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THREAD: This week, we pubbed an investigation revealing that Navy leaders ignored years of warnings.
Then, in 2017, two crashes killed 17 sailors.
Alarms had been sounded up and down the chain of command.
Here are some of the warnings we uncovered:
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Then, in 2017, two crashes killed 17 sailors.
Alarms had been sounded up and down the chain of command.
Here are some of the warnings we uncovered:
propub.li/2DqunJD
2/ 2012: Navy undersecretary Bob Work told senior officials at the Pentagon the Navy’s ships were being pushed too hard. He said they repeatedly rejected one such analysis:
3/ “He would send us back and say, ‘I don't believe the data,’” Work recalled. “We'd come back with more data. He'd say, ‘I still don't believe it.’”
