LandM wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:26 pm
MD,
BTW, you are a ground commander. Your best asset is flying over your head. Now an asset is off the table with a CAG group because a Beavis decides he is NOT liking the answers even though he has the personal cell of the SECofNavy, he is the back-up to the back-up. You go into a bad situation - bad situations still need to be supported by the main asset. You gonna leave 1,000 dudes in a bad? What are you calling in? There is no ball to call. You have no clue as to what you speak. No one is arguing with the Captain taking care of his crew. He did so in an unsecured setting, told the world and NO DT had no flipping clue what he the SecofNavy was doing, please get over yourself and please go do a stint, you TLD and CU, I need a good laugh. BTW, get the security clearance you all claim you know so much about............
I didn't claim DT had any idea about this.
Modly says he made the decision to avoid DT's involvement, I didn't.
He said he knew DT wouldn't like it...
And if you had bothered to read what I wrote, I made clear that the TR was not in a position to support any of those ground commanders you claim to care about. And Crozier's decision puts the 'asset' back into action faster than if they'd simply let the virus rage through the crew.
Of course, if you are arguing that the TR should have just steamed forward, let the virus spread, and simply take whatever serious illnesses and death may have then occurred, go for it.
I haven't heard
anyone take that position...but if you'd like to put your hand up for that one, fine.
But if not, then the fastest way to get the TR back into action was to get that crew off the ship fast, separated and quarantined, tested for virus, ship cleaned, and then back on board with the crew tested clean and other tested sailors as necessary.
Again, assuming you actually care about those field commanders on the ground, that's the fastest path to supporting them.