Dr. Don Inbody, a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and a retired captain in the U.S. Navy, spoke with Stars and Stripes regarding the Navy’s plans to update their ships’ bridges and control systems to prevent future collisions like those that occurred with the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain. “People are key here, always have been and always will,” Inbody observed. Better training, he argued, was necessary: Sailors need to be trained, he concluded, “with experienced people watching them.”
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