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The Trump Administration Has Bungled the Captain Crozier Case
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The good Captain puts his crew first and gets punished for it. I suspect that he had made many pleas through channels for getting his crew taken care of. This speaks that he was saying “fuck ’em” to the political appointees probably telling him to sit down and shut up about the illness about to kill someone on his crew. Captain Crozier likely did not want a preventable death on his conscience. But, way to alienate a lot of military folks who tend to vote Republican. Some might want to die for their country. Getting killed by a virus in… Read more »
I suspect you are correct that Capt. Crozier probably exhausted the normal protocol he felt was available to him without getting a response. The biggest regret is that he felt like he had to decide between the well-being of his crew and his career. From where I stand as a 23-year Navy veteran I have no doubt that he made the morally right and honorable choice. I wonder how many others in that position would have made the same choice.
Now if Jared was the captain he woulda got a medal. You can bet on that as some would say.
But his email…
Netflix will make a movie about him. Tom Hanks will play the lead, bringing more pathos to the role, having had the virus.
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bungle is the only way they know how to do things.
I’m not a military person, so perhaps it is not my place to opine on this. But this brings to mind something I’ve been saying for a while about Trump. He has no honor. Not only that, he doesn’t understand anyone who does.
You are 100% right about that.
Apparently he has tested positive.