Congress, Navy Share Blame For Fatal Collisions At Sea

[rangerrebew]

 Congress, Navy Share Blame For Fatal Collisions At Sea
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on September 08, 2017 at 2:57 PM


CAPITOL HILL: Congress’s repeated budget malpractice and the Navy’s flawed policies combined to cause the accidents that killed 17 sailors, the Navy and the GAO say. Legislative dysfunction means budget cuts, caps, and delays have chronically shortchanged training and maintenance across the fleet, forcing sailors to work 100-plus hours a week to try to catch up. But the Navy also made fundamentally flawed assumptions about its Japan-based ships, overworking them even more at the expense of safety – even as it kept assigning more ships to what it considered an exemplary unit.

http://breakingdefense.com/2017/09/congress-navy-share-blame-for-fatal-collisions-at-sea/?_ga=2.4134391.697284.1504964091-768217262.1504862361

[Right_in_Virginia]

Let's give the mistake it's true name:  Barack Obama.