shanghaiceltic:

A Canadian board of inquiry will find that a person is to blame and he will then receive a government pension and an early retirement. Fact is that the boats should never have been purchased in the first place. Our military people have been shafted for so long I am surprised anyone even considers joining anymore. We are using Sea King helos for SAR and troop transfer. It was one of them that couldn't lift off to assault a Russian ship many years back, so only half an assault team took the ship. If there had been armed resistance, our kids would have been cut up big time. We still have the damned things in service, and these brave people are risking their lives by the very nature of the work they do are also being given short shrift ny our government. It is a national disgrace. Lt Saunders' death is short of being murder, but not by much. The Canadian House of Commons had better take a good hard look at itself. Bastards. Through neglect, kids are losing their lives. The neglect is two-fold: it comes from the civilians of this country who do NOT give a damn for those we ask to go in harm's way on our behalf, and from high-ranking military personnel who do not have the honour or balls to stand up for the men and women who take their orders.

I fear that indeed a board of inquiry will find someone at fault; I also fear it will be the wrong poor bugger who is left standing when the music stops.