data showing that the unrelenting demands on his ships and sailors were unsustainable. He pleaded with his bosses to acknowledge the vulnerability of the 7th Fleet.
