>  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.

Like the 'willramit' incident.  The CO is responsible for the training of 
everyone so yes, his fault.  That time, truely so in all ways.

They should not have hit any watchstander if it was logged that they
objected.
                  xxcarol

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