Original sentence: In his book, "Bucher: My Story", Bucher is extremely critical of his XO, Lieutenant Murphy, who he portrayed as generally incompetent and an outsider.Lieutenant Murphy found working with Bucher so loathsome that at one point he says he drafted a letter resigning his Naval commission.Murphy pointed out in the book that the North Koreans were able to obtain over a ton of classified documents from the captured Pueblo because, according to Murphy, Bucher had forgotten to pick up the TNT that would be used for disposal in case the ship was captured.Murphy says sailors on the Pueblo reported that he was even drunk on duty and once nearly ran the ship aground
Edited sentence: As the second AGER to be put in operation, the Pueblo was doomed by both the Navy's own Top Secret policy, which limited the ship design, training, and contingency planning and the Navy's incomplete and perhaps wishful risk assessment of the North Korean threat.Given the evidence and details presented in Bucher's book, the testimony of the XO seems quite questionable.In his book, "Bucher: My Story", Bucher is extremely critical of his XO Lieutenant Murphy, who is convincingly portrayed as generally incompetent and an outsider.Lieutenant Murphy found working with Bucher so loathsome that at one point he drafted a letter resigning his Naval commission.Murphy pointed out in the book that the North Koreans were able to obtain over a ton of classified documents from the captured Pueblo because Bucher had forgotten to pick up the TNT that would be used for disposal in case the ship was captured.Sailors on the Pueblo reported that he was even drunk on duty and once nearly ran the ship aground