[MrEdd]

Answer the question posited in post 19.

Remember, your answer (or incompetence in not being able to come up with an answer) will be coming back on you going forward.

[VeniVidiVici]

If he didn’t inform his TF commander, how come SecNav and CNO sent out a joint press statement on the 23rd informing the world that the Roosevelt would continue with their mission despite the Covid casualties?

Really? Are you really that thickheaded as to why they would come out with this statement?