It’s more than embarrassing. It’s a disastrous PR situation for the Navy and the arm chair Admirals in Washington. The media and government have done all they can to scare the wits out of everyone and so when the Captain knows the virus is spreading among his crew, he wanted to do something about it. He said if it was war, we would fight sick. But it’s not war and he did the right thing.
This is likely a war.
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As a CDR of US Navy Carrier you better assume every day is a day “at war”...or they should be relieved.
The only thing he accomplished is endangering his crew. He failed to go up the line of command, he had already spoken to the brass and they were making arrangements, and worst of all he sent the letter by unsecured email copying some 20 people. At least one of them leaked it to the media and I’m pretty sure the Chinese got a good laugh at the kind of weaklings we put in charge.
While he was waiting he should have come up with a plan instead of sounding like a teenage girl needing Midol.
You are correct, they are sacrificing this good man who is puting his career and reputation on the line for the sake of his service-people which is what good commanders do. The Pentagon is still too full of Obama-placed Islamist sympathizing bad actors after he fired most of the patriots. The State Department, FBI, CIA and Homeland also still need cleaning.
Seriously? What the world are these folks doing on a carrier at all if they can’t handle a virus? Is it about safety? Well, working on a carrier is probably a bit more dangerous than making coffee at a Starbucks. If these jokers are so concerned about a virus that they want to take down a carrier group, maybe they should all be in a different line of work. It’s called national defense!