Chitchat Clown Ang Moh Trump Navy Destroyer got DESTROYED many dead n missing! HUAT!!

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Typical communist chinese used pinoy to ambush and do their dirty dastardly deed. No wonder its yellow yellow dirty fellow.

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Bravo China! PLA jammed USS Fitzgerald Aegis Radar & ACX Crystal radar, very likely!



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US destroyer almost foundered after collision, bodies found - Seventh Fleet
18 Jun 2017 03:25PM
(Updated: 18 Jun 2017 03:50PM)
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YOKOSUKA, Japan: The bodies of missing sailors were found in flooded compartments of the USS Fitzgerald, which came close to sinking after a collision with a container ship off Japan tore a gash under the warship's waterline, the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet commander said on Sunday.

An earlier Navy statement had said the bodies of several sailors were found in the berthing compartments inside the guided missile destroyer but U.S. Seventh fleet Commander Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin declined to say how many.

The search at sea has been called off, he told a news conference at Yokosuka naval base.

Aucoin said the USS Fitzgerald could have foundered, or even sunk, but for the crew's desperate efforts to save the ship.

"The damage was significant. There was a big gash under the water," Aucoin said.
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"A significant portion of the crew was sleeping" when the destroyer collided with the Philippine-flagged container ship, destroying the commander's cabin, he said.

The Fitzgerald is salvageable, he said, but repairs will likely take months. "Hopefully less than a year. You will see the USS Fitzgerald back," Aucoin said.

Aucoin was asked if damage on the starboard side indicated the U.S. ship could have been at fault but he declined to speculate on the cause of the collision. Maritime rules suggest vessels are supposed to give way to ships on their starboard.

NOTIFYING FAMILIES

Japanese media said all seven of the sailors who had been reported missing were found dead.

The U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement earlier on Sunday: "Divers were able to access the space and found a number of bodies." They were transferred to a U.S. naval hospital for identification, it said.

"The families are being notified and being provided the support they need during this difficult time," it said.

The Fitzgerald collided with the merchant vessel more than three times its size some 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka early on Saturday.

Three people were medically evacuated to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka after the collision, including the ship's commanding officer, Commander Bryce Benson, who was reported to be in stable condition, the Navy said.

The other two were being treated for lacerations and bruises.

The USS Fitzgerald sailed into port on Saturday evening, listing around 5 degrees, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Yokosuka said. The flooding was in two berthing compartments, the radio room and auxiliary machine room, he said.

There were 285 crew onboard, the spokesman said.

Benson took command of the Fitzgerald on May 13. He had previously commanded a minesweeper based in Sasebo in western Japan.

'PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE'

It was unclear how the collision happened. "Once an investigation is complete then any legal issues can be addressed," a spokesman for the U.S. Seventh Fleet said.

Japanese authorities were looking into the possibility of "endangerment of traffic caused by professional negligence", Japanese media reported, but it was not clear whether that might apply to either or both of the vessels.

The U.S. Navy said the collision happened at about 2:30 a.m. local time (1730 GMT Friday), while the Japanese Coast Guard said it was 1:30 a.m. local time.

Japan's Nippon Yusen KK , which charters the container ship, ACX Crystal, said in a statement on Saturday it would "cooperate fully" with the Coast Guard's investigation of the incident.

At around 29,000 tons displacement, the ship dwarfs the 8,315-ton U.S. warship. It was carrying 1,080 containers from the port of Nagoya to Tokyo.

None of the 20 crew members aboard the container ship, all Filipino, were injured, and the ship was not leaking oil, Nippon Yusen said. The ship arrived at Tokyo Bay later on Saturday.

The waterways approaching Tokyo Bay are busy with commercial vessels sailing to and from Japan’s two biggest container ports in Tokyo and Yokohama.

(Reporting by Tim Kelly and Linda Sieg; Editing by Bill Tarrant and Paul Tait)
Source: Reuters

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‘Traumatic’ collision that killed sailors almost sank destroyer, Navy says

The USS Fitzgerald suffered a “severe emergency” when a container ship collided with it, Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin said Sunday. (Kyodo News via AP)
By Anna Fifield June 18 at 4:13 AM

YOKOSUKA, Japan — A U.S. Navy destroyer came close to sinking after a “traumatic” collision off the coast of Japan, the commander of the Seventh Fleet said Sunday, after the bodies of the missing sailors were found in the berthing compartments of the stricken vessel.

Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin declined to say how many of the seven missing sailors had been recovered, but he said that the search and rescue mission was over. The families of those who died were still being informed on Sunday.

Multiple investigations are now underway to determine how a technologically advanced American warship was not able to get out of the way of the huge and cumbersome container ship, even if it had right of way.

“This was a severe emergency,” Aucoin said at the Yokosuka naval base, home of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, Sunday afternoon. The damaged Aegis guided-missile destroyer was docked behind him, pumps continuing to bring water up out of the hull. “It was a significant impact to the side of the ship.”

Most of the damage occurred under the waterline in the form of a huge puncture to the hull near the ship’s keel, which led to a “tremendous” amount of water rushing into the berthing cabins and the radio control room, he said.
Aucoin is commander of the Seventh Fleet. (AP)

“There wasn’t a lot of time in those spaces that were open to the sea and as you can see now, the ship is still listing,” Aucoin, gesturing to the destroyer behind him. “They had to fight this ship to keep it above the surface. It was traumatic.”

The crew stopped the ship from foundering or sinking and got it back to port, he said. The destroyer is salvageable, but repairs probably will take months, Aucoin said.

The collision occurred at about 2:20 a.m. local time Saturday, about 50 miles south-west of the U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka. Marine tracking data showed the container ship, the Philippine-flagged Crystal, performed a U-turn in the busy shipping lane south of Tokyo shortly before the crash. The weather was clear with a swell of about six feet at the time.

The fully-loaded Crystal was nearly four times the size of the Fitzgerald, and photos from the scene showed scrapes to the port side of its bow.

However, the destroyer, nicknamed “The Fighting Fitz” within the Navy, suffered severe damage on its starboard side.

The impact struck berthing compartments that contained 116 sailors and completely destroyed the commanding officer’s cabin. Cmdr. Bryce Benson was the first to be evacuated from the damaged vessel and is being treated at the U.S. naval hospital at Yokosuka. He was awake but not yet able to answer questions.

“He’s lucky to be alive,” Aucoin said.
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Seven U.S. Navy sailors are missing off the coast of Japan after an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a container ship, causing significant damage and flooding.

Two others were airlifted off the ship and treated in the hospital for lacerations and bruises. The remains of the missing sailors had also been taken to the hospital for identification.

Because of the hour, many sailors were sleeping when the collision happened, but the ship had a “full complement” of bridge crew on duty, Aucoin said. There was no indication of any problem with the navigational equipment, he said.

American and Japanese investigations are underway, but Aucoin said he would not speculate on how long they would take to get to the bottom of the accident.

Analysts said that such a collision was highly unusual.

“We just don't expect a very capable warship to be so badly damaged in a normal, peacetime environment,” said Patrick Cronin, head of the Asia-Pacific program at the Center for a New American Security.

While there are extensive international guidelines to prevent collisions at sea, in some ways it didn’t matter who had right of way in this case, he said.

“In my mind, our destroyer is a more capable, agile ship so regardless of who has right-of-way, our ship should be able to take evasive action,” Cronin said.

Collisions at sea have become rare events in recent decades as navigational technology has improved.

The current case recalled the collision between the submarine USS Greeneville and a training ship belonging to a Japanese fishery high school in 2001 off the coast of Hawaii.

In that incident, the Greeneville suddenly surfaced underneath the Japanese ship, causing it to sink and claiming nine lives, four of them high school students.

“Things like this happens because of human error, sometimes complicated by some technical difficulty,” Cronin said, calling it “heroic” that the crew was able to get back to port. “U.S.-Japan cooperation has been fantastic,” he said.

Japanese coastguard and military ships assisted with the rescue, and Japanese planes and helicopters searched the waters before the bodies were found.

That shows how the alliance between the United States and Japan helps American interests, analysts said. In previous statements, President Trump had called the value of the alliance into question, complaining on the campaign trail that the United States was paying “billions” for the defense of Japan, a rich country.

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