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Same Ship, Same Crew, Three Different Outcomes: Part I

Postcard photo of USS Boulder underway, with visible rust along the hull

A note before we start: the officers in this story are real. Their names are not. I’ve changed them to protect their privacy, not to soften what happened. This is the first of three parts about a Navy ship, three commanding officers, and a lesson I spent the next thirty years watching repeat in every […]