{"id":72818,"date":"2017-06-17T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72818"},"modified":"2017-06-17T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T11:04:10","slug":"uss-fitzgerald-collides-with-merchant-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72818","title":{"rendered":"USS Fitzgerald collides with merchant vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Navy<\/a> reports that USS FITZGERALD, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has collided with a merchant vessel in the Philippine Sea, about 50 miles off the coast of Japan.<\/p>\n

As of this time, there have been two patients requiring medical evacuation. One was Cmdr. Bryce Benson, Fitzgerald’s commanding officer, who was transferred to U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka and is reportedly in stable condition. A second MEDEVAC is in progress. Other injured are being assessed. There are seven Sailors unaccounted for; the ship and the Japanese Coast Guard continues to search for them.<\/p>\n

Although Fitzgerald is under her own power, USS Dewey (DDG 105) got underway this morning as well as several U.S. Navy aircraft, and will join Japanese Coast Guard and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters, ships and aircraft to render whatever assistance may be required.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN <\/a>reports that seven sailors are still missing;<\/p>\n

The force of the impact could have thrown sailors overboard who were standing on the opposite side of the destroyer from where it was struck, he said.<\/p>\n

That could account for the missing sailors, who may have been<\/p>\n

Sailors could also been trapped in compartments below deck, Schuster said, pointing out that container ships have a bulbous bow below the water line, which could have plowed into the US warship.<\/p>\n

According to a Navy news release from last month, Benson, the Fitzgerald’s commander, was new to the position, taking command of the vessel May 13 after serving as the ship’s executive officer, or second in command, since November 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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