Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Absolutely appalling catalogue of failings in a war zone. Do the Navy not have the equivalent of our old-style TACEVALs ......... at least to find out if a man wearing breathing apparatus could get through a hatch?
And now we are putting a lot of eggs in two new baskets. Let us hope [without much hope] that such painful lessons continue to be brought to the attention of those concerned.
Indeed, just think how things could have been with an angled flight deck and cat n trap...