Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The Captain should never have let that letter venture anyplace out of the chain of command. That constitutes a leak of classified operational readiness details.
But you can remove someone from command without having to fly to their ship and deliver a profanity-laced diatribe over the intercom.
I do not think we are getting the entire story on this entire episode.
I understand why he was let go because of the leak.
However, kicking a man when he's down in front of the people who believed he was trying to help them was out of line.
Did no one review his speech? Did no one tell him it's one thing to be firm in your actions and it's another to be a jerk?
Yeow! That happened? This is the first I’m hearing of that. I’m not Navy but I sort of thought that wasn’t done. Admirals aren’t even supposed to acknowledge anybody but their staff on a capital ship, I thought. Taking the PA system and speaking to the ship seems extraordinary enough, adding profanity into the mix. “There are no good guys” may be applicable.
Since when did we become such pussies that a profanity laced diatribe on an intercom is grounds for any sort of punishment in the military?