If he goes back to that same ship, the conflict may start anew. There was a certain officer on that ship that this captain has never gotten along with. Don’t put those two back together. They’ll be locking horns in no time. It will divide the crew. Give him a different ship to command.
What makes you so sure of that? Who is that officer?
I agree. If the Navy has confidence in his ability, they should give him a command of similar responsibility—another carrier, even—but not the previous one.
Or move the other officer.
More likely.
“If he goes back to that same ship, the conflict may start anew. There was a certain officer on that ship that this captain has never gotten along with. Don’t put those two back together. They’ll be locking horns in no time. It will divide the crew. Give him a different ship to command.”
I assume you are referring to the Admiral (probably head of the task force) who also has his HQ on the TR. It was obvious to me from the beginning that the only reason Crozier went the way he did had to be that this Admiral refused his initial plea - and wouldn’t make it himself through proper channels. If that is true, there is much truth to the comparison of Crozier’s action to Theodore Roosevelt’s “round robin” letter that caused such a furor at the end of Spanish-American War - but did get the US Army soldiers suffering from Yellow Fever evacuated....