This is not a good Year for the U.S. Navy!

Kyle

ULTRA-F###ING-MAGA!
PREMO Member
A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan's Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash.
The Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold during a towing exercise. The U.S. guided-missile destroyer sustained minimal damage, and there were no reported injuries on either vessel, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-warship-collides-japanese-tug-boat-latest-mishap/story?id=51242298
 

b23hqb

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
Not every bump and scrape is newsworthy or a sign of decline of the navy.

That's true. Being in an ACU-1 landing craft unit in the reserves, we incurred plenty of "acceptable damage" entering and departing the wet wells of amphibious ships.
 

terbear1225

Well-Known Member
The only reason this is news is because its #5. If the other incidences hadnt occured, we would never have heard about this one.
 

awpitt

Main Streeter
A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan's Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash.
The Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold during a towing exercise. The U.S. guided-missile destroyer sustained minimal damage, and there were no reported injuries on either vessel, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-warship-collides-japanese-tug-boat-latest-mishap/story?id=51242298

How is this the U.S. Navy's fault?
 

black dog

Free America
Apparently most of the locals thought it was funny.

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