Comparing Robinson and McCallum, who both whined about and attempted to get out of their commitments, with Staubach is Bravo Sierra.
Let me revise & extend...McCallum & Robinson finally wised up to serve their commitment...albeit with a bit of whine...Staubach of course served with distinction during Vietnam. The Navy, in their infinite wisdom, thought McCallum and Robinson would be more useful to the Navy as reserve officers with more notoriety because of their athletic prowess. Is that unfair to the young midshipman who gets with the program and serves in the Fleet? Life, like the military, ain’t fair.
Neither McCallum & Robinson, IIRC, would have bumped ADM Halsey from the history books as a great naval tactician.
The point here is that Johnston needs to wise up and serve the rest of his commitment, whether he takes the examples of McCallum/Robinson or (as we’d all hope) Staubach as an example to emulate.
Young lieutenants do make mistakes—