[Nickshu]

I've been following the story but there is very little to no information about what actually happened. Hopefully more will be out soon. Everything so far is about the tragic loss of the sailors.

During my 10 years in the Navy I was indirectly party to the aftermath of one ship to ship collision and one other near miss collision on a ship I was stationed on. Watching the following investigations I can say the culture is "heads will roll" regardless whether it was completely the fault of the OOD or the CO or not. Their careers are both over even if they were only partially at fault. The Navy looks to make examples of such situations for the other COs in the fleet.

In reference to the above a DDG can start turn and stop more or less on a dime so if the ship made a 180 in front of them (most likely slowly due to size) its hard to believe the DDG could not have avoided collision.

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