
Article snippet: Two fatal crashes involving Navy vessels in recent months came after years of warnings from congressional investigators and military officials about overworked crew and shorter training schedules, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that sailors often arrive at their assigned ships without adequate training and are often overworked by an average of almost 30 hours a week. A May report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that sailors often are forced to train newer members while on-the-job, which cuts into personal and other work hours. “Experienced sailors routinely provide on-the-job training for less experienced sailors, so the time doing this must come out of sleep, personal time, or other allotted work time,” according to the May 2017 GAO report. Two guided missile destroyers, the USS MORE and the USS Fitzgerald, collided with other vessels in recent months. A total of 17 sailors died or went missing from the collisions. "We've lost trust and confidence in their ability to lead," Adm. Bill Moran, deputy chief of naval operations, told reporters. The Navy dismissed Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin earlier this week "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command." A former State Department spokesman told CNN that the punishments for the collisions were only just beginning to be doled out. "I can promise you it will be very thorough and there will be people held to account for this," John Kirby said in A... Link to the full article to read more