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That would be 100% the decision of the Captain who chose to sit in a busy shipping lane showing no lights. The civilians captains going about their legitimate business, in a shipping lane, showing running lights, and restricted in ability to manoeuvre, have been blameless in all collisions to date.

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Which could definitely be an issue since the Zumwalts are tiny and low prestige so they might not get the top shelf Skippers.

At over $4 Billion each, I'd hope they still get top class skippers. Whatever the training, recruitment, retention etc. costs the Navy it would be worth it.

Yeah, but it's a ship with a crew of 140 with no realistic path towards a combat deployment. It's the naval version of a dead end job.

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