USS John S McCain Collision

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In the high profile incidents in recent months involving collisions of U.S. Navy ships in which there has been loss of life and serious damage to ship we should give credit to the professional way that the ordinary American sailor has acted to save their ship.

Most if not all navies around the world have had "incidents" over the years that they would rather had not happened and would prefer to forget. Because the U.S. Navy is significantly larger than say the Royal Navy, statistically, the U.S. Navy is likely to have more such "incidents" than the Royal Navy or other smaller navies.