Originally Posted by
SASless
You notice the Squadron Commander got removed from Command.....why not his superiors who ALL knew of the problems and did nothing to correct or resolve the problems?
The blame goes right straight to the Commandant and Secretary of the Navy for sure.
Agreed. I'm generally against a culture which reflexively sacks commanders in instances such as these because it is too easy for superiors to portray it as decisive remedial action and deflect blame which logically, in many cases, goes all the way to the top. In this case, though, it really does seem as if the buck should stop somewhere above the unfortunate CO (given the wider failure to apply lessons of previous occurrences) and below POTUS (given his non-ordering of the fateful exercise).