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NATO AIR
Such things are not common but do happen when people take shortcuts because of the traditional naval deployment schedule which offers precious little free time and even less "make up" time. When people's careers are on the line, when they get cocky about their own abilities and their people and when they don't handle pressure well... this happens.
Saw this more times than I wanted in the Navy. Yet in the end, because of a whistleblower or a tragic accident (or near-tragic one), the fools who "gundeck" (as we call it in the Navy) get caught one way or another.
Has nothing to do with Bush or WOT. Has everything to do with not everybody is cut out for that line of work and that kind of responsibility.