2 years after the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions, the Navy has no idea if its new ship-driving training is working
David Roza
November 20, 2019 at 12:29 PM
Two years after a pair of deadly collisions involving Navy ships killed 17 sailors and caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage, the Navy still can't figure out whether its plan to improve ship-driving training has been effective.
In fact, according to senior Navy officials quoted in a recent Government Accountability Office report on Navy ship-driving, it could take nearly 16 years or more to know if the planned changes will actually have an impact.
In the aftermath of the 2017 collisions involving the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain, a Navy investigation revealed that the two incidents resulted from "a lack of adherence to sound navigational practices" and a "sub-standard level of knowledge regarding the operation of the ship control console," respectively.
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