Mystery to me. Annapolis alum. F18 driver. What was his motivation to communicate in a way more non-secure than a middle school girl’s clique.
Not even drugs or alcohol would explain it.
When the usual route seems not to be working and it’s a matter of life or death, the right thing to do is scream as loud as you can so you have a thousand witnesses and then be prepared to be fired.
LOL! Use Valley Girl code-talkers. No one will understand.
Airdales as much respect as I have for them can go off half cocked. As an airdale ground pounder one of my jobs was to keep the CO from falling on his sword. He should have gotten and listened to experts in the process of navigating chain of command.
There is a venerable message technique - unodir - unless otherwise directed - wherein he alerts the chain of command using easily understood Naval message protocols that he is pursuing a certain course of action. His operational and admin chains of command would be in the “to” or “cc” lines.
He would cite and quote appropriate Naval instructions. It would describe the problem and solution succinctly and in active tense. No passive tense. He would send the msg over an encrypted network with something less than flash priority so it doesn’t cause immediate intervention. He would not be defensive or accusatory.
Then he would proceed until otherwise directed. If he’s already in port he gets a grace period of a day or two to execute his plan unless a flash mission comes into play. By then he’d probably have critical mass in his favor.
If his task force cdr was not on board the Navy provides an escalation process. Out of courtesy he would direct the message to that admiral or at least cc him if he has to go over his head.