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Originally Posted by 450knotOffice
Monday morning Admirals, all of you. Lol! The US Navy should’ve hired any one of you armchair experts to captain this ship, apparently.
Good god, it’s like sitting around listening to a bunch of pre-solo student pilots critique Bob Hoover’s flying abilities.
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I suspect that many making remarks here are far from "armchair experts"...and have served as long and as well as the Captain (without passing classified that might well have endangered his command/national security). There was a right way to address this...and it was through the chain if command and secure communications, not the press.
Much of the remarks that I see here lauding the Captain's behavior seem to come from those that think command is more a popularity contest. If the Captain really wanted to protect his sailors and was willing to sacrifice his career to do so, he could have kept them on the ship in Danang. They would be alive and he would not have broken the rules or benefitted our enemies (at least not to the same extent)...and likely, no one would have died.
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