argh! said:AZGrizFan said:22 year naval officer here. I said it on another message board the day it happened.....he was going to lose his command and it was the right thing to do. As a commanding officer you don’t a) violate the chain of command, b) “leak” anything to get your way, c) announce to the rest of the world that a US aircraft carrier was out of commission and going offline because of a virus spreading throughout the ship.
He literally did nothing right in this scenario. And I’m sure he knew it. Either he’s stupid, or he was getting REALLY bad advice from his subordinates. Or both.
or he judged those above him who he had tried to reason with as incompetent, i.e. that they were the navy version of major major from the book catch-22.
Except he doesn’t get to make that “judgement”..... the COC made a decision....politically motivated or not, you do what you’re told in the military. It ain’t a fucking democracy.