History Main / DamageControl

If you're looking for the comic book series of the same name, go [[ComicBook/DamageControl here]] and please fix the link that sent you to this page.

If you’re looking for the women’s wrestling stable, see [[Wrestling/DamageCTRL here]].

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In "Out of Gas", ''Serenity'' is crippled by an explosion which disabled their life support. In this case, the required repairs are implied to be simple enough, but they don't [[ForWantOfANail have the required part]]. Mal sends them off while he waits on the ship for someone to answer their distress call.

* In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, that was one of the US Navy's major advantages compared to the Imperial Japanese Navy. In fact, the superior damage control measures of US Navy ships was so good at making them so durable that the Japanese sometimes mistook enemy ships they previously hit as other ships because [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat they could not conceive of them being able to survive]]. By contrast, inferior damage control procedures of the IJN (caused by both design flaws and poor crew response to battle damage) contributed to the loss of several warships like the aircraft carrier ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano Shinano]]''.
** Just to clear up a few myths here. The United States did have very good Damage Control, but they didn't start out that way, and lost a number of ships during the war (such as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_(CV-2) USS Lexington (CV-2)]]''. Likewise, The Japanese DC teams were not incompetent, and were very well trained. In fact, at the start of hostilities the two Navies were relatively comparable when it came to Damage Control. Both systems had their strengths and weakness. However, the US was ''much'' faster at addressing these problems. Because the USN put more emphasis on standardization, new ideas and techniques spread quickly, offered more cross-training so more of the crew could pitch in, and incorporated more redundancies. The Japanese in turn took a lot longer to adapt and innovate. Part of this was due to the notoriously hierarchical culture present in the Japanese Navy[[note]] Crew beatings were not uncommon, sometimes to the point where the poor sap had to be hospitalized[[/note]], and part due to Japanese doctrine put more emphasis on specialization; Crews were trained for ''one'' specific ship and one role on that ship. As the IJN lost more ships, the crews were either lost with the ships, or taken off duty altogether, meaning the knowladge they COULD gained from those losses was never utilized.

** "Film/ANewHope": R2-D2 has to repeatedly fix damage to Luke's X-Wing during the Battle of Yavin. The droid is eventually shot by an enemy fighter and knocked out of commission for the rest of the fight.

* The board game ''Red November'' is nothing but damage control on a submarine prey to fires, flooded compartments, and the looming threat of a Kraken attack.