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Nuclear submarine crew faked inspection records!?!?

Great! People in charge of a nuclear reactor inspection deem it too bothersome to actually inspect the reactor. Once again, the safety and welfare of fellow humans is not enough for someone to actually do their job. Click here for details of another, recent, example of job carelessness, this time involving nuclear weapons. How many more times will one of these ‘lackadaisical’ acts (a ‘whimsical’ term that a military officer used to describe the criminal act of dereliction of duty) be tolerated before one of the most devastating accidents imaginable happens and countless Americans lose their lives?

The worst case scenario is easy to imagine if you think about it long enough. Clue: it is a nuclear reactor!! But, these guys did not trouble themselves to think any further than beyond their own possible punishment for not doing their job. Perhaps they do realize what could happen if a nuclear accident occurred. Maybe they realize they could very likely be dead as the result of a missed inspection. But they were too deeply concerned with covering their own asses.

Does anyone know when a leak might happen? Does anyone know when something could wrong resulting in a nuclear meltdown? The answer to these questions of course is no!

But these guys were convinced enough that it could not, indeed, would not happen on their shift. Then they had the low moral and ethical character to forge the inspection record instead of informing someone that the reactor was not inspected just in the ‘off chance’ that something was wrong.

Once again it is more important to cover your own ass and to hell with everyone else. Why is this becoming business as usual?

What would happen if everyone just decided that since a nuclear accident has never happened we don’t ever have to perform another inspection? How would that be? Then we could all go about our own personal business of pleasuring ourselves and not have to be bothered with the time-consuming, unnecessary, busy-work of a job.

These individuals who did not perform their integral function as a part of this crew and then forged these records have basically said they don’t give a damn about the safety of this equipment or its crew.

They were responsible for the safety of 166 enlisted personnel and 13 officers on board that $900 million submarine. They were responsible for the environment that a nuclear meltdown would have damaged, possibly irreversibly, for countless years, plus any other ancillary damage that only a nuclear accident would have effected.

But, hey, nothing happened, right? Why take it so hard and demand punishment? Because, no one does know when something will go wrong.

No one should say “well, nothing did happen, so lighten up.” This attitude completely negates the importance of people doing their #*$&%^* job!

How many times is this self-centered, lazy lack of attention to detail going to continue before a serious accident does happen? Rhetorical question, because, by the way, no on can predict that either. But these guys decided their own personal time was too important to do their job.

The Navy will probably just give them a slap on the wrist, thereby telling the next crew that these inspections are not really that serious and that dereliction of duty falls within acceptable ‘guidelines’. After all, we are just human, right? We all make mistakes.

Now, let’s take the nuclear reactor out of the equation and look at everyday life. Police officers recently did not look for two possible victims of an automobile crash and the father of one of the victims found his dead son’s body hours later, at the scene. This is a case of someone not doing his job.

There are instances like these everyday, surely not as life threatening or as dramatic as a nuclear meltdown, but when you are put out or inconvenienced because someone does not do their job does it matter to you? Of course it does.

Shirking your responsibility causes businesses to lose money which eventually costs the consumers money. Putting your job off onto someone else can lead to death and/or serious injury. This stuff is real.

What if firefighters decided they didn’t want to fight the raging fire at your neighbors house, or your house? Maybe they were too busy playing a video game or watching sports on TV.

How would you feel if those very same firefighters did not receive any punishment? Or those police officers who did not do their job were given a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue on the job? Would you feel safe knowing they were still out there when you called on them for help?

People who shun their responsibility put themselves ahead of everyone else, it’s the “me first” attitude that detrimentally affects everyone.

There are far too many instances where people turn from their responsibility in favor of something that is more fun to do. The more this happens the greater the chance that a disaster is going to result.