Navy's Top Admiral Opens New Command with Hopes It Will Combat String of Safety Issues
Weston A. Mohr
4 Feb 2022
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
The Navy's top military boss, Adm. Michael Gilday, voiced concern Friday about the gap between the safety records of the service's commands, expressing confidence that an improved safety center he traveled to Norfolk, Virginia, to christen could help prevent issues like the service's recent string of high-profile mishaps.
"There's too much of a variance across the Navy between those commands that do exceptionally well and those commands that struggle and then make big mistakes, whether it be a collision, whether it be a fire, whether it be a fuel spill," the chief of naval operations said during a press conference with reporters at Naval Station Norfolk.
In less than two years, the service has seen several major accidents, both afloat and ashore. Along with the fire that ravaged the billion-dollar USS Bonhomme Richard in July 2020, forcing the service to scrap the ship, the Navy has also had to deal with two significant fuel spills at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that drove more than a thousand families out of their homes over the holidays when their drinking water was contaminated.
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