Sailors driving the McCain were not qualified to be on watch, Navy says

[PJMcK]

1. I sailed boats for more than 30 years along the east coast

Here are the simplest "rules of the road:"

Stay out of the way of other vessels.

Communicate with other vessels in your vicinity.

When in doubt, slow down or stop.

It's amazing to me that the Seventh Fleet has such basic failings among its operational officers. The U.S. spends a tremendous amount of money on its military yet time after time we taxpayers find out that that money is spent on expensive hardware and not on educating our service people how to use it wisely.

Our government fails its people all of the time.