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Senate Takes Turn To Grill Navy Officials Over Ship Collisions

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

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Senate Takes Turn To Grill Navy Officials Over Ship Collisions

Richard V. Spencer, former Secretary of the Navy. He resigned on November 24, 2019. (Photo: U.S. Navy).

Senate Armed Services Committee members were at times frustrated as they questioned the top Navy leaders Tuesday over a series of ship collisions resulting in severe damage and deaths.This was the second hearing this month inquiring into recent naval collisions, with the first being on the House side (Defense Daily, Sept. 7).The USS John S. McCain (DDG-56), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, collided with a commercial vessel east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on Aug. 21, and in…

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