Choosing blame over justice
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The Big Story
Wed. Nov 20, 2019
We've been reporting on the Navy’s 7th Fleet
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for over a year, and today we published our latest story, a profile of Cmdr. Bryce Benson
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. It has been a long ordeal for Benson and his family that still isn’t over.
With the crash, the worst fear of any military commander had come true: men died under his watch. He was almost killed himself. The Navy community he’d devoted his entire life to had largely abandoned him. His career had come to an abrupt end. He had debilitating PTSD and contemplated suicide. In nearly every way, Benson was already broken.
Then the Navy charged him with negligent homicide — a move that some current and former Navy officials said went too far. The Navy had said the charges were informed by an obligation to exercise due diligence given the scope and complexity of the tragedy.
Megan Rose reports on the Navy’s troubling new legacy.
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Blame Over Justice: The Human Toll of the Navy’s Relentless Push to Punish One of Its Own
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Navy Cmdr. Bryce Benson accepted responsibility for the deadly crash of the USS Fitzgerald and was told, “That’s done now.” But when another ship crashed, the Navy decided it wasn’t through with him. Its pursuit nearly destroyed him and his family.
by Megan Rose
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More From This Investigation
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Iran Has Hundreds of Naval Mines. U.S. Navy Minesweepers Find Old Dishwashers and Car Parts.
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As tensions heat up in the Persian Gulf, the Navy’s minesweeping fleet may once again be called into action, but its sailors say the ships are too old and broken to do the job. “We are essentially the ships that the Navy forgot.”
by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller
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Sailors Report Enduring Concerns About Navy Readiness and Leadership
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Sailors from every active fleet responded to a ProPublica callout, noting a continued lack of training, widespread exhaustion and an acute sense of vulnerability.
by Kengo Tsutsumi
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How the Navy’s Top Commander Botched the Highest-Profile Investigation in Years
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On Wednesday, the Navy said it was abandoning all remaining criminal charges against sailors involved in fatal accidents in the Pacific. Here’s how the actions of the chief of naval operations helped doom the cases.
by T. Christian Miller and Robert Faturechi
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An Admiral Told a Senator Most Navy Reforms Were “Complete.” Navy’s No. 2 Says Otherwise.
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Adm. Bill Moran told ProPublica this week that none of the promised reforms had been completed, but that work had started on the pledges.
by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller
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Navy Promised Changes After Deadly Accidents, but Many Within Doubt It’s Delivering on Them
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Interviews and an examination of the Navy’s publicly announced reforms raise uncertainty over whether senior leaders have fully followed through on them after the 7th Fleet disasters in 2017.
by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller
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In Navy Disasters, Neglect, Mistakes, and 17 Lost Sailors
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Snapshots of the sailors who perished in a pair of collisions in the Pacific in 2017.
by Nate Schweber and T. Christian Miller
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How We Investigated the Navy’s Twin Disasters in the Pacific
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by T. Christian Miller, Robert Faturechi and Megan Rose
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Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster
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How the Navy failed its sailors
by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller
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Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy
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Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi
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