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USS John S. Mccain Destroyer

Ten US Navy sailors are missing after a US Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship east of Singapore early Monday, the Navy said in a statement.

The Navy's 7th Fleet said the USS John S. McCain collided with the merchant vessel while the destroyer was making its way to a port visit in Singapore. The collision was reported at 5:24 am local time, according to the Navy statement.

A Navy official told CNN the McCain was fighting flooding in several places and that it had limited propulsion and electrical power.

In addition to the 10 missing sailors, the Navy said five were injured in the collision.

Search and rescue efforts are underway, the Navy statement said, with helicopters and Marine Corps Osprey aircraft from the amphibious assault ship USS America responding. Ref. CNN

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Very strange, the USS Fitzgerald was recently in the news for a similar case. Whatever the cause of this crash my sympathies with the families of those who may not have made it.

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Yes, this is very rare with all the advanced electronics on board these ships. That this happened twice so close together in time is quite strange.

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Why do I get the suspicion that these are not accidents but a indirect assault on the US naval forces. Like probing its defenses.

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I don't know if they are or aren't but the Navy just halted Pacific Fleet operations. That is a big deal. I don't remember that ever happening.

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Well with two naval ships getting rammed of sorts by a merchant ship should cause people to start wondering. You all know the saying, "Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice shame on me." I think that these two incidents are going to be related somehow.

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The thing is, I read that the first incident was our fault and we rammed the other ship because no one was paying attention… of course, that could just be a cover story.

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Cover story. IF we rammed them the damage would have been on the front of the ship instead of the side. I may not be great at accident investigations on the water but I am pretty darn good at accident investigations on land. Usually the one with the front end damage is the one at fault.