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My first CO believed that submarines should be stealthy all the time. He didn't put out the radar ball (a retro-reflector to account for the low observability
by brandmeyer 5y ago
My first CO believed that submarines should be stealthy all the time. He didn't put out the radar ball (a retro-reflector to account for the low observability of the sail relative to a submarine's size) or turn on any of the running lights.
We operated that way even when steaming on the surface in the shipping lanes shared with the Port of New York.
So it isn't always a matter of "actually knowing how to pilot a boat". Sometimes its just plain recklessness.
- remarkEon 5y agoMy Battalion Commander in Afghanistan made us run livefire training ranges for the ANA in an area that had multiple recent IED strikes and had clear overwatch from the ridgeline from miles away, as a way to basically brag to the TF commander that he was "getting the ANA out into the shit" - despite the fact that these people were just utterly and completely incompetent. Just a total psychopath, so in some ways it makes me feel better (worse?) that those personalities are not unique to the US Army.