Originally Posted by
West Coast
You seem to offer up opinions on a wide range of military topics. Care to share your background?
Just a Navy League lifer trying to make sense of things.
Refits are particularly dangerous efforts, think of the Normandie burning in NY harbor or Notre Dame getting refurbished. Does anyone even remember?
In this case, clearly responsibility for fire safety was diffused, as the ship was in the hands of the contractor, albeit in a naval facility.
But no contractor actions gave the fire the fuel to fry the island,
afaik, that was there by design. .