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Ex-Dragoon said:I6 and PBI sorry guys but you're off the bat... you definitely can't liken the naval hierarchy to the way the infantry runs things. Command hierarchies fail sometimes, this time it failed the navy, I am not one for tradition but the Naval Divisional system works. I echo everyone else IMO, that if the CO was not informed then how can he be held accountable.
Because he IS the Commanding Officer; he doesn't get a choice. If the command hierarchy fails then he fails, by definition - it's his damned command hierarchy.
I repeat: if I was the four striper in charge there would be a whole hockey sock full of below par PERs for the officers concerned. The ship was "bad" - who the hell, other than the CO and his officers, should be responsible? We cannot blame senior NCOs - they don't get the glory, they cannot take (all of) the blame. The Navy doesn't get the luxury of lousy leadership just because they have their own system.