Answer the question posited in post nineteen plausibly.
After that, I will get back to you.
If you cannot come up with a viable answer I will probably still get back to you, only it will be on every thread about the ship henceforth.
You see, some of us take offense when high command commits a royal fuck up and then tries to rewrite their actions so that they can shit on the Tropps and the lower command levels.
Show us that’s not you.
It doesn’t matter how screwed up high command is, this commanding officer is commanding a war ship and because he wrote this letter it is known to our enemies that HIS ship was not combat ready!! As a commanding officer he had to find a way to get his voice heard WITHOUT letting our enemies know his ship was not combat ready, this also lets nefarious people think that this could be the situation with our entire fleet of war ships this commanding officer was WRONG!, He is a commanding officer because he is expected to lead under the worst of circumstances whatever that may be!!