3 years after the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions, the Navy’s surface warfare community shows few signs of change
Thibaut Delloue
Aug 20, 2020 5:00 AM EDT
The day after the USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Singapore Strait in August of 2017, I began a course at the Navy’s Surface Warfare Officers School, a training hub for naval officers in Newport, Rhode Island. The school’s commanding officer, then-Capt. Scott Robertson, gathered all students and staff into the auditorium to address the elephant in the room: just two months after the USS Fitzgerald collision claimed the lives of seven sailors, ten more from the McCain were dead in a similar tragedy.
“Something is not right in our community,†the captain told us, “something needs to change. We need to shift the rudder.â€
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