Posted on 04/04/2020 7:07:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Trump needs to purge the military.”
Yes, he does, but he also needs to remake it. Right now, military personnel are nothing but a bunch of paper-pushing vendor managers. Military personnel do very little development or maintenance of systems, contractors do the work. At most, military personnel, if they even touch a system, merely replace it with another unit and ship it off to contractors to fix. If you go to a military base or ship, you see far too many civilian contractors.
He martyred himself for the troops. He’s probably satisfied with his own actions right now. Saving lives took precedence over his own career.
More lives than those on the ship, because the PTB have to wake up to the problem now.
That is another thing. One thing that the Navy knows how to do is clean its ships. You have sailors and bleach and buckets and mops. You can clean it top to bottom a dozen times in a week, while operating.
“Port of Call, Bayonne, New Jersey....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhioeOeOHsA
The entire chain of command, every chain of command, has an open door policy meaning that anybody can reach out to commanders many levels above them. This Captain could have written a memo to his direct commander. If he did not get the answer he wanted, he could have then requested a meeting with the next level up and so on step by step up to the Secretary of the Navy. Instead, he sent a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. It is easier to be a keyboard warrior than to man up and face your chain of command. BTW what kind of Navy uniform has a purple turtleneck for a senior officer? Looks absurd on a captain.
BTW Dear Navy, If you are going to relieve a captain, do it at a meeting off the ship and do not let him back on where he can stage a pep rally. Duh. When you are let go from a large corporation, they usually don’t let you linger. Somebody else can pack up his stuff
Captain Crozier contacted the media in regards to what was happening on the Roosevelt. He failed to go through the chain of command. He basically broadcasted to our adversaries that one of our premier ships of war was going to be out of service for a while...As far as pictures of the crew cheering, they are either happy to see him leave or they are a bunch of snowflake cupcake who don’t have a freakin clue. IMHO..
+100!! Very well said!! This is AnusPundit and we should take his stupidity with a grain of salt.
I support the SECNAV’s decision. The captain’s communications broke the chain of command. They were reckless and caused an unnecessary panic and sent a bad message to our enemies. When you are in a situation like this you need to be cool and take command of it because you are trained and certified to deal with it.
The US Navy has mandated and engineered safety and defense programs, procedures and equipment to deal with much worse than this on all of its ships and facilities. This guy was derelict in his duty and training not to implement those procedures and take control of the situation to the best of the crew’s ability.
If he really did his job he would have treated the situation via bio attack protocols and prepared his ship to operate in those conditions. He did not need to broadcast to the world but to just his superiors what was going on. He deserved getting canned. Nearly every Navy and military officer or enlisted agreed with his relief of command based on what I stated.
+100!!
SmellahLibButt weighs in...
“So are uniforms now optional?”
More like forbidden. I don’t see a single one in that picture.
On a ship, one and only one person is in control and has full responsibility: the captain. If he had followed Navy policy, he would not have been fired.
https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-relieves-uss-theodore-roosevelt-captain-loss-of-confidence-2020-4
Lose lips sink ships
He did things the wrong way; otherwise, he would still have his job.
Effective social distancing there.
I thought the DOD gave a direct order that no one would discuss readiness due to corona virus. If so, the captain should be punished severely.
There’s risk everywhere. They are in the military, after all.
Here’s an interesting article on regular and expected death rates aboard navy ships during peacetime
Also, a 0.2% figure is faulty. According to the CDC, the death rate for those, with the disease aged <20 is <0.1%. Even if 0.2% is a reasonable rate for, let’s say an average population of 25 year olds, that’s of people who get sick - NOT an entire population.
Finally, that’s also why you bring on board tests, treatments and even extra ventilators.
In the Cold War era, we wouldn’t even blink an eye at losing 10 dead sailors on a ship due to a pandemic. Can’t let the Soviets know that one of our capital ships was crippled by a deadly virus.
AnusPundit!!
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