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parabelum wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:00 am My wife is in the AF leadership role currently and her sentiment is that what he did is grounds for dismissal and some Leavenworth time. I fully agree.

What rank?

I think the Captain was darned if he did and darned if he didn't. IF he had done nothing, and allowed the virus to continue to spread among the sailors and airmen on that ship, then at some point, that ship would likely have become combat ineffective. Do you think Big Navy would just shrug that off? Nope, his command, his responsibility. And someone talked about "spending lives" as being part of in command. Sure, if you have any reasonable idea of completing your objectives, sure. But just waiting around until half or more of the sailors were sick, and some may have died? I don't see that as being a proper outcome in the least, nor shepherding resources to complete mission objectives. That's WWI, frontal trench assault thinking, Tommies cut down like wheat at the Somme. Now, I wasn't an officer, just an E-7 in the USAF, in aircraft maintenance. So, what I do know is that you can have to coolest toys in the world, but if you don't have the people that can play with those toys, those toys are just useless. Now, did the Captain violate DoD directives and Naval regulations? Well, it sure would seem so, and that is what got him canned. However, I have to believe that a man in his position, with the experience he has, already had a good idea what would happen. My wild guess is that he did what he felt he had to do, and I'll leave it at that.