[Pearls Before Swine]

Yes and no.

The SecNav lost his cool.

If his beef was that the Captain went public, he shouldn’t have been public in his name-calling, IMHO. I think its a bad look.

He could have referred to chain of command and operational security... it would have been enough, I think.

[rstrahan]

This is the perfect example of ‘Failure to engage brain before putting mouth in gear’.

[MV=PY]

"If his beef was that the Captain went public, he shouldn’t have been public in his name-calling, IMHO. I think its a bad look."

I think I read that it was leaked.

[stylin19a]

*** He could have referred to chain of command and operational security... it would have been enough, I think ***

zactly

[USNA74]

Praise in public, criticize in private. Leadership 101.

Agree with you, there were any number of flag officers in the CO’s chain of command that could have, and should have, provided any needed speech to the crew. Having SECNAV there to spew that crap, using the “sailor language” that he did, was completely unnecessary . . . and the sailor language was totally inappropriate coming from leadership.