re: New York Times - Captain Crozier Is a Hero

I think lots of folks are trying to make this more than it is. If you think this Captain's decision to sacrifice his own career for his crew's welfare had to do anything with his support or dislike of Trump, you live in a fantasy world.

In my small slice of military experience, there are many "strategic" decision makers so detached from the actual operations, they are also incapable of making a decision without some kind of group buy-in, so no one is to blame.

A Captain on a boat with a rapidly deteriorating health situation of his crew, not a ton of good information on the virus, he isn't afforded the same "group think" meeting time. He doesn't have time to put together some power-point slides and talking papers with COAs, so we can make a decision after we hit the gym, eat lunch and finally read all the slides in the slide deck, have some meeting where everyone wants to hear their own voice for 2 hours and the result is, "let's continue to monitor the situation."

The Captain likely ran into the above, and had to make the decision to fall on his sword to save his crew. I'm not going to say the guy is faultless in the entire ordeal, I'm just saying I understand. I admire his self-sacrifice.

Anyone suggesting the Navy is a "healthy" force is clueless. Fatties in a Navy uniform is pretty normal, I think vaping or smoking is mandatory too.