“I want our fleet commanders to get together with their leaders and their commands to ensure that we are taking all appropriate immediate actions to ensure safe and effective operations around the world.”
You mean, you mean to say, sir, that that is in doubt? Those actions should have been in place, say, thirty, sixty years ago and not deviated from.
A standard 243 years old took but 8 years to destroy.
The very idea that the sole criteria for a CO is competence and fidelity has been supplanted with “multiple factors”.
And it’s trickled down.