By Monday, it was obvious that this disease was spreading rapidly (likely through the ship's ventilation system) and something had to be done to preserve his nearly 7,000 crewmen. Anybody remember what happened to the Princess Cruise ship and its captive population?
The navy doesn't assign just anybody to command a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier - this Captain was one of the best they had.
The navy's covering up, again.
MY POINT was he failed to insure the release of his memo was internal, so the command could deal with it before his memo became public. How to deal with official communications is part of the command protocols commanders must work with. He had a right to inform the command, which he did. But he got the public notice of that involved before his command could respond to him. That was his error, not his notice to his commanders.
How old were these Naval crewmen? Late teens to late 20's for vast majority?. Did these crewmen have underlying health conditions making China virus deadly? No because you do not remain in the military with any serious health problems, you are given a medical discharge. Was there ANY risk here? Sure but military people understand the MISSION COMES FIRST;
"The navy doesn't assign just anybody to command a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier - this Captain was one of the best they had." Apparently not. By copying 30 others on his communication to higher command he violated his chain of command. What he should have done if he disagreed so strongly is resign his commission and go public..
He got exactly what he deserved and he's lucky he isn't facing a General Court Martial.
You obviously know not what you speak. MOdley was on Hewitt’s show and explained the whole thing.....along with the CO was great but he didn’t do the right thing in this case....and NO sailors are in dire straights.
0r maybe the mission was that important and absolutely had to be done and the ship couldn’t be replaced and the Navy made the calculation that even if everyone of the young, fit crew on the ship got infected 80-90% or greater would be asymptomatic or a mild case and the critical mission could be accomplished.
I doubt the Navy is covering up as much as protecting what their mission was about. And that we don’t and likely won’t know.
The captain is a talentless insubordinate schlub, and the Navy chain of command is incompetant and retarded.
“The navy doesn’t assign just anybody to command a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier - this Captain was one of the best they had.”
No but the captain and every other person on that ship knows that with it comes to maintaining the custody of nuclear reactors and especially nuclear weapons, that lives are not the primary concern.
I can see you never served around nuclear weapons.
I will also point out that his reports were not ignored but that the navy was handling it differently than he wanted. The Navy was not responsible to publish how they were going to handle it.
The Captain should have trusted his superiors rather than break the chain of command and release what was surly classified information to the public.