rigsby, singho alexander, ngac troung, xavier alec martin and gary leo rehm, jr. the president tweeted, quote, my heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the 7 sailors of the uss fitzgerald and their families. anything comes with risk, but one wonders if their deaths could have been prevented. the investigation just started so we don t know if this crash could have been avoided. it happened in an extremely busy stretch of water during a routine run for the uss fitzgerald, yet a quiet night turned chaotic found hundreds of sailors fighting to keep their ship from sinking. the massive merchant ship made a sharp turn around the time of the fatal collision with the