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bell-cot
on Oct 31, 2021
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Navy failures destroyed the Bonhomme Richard
True...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
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...
Or...
I've not heard much good about the USN on this front.
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I've not heard much good about the USN on this front.