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TorpX · 04-09-15, 08:36 PM

I don't think the Navy's problems in this department were limited to subs. In peacetime, officers were judged by the performance of their engineering plants, efficiency reports, exercises, and such. Risk-taking behavior was most likely to be a negative factor. Nor were there many vessels to command. Officers lucky enough to get one, would want to keep it.

Pre-war, USN sub doctrine involved complicated tactics making torpedo attacks by sonar. Exercises with aircraft and task forces indicated periscope attacks were too dangerous, and skippers who did it that way were given bad grades, when they were spotted. What is the Navy's slogan? You fight how you train.

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I haven't read about the Batfish 'mutiny', but certainly there was tension on the Wahoo under Kennedy. O'Kane and Morton didn't mutiny, but they sure tried to prod Kennedy to take more risks.

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TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	I don't think the Navy's problems in this department were limited to subs. In peacetime, officers were judged by the performance of their engineering plants, efficiency reports, exercises, and such. Risk-taking behavior was most likely to be a negative factor. Nor were there many vessels to command. Officers lucky enough to get one, would want to keep it. Pre-war, USN sub doctrine involved complicated tactics making torpedo attacks by sonar. Exercises with aircraft and task forces indicated periscope attacks were too dangerous, and skippers who did it that way were given bad grades, when they were spotted. What is the Navy's slogan? You fight how you train. *** I haven't read about the Batfish 'mutiny', but certainly there was tension on the Wahoo under Kennedy. O'Kane and Morton didn't mutiny, but they sure tried to prod Kennedy to take more risks.