Here’s the Fitzgerald CO’s side of the storyCmdr. Bryce Benson defended his tenure on the warship before its 2017 collision killed seven shipmates.By Geoff Ziezulewicz6 years ago
In the aftermath of the Fitzgerald collision, months of legal fury end in a whimperQuestions continue about whether missteps by senior Navy leaders helped to scuttle the criminal cases against two officers of the doomed destroyer.By Geoff Ziezulewicz6 years ago
A warship doomed by ‘confusion, indecision, and ultimately panic’ on the bridgeA secret Navy report looks at the ways leaders could have averted the deadly destroyer Fitzgerald collision.By Geoff Ziezulewicz6 years ago
Worse than you thought: inside the secret Fitzgerald probe the Navy doesn’t want you to readIt was kept secret from the public in part because it was designed to prep the Navy for potential lawsuits in the aftermath of the accident.By Geoff Ziezulewicz6 years ago
Officer of the deck during fatal Fitzgerald collision pleads guilty at court-martialLt. j.g. Sarah Coppock pleaded guilty to a dereliction of duty charge. She was sentenced to a pay forfeiture, a punitive letter and waived her right to an administrative separation board.By Geoff Ziezulewicz7 years ago
