Frigate runs aground

[Flying Low]

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20...rigate-Taylor-runs-aground-Turkey-no-injuries

 

[ssnspoon]

Another example of the cost v benefit of deploying on these...possibly less flying, but more liberty! My first deployment had the rudder fall off in the med and we had a month in Rota over Christmas in the middle of cruise!

 

[Flying Low]

Less flight hours is almost the norm these days. I know those guys were not getting much.

 

[CAMike]

Yawn.

This boat is extremely long in the tooth for several reasons. My question would be "So what"? Some aircraft in the fleet are nearly as expensive to keep running.

 

[ssnspoon]

well, in their defense (shoes, I mean...and this is not REALLY meant as a defense) when aircraft run aground, the results are often fairly extensive too.

 

[navyavi469]

Ball Ball Ball

 

[Renegade One]

I know…I know…

"Every chart provided is perfect…and perfectly accurate…even if no one has actually surveyed the strait/channel/harbor for a decade". Yeah. Works for me. Trust and confidence are at the core of what we do.

"Every time you scrape the paint…there may be dozens of mitigating factors…but every one of them was squarely within the Commanding Officer's swim lane to ORM or otherwise control". Yeah. Except the whole channel survey thingie...

"The CO is ALWAYS accountable." Yeah, apparently so. That truth will never change.

It's just a too-easy way out… but I roger up to the fact that there's probably more to the story.