Seriously, there was a time in the 70s, in the FJ Force, that the blames culture saw the buck swathing through wg cdrs and stn cdrs everytime there was an accident.
I don't think this was confined to the best air force either.
Then reality kicked back in. If you chop the command chain every time something happens you soon run out of commanders. As desk is far safer if less fun; pays the school fees and gets the sprogs through uni.
A couple of books by Gerry Carrol (I think) North Star being one, was about USN Ops etc in Vietnam. Excellent aviation author, ex-pilot, unfortunately only got 2 books out before Big C got him.
He was always railling against the REMF Command chain always keeping an eye on their 6.