Or drunk. But still, it doesn't matter if the CO did everything right and the boards aquit him; he may not be relieved of his command, but he's never going to be offered another.
Hell, every one of his brother officers, junior or senior will sit around and pontificate about how if it had been them on the bridge they would have kept it from happening.
Have we heard if he was even on the bridge? from the fact that guys were in their racks asleep it sounds like the sea and anchor detail wasn't set yet; and if it was that hour of the morning the chances are that the officer of the watch was fairly junior. Again, the sort of things that give CO's ulcers.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
Hell, every one of his brother officers, junior or senior will sit around and pontificate about how if it had been them on the bridge they would have kept it from happening.
Have we heard if he was even on the bridge? from the fact that guys were in their racks asleep it sounds like the sea and anchor detail wasn't set yet; and if it was that hour of the morning the chances are that the officer of the watch was fairly junior. Again, the sort of things that give CO's ulcers.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children