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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
But the Vice-President can't kick out the President and take over-it has to be done through an act of Congress.
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Nope, the 25th amendment section 4 allows the Vice President to take over from the President with just a majority vote from the cabinet only...not Congress. It was actually on 24 (second series) and is actually true.
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Common sense has nothing to do with the navy-procedure does. If a ship runs aground, the Captain's career is over. Period. If a warship is involved in a collision, the Captain's career is over. He'll be court-martialled, and may be found innocent, but he'll never command a ship again.
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What has this got to do with an XO taking command ala Crimson Tide? :hmm:
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Wrong. There's the captain, and there's everybody else. He has absolute power, it's 'his' ship and everybody else works for him. That said, he has to answer for any decision he makes, and once he's ashore he's subject higher powers.
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No, you are wrong. What if the Captain wants to start a nuclear war, like in this case? Would you just let him and sort it out when you get ashor....wait a minute....tnothing will be left ashore. OF COURSE NOT!. If the Captain was about to kill off humanity, you could put a bullet in his head there and then, go to bed, wake up and get a medal. Nothing is written in stone...you're thinking about Captain Bligh on the Bounty. It's 2006 not 1506.
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I was in the navy, and to a sailor some movies feel right, and others don't. That one didn't, at least to me. As you say, some bubbleheads will disagree with me. They were on subs, I wasn't. Fair enough.
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The procedures used were correct as was the nuke arming sequence...I don't understand what you find so innacurate.
Of course some of it is over-emphasised to make it more dramatic...but all in all it was done very well. For God's sake, compare it to Top Gun...will ya? Now that movie didn't even bother with realism, let alone attempt it.