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rampartc

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1. i don't doubt that watchkeeping on the crystal was sloppy

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Sat Jan 12, 2019, 08:22 AM

Jan 2019

but the fitz' ood and watch team must have been extremely inattentive as well. that navy "internal investigation" should have had the form of a court martial, and resulted in the end of the captain's and ood's careers.

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Ship owners to pay U.S. government for Fitzgerald collision [View all] nitpicker Jan 2019 OP

i don't doubt that watchkeeping on the crystal was sloppy rampartc Jan 2019 #1

Whoever wrote that article is something of an idiot. JayhawkSD Jan 2019 #2