Navy helicopter, fighter jet both go down in South China Sea: Navy

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9. A less sinister possibility...

Though I agree something nefarious is possible, it could be something else: fatigue.

Top brass tends to ignore the fact that while ships run continuously, the people that run them need downtime. It would not surprise me that Kegseth is running everyone ragged, because “sleep is for woke weaklings!” (Or some similar crap). All work and no rest makes Jack a careless boy.

This happened to the USN in the 90s(?). There were several major incidents in the span of a couple of weeks. The whole Navy actually stopped operations for a day to have a “Safety Standdown”, where schedules and operations were evaluated.