A thing I like about the Navy,when the Captain screws up and loses his boat not only do the Enlisted men die...Many times the bozo who zigged when he should have zagged is feeding the fish...Just like you..:D

That's the great part of attack aviation. We just throw officers at the enemy. Their screw-ups have to be particularly spectacular to kill anyone other than them.

Or happen on the flight deck, all too often a ramp strike, inflight engagement, or crash on deck leaves the idiot with the stick in his hand unscathed while the poor swabs running chocks and chains get the fallout. One incident that sticks out, we got a fire warning light so rather than going back to Independence (50 miles over the horizon) the pilots shut down that engine and landed on Nimitz, which was in sight when the lights and bells started. Parked on elevator 3 and were checking it out when an E-2 Hawkeye trapped- he had some kind of antenna wire with a 8 pound weight on the end he forgot to check retracted. Missed all of us, but bounced off an AB's helmet and knocked him over the side (fished him out, patched him up, he was hurt but no broken bones) then the weight went right through our tailboom at 100 knots, wiping out the tail rotor driveshaft. Ended up having to spend 2 weeks on Nimitz in our flight suits with no change of skivvies or socks before we got a new driveshaft. :-?