Replying to a message of Carol Shenkenberger to BOB BREED:

 CS>>> I never tried for that one but many QMC/SMC's have done so and they
 CS>>> are often the OOD.  So many times a ship has made a note that all
 CS>>> the 'Officers' on deck were enlisted, they stopped mentioning it
 CS>>> around 2002.
 >> 
 >> Wow, this is mind-boogling to me. :)  I wonder who takes the heat if
 >> the ship runs aground with a all enlisted crew on the bridge?

 CS> The CO, same as if it were officers.  It doesnt change because they
 CS> are enlisted watchstanders.

Back in about 1953, the CO ran the USS Missouri aground on a sand bank
at Newport News.  He was newly assigned from submarines and got onto
the wrong side of the buoys that mark the channel.  Everybody on the bridge
was telling him to get back in the channel but he kept right on going the
way he was.  In a sub it probably wouldn't make much difference as they
only draw about ten feet of water on the surface, but a battleship draws
something over 35 feet.  The Navy nailed everybody on the bridge, and IIRC
it took three months to get her off that sand bank.

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