Just another in the long line with bus tracks over their back.

The trump cheerleader squad sure likes to shake their pom-poms around here.

another perspective.


No one has all the facts as yet, but I'm a bit compelled to question the relief of this Navy officer of his command under the situation presented. Anyone who has ever been in command of a military unit, myself having experience commanding four military units, knows that your people are your most valuable asset and that you are responsible for their welfare and ability to carry out an assigned mission.

I was relieved once from a military leadership position, not a command, by someone who actually had no damn idea of what was happening to military medicine with the introduction of TRICARE. That was in 1998. It was a shoot from the hip decision by one of my superiors and one that left a somewhat bitter taste. But, given a second chance, stepped out and persevered. Recovering from was not an easy task. However, learned a valuable lesson...higher ups are not always well informed, nor able to make decisions that make any sense to those confronting the real threat day to day. Unfortunately, many senior leaders have no actual experience in leading from the front in real life complex situations.

Ok...So Secretary Nodly graduated from the Naval academy, but he spent only seven years on active duty. He has never confronted the same situation as many of his classmates have gone on to experience. CAPT Crozier was facing the potential incapacitation of the entire crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt and needed to act before that asset of our military might was totally incapable of any mission accomplishment.

Many of us have been in the situation before where we ourselves or our superiors decision making capacity was frozen by information overload and indecision, thus didn't act.

Would submit an idea. We have a system that selects leaders like CAPT Crozier for their ability to make tough decisions that balance both Command and National interests. I'm sort of seeing his relief just as I did mine back in 1998. Somewhat unjustified.

Welcome any thoughts on this.

My thoughts are, the commander (clown) in chief is incompetent.