USS Theodore Roosevelt

[togor]

15 days ago the ship put in a port call at Da Nang. Now there are Covid-19 cases on board, the ship is docked in Guam, and the captain is calling for the Navy to fix this problem for him.

15 days ago they didn't understand the risk of even one case coming on board?

What is it about Vietnam that brings out such poor judgement by our military?

[jon_norstog]

Man, when sailors go ashore they catch diseases! Vietnam, Punta Arenas, Mazatlan, Curacao, that's the way it has always been. VD mostly. The Coronavirus, you don't want it on shipboard at all cause it spreads like wildfire.. I don't know about on a CVA, but the ships I servd on the berthing areas were packed, sailors in racks 3 high and barely enough room to get in and out when your watch came up.

If it were my ship I'd spread the men out at least, and try to get some extra HMs and doctors assigned.

jn

[Jiminvirginia]

Served twice on that ship. Absolutley zero chance of any form of "social distancing". Captain now wants the entire crew off for a proper quarantine and to sanitize the ship. I would agree with that plan.

[jmm03]

Was the skipper unaware of the global pandemic? Sort of got to wonder about the wisdom of liberty in an asian port when the ship was at sea to begin with and completely isolated... Jim

[IditarodJoe]

Hindsight is always 20/20.

[togor]

What jmm said. By mid March it's not hindsight.

[jon_norstog]

Here's the latest on the cva TR. Looks like the Navy is taking this seriously and doing what they can to keep the whole crew from getting sick.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52128199

jn

[Jiminvirginia]

Read somewhere else that the Captain might get relieved. Frankly, IMO, the memo he wrote should have been classified.

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The Captain might get relieved

[JohnPeeff]

Togor, the Captain was relieved today.

[S.A. Boggs]

Togor, the Captain was relieved today.

$5 bucks says the President has his eye on this event.
Sam

[togor]

Togor, the Captain was relieved today.

I saw that. The slant was for letting news of this get out. I hope that isn't the case, "shooting the messenger", but it might be.

To me the bad judgement was the port call in the first place.

Maybe it was a combination of the two, which would be fair. IMO a captain who puts his own chestnuts in the fire then asks HQ to pull them out, can expect to be relieved. The main thing at this point is to keep the crew healthy.

[Dolt]

Read somewhere else that the Captain might get relieved. Frankly, IMO, the memo he wrote should have been classified.

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The Captain might get relieved

Agree. It is a military, if not a national security matter.

[m1ashooter]

The send off of the Captain. Not every crew shows up like this.

https://youtu.be/mPCx4xP6Sos

[togor]

How strange to see a crowd like that! So packed together!

[rayg]

Lol must not have got the 6 yrd word, good observation Togor,