U.S. Navy boots captain after fire on carrier

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

The U.S. Navy fired the captain and executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington on Wednesday because of a massive fire that damaged the ship in May, Navy officials said.

Capt. David C. Dykhoff and his executive officer, Capt. David M. Dober, were relieved of duty while the ship is in port in San Diego, California, for repairs.

The two were fired because of practices on their ship that Navy investigators believe led to the fire, Navy officials said.

The Navy officials said investigators believe the fire was started when a cigarette ignited material stored in an engineering room.

Investigators found flammable liquids stored in an engineering area of the ship, which is strictly prohibited. Investigators also found that sailors were allowed to smoke in the same engineering areas, considered another violation.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/30/navy.captain.fired/index.html

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70 million in damage to ths ship - yep they deserved to get booted.

[Kutjara]

1. Typcal! Nobody gives the poor captain credit...

...for the $4.4 billion worth of ship he didn't destroy. Tsk, tsk!


:evilgrin:

[Blue_Tires]

10. lol at that!

[ohio2007]

2. "The smoking lamp is out" nt

[cobalt1999]

3. Wow, holding the person in charge responsible.

What a novel concept. Maybe we ought to try that with our government.

[gratuitous]

5. Puzzling, isn't it?

Why didn't the officers just say the erring smoker was a bad apple? But maybe it doesn't apply in this situation. After all, there was property damage to a ship, not a bunch of people tortured to death. And big boats cost money!

[Thothmes]

12. When a warship incurs $70 million

worth of damage, traditionally the Captain is done for.

[UTUSN]

4. Oh. Thought this was about McNASTY on the USS Forrestal. But he wasn't a captain n/t

[Ilsa]

6. Naw. That'll continue to be covered up unless the

Bushes pull together some video to show what an asshole he was/is so they can get Mittens at the top of the ticket.

[RamboLiberal]

7. For the umpteenth time - nail McCain on his politcal record

he wasn't responsible for the Forrestal fire.

[hedgehog]

9. Agreed - it really goes back to those who pushed the bombing

campaign against North Vietnam. Safety measures were trimmed to launch the aircraft quickly for the raids and out-of-date, very volatile munitions were brought aboard the ship because the Navy didn't have anything else to use.

[Thothmes]

11. That would be President Lyndon Baines Johnson

[UTUSN]

13. You might as well just put me on Ignore. You post yours, I'll post mine, K?!1 n/t

[jbane]

8. Ouch!

I've seen the video, it defines cluster-fuck.

[onager]

14. And the Captain is now commanding an LMD...

Large Metal Desk. Sorry, old Marine Corps humor.

But really, what did they expect from a guy named Dickoff?

Sorry again, just couldn't help myself...