You know the difference between "Military Readiness" and WorldWide Availability for Deployment? I guarantee the Cpt did, The Admiral down the hall, receiving the daily "Readiness Reports", yeah, he wasn't reading them. You have to understand the difference between a ship where you sleep 6 inches from your crew mate, vs. sleeping in a Dorm Room. Kind of pisses me off the SecNav, who served in the Navy, doesn't know that. Hell, i spent 1 night aboard a wartime ship in 80. You don't forget exactly how close you are to the next guy. Stacked 4 high in cross way, with curtain between spaces. Now, remember the President's "Social Spacing" rules...add in 9 crewman who zoomed up to 100 in a week, with an entire crew of 5k at risk. Now, take that PBY and send the 20 most likely off the ship immediately as soon as you know, send them in groups of 20. Who is more pro-active? I'll wait while you think about it.
People have to work for retards all the time in the military and they all seem to do a good job of doing it without leaking classified information to the world.
If it was classified, they'd have a case. But he sent the msg to people in the Navy. His problem was sending it to so many people. I still don't buy the Admiral down the hall not knowing he had people with virus that affects readiness on board. Seems unlikely since Sailors are about as chatty underway as a knitting circle.
Letting people know you're sick isn't a problem, send information marked "For Official Use Only" Which should be the highest classification a daily readiness status gets isn't a problem. Sending it from your desk in the Navy, to the SF Chronicle?...well, that's a problem. But you would have to have a history of enforcing that level of classification to be able to prosecute. They stopped that during the Reagan Administration because so many idiots were violating the rules. Not on my watch, but I certainly saw it often enough. Way worse during Clinton's Admin, my old boss, who was never one to be trusted with classified info by himself got the boot during Bush's Admin. His Aide de Camp should be ashamed. But no, you're incorrect in that he could be prosecuted successfully, if that's what you're implying. It'd be nice. But there'd be a line about 200k long to get prosecuted in front of him first. Equal rights under the law.
erm, no, it's actually an E-2. I was trying to think of an aircraft that could be used to transport troops from a carrier at speed to a quarantine point on a base in the pacific, while the NBC (Nuclear, Biologic, Chemical,) crews could clean the spaces. BTW, that E-2 won't work either. If they had an Osprey, that could work. But the decision to pull the pin and move would've had to be made preferably with the first diagnosis of the virus.
You know the difference between "Military Readiness" and WorldWide Availability for Deployment? I guarantee the Cpt did, The Admiral down the hall, receiving the daily "Readiness Reports", yeah, he wasn't reading them. You have to understand the difference between a ship where you sleep 6 inches from your crew mate, vs. sleeping in a Dorm Room. Kind of pisses me off the SecNav, who served in the Navy, doesn't know that. Hell, i spent 1 night aboard a wartime ship in 80. You don't forget exactly how close you are to the next guy. Stacked 4 high in cross way, with curtain between spaces. Now, remember the President's "Social Spacing" rules...add in 9 crewman who zoomed up to 100 in a week, with an entire crew of 5k at risk. Now, take that PBY and send the 20 most likely off the ship immediately as soon as you know, send them in groups of 20. Who is more pro-active? I'll wait while you think about it.
People have to work for retards all the time in the military and they all seem to do a good job of doing it without leaking classified information to the world.
If it was classified, they'd have a case. But he sent the msg to people in the Navy. His problem was sending it to so many people. I still don't buy the Admiral down the hall not knowing he had people with virus that affects readiness on board. Seems unlikely since Sailors are about as chatty underway as a knitting circle.
But it is classified information. So even sending it to your buddy in the Navy who works somewhere else and has no need to know is a problem.
Letting people know you're sick isn't a problem, send information marked "For Official Use Only" Which should be the highest classification a daily readiness status gets isn't a problem. Sending it from your desk in the Navy, to the SF Chronicle?...well, that's a problem. But you would have to have a history of enforcing that level of classification to be able to prosecute. They stopped that during the Reagan Administration because so many idiots were violating the rules. Not on my watch, but I certainly saw it often enough. Way worse during Clinton's Admin, my old boss, who was never one to be trusted with classified info by himself got the boot during Bush's Admin. His Aide de Camp should be ashamed. But no, you're incorrect in that he could be prosecuted successfully, if that's what you're implying. It'd be nice. But there'd be a line about 200k long to get prosecuted in front of him first. Equal rights under the law.
PBY? Are you referring to a Catalina PBY float plane?
erm, no, it's actually an E-2. I was trying to think of an aircraft that could be used to transport troops from a carrier at speed to a quarantine point on a base in the pacific, while the NBC (Nuclear, Biologic, Chemical,) crews could clean the spaces. BTW, that E-2 won't work either. If they had an Osprey, that could work. But the decision to pull the pin and move would've had to be made preferably with the first diagnosis of the virus.