Yesterday, during a condition of calm sea and high visibility, a Naval vessel, the guided-missile destroyer USS John McCain, was rammed broadside by a merchant vessel oil tanker, damaging the US Military vessel to the point of massive flooding of a hull and berthing area where soldiers were sleeping. As of this report, 10 sailors are missing and 5 more are injured.
The first thing that comes to mind in a wreck of this nature is, how did a vessel attached to the greatest fleet on the face of the Earth manage to be breached by a commercial vessel in calm waters and conditions of high visibility.
A recent Senate investigation into electronic parts supplied to our military vehicles, aircraft and vessels may point to an answer to this intriguing question.
According to the report, the investigation found that Chinese companies that were supplying the US military with its electronic parts for our hardware were actually counterfeit parts that were substandard and being sold at full price to the US government as original equipment.
If counterfeit parts are responsible for substandard performance, is it possible that the USS John McCain NEVER SAW THE APPROACHING MERCHANT VESSEL?
Turn to the next page to read more about the possibility of a silent war being waged on the US military that involves a cyber warfare that we funded ourselves!
Obama’s commanders
I find this very strange the second ship to collide with a tanker …don’t think so something is off or our Navy needs new scanners…this has to really be looked into…
Possible
The McCain was victim of crappy officers. Obama,s political correctness and not enough emphasis on seamanship
judging by the name of the ship of course it failed
This is what happens when you have a coward as president
Someone not doing his or her job
There is a huge security problem in the Unites States Navy when four Navy vessels are damaged in less than a year. I believe this could be an intentional means from foreign sources to weaken our military in a slow methodical manner and no one sees this. As a 22 year veteran, this really concerns me. After they take down the smaller vessels, they have the experience to go to larger vessels. Why doesn’t this concern the Admirals and Generals. We are going to wake up one day to the threat with minimal assets to deploy. Are we being destroyed within? This scared me to death!
Cyber warfare would not have effected the required watch sanders responsible for keeping a visual inspection of the area around the ship.
Was McCain actually at the helm, we know he can’t fly correctly, I can only assume the Song Bird was there.