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On This Day: Seven Sailors Died After the U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Fitzgerald Collided with the Container Ship ACX Crystal Off the Coast of Japan (June 17, 2017)

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Shingo Douglass
Shingo Douglass, 25, U.S. Navy
Noe Hernandez
Noe Hernandez, 26, U.S. Navy
Ngoc Truong Huynh
Ngoc T. Truong Huynh, 25, U.S. Navy
Xavier Martin
Xavier Martin, 24, U.S. Navy
Gary Rehm Jr
Gary Rehm Jr., 37, U.S. Navy
Dakota Rigsby
Dakota Rigsby, 19, U.S. Navy
Carlos Victor Sibayan
Carlos Victor Sibayan, 23, U.S. Navy

ProPublica:
Part I: Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy
Part II: Years of Warnings, Then Death & Disaster: How the Navy Failed Its Sailors
In Navy Disasters, Neglect, Mistakes, and 17 Lost Sailors (Snapshot of Sailors)
How We Investigated the Navy’s Twin Disasters in the Pacific
Senate Committee Grills Navy Official Over 2017 Collisions, Seeking Data to Prove Conditions Have Changed
Exclusive: Footage of USS Fitzgerald After Collision w/ ACX Crystal (YouTube)
ProPublica Published ‘Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy’ (February 6, 2019)