The Navy plans to discipline up to 12 Fitzgerald sailors, including the commanding officer, in connection to the destroyer’s fatal June collision with a commercial ship that led to the drownings of seven sailors in their berthing.
A drunken Lithuanian port call in February led to a disciplinary decimation of the cruiser Hue City's chiefs' mess this spring. For the first time, the Navy Times goes inside the senior enlisted ranks to show how seven chiefs got busted.