Burning of the Bonnie Dick
priorities
15-months later, we have a lot more information from the burning of the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) ... and none of it is going to make you feel better.
I am of the "responsibility of command" school, but if you don't feel and smell a larger story here, you aren't paying attention.
More, along with links to the Command Investigation, are over at USNBlog.
Such an avoidable loss. At the very least, the was no loss of life, unlike another avoidable incident on an amphib: https://timothycummings.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/35/
If the Navy can find fault and punish so many for this terrible fire, when is JCS going to assign fault for the debacle in Afghanistan?