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...radar-screen blip could lose his ship and the lives of all those aboard. That almost happened in May 1987 to the frigate Stark. It was hit by two missiles launched in error by an Iraqi plane. The ship was severely damaged, 37 crewmen were killed, and Captain Glenn Brindel was pressured into retirement for failing to take defensive action...
...perhaps the more relevant comparison--at least to explain why Captain Will C. Rogers III shot at the mistakenly-identified aircraft--is the U.S.S. Stark tragedy of just over a year ago. In that incident, Capt. Glenn R. Brindel failed to respond to Iraqi planes attacking his ship, and 37 members of his crew died as a result. After an ensuing investigation, Brindel was forced to retire from the navy...
...minimum, the Stark's commander, Captain Glenn Brindel, will face many more questions on that score. The Navy confirmed that it has told several officers they are "parties to the investigation"; it would not name them, but other sources said they were Brindel and three of his subordinates. If any charges are brought against them, they will be subjected to a hearing to determine if they should be court-martialed...
...Brindel, who was not on the bridge but in the combat information center one deck below, still expected the plane to pull away. The ship's monitors gave no indication that the pilot had locked his targeting radar on the slow-moving frigate, a necessity before launching a missile...
There was almost no time to react. The first Exocet would hit the Stark within ten seconds. To Brindel, that was not enough time to get the ship's Phalanx antimissile system switched from a manual to an automatic mode and into action...