News Corp Australia Network
Jamie Seidel, AFP, AP
Oct. 12, 2017
THE US Navy in the Pacific has a problem.
Not only has it lost two of its most advanced air defence destroyers to avoidable collisions at a time of intense regional tensions, there are reports its crews are on the brink of exhaustion — and revolt.
The Navy Times has revealed a catastrophic collapse of morale aboard the key guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh — one of only a handful of ships capable of engaging North Korea’s ballistic missiles.
“If we went to war I felt like we would have been killed easily and there are (people) on board who wanted it to happen so we could just get it over with,” one sailor wrote.
“It’s only a matter of time before something horrible happens,” another predicts in an anonymous survey of the Japan-based USS Shiloh’s mission preparedness.
But these are just a few words among a flurry of expressions of discontent:
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