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At the end of the day the responsibility rest on the Captain. It is their job to see that those under them are well trained, retrained, and reenforced in that t
by myrandomcomment 5y ago
At the end of the day the responsibility rest on the Captain. It is their job to see that those under them are well trained, retrained, and reenforced in that training as a daily operational objective. Every good CO I have ever met when taking over a new station will review in detail the training and readiness status of their command as job 1, and not just review on paper but execute all the drills and observe the results. This is fundamental and is taught in detail in command school. Their should be a full set of court-martial for this failure at the command level.
- AdrianB1 5y agoAnd becoming a Captain in peace time requires to check some boxes that are not really matching the competence for such a position.
- rwmurrayVT 5y agoPartially correct. In the shipyard the RMC can override the CO in several situations.
- bell-cot 5y agoTrue...but the USN can make it humanly impossible for a Captain to actually do his job. Imagine that you were a WWII submarine captain sent into battle with these lovely torpedoes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo Or made the scapegoat for the USN's wretched incompetence killing most of your crew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)#Court-martial_of_Captain_McVay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)#Court... Or... I've not heard much good about the USN on this front.