Navy: 17 sailors disciplined for Fitzgerald and McCain collisions [View all]

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/02/01/navy-to-reverse-guilty-verdict-for-officer-in-fitzgerald-collision/

Navy: 17 sailors disciplined for Fitzgerald and McCain collisions

By: Geoff Ziezulewicz    1 day ago

Seventeen sailors from the destroyers Fitzgerald and John S. McCain have received nonjudicial punishment for their roles in last summer’s West Pacific collisions that killed 17 sailors, officials confirmed Thursday.

The Navy also plans to reverse a guilty verdict it handed out to an officer from the warship Fitzgerald for involvement in the June 17 collision off Japan that killed seven shipmates. The prior ruling against the officer in a nonjudicial punishment hearing was reversed by the head of the “consolidated disposition authority,” an entity established in October to review all prior punishments meted out for last summer’s disasters involving the Fitz and the destroyer John S. McCain, which collided with a tanker in August, killing another 10 sailors. The Navy’s announcement Thursday does not specify the charge for which that officer was originally found guilty, nor when that guilty verdict was first rendered. It also remains unclear how many more cases the consolidated disposition authority, or CDA, is reviewing.

Ten Fitz sailors and seven McCain sailors have been disciplined via nonjudicial punishment, or NJP, to date, according to Navy officials.
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