re: Video of relieved Captain, Brett Crozier, disembarking the USS Roosevelt

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It’s not as simple as that. He sent an email about the operational status of his command to 30-40 people outside his chain of command via unsecured email.

Regardless of any humanitarian concerns or motivations he had for those under his command the fact he did this, namely openly broadcast the operational status of his command, demands he lose that command.

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As it is, you're right. I'm more concerned with the culture within our Military that leads to a Commander having to resort to something like this, knowing it would it have repercussions, to force the Navy to action. I have a hard time believing that this was not at least attempted to be handled through the proper channels first. You don't get handed the keys to an aircraft carrier if your first reaction is the nuclear option. I don't think Captain Crozier woke up March 30th and just tossed his military bearing overboard for the frick of it.

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I'm more concerned with the culture within our Military that leads to a Commander having to resort to something like this,

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There’s the rub of the issue. Did he actually have to resort to doing this? Or was this a case of him panicking? These are questions I i still have.

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Hats off to you Captain Crozier and the other leaders in the Military like you.

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Lauding commanders that leak opsec to the media?

I am not sure that's what you want

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HOWEVER, there is a chain of command and we don't expect our leaders to panic and broadcast info to every tom, dick, and harry

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How do you know he didn't use his chain of command? Also, once the first 3 Sailors were known to be sick, the cat was out of the bag, it's no different than the cruise ship situation.

"Our enemies don't need to know how our defense is manned at any given time"

Once the ship pulled in to Guam, everybody in the world that matters knew that carrier wasn't in service

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This info should have been internally handled

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How do you know it wasn't? I'm pretty certain if a Navy captain went to the length of writing the letter he did, he didn't get the response he was hoping for from his chain of command. I've been in the Navy 22 years, long enough to know the Navy fricks up too, from PC culture to pushing SJW social experiments onto the military, to pushing the wrong type of trainings, etc.

This captain did what he thought was right, once the letter ended up with the media he was going to get fired no doubt. In my 22 years I've seen MANY XO's, CO's SEL's get fired for doing a lot worse.

People are acting like we are at war and that carriers can hide underwater like a submarine. Any time a ship pulls into port when it's supposed to be at sea readiness is hampered. Not any other time has this happened because of a virus so those people trying to compare this to something else, don't know what they're talking about. This isn't someone leaking the whereabouts of a seal Team in the middle of an Op.

We have 12 carriers, just like we always do in the military we adapt and someone else will pick up the slack and weeks from now no one will give a shite about any of this. In the meantime, lives were probably saved and that's what the CO cared about.

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I personally think in this case OPSEC is low hanging fruit.

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China's Navy is already taking advantage of this

for readiness reasons the military is not reporting positive cases anymore.

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Rod from God

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Rods from God are just theoretical at this point. While they have benefits over nuclear weapons they are difficult to implement and as mentioned deploying them would bring a whole host of geopolitical issues to the US's doorstep.