OOPS!! A Major OOPS!!

ANO

HEY! NAVY! ANYBODY HOME??

Daily Mail UK:

When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.

At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.

That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory. [...] (emphasis mine)

There's a mouthful! Has complacency attacked the Sonar Rooms?

Others blogging:

Gordo / The Liberal Avenger: About That Chinese Submarine... The Song-class submarine, with skewed propeller

Dan / Riehl World View: Curious Chinese Sub Story

Bryan / Hot Air: Chinese sub pops up in the midst of a US carrier battle group

Gaius / Blue Crab Boulevard: Not Good, Not Good At All — A Chinese attack submarine …

So, the Big Cheese out in the Big Blue says that they weren't conducting anti-sub detection/warfare at the time. May I ask, "WHY THE HELL NOT?" Let's see, we have a very large Naval Fleet conducting TRAINING exercises and the lame excuse is we were not conducting training to protect the fleet from submarine attack? The GREATEST threat to a Naval Vessel?

Color me rude or whatever but I would like to know about this guy's voting habits.

Catch the wave...no pun intended.